Revision... where to start

When you are faced with a long list of chapters to revise for the summer tests or even the whole book for your state exams in June, it can feel intimidating.

The first thing to remember is that you have already learned this material, so you are not learning it all from scratch. Don't worry if you don't remember everything straight away, when you start to revise, you will recognise a lot more than you expect.

Here is one way of breaking all of that revision into manageable chunks:

1. Make a list of topics/chapters that you need to revise. 
2. Challenge yourself to get all of the important information in that chapter into one page. You might need to make a rough version first. 
3. Practice answering past exam questions or the questions at the end of the chapter. 

Here is an example of the list of topics that my second year science classes need to revise: 

My students have done an amazing job of creating a one page summary of topics in physics. Here are a few examples of their work. You can see that even though they are all revising the same topics, each poster is quite different. Using colour and little sketches or pictures helps to make the poster really stand out.   

Remember that there are three steps to help you get started: 

1. Make a list 
2. Put everything you need to know on one page 
3. Practice answering questions 

"Tús maith, leath na hoibre"

Miss McCarthy