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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

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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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