10. Revision Guides

Speak to your teachers if you’re not sure what to

buy!

Don’t just read them – complete the activities

9. Audio and Video

These are great revision tools for on the bus and

in the car

Look out for updates on

Facebook before Half Term!

Record yourself reading notes or quotes and listen back to it

8. Timelines

Great for sequencing events – for example in

History or English Literature

7. Flashcards

YouTube has helpful videos which show you how

to use flashcards effectively

Images help you to remember

Use the 3 Pile Method

6. Glossaries

Keep key terms in one place – test yourself to

learn them

Cover one side and test yourself – can

you remember every definition?

5. Apps

Downloading an app and not using it is as useful

as buying a revision guide and losing it under

your bed!

Look out for this handout in registers

4. Mind Maps

Mind Maps make facts easier to remember due

to the colours and images they contain.

A Traditional Mindmap

Online Mind Map Software

This student has a chalkboard in their room.

They take photos of the mindmaps they create.

3. Knowledge

Organisers

Bring whole topics together by creating

Knowledge Organisers. Then test your

knowledge!

2.Past Papers

Active revision is far more effective than

passively reading through notes

Ask your teachers for past papers ...

... or go onto the exam board website and download your own

Past Papers at home are for self diagnosis – once you’ve finished,

mark it yourself

Do I need to

revise this?

Am I OK

with it?

A helpful past paper process

1.

• Open book (have your notes ready)

• Open time (take as long as you need)

2.

• Closed book (try it without notes)

• Open time (take as long as you need)

3.

• Closed book (try it without notes

• Closed time (try to stick to the exam times)

1. Learn your

notes Revision isn’t just about making notes ...

... It’s what you do with those notes that makes the

difference!

How to learn what’s in your notes

• Keep your glossaries, mind maps, flashcards in organised folders

• Review them regularly

• Test yourself

• Get friends and family to test you

• Try to recreate them (e.g. Recreate mind maps on a mini-whiteboard)

• Use them when attempting past papers

• Use a revision timetable to plan when you will make notes and when you will review them