Preparing for Exams
Clearly an important part of the challenge ahead is to ensure students are as prepared as possible for the final GCSE examinations at the end of Year 11. In our experience, students tend to leave revision very late, and often under-estimate the amount of concentration needed to revise effectively. You may find the following helpful.
Useful Revision Tips
- Plan for half-hour sessions or an hour at most. Any longer and it is likely that nothing more will sink in.
- Take a short break in between sessions and have a glass of water or something similar to drink.
- In the evenings after school, plan to revise one or two subjects only. Leave some time for relaxation.
- Plan to revise specific topics in each subject, not everything at once.
- Ensure that each session starts by tackling the most difficult bits.
- Plan to cover each subject several times and revisit each one near to the exams.
- Revising with the TV or radio on or with loud music is not a good idea.
- Reading is not generally enough. Making brief notes in either words or pictures helps them to remember.
- Have all the books they need to hand so they don’t have to go off looking for information.
- Working with a friend can be useful because it allows them to test each other and to talk about the work.
There are lots of good revision guides available from most bookshops to help GCSE students. Students can ask their teachers for recommendations.
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