Helping your child to revise for their exams some key tips for success

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Helping your child to revise for their exams
some key tips for success
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• Keep things in perspectivetheres life after
  GCSEs
• Have realistic expectations
• Too much stress can be counter-productive

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• They will need
• A comfortable place to work
• Equipment highlighters, post-its, paper,
  folders
• A revision timetable

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• Revision
• Little and often is the key to success
• Make it active
• Review it regularly

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• During the exams
• Exercise, sleep and fuel are critical
• Early morning revision is better than late the
  night before
• Remember the right equipment pens, calculators,
  rulers

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• Use the Internet
• SAM Learning
• Learnpremium
• BBC Bitesize
• Your child has been given the passwords for these
  sites

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• Six Simple Revision Techniques
• Condense fit notes onto one side of A4 paper,
  so cut them down and rewrite them.
• Highlight identify key areas using colour.
  Visuals help you remember the facts.

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• Six Simple Revision Techniques
• Record put key information, quotations, and
  formulae on tape and listen to them.
• Talk read notes out loud it helps them sink in

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• Six Simple Revision Techniques
• Test see what you can remember an hour later
  without notes
• Time do past exam papers against the clock