• Question: Did you find revision for specific exams a struggle?

    Asked by anon-240732 to Tom, Rebecca, Emily, Elspeth, Ben, Antoine on 5 Mar 2020.
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      Tom Dally answered on 5 Mar 2020: last edited 6 Mar 2020 2:32 am

      I was never very good at maths at school, so I always found subjects that involved maths quite hard to revise for. I also found physics really difficult because I could never remember any of the equations (and because of the maths). I think the key to getting around this was finding creative ways to revise. My parents let me wallpaper over one of the walls in my bedroom so I could draw maths and physics stuff all over it. It really helped to fix things in my memory!

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      Ben Cropper answered on 6 Mar 2020:

      Yes I did and still find practice a bit boring. I was always curious and wanted to find new exciting things to be interested in, but unfortunately to get good at something you often need to practice the same stuff over and over again, which can get boring.

      I always struggled to make it interesting, as I found that I ended up using all my energy trying to make it interesting and focusing on the method rather than what I was actually supposed to be learning.

      What always worked best for me was to keep a routine and to try and get myself into ‘the zone’ or whatever you want to call it, trying to keep calm and staying away from distractions where possible.

      Of course, different things work for everyone, so you have to find what’s best for yourself while revising, my tactics aren’t necessarily good ones for other people!

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      Elspeth Keating answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      At school, no, but that was because we had exams every 2 or 3 weeks in every topic so it forced me to be organised and learn in small chunks. I used to make summary sheets – colour coding was key – and learn those, and my sister was only in the year above so there was always someone to quiz me on them.
      At university, I was terrible at revising. Fortunately I had good friends that let me study with them, I always found motivation easier when there was someone else there doing it too.

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      Emily Goddard answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      I found English the hardest to revise for. I could learn quotations, and concepts (one that’s always stuck in my head is pathetic fallacy; when the weather reflects somebody’s feelings, so if they’re feeling miserable it starts to rain), but I actually found knowing whether what I was writing was good or not was really hard!

      I think that might be why I ended up doing science, I liked it better knowing there was a right answer 😀

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