How do I best revise for my exams?
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usually what I do is go through the main points of each chapter as well as key words and write them down as questions on note cards.  Then have the answer on the other side.  Go through all the cards twice.  Then re-read all of those key words and their definitions as well as the key points in context, to myself, then out loud.  It not only stimulates your brain's listening but its vision as well. Then when you see that word or phrase a little light goes off in your head that you remember that and it all comes back to you.  Thats usually how I ace all my tests. Good Luck!
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Good luck!\nYou can't revise all the time - a revision timetable also needs relaxation time built into it.\nTry not to drink too much coffee or eat to much sugary food.\nIf you have done adequate work, there is probably no reason why you won't pass.\n\nIf you get nervous in the exam situation, try taking Bach's Rescue Remedy just beforehand.
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summarise it on paper.   write 25 words in note form to summarise each page or section.  Then summarise the summary.   Then it will be in your brain.   Read your summary of summary, or maybe the summary itself, two hours before the exam just for a refresher
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Make a schedule to prepare yourself.  Make sure you schedule time off and a bit of relaxation as well.  Ensure you know the topic (or all the topics) deeply as well as superficially.  Look up mind-mapping.  The night before each exam, be sure to get enough sleep, and wake up early enough to easily arrive at the examination on time, having eaten enough breakfast/lunch to get you through the exam.\n\nGood luck!
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hi, \n\nin the UK what you guys are referring to as 'reviewing', we call 'revising' in case it comes up again :O)\n\nI found a good way to revise was to make notes in different colours. Don't go through and re-write all your original notes but scan what it says, take the main points and fit them on to a single sheet of A4 paper using different coloured ink/pencil for each new part you jot down. You can write it out line for line if you want or jumble everything so you have many coloured patches over the page (like I did).\n \nI found that it stuck in my mind more, partly because I didn't try to use a regimented order and partly because when a question came up, I could remember the colour and location on my revision sheet of the info I needed, that jogged my memory into actually remembering the information itself.
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I've got a big exam tomorrow too, infact 4! I haven't revised for my maths or one of my physics but I revised loadsa past papers in the past month for my other physics. I went over them today to see which questions i couldn't do and tried to do them, or look at the definitions I need to know. I think if you just skim the stuff you need to define then you can work the rest out.
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When you are revising for an exam your attention drops off from the start of the revision session then rises again just before you have planned to finish. So if you are revising for, say, two hours solid, most of that time you are not revising as effectively as at the start and end. \n\nTherefore I always revise for just half an hour at a time (or maybe even twenty minutes), because during that time you are working better. Have a good ten to fifteen minute break between each session. \n\nAlso, repetition is important. When you are at the end of a session go back quickly over everything you have learnt in that session and make notes on it. You can even very quickly (couple of seconds) cast your eyes over those "top-level" notes at the beginning of the next session, just to re-inforce it. But don't go overboard. Just scan them then take say ten seconds to clear your mind and ready yourself for the next revision session.\n\nAlso, conditions and distractions are important. Never "revise with" a friend. It degenerates into socialising. Never revise in front of the TV or with music playing - you need to be in the same conditions as in the exam.\n\nAlso, if you are trying to remember an ordered list, make up a zany list where the words start with the same letters (mnemonics) - Hence: Please Send Large Cows, Milkmaids and Zebras instead of Potassium, Sodium, Lithium, Calcium, Magnesium, Aliminium, Zinc. I learnt that for my "O-level" Chemistry exam decades ago, and still remember it.\n\nGood luck. Plan your revision, work in short chunks, repeat the important stuff by writing short notes and don't waste your time.
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Here's how to feel better as you prepare for your exams:\n\n1. EXERCISE: jogging, cycling, swimming, with or without friends, for just 30 minutes each day.  Exercise is great!  It makes you FEEL GOOD in the brain, it helps you SLEEP WELL, it helps you CONTROL STRESS...\n\n2: SLEEP: try to stick to the same sleep patterns each day.  At least 8 hours sleep per night (e.g. 11pm - 7am)\n\n3: TREAT YOURSELF... if you achieve all the revision you expected to do during the day, reward yourself!  Go to the cinema, eat out with your friends, or just spend the evening chilling out...\n\n4: PLAN YOUR WORK... at the start of each day, plan what you want to get achieved in that day.  You'll feel like you have more control over your work.  Be a master of time, not a slave of it.\n\n5: FRESH AIR and WATER both help.  Open your window in the room where you work and keep drinking water.  2% dehydration reduces your concentration by 20%.  \n\nAll these tips help you feel good and will keep you smiling even when doing the most boring subject of them all.  (English, perhaps?)\n\nGood luck in your exams and remember, there's a long summer holiday to follow!
