Exam skills: 6 top tips for revising

It's time to revise!
It will soon be time to sit your exams but before you do it's important to revise.
Watch this video to find out six top tips for revising and test your understanding in our quiz here:
TRANSCRIPT
Rob
It's time to revise! Here are some of our top tips. You need to think carefully about effective ways to revise. Don't leave revision until the last minute. Hopefully you've been listening in class and taking notes. Rewrite these notes and use them as part of your revision. Plan your revision – make a timetable and stick to it. Let's hear from this student about her revision strategy.
Anna
Every day I try to revise minimum for half an hour, listening, reading, vocabulary, and speaking.
Rob
So Anna revises daily – spending at least half an hour on different areas of language. Let's hear from another student.
Student 2
Well, the thing that always works for me is when I revise with a classmate, so we revise together, and we check each other’s answers, and discuss mistakes, or errors we make. That helps me really a lot.
Rob
So revising with classmates and discussing your mistakes is another revision strategy. When revising, just remember: don't try to memorise everything. Good luck!