Revision Resources:

Below you will find a range of PiXL revision resources that will help get your revision started. They allow you to prioritise your topics, explore everything that you know about your weakest topic, before converting key words or ideas into images.

Following these steps will not only allow you to specifically focus your revision and improve your areas of weakness but also convert the information to your visual memory. This will increase the amount you can process and recall going into your GCSEs.

These revision resources can be used for any subject and will allow you to explore any topic that you struggle with.

Step 1:

The first way to begin your revision is to complete a Ranking Triangle, this will help you focus on the topics you struggle. It is important to make this the first thing you do for any of your subjects, look back through your book or use the school website to help remember all of the topics you have covered, that includes those from Year 10 too. Doing this will allow you to see which areas you must focus your revision on.

Step 2:

The Jotter is a brilliant tool to use for any subject. There are a range of ways that you can use it, planning your response to a question, mind mapping everything you know on a topic or actually breaking down a question and answering it, making sure you include all key pieces of information that your teachers will have covered in class. Show these to your teachers or your form tutors for your Wow Wednesday piece of revision and to check to see if there are any gaps in your learning. You can also cross-reference the notes on the pad with your notes in your folders, books and on Google Classroom.

Step 3:

Transforming key terms, quotations or ideas into visual images improves your memory on tricky topics. This conversion changes the way you process and remember the terms making you more likely to understand and remember the information as you enter your exams. You can even have a sibling, friend or parent/carer draw the quotation/key term/idea and you have to guess what the it is. This is combining peer work, quizzing and revision, also improving your likelihood of remembering difficult topics.

*My students always remember my terrible drawings of key quotations, I use stick figures and the odd word to help.