How do you all revise?

Get ready for the unorthodox method.

Before every revision, i relax my mind and try to keep my feet warm.
I play back lectures in my mind
I read through hand out (fast reading)
I Fast read through my notes
I write down all i can remember
I then go back and take the important bit that i think might come out in the exam, i use the past question papers as a guide.
I them read thoroughly and anwers question and write down important notes.
I look myself in the mirror and recite things i know or teach my friends things i have revised (helps to make it stay longer in my head)
I finally then put my note on MP3 and listen to it overnight on repeat. (help my subconcious).
I am dyslexic and this method works for me. :)
 
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The definate way to revise. Go through lecture material and make notes as if you were in a lecture. Any words you struggle with go and look up. After this, write the lecture up in bullet points by yourself, without help, then go back and see what you missed, and write the lecture out again.

After all lectures have been done, do all past exam questions, these generally help fill in the blanks. Rather than write essays, do plans for them and go back to look up key points. This is a good way of sticking key points in your head.

After this, brefily reread through your bullet point notes... you may of forgotten things which havn't come up in past papers.

After this you are good to go. However, the only way I can remmember 'difficult' words or phrases is by REPEATEDLY writing them down.

Took me two whole sides to get Treponema pallidum into my head :)
 
branddaly said:
Surely that can't be healthy?
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Hey, you try revising 80+ prokaryotes and their virulence, theres nothing healthy about it :D

Then again I did 16 hours sessions of revision with no breaks, which most people find 'impossible', so its all down to the person. The ONLY way I can learn everything well is to revise long and hard. It really depends on your subject I think. For example, revising for english or language subjects requires less 'hardcoreness' over a long period of time (so it seems) :) .
 
untill my up-and-coming maths and trip-sci exams, i will have never done more than 20 minutes revision in my life. :D
 
ElRazur said:
What is your area of study or what are you studying?
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I'm doing biology, and made a choice of doing a 'subunit' in microbiology/pathogens (Basically two small units on the same thing). The subunit bacially required loads of knowlegde on diseases such as Chalmydia or Diptheria and how the toxins of the bacteria worked, so lots of regurgitating information. Unfortuantly the microbiology exam caught me off guard, aghhh!

Still, one to go before partying ;)
 
Nitefly said:
I'm doing biology, and made a choice of doing a 'subunit' in microbiology/pathogens (Basically two small units on the same thing). The subunit bacially required loads of knowlegde on diseases such as Chalmydia or Diptheria and how the toxins of the bacteria worked, so lots of regurgitating information. Unfortuantly the microbiology exam caught me off guard, aghhh!

Still, one to go before partying ;)
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Nice, i kinda thought so. I just finished in uni, and my degree is on Biomedical sciences. Im thinking of doing my state-training on Microbiology as i love microbes or things in relation to them, the thing is it aint well paid compared to Biochemistry, Haemetology etc.
 
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ElRazur said:
Nice, i kinda thought so. I just finished in uni, and i my degree is on Biomedical sciences. Im thinking of doing my state-training on Microbiology as i love microbes or things in relation to them, the thing is it aint well paid compared to Biochemistry, Haemetology etc.
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Yeah it is a bummer :( I guess you have to be on the ball and get good placements. I know someone who did my course and is now at Imperial University doing a PHD on meningitis (I think) on 20k a year, which I think is amazing pay for a PHD :)

Appologies all I have derailed another thread in the same way, let revision discussion continue!
 
ElRazur said:
Nice, i kinda thought so. I just finished in uni, and i my degree is on Biomedical sciences. Im thinking of doing my state-training on Microbiology as i love microbes or things in relation to them, the thing is it aint well paid compared to Biochemistry, Haemetology etc.
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How old are you? I thought you were like 16 :o

Anyway, it depends on the subject for me. With a subject like Physics/Maths I'd prefer to learn formulas and do as many exercises as possible, personally I like to understand how something works not just that it works.

With most of my current college subjects I should be revising for I prefer to read through notes and synthesize them onto paper in note form, take a break after 45mins-1hour then write out what I did previously.
 
I dont and thats my problem lol

I hate revising!! Im trying to learn my driving theory atm so im reading through the book, but iv been learning to drive for a year now and just havnt got round to my theory cos i hate revising for things, although i am trying!!

I know its an easy test to pass, but i want to make sure i pass first time round!

But before when i had to revise for my a levels i found colour digrams and charts helped, brain storms etc (for got the politically correct term for it)
Buy loads of highlighters!! and Get drawing its fun! :p
 
I'm not someone who starts weeks before the exams. I'm lucky that I just tend to remember the concepts and revise those by reading through textbooks (i don't take lcture notes really) and then the only things I ever need to actually learn are the formulae and chemical reaciton schemes in my case. I learn those by just writing them all out lots of times to learn them parrot fashion.
 
BUSH said:
I'm not someone who starts weeks before the exams. I'm lucky that I just tend to remember the concepts and revise those by reading through textbooks (i don't take lcture notes really) and then the only things I ever need to actually learn are the formulae and chemical reaciton schemes in my case. I learn those by just writing them all out lots of times to learn them parrot fashion.
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You know its funny, I havn't looked at a text book in the last 3 years of my degree, I'd forgotten all about them!
 
I write out important sections, important equations and important derivations. Then go through them about 2 days before the exam whilst doing some past papers. I study physics at Nottingham university and am on for a first so must be doing something right i guess :)
 
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