Every fortnight, we’ll be sharing a wellbeing or study tip on the student Google Classroom to support effective learning. On 22nd September, we focused on an essential study strategy: making your revision more active and less passive. We encourage parents to discuss this approach with their child to help boost their progress.
Simply re-reading notes can feel like productive revision, but it’s not the most effective way to retain information. Instead, try turning revision into an active learning process with these techniques:
- Flashcards: Write key terms or questions on one side and the answers on the other. Regularly test yourself and shuffle the cards to keep your brain engaged.
- Recall and Explain: Close your notes and try to remember what you’ve just studied. Explain the material out loud to someone else or even to yourself. You can also do a “brain dump”—write down everything you recall about a topic from memory, then review your notes and add any missing points in a different colour.
- Practice Exam Questions: Work through real exam questions under timed conditions to test your understanding and improve your exam technique. Carefully mark your answers using the official mark scheme and identify areas that need more attention.
By actively engaging with the material, you strengthen your memory, reveal gaps in your knowledge, and make your revision far more effective.
