Effective Test Revision Tips

It's a week before the big test. You have forgotten the topics you learnt earlier in the year and the teacher hasn't given you any revision. What do you do?

In this post, I have gathered some of my most effective study tips to help you to ace your next test or exam. Keep in mind the amount of time you have to revise and what sort of study works best for you. I find that the best results occur when I begin studying a week before the test and spread out my study throughout the week. 



Tip 1: Don’t Freak Out
When you have an important test or big exam coming up, the idea of remembering so much information can be very overwhelming. Try not to become stressed, instead plan out the ways in which you will revise for this test over the coming days to make sure that you don’t leave all your study until the last minute.

Tip 2: Read over your notes
Read through whatever you have used in class, including notes, textbooks, worksheets, PowerPoints and other resources so that you start to remember the concepts which have been covered in the past and may appear in the test. This is when it is important to have written abundant and legible notes which you can understand weeks after you write them.

Tip 3: Make Flash Cards
If there are lots of terms and concepts you need to memorise for your test, flashcards are the way to go. You can write your flashcards onto pieces of paper or use a website such as “Quizlet” but either way, both the act of creating the flashcards and using them will help you to remember information. You can make these from a week to a few days before the test and use them over the days leading up to it. 

Tip 4: Make a cheat sheet
Most teachers don’t allow you to bring in a cheat sheet to the actual test, but it is useful to make one anyway. It allows you to gather all of your knowledge in one place in a way which is visual and suits you best. It can be a brainstorm, dot points, diagrams, or however you like to see your information. I would recommend using colour too so that your cheat sheet looks appealing and is more fun to make.

Tip 5: Write down what you know
As a final exercise, it is really useful to write a few paragraphs on everything that you know about the topics on your test. Just start writing and get all of the information that you have absorbed during your revising and put it onto the page. When you are done, read over what you have written so that you can see the gaps where you have forgotten things and can also be proud of how much you have remembered. This should help you boost your confidence and help you to feel really prepared for sitting your test.

Those are the ways which I study for my tests. Let me know in the comments of this post if you do something similar or if you try this out, did it work for you? Thank you for reading this blog post!
- Inkpot Blogger

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