Method Of Revision

Although this is written for chemistry this can be applied to ANY subject.

Having your students try to revise for a specific topic can be helped by this method:

1 - Have the student create their own flashcards and use them for the next few weeks for 10-30 minutes every day

This can be done for a whole subject or just a section and will expose key ideas/phrases/definitions/etc for their memory to start latching on to ideas

2 - After using the flashcards created from the subject for about a month, ask your student to take a blank piece of paper and write a sinlge word (eg. moles) and write as much as they can with in a time interval (say 5 minutes) that realte to the word (definitions, equations, etc). This is blurting.

This can release knowledge and work as a self test of memory, while also covering the entire syllabus. This is an sctive thinking process and not just the plain parrot fashion most students carry out. Personally from using this in medschool, seeing my friends and tutees use this, I can say this helps develop understanding faster and concepts retained better.

3 - Then continually get your tutee repeat this cycle: flashcards for 6 days in the week and on the 7th blurt

4 - Have your student start past paper questions about a few months before the exams

Look at their structure of answers and see how it is matching the curriculum and mark scheme.

This method is hard but it helps you learn topics more accurately and for longer.