“…there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…” (United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002) The Latin origin of the word revision suggests the student must “look again”. Sadly, we know that just ‘looking’ at work again is of little use. However, I’d go further – the whole concept […]
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It’s that time of year again! Exam season is nearly upon us. Here is a list of strategies and ways to overcome some of the obstacles we face when trying to get our students to revise for their History exams. Teach them how to revise We hammer home the need for revision, set homework with […]
Revision. A word which probably conjures up memories of the anxious weeks before exams, frantically reading through notes wielding a highlighter in an attempt to get vaguely remembered knowledge into your head. Perhaps you did some practice questions, or maybe you felt so overwhelmed that you ended up doing nothing. Whatever your approach, you would […]
Exams are just around the corner, and your students are probably hard at work revising. We asked you to send us some of your top revision tips earlier this year – we loved them so much that we thought they’d be useful to share so that you can pass on to your students. Here are […]
As we all know, revision is the key to exam success and repetition is the key to revision. And, according to Sergio Della Sala, Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, as quoted in The Guardian, ‘The best revision is continuous revision, started as early as possible.’ This gives you maximum opportunities […]
For the first few years of my teaching career, I would set revision lessons without much expectation. If you were going to do a test, you should at least give some chance of success by providing the lesson before for ‘revision’. I would often provide a list of suggested activities that students could pick from: […]
In December we launched a competition to celebrate the publication of our new AS Revision Companion, offering schools a chance to win a revision masterclass with Complete Companions author Cara Flanagan. The winner was Lauren Jenner (front row, far right) who won the revision masterclass for her AS Psychology class, which took place at the Weald […]
By Tony Weston and José García, authors and Spanish teachers
From September 2024, thousands of budding young Hispanists across the country will once again be embarking on a two-year AQA GCSE Spanish course, one which they hope will bring them both enjoyment and success.
I’ve taught Year 6 many times in my career and memories of SATs week are all too fresh in my mind. Three hours and fifty minutes of silence will produce a snapshot of where our 11-year-olds are in reading, writing, mathematics and grammar, punctuation and spelling all summed up neatly as a scaled score. The […]
Find out more about the new Oxford Revise for KS3 Science guide The three steps of knowledge, retrieval and practice Primrose Kitten and Jessica Walmsley We all know that our KS4 students need help with revision for GCSEs; the revolutionary Oxford Revise series has made it easier for students to structure their revision and for teachers to signpost students on how to revise. The excellent news is Oxford Revise has […]