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10. Revise on the go! Make use of the time you spend travelling each day by keeping flashcards of key points from each of your subjects with you at all times. Whether your journeys are made by bus, or train, last hour, or half – make every minute count by taking flashcards with you. Write…
7. Count those sheep and catch those Zzzzz’s! Ensure you get adequate amounts of sleep during your revision and examination period. It has been scientifically proven that sleep helps memories to consolidate. At least half an hour before you plan to go to bed ensure that you turn off all electronic items. Use that half…
4. Revision does not have to be static! Combine revision with exercise. Build exercise into your revision programme. You can exercise your body and your mind at once! Record yourself reciting revision points and listen to them whilst on a jog or brisk walk, or do a circuit session with each exercise relating to a…
Below is a full list of 21 Exam Boosting Tips according to Megan Smith – enjoy the read and I hope you found them thought provoking. Make a detailed revision plan, and stick to it! ‘Failing to prepare, is preparing to fail’ – indeed, this should be your mantra throughout your revision period. Take time…
1. Make a detailed revision plan and stick to it! ‘Failing to prepare, is preparing to fail’ – indeed, this should be your mantra throughout your revision period. Take time to map-out a detailed revision plan in order to ensure you have revised every topic at least twice, and completed timed past-paper questions on that…
It must be born in mind that despite the increase in the number of challenges for re-marking exams and the increase in the number of exam grades that are changed as a result, it is still the case that the majority of appeals are unsuccessful. Most requests do not result in a change to the…
The financial cost of re-marking Whilst I find it difficult to understand the solution being proposed by OFQUAL – which is to make it more difficult to challenge exam grades, I’m also not too sure about a £10m fund, as I feel that, in the end the number of challenges to grades will keep rising…
An increasing number of schools are asking for their students’ examination scripts to be re-marked. They do this because they believe that the grade awarded by the examination board is not true reflection of a particular student’s ability in that subject. At a well-known independent school in North London – Haberdasher Askes School in Elstree,…
At this critical stage of the academic year as we approach the summer examinations, remember that extra tuition or revision courses are not the only way to help your son or daughter achieve high examination grades. However, when you have come to the conclusion that sending your daughter or son on a revision course is…
Putting it all together for your son’s or daughter’s success at GCSE and A-level DAPPS – Desire, Action, Plan (Organised Plan), Persistent and Sixth sense I’m using the acronym DAPPS to present a few things that need to be in place in order for success to be achieved. For success, the right behaviour needs to…
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