Revision sheets
Many courses will provide you with revision sheets to help you know which key facts you should know and what you should learn. If you don’t get this from your course tutor ask them to give you guidance as to what you should be revising.
Use the revision sheets to help you learn: Use the notes-on-notes technique to paraphrase the sheets. OR As revision sheets are, in fact, abbreviated notes on the content of the course use the hard-copy sheets to convert them back into proper longhand prose.
Convert the notes on revision sheets into auditory learning aids called mnemonics – these use words or phrases which carry the first letter of the different points. Marry these to visual images as a 'hook' (for instance, if you create a mnemonic for the Causes of the Cold War as BARE (beliefs, aims, resentment about history and events: to fix this word you could imagine a Russian and an American as naked Sumo wrestlers about to start fighting). Then make sure you can remember all the points for all the mnemonics.
Most revision sheets comprise numbers/lists of facts under a series of headings. Where these are not linked by a mnemonic, you can invent your own mnemonics, or use other visual hooks to remember them.
When you think you have learned the sheet, stick the hard copies up on a wall where you can read the titles but not the words, and then go through each sheet, rehearsing what each section says. Take the sheets downstairs, and ask a family member to 'test' you on them. To find out about another strategy for revision go to: Self-tests.