How to study for exams - What the evidence says is the fastest, most effective way to revise.
Channel: Kit Betts-Masters
Date: 2020-11-09

Stop you're revising wrong! What's the best revision technique according to the evidence? In this video I'm going to tell you. You need to know this, because you don’t have time to waste revising in the less effective ways.
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Check out some of the evidence:  Most popular is least effective.
https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2016/06/learning-memory 
https://www.titaniumtutors.co.uk/post/how-to-revise-for-exams 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22565912 
https://aliabdaal.com/3popularrevisiontechniquesyoushouldavoid/  avoid re reading, highlighting, and unless trained, avoid summarising.

https://youtu.be/3d73Qsr-Hm4
https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/dunlosky.pdf 
https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovinglearning.pdf 
https://skhs.queensu.ca/default/assets/File/Undergraduate/Culture%20of%20Learning/Ineffective%20Study%20Methods.pdf
https://www.penguinprof.com/uploads/8/4/3/1/8431323/what_works_what_doesnt.pdf 

What’s the fastest, most effective way to revise. It’s not re-reading and it’s not making notes. Let’s talk about what the evidence says about revision.
Story time; students at the end of a lesson on a topic are super confident and can whizz through the hardest exam questions, right then and there. But I give them a test in a few weeks and they've lost the ability to do them. They've forgotten what they did know! Even when they’ve been revising for hours!
The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows this. Right after learning something new you will be at 100% retention, but a few weeks later, with no intervention, you'll have forgotten most of it. And the best thing is that if you revise at the right times, and in the right way, it doesn’t have to take long to bring you back up to full retention.
Regular and spaced self-quizzing brings you back up to that 100% retention in no time at all. But most importantly it flattens the forgetting curve, in other words you forget less rapidly. And you code the details into your long term memory, which is after all, what learning is.
The evidence shows that as much self quizzing as possible is the best practice for exam success. Every year it is the students who are in the habit of self-quizzing who are the most successful in exams. It’s the fastest way to cover material, and it’s the best way to memorise facts accurately.
And you know what, you study so many subjects at GCSE, you need to make sure that every minute you spend revising is the most effective work that you could be doing!
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