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Saving courses allow you to compare them, it also allows you to create a permanent list of 'favourites' that will always be there when you visit our site. Your friends might be studying for eight hours According to The Student Room, students revise 15 to 20 hours per week for their exams, which might sound a lot until you break it down. Find out exactly what you know Look at your course outline and test yourself on the topics. What are you confident in and what needs more work?
This way you can prioritise your workload, which can help you decide what subjects may need more hours of revision. So it is worthwhile sacrificing your holidays. Your exams will be finished in June and you will then have about two months holiday. For each half hour, set a timer for 25 minutes. Focus on your scheduled subject for those 25 minutes. Then relax for five minutes. If the weather is nice go for a brief stroll, perhaps.
Stroke a cat or dog, if you have one. As you can see there is no golden rule for how much you can revise. What we recommend is using our learning platform for your revision. Then you can keep an eye on your knowledge score, which indicates how well you memorize the subject and how you scored. Others will have grunted every time revision was mentioned and promptly gone off to do something else.
Clearly, these two types of students and all those in between will be in very different places in terms of their exam preparation. The diligent types can afford to take a less pressured, more methodical approach to their revision. However, those who haven't done any up to now are going to have to put some serious effort in to pick up their game.
This happened to a client of mine last year. He received excellent GCSE results, but during year 12 became distracted from his studies by some issues in his personal life. He was shocked to the core to get Ds and Es in some tests. That's when his parents came to me to help put him back on track.
By the time we'd had our first session, he'd already done a stint of 12 hour days to get himself up to speed with everything he'd missed I would never advise a student to do 12 hour days as I don't believe it's healthy, but he'd taken this upon himself before we started working together.
So, the message here is that you have to take into account your exam readiness when deciding how much to study each day. If you're not sure where you're at, I can help. On my regular Revision Kickstarter Workshops we do an exercise that helps students see where their strengths and weaknesses are and what they need to work on. This exercise is also available to do independently in one of the revision modules inside The Extraordinaries Club.
I often get students writing to me about physical and mental health issues that are getting in the way of their revision and exams. My advice to these students is always that health comes first, because without your health you have nothing. When it comes to revising with a mental or physical health problem, you need to really consider the sustainability point I raised above. Work out what you can sustainably do, and do that. Students with learning differences such as dyslexia , dyspraxia , dyscalculia and slower processing speeds will find that revision is harder, that it takes longer and that it is more tiring for them than for neurotypical students.
This needs to be taken into account when setting revision targets for them. Revising when you're tired is never productive, so it's not just about saying do more hours for these students, as this will make them more tired and less productive. Instead, it comes down, again, to sustainability, but also finding revision techniques that work for them. This is what we do with both study skills coaching clients and members of The Extraordinaries Club.
In fact, there's a whole module inside the club focusing on this. All revision techniques are not created equal. Lying on your bed reading your incomplete class notes whilst trying not to stare out of the window is an extremely ineffective revision technique. However, doing a focused revision power hour is very effective indeed.
If you go with the lying on your bed version of revision, you could literally spend decades revising and not be ready for your exams. However, doing power hours, and other similarly focused and effective revision techniques, you'll find you need to spend way less time studying than people who slavishly create very pretty, but not overly useful, revision notes. If you're interested in getting some deeper guidance and advice, come join The Extraordinaries Club where we have three modules on revision:.
You can also ask questions about revision on the weekly live coaching calls or in the parents only Facebook group. Click here to find out more about The Extraordinaries Club. Your personal data will be treated with respect. View my privacy policy here. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Just enter your name and email below and the free tips sheet will be sent directly to your inbox.
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