Im struggling
 

I have an exam on Thursday for my counselling course and I don't do exams very well. I don't know how to revise so that i absorb the info, i just read over it and hope i remember the info! anyone got any help or suggestions?
its been 8 years sinse i've had to revise for an exam :shaking:

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hmm iv been doing exams for far too long, don;t think ya can ever get used to them...
when you read, try and pick out important points and write them down ready to go over again when you come back to them later. try not to read for too long, have regular breaks (i.e away from revision ;) so making brews, chatting on here etc.) last year i had an exam where i had so many long names to learn was a tad ridiculous, i found by writing them out and sticking them on my walls works quite well. that's if you have set things to learn and absorb...maybe if u have definitions and stuff?

hope thats helpful :smt001

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You could try a mind map? Write down all the key concepts in any order or how they present themselves in the literature your reading, then arrange them on 1 large pice of paper with lines joining them as you see they are related. You can also write a brief reminder on a post it note for each concept, arrange them how you want by association, and then try to reduce the information on each post it through your revision.

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or just scribble it on the back of your hand and have a sly look from time to time.

and if that dont work then you could always try...
FEEL a bit like God for the day by making some little people out of plasticine, and then judging them harshly.
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hth

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mrs24_7 don't worry too much about it ... you will probably take more than you realise in subconsiously ... and you'll probably wonder how on earth you "remembered" that bit after the exam ;-)

Good luck with it though :D

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Mind maps and plenty of question practise is the way forward :cool:

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Revision with other people works wonders as more ideas and knowledge gets thrown about.

I used to be crap at revision and probably still am. I struggled right through uni, then in my final year me and two girls got together for a little revision group it was bloody great and more useful than i ever imagined. The group got bigger (not such a bad thing) but we ended up with about 16 people meeting in the library for revision, unfortunately that was too big and the majority were idiots who tagged along to get some good info but had no input which is no good.

I ended up only just missing out on a 1st, much better than I imagined, but incredibly gutted i didnt revise like that for the other 3 years as a 1st would have been easy as hell. It also make me think, what if I had done this ...........etc with my GCSE/A Levels :( I could have been a vet after all lol

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I'm with him on this! If only they spent a minute a school teaching you things like this!

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Mind maps work a treat.

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I find the best method is to go through the original source of info and highlight all the important bits. I then write them down and try and memorise them, before checking with the original that what i wrote was correct.

Until you remember all the info, repeat the process. It won't take long for you to be able to recite reams of the stuff.

Yes its boreing, but its made getting a first a virtual certainty.