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Study skills - Ways to learn & revise
Study skills - Ways to learn & revise
How can I use my learning style preference to be a super learner?
Mind maps
Now that you are aware of your learning style you can use a number of techniques to help you
learn and revise more effectively.
These are powerful tools to help you organise information and remember it. As you work on your
mind map, stop and think; then add new thoughts like branches on a tree. You may want to
re-draw your mind map. This is a good way to help the information stick in your long-term memory.
Look at the activity ideas below:
Follow the easy steps below to get started.
Activities for Visual
learners (see-ers)
Activities for Auditory
learners (listeners)
Activities for Kinaesthetic
learners (do-ers)
Draw mind maps
Read aloud
Role play
Use mnemonics
Make index cards with
Make visual displays
- acrostics & acronyms
Watch topic related videos
- but stay focused!
Use raps, rhythm & rhyme
Create a video or
Highlight keywords
Explain your topic to a
Use flow charts
Draw graphs and maps
presentation
friend or let them explain
it to you
Do actions with keywords
Walk around when
reading notes
Underline keywords
Use mimes
Use sticky notes to label
Record your notes and play diagrams
them back
Highlighters
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Sticky notes
Mnemonics
3 For each SUB-TOPIC write
down information that you
need to remember.
4 Write clearly and use
keywords & phrases
and different colours.
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Fun
Fast
Pictures (they
say 1000 words)
More
memorable
Highlighters
Easier than
writing notes
Attractive
Flash cards
Prepare these by writing a topic or theme title onto one side of a card and then list on the
reverse all the relevant main points, keywords and phrases. To use them, turn your cards face
down and select a topic. Try to describe the key information on the other side. Turn the card over
and see how much you remembered.
Sticky notes
Using a range of different coloured highlighters to identify key points throughout your work
is a good first step to revision. Select colours that give the most impact to emphasise the
important points. The information you have highlighted can also be used to create Index Cards
and Flash Cards.
Write revision points, formulae or definitions on sticky notes and stick them around your
room or on paper; you can also leave yourself notes of things you need to do. They are a good
revision tool whenever you need to move information around. Use different colours to help
stimulate your mind.
Revision sheets
Mnemonics
These are summary sheets for each of the individual topics that you will have studied within a
subject. They highlight the key ideas, issues, concepts and terminology on a single document.
Colour code your Revision Sheets and use these colours on all the different resources you will
refer to for each subject.
Index cards
These contain most of the key information relating to a topic or subject. Write using bullet
points which are easy to read, and cross reference cards to your notes for quick access to more
detail. You can even condense information down to ‘credit card’ size and keep cards in your
pocket to revise in ‘dead’ time, e.g. waiting for a bus.
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Trips & events
When you’re a Visual
or Kinaesthetic
learner
Coloured pens
& pencils
These are only a few suggestions; you don’t need to limit yourself to the activities under
one heading. Develop your range of learning styles and choose different activities to create
learning and revision strategies that are varied and interesting. These and other ideas are
explored in more detail below. Read through them and then fill in the summary statement that
follows.
1 Identify the MAIN TOPIC
Here it is “MIND MAPPING” 2 Choose SUB-TOPICS
Here these are: “How? Why?
Write this boldly in the
What should I use? & When?”
middle of the page.
Write these in a large arrow
or along a thick line coming
from the main topic.
When you are just starting
- it stimulates new ideas.
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Mnemonics are methods or tricks to help improve your memory. There are several different
techniques but two of the most popular are described below:
Acrostic - a poem or text where certain letters in each line form a word or words that
help you remember the correct order of things to be learnt.
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
(The colours of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green,
Blue, Indigo, Violet)
Acronym - A word formed from the initial letters of other words.
BIDMAS
(The order of operations: Brackets, Indices, Division,
Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction)
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Draw diagrams
keywords and definitions
