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STUDY SKILLS
Miss B. Cullimore
Miss J. Hardy
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Recall
Remember
Learnt
Understand
Attention
Interested
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Before starting and when to do your revision,
Techniques and practicing questions (P1)
Getting started with your revision (P2)
What now? Structuring your revision (P6)
Plagiarism is an act of fraud.
It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying
about it afterward.
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE CONSIDERED PLAGIARISM:
**turning in someone else's work as your own
**copying words or ideas from someone else without
giving credit
**failing to put a quote in quotation marks
**giving incorrect information about the where a quote came
from
**changing words but copying the sentence structure of
another's work without giving credit
**copying so many words or ideas from somewhere that it
makes up the majority of your work, whether you give
credit or not
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Recall during learning
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The importance of breaks
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The revision hour:
20 mins – revise new topics
5 mins – break
15 mins – review old revision topics
5 mins – break
10 mins – review new revision topics
5 mins – pack away
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Ensure you have a good working environment.
Only have equipment out for the subject you are
revising
Have out all the equipment needed before you start
Study in a quiet place
Have a alarm clock or a watch with you
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Decide how many hours to revise each week, and when. (You should do at most 7 hours a week: 1 hour each week night, and 2 or 3 hours on the weekend).
In the holidays you should do at most 5 hours a day Monday-Friday.
Are you a lark or an owl?
Do you want to revise on Friday night?
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Work out and colour in when you have time to revise
Fill in the subject you have revised afterwards M
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Spend time on subjects you struggle with.
Don’t neglect subjects you find easy.
Don’t leave everything until the last day or week; the sooner you start the more you can memorise.
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If you are unsure of anything:
Use your exercise book
Use a revision guide
Use the internet
(bitesize etc)
Ask your family
Ask a friend
Ask a teacher
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You can do it! Don’t let negative thoughts
undermine your confidence.
The exams are about knowing what is
expected of you, and preparing yourself for it.
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Recall
Remember
Learnt
Understand
Attention
Interested
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Bare minimal
Mind mapping
Revision Cards & Post-it notes
Mnemonics
The Journey/Story Technique
Using websites
Past papers
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Bare minimal:
Can be written on A4 paper in note form.
Take a topic from a subject (look in your revision guide or exercise book)
Write the main points for that topic.
e.g. Pythagoras: Right-angled triangles
Label sides (a b c)
a 2 + b 2 = c 2
Mind
maps
Revision Cards: Transfer your ‘bare minimal’ notes onto a revision
card.
One topic/piece of information per card.
Make it colourful.
Put a title/Q on the reverse, and get friends to test you on them.
Write them in the last 10 mins of your revision hour.
Build up you revision cards by writing them after you have been taught a new topic in class (cut down the work load!!).
Post-it notes:
These can be used to remember formulae for
science and maths, and vocab for MFL.
Place them around the house/your room.
Read them every time you pass them.
Remove them and replace with blank post-it when
you have learnt them, can you still remember what is
on it?
1 piece of information only.
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Mnemonics Some
Old SOH CAH TOA
Hags
Can Sin= Opp
Always Hyp Cosine= Adj
Hide Hyp
Their Tan = Opp
Old Adj
Age
The Journey / Story Technique
Each room in your house is a different subject.
Place ‘items’ around a room
e.g.History – Put medicine on your bed
– WW2 out your window
– ect
The story technique – where you make ip a funny
stork linking items in a list.
Both of these are in your book in more detail.
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Using websites / Past Papers
After all of your hard work revising, remember
to test yourself, use the middle 15 mins of the
revision hour for this. Your teachers will tell you
of any websites that are good to use.
As a Start – use BBC Bitesize - GCSE
Your teachers should go through past papers in
school will you, but get ahead of the game! Try
some of the papers on the exam board
websites… get the practice in!
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How to access past papers
Use google or another search engine.
Most of your subjects are examined by AQA.
Check with your teacher.
Make sure you are looking at the correct
specification.
E.g. Maths… Modular, non CW- 4307
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Revision should not be a daunting task.
Revise with friends (only if you can honestly
get work done).
‘Little and Often’ is the key!
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You can write your revision notes as you are
taught new things in class – Use P6!
This then reduces the notes you need to write
so you can get more practice on questions…
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In P6 you will look at how long you have until your exams - you will use your revision timetable book.
Use your revision guides/exercise books to write a list of what you need to revise (or use the contents page).
Decide what subjects to start revising with, to get you in the momentum – you’ve brought two subjects with you today.
Fill in your timetable and tick off the topics on the list as you go.
Make a start with your revision.
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Read
your revision notes/
mind map/ cards/ post-its
weekly
to increase your ability
to remember
the information
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You can do
it !!!!
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