Revision

xSmurfy786x —

Any tips?


i have the shortest attention span.. and just cant seem to learn everything!


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You — Sun, 16 May 2010 - 01:11

erm... pace yourself? practice exam questions? take plenty of breaks? make sure there are others around studying?


Not saying that any of them will work though.


idi — Sun, 16 May 2010 - 20:06

am having the exact same problem. i get bored within 5mins


Hajjar — Sun, 16 May 2010 - 20:22

yes take a break every hour but not every 15 mins otherwise you will learn more about tea bags than your academic stuff.


when getting bored just think do i want to be on the dole or flipping burgers when i'm married with kids, or do i want to struggle less and have a good job with security?


stay off the revival lol and internet in general whilst revising.


revising in morning can be better ppl are more alert and house or library is quieter. in evening you may be sluggish, or just feel like relaxing.


think less of what mates are doing, mates wont give tuppence if you fail and end up not going uni or with rubbish job, dog eat dog world dont be the dog who gets eaten :o


how are you revising, are you trying to revise an whole essay for example? information overload is hard to memorise. try making short bullet point notes on prompt cards revise those. highlight passages if that helps. make up your own abbreviations acronyms for remembering certain ideas, works well with science and math subjects.


make lots of du'a


insha'Allah you will do brilliant if you work hard.


TPOS — Mon, 17 May 2010 - 18:54

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


TPOS — Mon, 17 May 2010 - 19:09

that took the mick to write out :/


"40 ways to Bovver"


use past papers

underlining

notecards

visuals (pics/diagrams etc)

order/sequense stuff

colour code

buddy up to revise

personalise ur revision, relate things ur learning to ur self

make "thought maps"

use post-it notes

make cartoon strips

use the internet

blog the stuff u learn

write out the 10 most important people, ideas, events for a topic

condense ur notes

make revision guides

listen to music while u revise

make sure ur room is cool and comfortable, with no distractions

review what u have learnt

put ur post-its in ur favourite places or where u will walk past often so u can read them

re-write topics in ur own words

go for a walk + revise at the same time

make up ur own song/rap for a topic

make notes straight afterlearning something new

reward urself

get exam details and prefer for it beforehand

"txt it" uses 160 spaces to summarise a topic

make up mnemonics

teach a friend what u know

higlight important bits

make posters

make timelines

go to revision sessions

make revision grids

make collages

ask questions when u dont understand

read notes out aloud

talk through toics with soemone else

test yourself- write dwn what u know about a topic and check what u missed out

ask urslf why what ur learning is important and make it interesting for urself


You — Mon, 17 May 2010 - 19:24

and you could have spent that time actually revising...


when is your next exam?


TPOS — Mon, 17 May 2010 - 19:29

[quote=You]and you could ahve spent that time actually revising...[/quote]


shhh!


[quote=You]when is your next exam?[/quote]


RE tomorrow but that should be a breeze...but i shouldnt be complacent so i WILL do some revision


and then Biology on friday


thats all for this week


LookingToSee — Thu, 20 May 2010 - 23:06

TWO hours!!?? OMG!


i was revising my english lit poems...then got SO bored i went out to clean the garden!


this is very bad and you shouldnt do it but the garden DOES look good now =D

my poems?? well...euh... >.> *runs away and hide under bed*


xSmurfy786x — Thu, 20 May 2010 - 23:51

ive been sitting in the garden and revising, weather is awesome,, it was succesfull for 2 days.. until yesterday where i ended up falling asleep on my books.. dont ask lol


but it worked today alhamdulillah. im getting there, distractions is the hardest thing for me.. and getting into the mood to revise.. coz if your in a jolly good ol' mood you cant do anything of the revision sort lol


LookingToSee — Sat, 22 May 2010 - 13:46

urgh at facebook and friends you miss because you're on study leave...sometimes i wish i was still stuck in a classroom forced to revise


You — Sat, 22 May 2010 - 15:46

I was reading the other day that 40% of teenage girls consider facebook as essential to their life. Compared to only 6% of teenage boys.


fiifs (not verified) — Mon, 24 May 2010 - 11:57

[quote=You]I was reading the other day that 40% of teenage girls consider facebook as essential to their life. Compared to only 6% of teenage boys.[/quote]


LOL!


well my laptop's broken. bluergh!


anyways people, dua's please! - spanish, english lit, chemistry and physics this week! and english and the sciences are gna be hard cuz i dont knwo anything 🙁


xSmurfy786x — Mon, 24 May 2010 - 22:41

LOL that facebook fact made me laugh.


if you had asked me a couple a months ago i would have agreed with them girls!


please do duaa for me too!

biology tomorrow morning..!


TPOS — Tue, 8 Jun 2010 - 12:42

Duaas please! i don't know if all this history stuff will stick in my head for tomorrow or not! im so behind 🙁 :|


TPOS — Tue, 8 Jun 2010 - 15:48

Urgh! i got some stupid Qs in the RE exam i just did!


e.g:

"there is no such thing as spirituality" do you agree? give your answer showing you have thought of more than one viewpoint.


how might teachings about the after life affect the way a religious person cares for a terminally ill person?


what?! :S o well, its over now


TPOS — Wed, 9 Jun 2010 - 13:05

had the best history exam ever!!! 😃 😃 😃

I don't even care that the stuff i spent going over in the early hours of today didnt even come up.

the other questions were just soooo great

😃