Revision tips
Exams are fast approaching and lots of students are
finishing off their coursework and starting to revise everything they’ve
learned during their course.
We’ve been searching for some tips for you on the internet.
Take a look at this short BBC Newsbeat video.
The BBC also have lots more resources at http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zw8qpbk with links to advice on the National Citizen Service website too.
If you are prone to worrying about your exams, the BBC published an article earlier this week : Exam Stress: a revision guide for the anxious which might be helpful.
Memory Techniques
More generally, a lot of us would like to know how to remember things better whether it's remembering someone's name, reminding ourselves to do something or memorising information for an exam.
In 2105 The Daily Telegraph published an article Nine tips to improve your memory which also has a quiz to test how good your memory is. You may want to have a go.
BBC Radio 4 has an old archived page on improving your memory which includes tips such as
- Break things down in to chunks
- Space out your learning (don't try to cram it all in at the last minute)
- Write it down
- Use imagery to associate something you are learning with a visual image
- Assign meaning to something (great for numbers eg remember the numbers 1945 by thinking about the last year of the 2nd World War).
- Learn it right the first time (so focus when you are learning).
For those of you interested in more information on how the memory works and further techniques to improve it, we have books in the library by Tony Buzan, for example, who is an expert in memory techniques. The books are found around 153.1.
You may also want to listen to this Tedtalk by Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do.
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