We have addressed almost all the concerns students face while preparing for their exams so that they can use these tips to prepare for their exams

1. Revision Tips – Planning an effective revision
schedule
If you are preparing for exams, you need to have your preparation right
on point in such a way that it helps you attempt your exam perfectly. If
you aim to ace your exam, you will have to prepare and then go through
your preparation again. This is referred to as revision. Revision is an
essential step in exam preparation.
Here we have discussed how to prepare for ex ams and what impact
revision will have on your preparation and on your results.
We have addressed almost all the concerns students face while preparing
for their exams so that they can use these tips and information to prepare
for their exams in the best p ossible way. If you still encounter some
questions about your preparation, our certified private tutors are
available to help you prepare for your examination.

2. Revision and its importance
When you are done preparing for your exam, you need to revise. The
question is when to revise, how to revise, what to avoid when revising,
and what should be done to revise better.
If you are revising in the right way, you can be well prepared to attempt
your exam without suddenly forgetting if you studied a particular topic or
not. When this happens, you can get frustrated because you’ve studied it
but are unable to remember it correctly.
Let’s talk about some ways through which revision can prove to be helpful
for your exam preparation.
Pick the right strategy
The strategy you choose matters a lot for your preparation and revision.
There are mainly two types of revision strategies that students go for,
including Active revision and Passive revision.
Active revision
This is the type of revision that requires the students to thoroughly
analyze their preparation, know about what they have learned so far, and
what areas require more attention. Active revision is done by research
and observation.
It is basically the analysis of knowledge. It keeps the students active and
engaged in their studies. They are eager to know what they need to learn
afterward rather than simply reading out the same thing over and over.
Passive revision

3. This is the type of revision that requires s tudents to write, make notes,
and read them over and over. Passive revision requires a student to copy
the written material and keep on reading it until they have memorized it
well. This will help the students to get a strong grip over a certain
concept, but as they have not studied other aspects of that topic in detail,
the students will not be able to use that information properly.
OUR RECOMMENDATION
We recommend that you go for the style of active revision when you are
done with your preparation. Active preparation enables you to not only
study the areas you are done with it also allows you to know about what
else you need to prepare. This detailed ob servation will help you engage
more and learn more actively, so you won’t forget what you learned when
you need to write about it during the exam.
On the other hand, passive revision helps students to memorize a topic by
reading and writing it again and ag ain, but when they are required to
write a more detailed aspect of that topic, they will not have enough
knowledge to support their answers because they had revised only that
specific part they memorized.
Hence it is recommended that if you are planning to revise what you have
learned, you should choose an active revision approach rather than a
traditional passive revision approach.
Bring variation in revision
If you are studying one subject or one topic for a longer period of time or
a whole day, you will soon be exhausted, and you won’t be able to keep
your focus straight. This is why it is essential to study different subjects
throughout the day. It will prove to be refreshing for your mind. Revising
different things throughout the day will keep your brai n active instead. If

4. you are on a single subject all day long, there will come the point when
you might be reading, but it will not have an impact on your learning
because you get tired of learning one thing constantly.
If you really have to revise one sub ject only, then don’t remain on a single
topic for a long time. Cut down the subject into parts, and set a particular
time for each topic. This way, you get to revise all topics without spending
extra time on a single topic because you got bored and have n ot revised it
fully.
Check your preparation
You can check your preparation by testing yourself. This is the best way to
determine how well you have prepared for your exam. A simple way to do
this is by asking yourself random questions related to your exam. Check
how well you are able to answer them. If there are some questions that
leave you totally blank or a bit silent, then these areas require attention,
and you need to revise them well before you attempt the real exam.
Here are some ways that you can de termine how well prepared you are
through testing yourself:
Ask yourself questions:
Randomly ask yourself questions about your exam like you would ask
someone else who is about to take an exam. This will help in two ways.
Firstly it will enable you to think beyond what you have studied because
you want to test yourself, and secondly, while answering these questions
to yourself, you will know how well you have prepared for it.
Solve exercise questions

5. When you are studying from either books or online platfor ms, you will do
some unsolved exercises at the end of the lesson. These exercises are
related to the lesson you have studied. Solving the exercise will help you
to know how well you prepared for the exam. It is a way of self -evaluation
through the questions given to you.
Make someone ask you questions.
When you feel like you have prepared for your exam, ask a friend or
someone else to ask you a random question about the topic you have
learned. When they ask you the question, answer them with what you
know or what you will be writing if you find this question on your exam
paper. In this way, you will analyze how well you are prepared. Not only
will you be analyzing, but the one who asked you the question will also
check how well you have answered.
Solve past papers
When you think that you are done preparing for the exam, pick up a past
paper of that subject and solve it like a real exam in the time you will be
given during your real exam. This will help you know how you would
perform if this past paper was you r real exam. If you do not have enough
time to solve the whole paper, just analyze and check how much you know
from the questions given and how much you will be able to solve if you
are given this paper as a real exam.
Some helpful tips from us

