Revision Tips

Hey lovelies! I hope you’re all having a lovely day/ I hope you have a lovely day! (which ever applies to you because of time zones.) 

During this time of the year and the next few months, a lot of people have exams over the next few weeks, whether these be GCSE’s, A level’s or possibly even exams at university. Exams are extremely stressful so it is important to prepare for them, here is a few tips on how to prepare and revise:

• Make sure you’re in a quiet area where you won’t be disturbed and that you can focus on work without too many distractions.
•  Make sure you take regular breaks, at least every 30 minutes or so, have a drink and possibly a snack.
• Reward yourself, something I did during my GCSE’s was that every time I finished a piece of revision that I needed to do, I’d then reward yourself with a treat or 5 minutes talking to a friend or something like this. 
• Spread your work load out, make sure you still have some social time and time to yourself to do the things you want, something I’ve learned is that it is best to do 1 or 2 hours of work a night rather than cram it all in the night before as you just stress yourself even more.
• You could make a revision guide, plan which subject work you’re going to do each night or just leave a revision slot and do whichever work needs to be done first and leave time for yourself as well, fit your work around any existing plans but make sure you leave enough time to do the work.
• Prepare yourself for the exams, make sure you understand the questions that may come up and what you need to do for the exam and do practice papers and ask your teacher what you did wrong if you don’t understand.
•  Make sure you have all your equipment ready for the exams and for revision.
•  Try to relax when revising, you could have quiet music on but make sure it is not distracting you from the work.
• Use different resources, bite size is a good site for people studying for their GCSE’s. Make use of websites and resources that teachers give you. Try different revision techniques, for example, mind maps, past papers, a booklet, video etc. This will help to reinforce the information into your brain J
• Turn your phone off or try not to use it while you’re revising, same goes for social networking, like Facebook, twitter, tumblr and turn your TV off. Things like this distract you and then you procrastinate (put off) the work which will only mean that you’ll have more to do later on. 

I hope these tips and advice help you to focus on your exams, exams are only for a short while and once you’ve completed them, you’ll be able to do things for yourself, you just need to think positively and get through them and then when you get the results, you know you will have put the best you can into the work! Good luck!

Feel free to comment with other tips you have or how you get on, I would love to here! I have lots more idea’s like this so if you like this kind of post, please let me know!xx