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GET INVOLVED Has Your Revision Melted Your Mind?
Has your revision
melted your mind?
I think my revision has melted my mind….
Exams? Stressed? PANIC?!
Well not quite yet… don’t forget there’s still time!
Exams are always horrible but if you set aside
the time and revise properly over a period of
time the exam shouldn’t be too horrifi c when the
exam days roll up in May.
Well if you’re really smart you’ll have made the
best use of Easter and got all your revision notes
together, sorted through your fi les and worked
out what areas you need to tackle for your
diff erent exams. If you had a nice relax, put your
feet up and watched the telly and ate a large
amount of Easter eggs I would say that’s where
you need to get started.
The temptation when faced with an amount of
revision is one of two things either to put it off
as it seems too massive to handle or to cry, for
probably the same reason or the looming feeling
you’re going to fail.
But if you take your revision steady from a logical
and thoughtful perspective you can get through it!
• Make a list of what your need to revise for each
exam and set yourself a deadline when to have gone
through it by.
• Make yourself a revision timetable - what you’re
going to revise each day and for each exam.
• Don’t prioritise one exam over others – passing
one exam will not help you pass your degree if you
fail all the others.
• Eat well and sleep well -3 meals a day, 8 hours
sleep a night. Otherwise you will become a burbling
revision zombie yelling random quotes and crying
into your notes at 3am in the library.
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• Take yourself away from distractions – leave
your laptop, turn your phone off and attack your
piles of paper.
• Stay off the booze – I know. Students without
alcohol – blasphemy? Although a drink is good
every once or twice in a while – it can aff ect your
memory - therefore you’ll forget some of that
information you might have learnt – and revising
with a hangover is never fun.
• If you’re really struggling make yourself a
rewards chart when you complete a section/ learn
all your Marvell quotes/ master algebra you can
go to the park, have a ice-lolly, go to the beach or
perhaps several crème eggs?
• Have revision sessions with your friends to help
your spur and inspire each other to continue with
what you’re doing,
• Practise makes perfect – do past exam
questions, papers and check them against mark
schemes to see where you would fall – if possible
take them to your tutors to ask how you can
improve these too.
• If you get really really really seriously bored –
read out your notes in a funny voice or accent (oddly
helps you to remember) - or wear hat or utilize
that collection of fancy dress outfi ts left over from
Freshers and recite your notes to some people very
much interested in your opinion in your toga - just
as long as it doesn’t distract too much.