Effective Revision Techniques for Students: A Comprehensive Guide, Lecture notes of Technical Writing

Download Effective Revision Techniques for Students: A Comprehensive Guide and more Lecture notes Technical Writing in PDF only on Docsity! @ L > ® i Le O Yn W O F- Session aims: Session outcomes: Be able to write an effective revision plan Be able to revise effectively Effective revision To understand what makes effective revision To learn how to effectively plan revision and homework Work out when you have time • What commitments do you have? • After school clubs • Sports teams • D of E • Volunteering • Socialising Add all of these to a blank revision time table so that you know when you have time Week beginning : Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Morning 2 sessions Afternoon 2 sessions Evening 2 sessions 'Chunk up' the subject • Use: • Topic lists from teachers • Contents pages from revision guides • Exam specifications • ‘Photosynthesis’ not ‘science’ Hermann Ebbinghaus • The more times you revisit something the more you will remember (less you will forget) Robert Bjork Once you learn something you never actually forget it But, it becomes harder to access Forgetting is an important component of learning because it makes space for new information UCLA; 84 out of 85 pupils got the answer wrong: • 57 exclusive Apple users • 75 owned Apple products The Carlton Academy Conclusion • Revisiting what you have learned helps you to remember it • You need to practice retrieving information from your memory • Self-testing REALLY helps you to remember Effective revision 1. Interleaving 2. Dual coding 3. Concrete examples 4. Retrieval practice • www.learningscientists.org Concrete examples • https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=7wF0lCBMh9 Y&feature=emb_title How to do it • Find specific examples that your teacher has given you (not from internet) • Make links between what you are studying and the example • Use these in your revision resources eg. Flashcards Retrieval practice • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjrqc6UMDKM&feature=emb_ title How to do it: • Red pen, black pen • Flash cards • Revision clocks Red pen, black pen • Study a section of your revision guide/notes and try to remember it. • Cover the revision guide/notes and write what you can remember in your prep book in blue or black pen. • Check your revision guide/notes and add anything that you had forgotten in red pen. • Repeat with a different section of the revision guide/notes. Revision clocks 1 • Study a section of your knowledge organiser and try to remember it. • Cover the revision guide/notes and write what you can remember in the first section of your revision clock. • Check your revision guide/notes and add anything that you had forgotten. • Repeat with a different section of the revision guide/notes . Revision clocks 2 • Use a revision clock that you have made previously: • Read one section for 3 mins • Write down what you can remember on a piece of paper for 1 min • Check and correct for 1 min • Repeat with the next section of the clock One 50 minute revision session • 15 min doing a revision technique or making resources - think about dual coding, concrete examples • 15 min using resources to practice retrieval • 15 min practicing some questions and marking the answers • 5 min thinking about and writing down what you know well and what you need to work on next time revision techniques retrieval practice questions reflection