This area of the Learning Enhancement Team's website offers you guidance on preparing for your exams, from organising your revision to mastering effective new revision strategies and exam technique.
To begin with, these Frequently Asked Questions on Revision and Exams may help you to review your own practice and see where you might improve your performance in revision and exams. If you have a question that is not covered, please do submit it.
These study guides offer more advice on revision and exam skills:
Organising your time and revision is a key skill. You may find these time planners useful to print off:
Past exam papers are a useful resource in revision. Many can be found online here, but they may also be posted on your course's Blackboard site, or you could ask in your School's Teaching Office.
Exams and Stress
It is quite natural to experience raised levels of stress during exams, and this can be beneficial in motivating and energising you. However, if your stress levels are having a negative impact on your performance, then you may wish to explore ways of addressing this. The following resources may be helpful:
Exams and Specific Learning Difficulties
Do you have evidence (post 16) in the form of an Educational Psychologist or Specialist Teacher report, of a Specific Learning Difficulty such as Dyslexia or Dyspraxia? Don't forget, you are entitled to affix a sticker to your examination script to inform the marker that the student has a SpLD. Further details from Ian Mortimer, tel. 01603 592891.
The Dyslexia Tutors can also offer advice on revision, for example, on how to approach revision.
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These study guides offer more advice on revision and exam skills:
- Improve Your Memory
- Revision and Exam Technique
- Organising your Time
- Effective Note Making
- Thought Mapping
- What to do if exams go badly
- Creative Revision Strategies
- Common Exam Errors
- Using Past Exam Papers
Organising your time and revision is a key skill. You may find these time planners useful to print off:
Past exam papers are a useful resource in revision. Many can be found online here, but they may also be posted on your course's Blackboard site, or you could ask in your School's Teaching Office.
Exams and Stress
It is quite natural to experience raised levels of stress during exams, and this can be beneficial in motivating and energising you. However, if your stress levels are having a negative impact on your performance, then you may wish to explore ways of addressing this. The following resources may be helpful:
- Exam Stress Study Guide
- The Counselling Service has resources on relaxation and run workshops, click here to go to the Councelling Service website. If you wish to discuss exam stress in more depth, you can also make an appointment to see the Educational Counsellor.
- The Mental Health Coordinator
Exams and Specific Learning Difficulties
Do you have evidence (post 16) in the form of an Educational Psychologist or Specialist Teacher report, of a Specific Learning Difficulty such as Dyslexia or Dyspraxia? Don't forget, you are entitled to affix a sticker to your examination script to inform the marker that the student has a SpLD. Further details from Ian Mortimer, tel. 01603 592891.
The Dyslexia Tutors can also offer advice on revision, for example, on how to approach revision.
