Revision Tips and Help

Seeing as I am a perpetual student and find myself once again delving into the world of revision, I thought I would take time out from procrastinating and staring at the wall, to share some of my revision tips for anyone else going through the trauma!

Either that searching for random pictures all involving cuddly cats is much more productive!

  

Tip 1

Timetable

The most helpful thing for me to switch into “revision mode” is to use my study leave wisely. I like to set myself a timetable to utilise the hours and treat it like a working day.

For example a typical day for me goes something like:

8.30am – wake up, have a little munchie munchies

10.00am – It takes me a while to get up! START REVISION! Whoop!

1pm – Revise for a good 2 hours and break for lunch and chill out maybe catch up on a blog or do something creative.

3pm – Return to work. I have quite a long break as I’ve found that I don’t consume anything in the afternoon lull and usually get frustrated with the topics.

6pm/7pm – Take a break for some din dins and a little bit of Big Bang Theory for geek motivation.

9-10pm – Tend to just work through until about 9pm or 10pm depending how “in the zone” I am.

The key factors in creating your timetable is to pencil in revision sessions (mine are 2hours at a time) when you are at your best for absorbing info ie for me that’s early morning/ early evening. Some of my friends find it easier to work through the night and sleep during the day but remember your exam won’t be a 2am!

 Tip 2

Revision Notes

My revision success really kick started when I found out about Microsoft’s OneNote programme. It allows you to create a virtual folder with tabbed sections for different topics. But the idea behind it is simply getting organised.

Whether you like handwriting notes or typing them up I find it really useful to set up an overview of the subject so I don’t miss out any topics.

I divide each Subject into sub-sections which contain all my lecture and tutorial notes with info specific to that topic.

For example: Contract Law folder contains the sub-sections: Offer & Acceptance, Consideration, Terms, Unfair Terms, Damages, Misrep etc.

So if I find I’m not as comfortable with one topic in the subject I can go straight to the tab and brush over the information.

Tip 3

Practice

Along with practicing past papers, the last tip that really works for me is picking up the phone at the end of the day and sharing what I’ve learnt with my boyfriend. Well he joins in by quoting A Few Good Men..

 I’ll usually go through a topic and explain the law and give examples of different situations. He then gets a bit carried away with the scenarios:

Him:    “You’re telling me I can shoot someone who comes into my house?!”

Me:      “No honey of course not, but you can protect yourself to some extent”

Him:     “So if you come to my house I can shoot you on the basis that you were threatening  my life?”

Me:      “I’LL SHOW YOU THREATEN YOUR LIFE IN A MIN!”

It does help digest the day and all I’ve been reading through as well as openly making me aware of topics I don’t know.

Every chance you get try explaining what you’ve learnt to someone in a simple way. Not only will you be surprised at how well you know your topics, you’ll feel even more chuffed when you realise all that work has paid off and you are a megamind like genius!

My Revision Inspiration

All the above tips are simply my own little techniques that help me keep on top of work. They are not do’s and don’ts. I’d be really interested in hearing about your own revision success so please comment below on what works for you!

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