Welcome to the revision section of mrteachcs!
This section is focused entirely on the science of effective revision. Regardless of your subject, the information found here will help you revise.
This will include overall revision strategies such as revision timetables and plans, down to the individual revision techniques you should be using for your revision. Most importantly, we’ll talk about WHY revising like this is effective.
The first revision tip you’re going to get is this: it’s never too early to start. Revision should be a long-term ongoing practice, put in place well before your actual exams.
Active Revision
At the heart of the learning and revision ethos of the site will be something called Active Revision. All the learning modules (when released) will ask you to do something with what you’ve just read, watched, or created. To use one of the revision techniques you’re about to learn about. If you read for 10 minutes and then do nothing with it, you’ve probably wasted 10 minutes, it’s just not how our brains are wired*.
Passive Revision == Pointless
Keep this in mind when you’re doing any revision: How can I use this?
Work through the icons below in order, starting with revision strategies. This will give you the overall revision plan, before learning the techniques of how to revise under the revision techniques section.
*Don’t believe me? The two articles below are just a sample of articles linked to something called retrieval practice. Effectively, they argue for active learning (revision) over passive studying (just re-reading notes, or books) as the most effective way to learn.
1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032724004245?via%3Dihub
2 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.797395/full