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Originally Posted by Dave Stones
ok, at the end of august i have 3 resits, 2 out of the 3 i need to pass to pass "go" and go on to my second year at uni. my only problem is, i am the worst reviser in the world. i am one of those people who has "ants in my pants", after maybe 5 minutes maximum of revising and doing questions i start to fidget and get really bored, and stop paying attention to what i am meant to be doing. (the fact i am here posting this kinda proves that  ). going and sitting in a quiet room with no distractions and so forth doesn't work, i get bored and just get up and leave, i think i must have the shortest attention span in the world...
anyway, i know there are other studenty types and oldies who have done exams in the past that live here, so what are some good tips on helping me revise and do a second year at uni, and not turn into a dropout and work at a supermarket all my life? 
if only those subliminal and sleep-learning tapes worked  |
the fact that you get bored sitting in one place for too long shows that you must be an active learner, ie you actually have to do stuff.
maybe walk around the room and say out loud the stuff that you have to revise (cant remember what subject you do)
maybe spend 45minutes at a time revising, and properly revising and then give yourself a treat...
i used to summarise each theory into a line, remember that line and then test myself on how many of the summaries i could remember..... problem is you kinda need to have a vague idea of the theory first
the other thing you could do is make amusing or dirty rhymes out of things.... take the first letter of whatever u have to remember....maybe a formula or whatever and make a amusing rhyme