Indeed, revising your exams effectively means first being methodical and well-organized. Therefore, making a schedule is necessary to distribute the revision times for the different courses to be reviewed.
To do this, we recommend that you draw up a to- do list with the subjects and chapters to learn. Plan the duration you want to give to each task. To avoid chronic demotivation, ask yourself if you are more efficient when you work on a single subject all day or when you alternate every two or three hours?
Little tips :
Follow your schedule to the letter and impose a work rhythm on yourself .
Spread your revisions over two subjects per day maximum.
Plan for recreational time : about 15 minutes of break every two hours to give your brain a good rest.
Also remember to get good, restorative sleep, which includes getting up and going to bed at regular times (and early if possible).
Don’t be too demanding of yourselves, you have to be able to stick to the schedule, otherwise you’re sure to get depressed!
Rule #2: A quiet place to revise
Your environment affects your nerves and therefore your concentration and motivation . To work in good conditions, create a quiet space for yourself, far from your phone, Call of Duty, a trampoline, or any other distraction.
If you can’t enjoy some quiet time at home, there’s always the library. Within these walls, silence is golden and books are freely accessible. The BU is the ideal place to devote yourself fully to your revision, even in the evening (some BUs close late).
Rule #3: Revision cards
The cards are made from the notes taken during class. The idea is to extract a summary in order to memorize the essentials. What do we put on a card? The course plan, the main definitions, the essential texts or articles of law, the formulas to know, the names of authors, philosophers and their works… Get to the point, make choices, it is not productive to keep all the information.
Create a nice pagination with a color code for the different elements to highlight: for example green for dates, red for key words, etc. A good indexing corresponds to approximately 20% of the initial text.
Little tips:
To delve deeper into the question, take a look at Pareto’s law, the principle of which is that 20% of efficient work produces 80% of results…
Try creating mind maps if you have a visual memory.
Be careful not to confuse a sheet with a course. The sheets are just used to summarize the course and refresh your memory on the essential points.
Don’t skip parts of your course like introductions, which are often as important as the course itself.
Learn your lessons as you go, otherwise there is no point in filing away…
Rule 4: Benchmark or follow student influencers
Many Instagram accounts have course sheets for all levels: middle school, high school, higher education, etc. You can find them using #studygram.
For example, Psychostudygram is the Instagram of a psychology degree student at UCLy . Judith shares her advice and methods for succeeding in her year. In her permanent stories you can watch “motivation”, “organization”, “courses”, “exams” etc. which contain valuable recommendations and answer thorny questions. And for the chill side , recipes are also posted!