In week 2 of Exam Essentials, we’re focusing on Effective Revision.
Last week we acknowledged that it is impossible to study everything and identified the importance of prioritising what you revise and planning accordingly. But to make the most of the time you plan for revision, it’s important to be using techniques that are effective and efficient.
So that’s the focus of this week’s workshops, blog posts and resources – how to avoid ineffective and time-consuming techniques and instead supercharge your revision with approaches that are proven to work.
We’ll explore these approaches over the course of the week, but here are a few tips to get you started:
- be prepared to change and experiment – learning and revising effectively at university and in your specific subject may mean you have to ditch or adapt the way you’ve worked in the past
- recognise and avoid common but ineffective techniques – be aware that the way you’ve studied in the past might not work at university. In fact, common and popular revision techniques such as writing out or memorising notes have been proven to be insufficient for the type of learning required at this level
- make your revision active rather than passive – one reason these techniques are ineffective is because they involve taking a passive approach to revision. By taking a more active, focused approach to what you study, you’ll make your learning deeper and more sustained
We’ll unpack these ideas in this week’s workshops and blog posts but if you just can’t wait, you can read about it all in our Revision Bites resource.
Meanwhile, why not share your thoughts and experiences in our Padlet? All posts are anonymous and we’ll respond to some of the key issues in a later blog post.
Don’t forget we’ll be running an online workshop on Monday and an on-campus workshop on Wednesday, all about Effective Revision. The online workshop will be available as a recording later in the week if you can’t make it along to either session.
Be sure to check back here for Wednesday’s post, where we’ll share the recording of the online workshop as well as highlighting some useful resources about revision techniques, and again on Friday when we’ll pick up on some of the key themes from the week and respond to some of your questions and suggestions from the Padlet.
Padlet link https://uod.padlet.org/gordonspark/hx9ucfgax6konjtc