Good Revision Techniques? Need to cram/remember a lot for tomorrow

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As title really.

I have an exam tomorrow, Gonna be pretty tough unless I pull my finger out and go over my notes/mock questions.

I have about 170 question/answers at hand which Im trying to remember. This should hopefully cover a lot of tomorrows potential exam ones.

Can anyone recommend a good technique for studying?
 
I made MP3s of the stuff I was reading. Then read a long with the MP3s I had recorded. Worked for me.
 
Yeah I certainly cant disagree with the starting earlier bit. I did cover some over the last week but I really dont feel its been enough.

Im thinking just sitting down and going over things repeatedly while drinking lots of water is probably my only hope.
 
I can group up with some others later actually. Ill do that too. Its not something I could have had months to study for as its just part of a course Im on and assessments/exams come quite regularly.

This one is my final one to worry about before my course finishes in about 6 weeks so fingers crossed I have no issues.
 
Hedge said:
Yeah I certainly cant disagree with the starting earlier bit. I did cover some over the last week but I really dont feel its been enough.

Im thinking just sitting down and going over things repeatedly while drinking lots of water is probably my only hope.
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I actually found starting really early to be worse for me. I normally started about a week before the exam and then a day or two before to start going over with some friends. As if I started to early it made me do less work p/d as I knew I had ages to go.
 
Different strokes for different blokes... Does that make sense in this scenario? :p

Basically, different techniques will work for different people - For me, I read through workbooks and made my own notes, highlighted areas, drew pictures and generally tried to make it as interesting as possible. It somehow stuck in my head easier by writing it down in my own writing.
 
Marky said:
Different strokes for different blokes... Does that make sense in this scenario? :p

Basically, different techniques will work for different people - For me, I read through workbooks and made my own notes, highlighted areas, drew pictures and generally tried to make it as interesting as possible. It somehow stuck in my head easier by writing it down in my own writing.
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I found writing it down over and over again helped me no end.
 
At university I tended to go through the entire course writing down the salient points and that would give me say 6-8 sides of A4, I'd then revise from that and try to reduce it still further. For different exams doing lots of practice questions and simulated helped more than just reading through and summarising. Other friends would just pick up the textbook a day or so before the exam and revise it fairly solidly like that and would even be reading a couple of minutes before the exam started. It depends how your mind works though and by this stage you've probably got a fair idea of what works for you and what doesn't.

I did always find that after a certain point I was much better just giving up and going to sleep the night before, I might have learned a little more if I'd stayed up but probably wouldn't have been able to put it down effectively. For me the benefit of feeling fresher and better able to adapt my knowledge to the question or interpret based on the context was easily sufficient to outweigh the value from staying up late.
 
Revision?

Should have listened in class and put effort into what you were learning at the time instead of partying/girls(or boys)/playing games/wasting student loans on booze etc.

If you have to revise, you're doing it wrong.

Though there are A lot of people who do it wrong.
 
If it's just something you need to memorise then keep writing it out repeatedly. I'm learning Russian at the minute and this works well for me.
 
Angleboy said:
Revision?

Should have listened in class and put effort into what you were learning at the time instead of partying/girls(or boys)/playing games/wasting student loans on booze etc.

If you have to revise, you're doing it wrong.

Though there are A lot of people who do it wrong.
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Lol Im not at Uni but I suppose some of that rings true. Should have listened more and played less games last week. Too late now though.

Im just going over mock questions hoping some of it sticks in my mind now.
 
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