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Revision Skills Evening

Join us for an evening on Thursday, 8th November 2012 to enhance your child's confidence and motivation by discussing revision techniques and strategies to excel in final exams. Learn key tips to plan and start revision effectively, tailored to your child's learning style. Discover ways to create a conducive study environment, combat distractions, and engage in brain-boosting activities. Unlock the secrets to retaining information and acing exams! Don't miss this insightful session.

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Revision Skills Evening

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  1. Revision Skills Evening Thursday 8th November 2012

  2. Aims… • To  build your child’s confidence, increase their motivation and help them to acquire the good learning habits which will lead to SUCCESS in their final exams • To give you and your child the opportunity to discuss revision and the various strategies to promote and support such independent study time

  3. Last 6 months crucial- how do we make them count?

  4. Discuss the ‘top 5 things’ that you feel are the starting point when planning revision.

  5. Key tips to starting revision • Decide on the style of revision timetable you want • Plot in your exams first • Using the subject revision checklist start to plot in topics you must cover before the exam • Plan fun things too!

  6. Key tips to starting revision Know how many papers there are for each subject: • Where? • When? • How long? • How many questions? Marks given. • Coverage?

  7. Follow on • Organising a work place What is your work area like at present at home? • Key factors to consider: De-junking Resources Light Chair? Air Temperature Space Wall space

  8. Other factors to consider • Distractions? • Music • Water • High energy foods • Sleep • Exercise (Brain Gym?) • Share goals with someone else- it will help you achieve them!

  9. Brain Gym is a collection of special activities designed to ‘switch on’ the left and right brain for better learning and co-ordination. Lazy Eights Primary School tricks.... Exercise! They all work!

  10. Kinaesthetically/ with others? Practical/ doing? How do you want to work/learn? Auditory? Visual?

  11. Which way do you learn best? 2 minutes to discuss

  12. Ways to revise to suit me Visual learners- learn by seeing • Represent the main facts/ concepts on a diagram or a timeline • Use highlighters • Trace words in the air • Use flashcards/ post its

  13. Auditory learners- learn by hearing • Work with someone read aloud • Discuss • Try reading to yourself ‘under your breath’ • Devise questions to ask about the text and then question a friend about them • Make up a role play

  14. Auditory learners- learn by hearing • Experiment with saying keywords out loud (emphasise the different parts of the word, using different voices) • Tape key points and play back • Make up a mnemonic to remember important facts (NESW)

  15. Other top tips to help Come up with acrostics- an invented word with a first letter cue. E.g. 5 factors that explain Hitler’s rise to power Political manoeuvring 1932- 33, Depression, Weimar weaknesses, Nazi’s tactics and Hitler’s leadership Please don't whine now Hitler!

  16. Kinaesthetic learners- learn by doing • Go for a walk or move around as you read the text • Write down the main points on card and then order them in a logical order or match up to definitions • Use ‘post-its’, assemble them on the wall in different areas. • Make up actions to go with key words.

  17. Final top tips • Mind read examiners (consider recent questions asked) • Look at mark schemes • Self mark/ peer mark • Do Quizzes/ tests • Use SAMLearning/ VLE

  18. Tell me- I’ll forget.Show me- I may remember.But involve me and I will understand.

  19. Retention rates • Lecture- 5% • Reading- 10% • Audio- Visual- 20% • Demonstration- 30% • Discussion- 50% • Practice by doing- 75% • Teaching others- 90% Source: National Training Labs, Bethel, Maine

  20. Any questions?

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