Get enough sleep: Going to bed at a decent time and waking up early is important. This keeps me refreshed and is a good way of keeping to a routine. If I oversleep I feel grotty and even more tired and if I don’t sleep enough I just end up feeling a bit strange.
Skipping to the end of a chapter is actually quite a good idea I thought. It is obviously important to make sure you are reading what you are supposed be revising for within the actual chapter but for a quick revision refresh the day before I think this is a good idea.
Don’t over revise. I think it is important to stick to a plan as to when you’re going to revise, set breaks and don’t revise to late in the evening.
Keep healthy: Don’t compensate healthy eating and exercise for endless hours of revision. Sticking to a routine enables me to keep healthy and remember the things I need to do to feel good about myself. If I just sit around studying and eat rubbish and don’t work out then I probably won’t feel like revising after a day or so.
Take notes at the end of each section to save time. Pausing constantly is distracting.
Use the lecture slides. Even if I have gone to a lecture and took notes I still re-watch the slides. Quite often my attention span is bad during lectures so replay is a must for me.
Wikipedia never hurt anyone. Wikipedia is also a good way to quickly refresh your brain last minute. I’m not saying don’t revise and then use Wikipedia last minute that’s a bad idea but on the bus on the way to uni, this is actually a handy idea. All the information is categorised as well.
Don’t read things you don’t have to read!! (Note to self). I started revising the other day and basically started reading the whole section instead of skipping to the part I knew I had to know for the exam. I mean I kind of wanted to know everything and then knew I was wasting time. This was a bad idea and I ended up falling a sleep reading.
Repeat the information. Repeating the information to other people has helped it stick in my mind more. There has even been times when other people have corrected me if I got something slightly wrong or even the wrong way round.
Relate to the information. I’ve found quite often during lectures I’ve been able to think of someone I know or a situation where I could have benefited from the information being shared with me and this has helped me remember it. Especially when I’ve thought of someone I could help with the information because I then end up trying harder to remember it so I can tell them about it after.