Thursday 27 December 2007
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
OMG somebody please help me lord! I cannot find any time to do revision because of work and my damn family! I am panicking! I have three subjects to revise for and I have no time... and when I do have time I don't know where to start! I really want to do well but I just don't know how! I have never been soo worried I just feel like what I am doing isn't enough since I am just reading and writing notes! Does anybody please have any suggestions? Does anyone want to tell my boss I can't work because of my revision? I am too scared, maybe if one of you teachers called and sounded all important? ...yes?...no?....
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Hi Evie, I'm really sorry to hear that you're feeling so stressed but I have absolute confidence that you will find ways of staying on top of your work as you seem to be very aware of exactly what and how much you need to do to achieve the higher grades.
Is it a simply a problem with lack of time or are you feeling at a loss to know how to revise? In terms of time, reseach has shown (as I'm sure you are aware) that revising little and often is more successful than doing last minute revision for long periods of time. Are you able to commit to 1-2 hours per day (perhaps splitting it between the morning and afternoon?) and then organising each of your 3 subjects into the main topic areas and revising them on a cycle so that nothing in particular takes priority and also so that you'll plan to come back to each topic at least once?
In terms of ways of revising, writing your notes out again obviously works for you, but any way of 'transforming' information is good for revising and retaining information. So you could change written notes into annotated diagrams or cartoons, flowcharts, mindmaps or even something silly like a story or poem! Alternatively, if it's a labelled diagram that you're trying to remember, you could transform it into a written paragraph or story. The reasoning is that by actually changing the information, you are having to process it which shows you whether you understand it or not. Also, by changing it into your own format, you're more likely to remember it, especially if it's particularly silly or colourful!
At this stage, if you haven't already, I would make it a priority to reduce your neat lesson notes by at last half (ideally more), by summarising the main points (could use some of the ways suggested as above) so that there's less to revise. Use the tick lists to help you decide which are the important points that you need to include.
Good luck with your revision and let me know if I can help in any way. I am happy to mark anything that you've done over the next week if you email it to me. :-)
hey evie if you get this anytime soon i find that by working out exactly how much time ive got spare a day then allocating specific areas to revise over that half hour/hour makes it easier for to stick to and stay on task rather than thinking oh god i need to revise but i dnt know what to then never quite managing to do anything and like miss said bout the ticklists, working through each point as a starting point is always quite gd....i dnt know if that'll help at all
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