Revision

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Revision

• Tips and hints to help you achieve your best

1. Planning your revision 2. Your revision
materials 3. The ideal revision spot 4. Making
the most of your learning style 5. Dealing with
exam stress
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Planning
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Get an overview of the course
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Create a revision timetable.
Plan to revise in short bursts to avoid

• Choose somewhere appropriate to study so that you
  wont be distracted.

Collect all the materials that you will need to
revise.
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Revision Materials
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Your exercise book contains a lot of learning
that you should find useful for revision.
The purple revision guide provides an excellent
summary you will be given one of these in time
for your final exam.
The CD you have been given on Keystage 4
Citizenship contains useful information and
exercises.
Parliament
The United Nations
Consumer Rights
Legal and Human Rights
Newsround Guides - Fantastic!
The Commonwealth
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The ideal revision spot is
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Quiet
Tidy
Organised
Well lit
Hint Make sure someone in your house is aware of
your revision timetable. They can then make sure
they are out of the way as well as pester you
if you need it!
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Learning styles
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• You will get the best results if you revise in
  your preferred learning style. Take the online
  test to remind you what this is and use the tips
  on the following pages to help you plan your
  revision.

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Visual Revision
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• Write out notes in different colours for
  different topics. Highlight keywords.

• Turn writing into something else

• Use TV/internet resources

• Memorise information by reading,
• rewriting and visualising in your mind.

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Auditory Revision
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• Memorise information by saying things over and
  over.
• your learning with
  someone else.
• Record revision of key words and concepts and
  play it back.
• Use different voices to study as though acting
  out a play.
• Pacing when revising may help you remember.
• Use TV/internet/radio resources to supplement
  your learning.

Discuss
I say old chap, fascinating stuff on Parliament
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Kinaesthetic Revision
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Visit websites to revise information.
Re-enact situations or construct models
Turn writing into something else
Trace keywords or concepts with your finger as
if writing in invisible ink.

• Take regular breaks when revising to go and do
  something active.

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Exam Stress
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• Most people find exams at least a little
  stressful. A little bit of stress is good for you
  it can boost you into action and is even good
  for your immune system. But too much stress can
  be very damaging.

How can you spot the signs of too much stress?
You might

• be feeling tired
• ache all over
• cry and feel sad
• have panic attacks
• have broken sleep
• suffer from stomach upsets
• have itchy skin rashes
• be more likely to get colds and 'flu

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Stress busters!
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Sleep properly! It will enhance your mood and
your brainpower.
Give yourself plenty of short breaks and you will
learn more.
Make time to do something you enjoy. If this is
some kind of exercise even better as exercise
produces stress-busting chemicals.
Include plenty of fruit, vegetables and water in
your diet.
Be realistic about what you can achieve. Planning
to revise for 6 hours every day is only going to
make you feel bad when you dont do it!
Stay positive smile breathe slowly and deeply
talk about how you are feeling remind yourself
of your achievements imagine the best not the
worst scenario.
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Remember
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• Great revision tips wont help you unless you
  actually revise! But if you follow the advice you
  should be well on your way to success!