Revision Guide

RETRIEVAL STRATEGIES

These techniques may be helpful in your active revision times. Some are better for some subjects than others and depend on your existing knowledge. For example, past papers are good for Maths and sciences, but not if you need to learn a topic first.

Mind maps Choose a topic and write down as much as you can remember, without referring to your notes. Check your notes and see what you missed then try to fill the gaps without the notes. Check your notes a third time and add the missing information.

Pros/Cons: Good for making connections between areas, less good for very detailed subjects.

Example  Idea  Quote 

 Text  Example  Idea

SUBTOPIC

SUBTOPIC

MAIN TOPIC

 Text  Idea

IDEA

SUBTOPIC

Example 

Text  Quote  Idea 

 Summary  Method  Discussion

SUBTOPIC

IDEA

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