How do you revise?

[e-LAN-go]

I've always found writing out summaries of essential points from notes to be really helpful. Also it's useful to find out what kind of questions are mostly likely to appear in your exam, and then just attempt similar ones from past papers.

[Starburn]

Revise?

Argh oh yeah.. exams start next week :/
I thought during the easter break "must start revising tomorrow", I've just got around to finding all my notes in my room today & went into uni to print off the ones I'm missing.. :|.. I'll start revising tomorrow I guess

Er anyway, yeah I just tend to look at the past exam papers.. and read some notes.
Revision has never been a 'thing' for me :/ unfortunately.

[Stoo]

What's revision?



Disclaimer: Don't take that as an instruction.. PLEASE..

[muddyfox470]

best thing is to do small sessions so you dont get distracted.

and always write things down, never just read it. it gets it in your brain. and try not to skip anything, because the things you think you know will let you down in the exam!

ian

[tiggerai]

I'm with you on that one hun!

I've found that going through the slides and past papers always helps me.
(Although this is a bit of a problem, due to the newness of some of the stuff we're doing at the moment)
Although I've only got 1 topic done today :S (but properly, books and all)

And regular breaks - so it doesn't get too boring. (like now)

[0iD]

lol, I haven't revised in abt 15 years, I sure as hell don't envy you lot Did all mine last minute, I have a good memory so it's half the battle won. Imprtant stuff I recored & played back to myself to try & absorb it subliminally. Formulae I scrawled on big pieces of paper & taped them to the walls & ceiling.

I gotta say it's supprising how quick you forget it just a short period of time after you finish & start work.

[Twigman]

lose the internet...seriously...get all the notes/pdfs/exam papers whatever you need off the internet, and then disconnect and give your cable to someone you can trust, or get someone to lock you out of your router etc...

[mark22]

This is what I did to get through physics degree a week before exams after learning nothing all summer. Oh and I now dont remember much of it but at the time thought degree's were important (lets not go there).

First i would go through all my notes for each module making shorter conciser notes on what i thought was important. This in itself gets the stuff in your head rather than reading it over and over.

Then past papers, these save everyone at uni, especially in physics or maths or other degrees with pretty definate answers to questions. Get as many as possible and do them all, the one from two years ago you can guarantee will have an almost identical question so learn that stuff.

Finally I started getting up at 5 in the morning. If I had a 9 exam I would get up at 5 and go over those past papers. At about 7.30 I would get too strung out on coffee walking around the house so I'd get the bus into uni, find a spot in the sun near the exam room and carry on readin till my mates turned up. Then I'd pretend I did no revision

God I hated those days. Trying to get to sleep when everyone else had finished they're arty courses

Good luck.

[Elmo]

i've never found rewriting notes helpful, i just end up going into some sort of daze and just copy what it says rather than reading and taking it in. If i have a question to answer i find it a lot more helpful cos i can nail that type of question and move on to the next.

i'm about to go along to my mate's house (she has no net!) and get some serious studying done! only 6 days till the first exam!

c ya later!