Creating Success Through Partnership

Revision Top Tip 1 - Create a Question and Answer sheet

If you only use one tip, make it this one!

Take an ordinary sheet of A4 paper. Fold it in half lengthways.

Now look at the notes you are trying to learn. Turn the notes into questions. Write these questions on the left hand side of the paper.

'When was the French Revolution?'

‘What happens when magnesium is added to sulphuric acid?'

and so on.

Then, on the right hand side, jot down the answers to these questions.

Hey presto! You've made your own, personal revision aid. By turning facts into questions, you are already getting your brain to work. This is active learning. It's much more effective than the passive approach of simply reading through your notes, or copying them out neatly.

Once you've made a sheet, test yourself on the questions you've written down. You'll find that the information sinks in very quickly, and you'll feel reassured that you're really learning.

Now make some more pages in the same way. Organise the pages into sections, and staple them together in the top left-hand corner, so that you can turn them over. Make sure you've always got some revision with you. Keep testing yourself, or get someone else to test you. The facts will soon be at your fingertips.