does anyone know a good way for me to revise?

Question

i havent a clue.. iv tried reading and then writing down but i dont remember what iv just read? anyone help??

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

It is difficult to offer advise without know WHAT you are trying to learn.
One system is to write the words (if you are learning vocabulary) on a piece of paper folded in 3 longways.
Write the answers or meanings in the middle section.
Fold the 3rd flap over the answers and write your guess on the new fold of paper. You can then open it up and check them.

You can also fold the 1st flap backwards and try writing the answers on the middle flap of the back of the paper. You can then look at the answers and try guessing the questions.

It is also important to decide if you are a 'morning' or 'evening' learning person and do your studying at the appropriate time.

Try and decide if you are a visual learner rather than a writer type.
You can then use it in the mind maps suggested by another answerer.

You can also look for rhymes (mnemonics) to help you remember things like planets, spectrum, French verbs taken etre rather than avoir in the past perfect tense.

Just some ideas. Hope they help.

Answer 3

1) Read the info and take notes on important points. you should be able to limit this to 2-3 pages.

2) To learn these 2-3 pages, determine your best memory method and use it.

eg. visual - read data freq, stick a copy on the toilet door or inside the fridge (anywhere you will see it often.

Visual-spatial, - draw diagrams, pictures, mindmaps etc. Use highlighters and colour codes.

Auditory - read aloud, record the data and play it back

Musical - rearrange the important info into sound patterns eg keywords which start with the same letter, rhyming words etc. Sing the info to music

Auditory processing - read aloud, explain it to someone else

Visual processing - write and rewrite try to explain it in your own words

Active - walk through your house and associate each fact with a place / object. In the exam remember your walk

Modelling - place objects in front of you to represent objects. Use these objects to explain concepts eg. the coffee cup is the red army and the pen is the blue. In the exam move objects in the same way to recall the info.

Probably only some of these will work for you. find the ones that work best. hope that helps.

Answer 4

Take a (small) number of subjects. Read them intensely for a strict maximum of 20 minutes. Then 5 mins for notes. Then drop a subject for the next on your (short) list. This can be stressful initially, but keeping the study period short and snappy means that you do not overdo it and have the energy (and inclination) to return to your study later in the day/evening. In the meantime the old brainbox will work away at a subconscious level.
Used this method years ago as a schoolboy. Passed it on to my son who found it very effective right through his secondary and third level studies.

Answer 5

I always found the easiest way to revise is to read through what your learning, on each of the types of things your likely to forget write a sticky note with each point. Then test yourself on what you've just learnt. anything you've forgotten include on these sticky notes. then stick these notes in random places around the house... on the back of the toilet door etc.
Remember though everyone has their own revision style. You could learn with audio techniques so make up a tape of what you have to learn and keep listening to it.

Answer 6

Revision cards are good. Get loads of cards, 1000 with various questions on one side and the answer on the other.

(A1)Every day go throught these cards, put the ones you get right onto a pile and the ones you don´t know on another.

Keep going through the "wrong" pile all week, then put them all together at the weekend and go through them all again. Following the same sequence as (A1)

Answer 7

ive got my mock gcses soon so i know what you're going through - try:

-mind mapping
-reading it through (which you said doesn't work)
-reading it and then pick out the key points and write them down
-writing facts on post-stick notes and placing them randomly so when you come to - open the fridge let's say - you read it
-mind map with pictures

it really depends - try them all, for me i managed to reduce a whole books worth of stuff to about 10 A4 pages of key stuff - it's easier to manage and most of the facts stuck - writing stuff down helps but don't try and do it form memory after reading it once like you said cos that wont work unless you have a really good memory

if you're a visual memory ...thingy... then mind map with pictures really helps, trust me.

they're all stuff my school reccomended so they must have worked in the past - good luck and hope this helped ^.^

Answer 8

Try mind mapping. Draw your subject in the middle of the page and then little notes to yourself coming out like legs from the main body.

Try Revisewise www.bbc.co.uk/revisewise.

Or set the answers to music - everyone remember song words, don't they.

Answer 9

Easy - do you see what you did...you asked questions.

1. Ask yourself questions..
2. Ask: Who, What, When and Where
3. Ask: Who the heck wrote that?
4. Ask: What were they thinking?
5. Ask: When was it written - in the dark ages, recently....
6. ASK: Where did this happen?

If you can't remember, you need to challenge your mind...by asking these questions - and if you need to use index cards with the question on one side of the card, and the answer on the other side.

This way...you can stop anytime and catch up later...and just review your index cards.

Answer 10

for me if you wrtie notes, than write them again and again condensing the information more by mor. I had 3 pages for an entire unit when I was revising my al evel - i got 90% so it worked.

Also sticking things all over your house workas aswell - such as key facts statistics etc so when you open youre cupboard BANG a fact.

Answer 11

i've always find drawing mindmaps/spider diagrams have helped me the most. make sure you use a big a3 sheet of paper per topic. use loads of different colour pens, and make sure you do little diagrams next to each to help you remember them in the exam.

for topics such as math, write out formulae cards