Give your revision a makeover!

Variety is key when it comes to revision. It's no wonder you're getting bored, if all you're doing is making pages and pages of notes, or hundreds of mind-maps. Of course, you may find some methods more useful than others and that's fine; just as long as you're using a few different techniques. Hopefully, you'll find that this variety not only breaks up the monotony, but also makes it easier to remember the things you're trying to learn. This is because you should be able to visualise the poster/flashcard/colours for that specific topic.  If you're not a visual learner, then you might remember making a poster better than writing a page of notes, just as long as you don't solely rely on posters! 

Here are a few examples of some of the different methods you could try: 

Simply just adding some highlighting to your notes will draw your attention to the important parts. It's so easy to end up highlighting the entire page though, so be selective!

Mind-maps are useful for lists of things, such as these key words for the French topic 'Science et Technologie'. You can use different branches for different sub-topics, which is a good way of getting quite a lot of information onto one page.

If you've got sheets from class that you want to use, instead of spending ages copying out whole chunks into your own notes, just highlight the useful bits. You could even pick out the really important parts and put them on a mind-map.

Flashcards are great if you want to condense lots of information. It feels a lot more manageable trying to learn something from a small card, rather than pages of notes!

Posters on coloured (or just white) card/paper are a good idea if you want to have each topic clearly presented on one side of A4- you can fit so much more on a poster than you can on a piece of lined notepaper. 

This is just another example of a mind-map. You might find this amount of information a bit overwhelming, but I personally like knowing it's all in one place!

If you have to learn case studies (Geography, for example), then making a poster for each one can be quite useful, especially if you use different colours and draw tables for facts or figures.

By the time I got to my final exam, I couldn't bear the thought of having to do any more writing, so I used the computer to type up my notes. This was good because I could quickly make tables and I could easily highlight things in different colours.

So, as you can see, there is quite a big variety of methods you can try in your revision. You probably won't want to do all of them, but using just a few different techniques might hold your interest and attention for a little bit longer! But not as long as this: 

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 Harriet