Revision at St Michael's Catholic College

How do we revise?

Everything you need to know about how to effectively revise.

Navigate through the following resources to help understand how best to revise.

Metacognition Skills

Specific revision strategies - the St Michael's Toolkit

Top tips from St Michael's Students

Examples of excellent revision work

Useful links

St michael's skills

“Metacognition refers to one's knowledge concerning one's own cognitive processes or anything related to them."

It means 'thinking about how you think.'

Move through the slideshow to learn more about each of the St Michael's metacognition skills.

Revision timetables

Copy of 1. Revision timetables

Summarising information and reducing notes down

Copy of 2. Reducing notes down (summarising)

Self testing and memorising information

Copy of 3. Memorising

Watch this video to hear the strategies explained in more detail:

Revision Strategies - video 2022.mp4

Revision Tips By Sixth Form Students.mov

Watch this useful video full of tips from St Michael's Students.

What do they cover?

Top Tips:

Create a revision timetable.
Your initial revision sessions should involve you taking notes on and summarising what you need to learn then condensing this and testing yourself.
Regular testing and repetition are the key components to long term understanding and memorisation for exam day.
Measure progress based on topic coverage rather than time studied for.
Revise away from distractions such as the TV, Phones, Video games etc.
Pomodoro rule - revise for 25 minutes, then do something practical/active for 5 minutes eg. tidy your room, bounce a ball. Try to stay away from phones/tv during this time.