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go over anything you are most unsure of first.\nwrite out your notes again and reread as many times as you can.\nif you need to know diagrams, practice drawing and labelling them without your books.\ntake a break for ten minutes every hour to let your mind relax.\nsleep when you are tired as overdoing it will not work, you'll be too tired to think in your exam.\ni did this two weeks ago and it worked really well, exam went like a dream!! \nbest of luck, take it in your stride, repeat to yourself "i can do this" positive mental attitude.
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To get good marks and improve yourself in boards exam you need to be determined, levelheaded & instead of studying the whole day or not taking studies seriously you should give equal time to studues, entertaintment and rest.Always be calm and don't take studies as a burden, enjoy studying and try to learn more and more.Never keepany homework pending be equal in studies with your teacher so that you get sufficient time for revising your lessons.\nBEST OF LUCK!!
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I have my midterms/finals too.\nFor math it's a good idea to go over all your tests and quizzes. Take note of what you got wrong and then go over that topic. Make sure that you'll "never" get a problem on that topic wrong again. (For me, I find that I make the same mistakes while stating the domain of a function for boxes. So, I'm keeping a "Watch out for..." list.) Do as many problems as you need to. Know all the terms and formulas.
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Revise your class and subject every day, spend 2 hrs at home to review what you studied on the day.\nPractice the above and watch yourself the results you will be amazed by your updated ness. \nOnce you’re updated in your subject you will start get more interested in subject ultimately turn you into a hardworking...up coming genies!
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1. Eat Right (Don't Skip Meals)\n2. Organize (don't just reread notes) create outlines from your notes & readings, organize the raw material you've collected all semester (this process in and of itself is a form of study)\n3. Study - again not just rereading, try testing your self (make up questions or see if your texts have questions at the end of chapters etc.)\n4. Sleep - staying up late cramming won't help it will actually decrease your ability to test well.  So get to bed and get some sleep\n5. Take a walk before the test, get the blood flowing and clear the mechanism (so-to-speak) this will help you.\n6. The standards (your first instinct answer is almost always right, but always go back and check your answers, make sure you read the question correctly, answered all parts of it etc.)\n7. When you finish a test, put it out of your mind (again, exercise can help you here) and move on to the next one.  Stressing over the result of a test that is finished can effect how well you do on the ones you haven't yet taken.\n\nGood Luck
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Im the king of cramming. (i dont however like to promote it cause it is bad). I just finished my final year exams at uni and for each module i more or less did a whole years worth of learning the night before the exam. Hopfuly i get the marks for theory but very little for understanding and application which are the most important to get the best marks.\n\nAt this stage you got a bit of time but just to learn the theory hopfuly your inteligent enough to understand and apply when it come to sitting the papers.\n\nThere must be one subject your prety much confident at. Split friday into three and do hard core reading for each module, be strict dont distract urself otherwise ull get no where (trust me i no). sat, split it between the two you find the hardest, maybe do a little revision at the end say half hour-1 hour on the easier subject before you go to bed. Sun get up early- you cant afford to get up late! do hard core reading on the two hardest and say about 2/3 hours on the easier one at the end.\n\nTips:\n\nAlthough you need your sleep get min 5 hours until after your finals. preferably keep it to 5 but absolutly dont let it go a second over 8hrs.\n\nget support from those around you- living at home? get mother to cook healthy nutritious small light meals and snacks. do not over eat or youll get lazy trust me i did the the day before my exam and could not concentrate on revision at all that night! this does not mean dont eat. eat freaquently and lightly and drink plenty of water its good for body and brain.\n\nif reading is not your thing write it out till you know it.\n\nTry not to revise everything. What has worked for me here in the UK is that i analysed the previous papers and also took into consideration what my tutors said what topics will be covered.\n\nGood luck mate i reckon you'll do well.
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Take a note of what you studied in simple terms. When you see those few tips what all you read must come to your mind. Keep many such notes. Go through them when you are free. Even sitting in a park observing the dogs play with a ball you can review these niotes.\nPRACTISE MAKES PERFECT.\nAFTER FOUR FIVE TIMES YOU WILL REMEMBER THEM ALL AND FAST AND QUICK.
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1. read each question carefully.\n2. on your first pass, answer only the questions you are certain of.\n3. make a second pass through the test, carefully reading the remaining questions.\n4. make your best attempt at answering each remaining question.\n5. if you have time, go back through the entire exam, carefully re-reading each question, AND your answer to it.
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i think you just need to want to make a good piece of writing. the best revision takes place after a period of not working on it, then you are more seperate from the pice and can take a more objective look at it.