Revision Technique

[rogersaurus]

I have an exam in 2 weeks. What is the best way to revise my year's course in that time?

[cupra]

Buy a time machine and go back a couple of months!

[cupra]

Sorry, Couldn't resist that! I was an expert in leaving it to the last minute myself (and I still passed) - my method was to go through all my notes and highlight all the important points, then run through them all again but this time copy all these points to a new document. Then I read and re-read this document many times.... but don't be tempted to spend all of the night before the exam revising non-stop!

[Quizmonster]

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[froggequene]

When I was revising for exams where possible I would try to get past papers going back over a number of years. I don't know if it works with the English educational system but sometimes it is possible to spot cycle and you can sometimes predict what will come up, the questions may alter slightly but the basic information remains the same and it can be manipulated to suit. It will also give you an opportunity to compose an answer to a certain extent. You could try asking your tutors what topics are coming up providing they aren't the ones setting the exams. Didn't your tutors give you any hints at all?

[rogersaurus]

I was asking for personal experiences, not a list of thousands of different techniques that are 'supposed' to work, Quizmonster. The whole point is that I don't have to spend time trawling through all these suggestions, I wanted to hear what had worked for people here. This isn't a matter of fact, it's one of opinion, so your oh so witty answer which you constantly employ is of very little use.