KS3 Effective Revision

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The following are ineffective and if you are doing this please stop NOW!

• • • • • Copying notes from a text book or revision guide.

        • Highlighting your book or any worksheet.

        • Reading through your notes.

Look through this powerpoint and try some of these instead...

Recall Questions on Quizlet Links can be found on your year group page.

If you are watching online videos or reading a revision guide challenge yourself to do one of the following.

• • • Summarise in less than 30 words (or less if you can)

    • Write 5 bullet points, each bullet point has to be less than 10 words.

    • Do a poster with only pictures to represent what you have read/watched.

    • Turn the information into a table (for example, pros and cons of a particular issue).

    • Make a time line of the events that lead to a scientific discovery

Sign onto and USE senecalearning.com (a website that uses cognitive science to help you learn faster and more effectively.) 

Brain dumping. Take a blank piece of paper and write down everything you can remember about a topic. Check what you have written using BBC Bitesize