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This is a discussion on How long do you revise for? within the The Lounge forums, part of the Off Topic category; So this is a thread inspired during my break of revision for A2 mocks. I've never really properly revised until ...
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12-01-11, 10:52 AM
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| Call me Vlad  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: South London
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  | How long do you revise for?So this is a thread inspired during my break of revision for A2 mocks. I've never really properly revised until now and have noticed that I can't seem to keep focused for longer than 30 minute blocks. So I usually end up doing 30 mins revision, 10 mins break. Rinse, repeat. So... How long do you revise for at a time?
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12-01-11, 11:07 AM
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| Mini Mac Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Manchester
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| Psychologists have done research which shows that the average human can only concentrate fully on something for 20-30 minutes at a time, so what you are doing seems pretty sensible. I used to have a similar schedule, though I could never motivate myself to revise until 2 days before an exam! |
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12-01-11, 11:22 AM
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| iPod 30gb  Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: London
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 | well at A2 we were told to do 21 mins of revision and then 5 mins off. at uni its totally different. i have been trying to do my revision for days now, or weeks overall and i have done nothing. and that is bad for a final year undergrad. what i do is make a checklist. having it in front of you helps to visualise what needs to be done, but this works on certain subjects.
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12-01-11, 11:27 AM
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| iPod 30gb  Join Date: Dec 2007
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| I am retaking my A2's this year and have started doing 4 hours a day. In 1 hour chunks, with the specification next to me so i know what I want to achieve, then i cover my notes and test myself, go back to notes if anything is wrong them cross it off the specification. Fingers crossed this method works. |
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12-01-11, 11:28 AM
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| Depends how far off the exam is, if its two weeks away i'll revise one hour a day for the first week then two hours in the second week with loads of hours in the day just before the exam.
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12-01-11, 11:47 AM
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| Call me Vlad Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: South London
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I'm like you also, my exams are tomorrow and I've only started revising yesterday. One of them is a history retake as well so I've got to try and recap a whole year before tomorrow!
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12-01-11, 12:17 PM
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12-01-11, 01:54 PM
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 | I normally leave my revision until like 1 or 2 weeks before the exam, where I'll revise for about 1 hour a day, then bang out 4 hours of revision the day before an exam. 
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13-01-11, 05:43 AM
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| Free The Gadgets  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: NI
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| I've been up all night revising for an exam on friday, as I only started yesterday. Some last minute panic revising!  Funnily enough the exam is about time management! 
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13-01-11, 06:58 AM
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| is meant to be revising  Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Nottinghamshire
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| I revise straight all day with maybe 15 mins x2 for breaks and a half hour for lunch. This is usually for 10 working days before exams as this is the time that we have off before. Weekends are playtime.
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13-01-11, 04:33 PM
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| Call me Vlad Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: South London
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| Just thought I'd say I did my exams today, don't think I did too badly on my politics module but I failed pretty hard on history. I can retake both in June if required anyway, so no biggie.
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15-01-11, 12:01 PM
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| What do you do when you got one exam then the next one the day after 
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15-01-11, 12:39 PM
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15-01-11, 06:18 PM
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| For my A2 exams, I revised hard, started like 5 weeks before, got to the library for 9 and stayed till 4 or 5. Worked out in the end as I got A's. |
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19-01-11, 09:07 PM
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| Okay got another one, its at 10am tomorrow and i've revised a couple hours for it. Would it work if i woke up at 7am tomorrow and revised it all thoroughly few hours before the exam bearing in mind that i only need to get 40%?
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20-01-11, 12:12 AM
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| Call me Ben ....  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bristol / Neath
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| Depends what the exam is on and how much you need to know dude
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