Thank you for that Rhys! I think that will definitely help me and other members when it comes to revising!I did my GCSEs back in 2012 & 2013 in Year 10 and Year 11. Some tips I can offer when it comes to revision is:
- to balance your time well, don't spend the majority of your free time revising. It's not healthy and it's unlikely you'll be able to process much information. Instead, try to make time for other activities that you enjoy, such as playing a game or watching tv. You need to have the right balance between your leisure life, and revision. This is not to say not to revise at all.
- Never try and do last minute revision just before an exam. Your brain won't register new things when under a lot of pressure.
- Get adequate hours of sleep prior to an exam, at least 6-8 hours of sleep is needed to keep your mind refreshed.
- Always eat breakfast before an exam. You need your mind and body to be as energised as possible.
- When revising, try make spider maps and diagrams. This is a great way for you to test your knowledge, prior to an exam, and is also a great way to help register new things.
- Deep breaths are good as well too quench nerves.
Thanks Rhys, I have exams starting tomorrow till the 11th so these tips will come in handy.I did my GCSEs back in 2012 & 2013 in Year 10 and Year 11. Some tips I can offer when it comes to revision is:
- to balance your time well, don't spend the majority of your free time revising. It's not healthy and it's unlikely you'll be able to process much information. Instead, try to make time for other activities that you enjoy, such as playing a game or watching tv. You need to have the right balance between your leisure life, and revision. This is not to say not to revise at all.
- Never try and do last minute revision just before an exam. Your brain won't register new things when under a lot of pressure.
- Get adequate hours of sleep prior to an exam, at least 6-8 hours of sleep is needed to keep your mind refreshed.
- Always eat breakfast before an exam. You need your mind and body to be as energised as possible.
- When revising, try make spider maps and diagrams. This is a great way for you to test your knowledge, prior to an exam, and is also a great way to help register new things.
- Deep breaths are good as well too quench nerves.
a lesson from my teacher, RTQ, refer to the question!
what exam board are you for english? For the lit papers really you just need to remember the key quotes!! For annotations i would recommend finding unseen texts and see what you can annotate for that. Also for poetry remember your techniques, like rhythm etc.. I never really had to memorise techniques, as i've seen so many texts by now. Practice papers and the 2017 papers are the best to revise and use a quotation bank. If you are OCR like me then i have some resources i can send you.I've my Year 10 mocks this month and next month and to say the least I'm quite worried about some of these.
So far:
-Computer Science - my coding and theory generally tend to be fine, I just need to brush up. Least concern for revising
-Product design (some of you might know this as Resistant Materials) - Yeah i can manufacture, but i really need to revise my materials
-Maths - Generally speaking, I'm quite good at maths, but theres a few things I definitely need to go over
-English - I cannot annotate, I cannot compare poems, and i've my poetry mock on Tuesday, I'm freaking out a tiny bit, but i'm going to be doing a load of polishing up this weekend for it. Ended up with a 9 for a creative writing practise test though
-German - I'm doing fine with it, but i'm a bit worried of my capabilities.
-Physics: This is the subject I'm performing best in, I got a GCSE Grade 8 in the last test I did
-Biology and Chemistry: No comment, doing ok with both these
That's all the GCSE's I'm doing, if any of you are taking these subjects aswell and you have some useful revision tips and tricks up your sleeve, please let me know as I'd love to organise my revision based on what people find works best for them.
Currently I use:
-Flash cards
-Past papers
-Online games/resources such as bitesize
Any others I'd appreciate them so much