what is a fun way of learning for your exams?

Question

a friend of mine has a daughter in year 7 and her exams are two weeks from tomorow (monday). she needs a way for her daughter to learn for her exams. what are learning essentials or tips i could tell her?

Answer 1

There is no fun i mean its study but i guess it would be better with a friend!

Answer 2

Maybe you and her mom could act out some of the items she has to study for. For instance, if she needs to study for history, act out some scenes with the people she needs to know. Or if she needs to learn about anatomy, say the chambers of the heart, make a 3-D model with crafts. Doesn't have to be an artist's rendering, just enough to get a mental image. 3-D visuals, and acting out scenes, are two good ways to help a children and teens learn. It sticks in their brains and it is how I prefer to learn also.

Answer 3

Don't force her to go on bbc bitesize. If she enjoys it then cool, but when we study for exams and have to go on there, no one learns anything because we get bored and don't think anymore.

If she gets together with a friend who is good at something she isn't and she is good at something the friend isn't, by explaining it to the friend, and having the friend explain it to her, it will help her understanding of it and it'll be easier to remember it. Sometimes friends can help because they explain it in a different way that may be better then the teacher's explanation.

Answer 4

When i study, i sit down on my bed and listen to music. For some people it is distracting but for me it works. It tunes you out of other things. Studying is not very fun so you just got to take whats there. Remember studying is important. You could also take some popcorn or chocolate=) brain power

Answer 5

For kids it is always worth trying acronyms and mneomics - to act as memory pointers. For example a well known one is used for remembering the colours of the rainbow -

Acronym - ROYGBIV
Mnemonic Richard of York gave battle in vain
Order of the colours of the rainbow -red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

If you look on www.acronymfinder.com you can search for other acronyms and mnemonics that may help

Answer 6

making up songs is a great way to remember stuff like cycles :) also put sticky notes with little 'revision notes' on them all over the house but keep them short and precise so that the relevant info can be absorbed with no waffle. practise helps too......................i've got an exam on friday! :'( but im in year 12 and its a further maths, so hopefully these techniques work for me!

Answer 7

I found the best way for me was to study with someone in the same class....as long as we were serious in studying.

Also, I used to make fun acronyms for things I had to memorize ( like list).

Good Luck!

Answer 8

Well she could use letters to remember a certain topic- easily remembered. When i was doing Accounts and i could not remeber A formula eg. "Overcasted" "Purcharses" "Reduces" the net profit so u "Add" it to bring the net profit to the right amount. what i did was call that formula: O.P.R.A. i know the net profit was the most important so i did not refer to it in OPRA.

In Information Technology, i was trying to remember the "System Development Cycle" of every program so i call it PADIOSS-PLANNING, ANALYSYING, DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION , SUPPORT, and SECURITY

Try it, it was really fun for me and my friends now in college

Answer 9

little rhymes or jokes to go with the information she's learned. for example, in biology there's kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. I remember it as King Park came over from Goong shin (or King Peter came over from germany, so?)

Answer 10

working with a friend is a lot better than revising by yourself
they could test each other and stuff
also for independent study she can put her notes on coloured card and put it up on her walls, that way she is constantly glancing at them