Revision strategy (refine)
For reports and assignments it’s best to sit for 1-2 hours with 1-2 hour breaks.
Plan each week as timetables/routines change. E.g. Timetable of lectures at start of academic year.
Change in jobs.
Planning is how it starts (remember seeing how much I needed to do for microbio)
Read around 10 slides with time taken to understand. Go over each slide after you read it to check.
Write down from memory (usually miss maximum a couple of things). Take ~30 minute break.
go over previous revised material every 2nd/3rd break session; positive feedback, shows you that you
are learning, great motivator.
Go over material next day, then two days, then a week.
Allowed me to go through 300 (6 lectures) slides in 7 days.
Heavy dinner extremely counter active to study/revision. Yields sleepiness and laziness.
Writing down should be done in small/medium writing on A4 sheet landscape style. This can incorporate
a whole lecture onto one side and also looks less daunting. Furthermore the order and style of
paragraph arrangement can help activate references in your mind for improved memorisation.
Finally, these "mind maps" will be used as the final revision source a day or two before your exam
(instead of scrolling through hundreds of slides, you can scan through a handful of A4 poster sides).
Go through lectures again to see points you would have missed first time, very VERY important.
Go through past papers
Buy frozen food around exam time. Avoid cooking times/ordering out. Also around assignment
deadlines.
Re read questions many times
Presentation: stand in an orientation of 50/50 board/audience.
Memories and understand the first slide.
Sit with the presentation and understand the meaning of each point/sentence.
Have a clear structure.
DONT push yourself on anything the day before presenting
Don’t lie down as that causes passivity
You need to distract your mind. Because if you truly didn’t care you would do things instead of just
sitting thinking.