Revision Tips
For millions of students throughout the UK the beginning of the year sees the start of the exam season that will lead up to the final exams taking place in the summer.
Northampton College have kindly provided these handy revision tips for students
1. Prepare your area of work to make sure you have everything you need, such as snacks and drinks so you do not have an excuse to keep stopping your revision.
2. Think positively, decide what it is you want to achieve within the first ten minutes of your revision and concentrate on achieving this. After the first ten minutes of revision reward yourself with a ten minute break. Stick to this rule, gradually increasing the time you revise for and reduce the length of your break.
3. During your break, leave your work area completely. During this time you should relax and give your brain a rest. When you return to revising try to keep all distractions away from your work area, such as having the TV turned off.
4. Be well prepared, organise your revision timetable alongside your exams.
5. Cover several subject areas starting with the subjects you don’t enjoy so you avoid skipping them altogether.
6. Spend time answering questions from previous exam papers.
7. The night before the exam check to make sure you have everything you need and check what will be supplied for you by the School or College
8. Make sure you don’t have two exams at the same time!
9. Don’t try to cram in revision the night before.
10. In the exam room, focus on what you need to do, you could also take some sugary sweets to help boost your energy.
11. Read all the instructions and questions very carefully and allocate time according to the mark given. If one question carries 40 marks and the other 20 marks, allocate twice as long to the 40 mark question than the lees important 20 mark question.
12. If you run out of time then don’t panic, you can still be awarded points by writing notes on how you would have answered the question.
13. Once the exam is over, don’t worry there is nothing you can do now, look to the next exam and keep positive!
To all of you revising for A levels in Northampton or anywhere else in the country, good luck!