6. Although there are different learning styles, aims, and abilities associated
with each student, there are several techniques that anyone can try and
use the one that suits best according to their needs. Here we have listed
some tips based on different learning techniques. You can use the ones
you find right for you.
• When you are studying, keep a notepad with you where you can add
small notes or points that you want to remember. This will help you
with your revision because you will not have to read the whole topic
again. You will simply read the notes to revise the important points.
• After you are done with a topic, summarize it in your own words. In
this way, you will analyze what you have learned and when you are
about to in for the exam, you can simply read the summary to
revise, and your concepts about the topic will be refreshed w ithout
reading the whole topic.
• Plan the revision process in your mind. When you are preparing,
plan out which topics require your attention again. So that when

7. you are revising, you will know what to learn on a priority basis and
what to learn again if you got enough time.
• Go through videos or online lessons once you are done with a topic
so that you can listen to the information you have studied about.
This will help you to get rid of boredom while reading a topic, and if
there’s a point that you have missed, you will be reminded of it
while you are actively listening to the video.
• Discuss what you have studied with your friends or classmates. This
will enable you to know more about the topic, and a discussion
where everyone shares what they learned about the topic from their
perspectives will give different points to remember all. Since you
discussed these points with attention, you will not forget them
during your exam.
• If your friends haven’t studied the topic yet and you are done
preparing for it, teach them like a teacher would give a lesson. In
this way, the other person will learn about it, and your knowledge
about it will be revised. You will not have to read it again. Reading
again can have you to get bored, and you will not revise it correctly.
While teaching it to someone,
• For a more engaging revision, try making slides of your notes or a
summary of the topic you have studied. A slideshow helps greatly in
a productive and focused revision. Good visuals are helpful to keep
your focus straight on your revision.
• Another way to keep your revision engaging is to make tables,
diagrams, or charts related to the important aspects of the topic.
This will help you to engage and focus better when you are revising
the topic before taking the exam.
• Not only teach your friends or ask them to test your preparation, in
fact, test their preparation as well by asking them questions about

8. what you have learned. This will help you both to be engaged in a
learning experience that you won’t forget while attempting an exam .
• After you are done with your preparation, solve the past papers or
random questions from exercises that you find related to the topic
you are learning about. This way, you can analyze whether you are
well prepared for the exam or not and how you will be attempting
the real exam.
• The final tip we have for you is to don’t stop revising unless you are
about to go in to take the exam. When you are done preparing a
topic, do not leave it just like that, thinking that you will now be
able to write it in the exam simply by reading about it once. Reading
once will not help you remember all the details of the topic. It won’t
stay with you thoroughly, and there will be some points you will
forget. When you are revving it again whenever you have time, you
will not only strengthen your grip over the topic, but it will also help
you to know about the areas you might have missed while reading it
the first time. So you can prepare it while you revise it.
Are you running out of motivation to study?
Are you struggling to focus straight even when you want to learn and
revise? This might be because you have run out of motivation to go
through a topic once again after you hardly completed it once. This lack of
motivation could lead to not doing so well in your exam even if you
thought that you prepared well by studying one time.
It can happen when the topic you are studying is too dry or seems boring
while the outside world seems rather fun instead, and your motivation to
keep on studying the topic until you are well prepared ju st goes away.

9. If you are planning on revising a topic once again, you need the right
motivation to do so, so that you don’t have to face any learning blocks
while studying.
Here we have discussed some points that can help you boost your
motivation during revision.
Decide where to start
The first step of revising is to decide how to start your revision. If you are
starting in a way that can bore you instantly, you will not be motivated to
continue studying with the focus that is required for optimum learning.
Choose the topic or subject that you find rather eas y and interesting to
learn. When you are learning and revising a topic with rather ease, it
makes you feel more confident. Thus it leads to being motivated to learn
everything.

10. Timings are also important for your study motivation. Suppose you decide
to start revising after you have been exhausted and sleepless, then you
will not be motivated to revise from a fresh mind. You should start
revising when your mind is fresh. If you are sleepless, then take a nap. If
you are exhausted, take a break, and afterward , when you feel fresh, then
start revising.
Make a schedule
Try to work around a proper schedule. Make revision a regular task in
your routine. Set up a time when you will simply revise what you’ve
learned. This time should be decided carefully so that you can utilize it
daily without any interruptions. If there ar e breaks or obstacles in your
schedule, you will not be able to build up a strong motivation to revise
daily. You will revise one day in the right way, but the next day you will
lose your motivation.
For this reason, there should be a proper schedule that you can follow to
revise. A schedule keeps you motivated because you know what you are
going to do at that time slot.
Fight off the obstacles
When you are losing your focus but still want to revise with maximum
attention, then you can encounter some obstac les that you need to fight
off in order to continue revising with motivation. Some major obstacles
that you can come across while revising include boredom —
procrastination, unable to understand, and more.
Here we have discussed some ways through which you c an fight off these
obstacles for an enlightened revision session:

11. • Keep the purpose of revision clear in your mind. Know why you sat
to revise in the first place. Whether the aim was to ace an exam or
test or to create a better career pathway for yourself, don’t let that
slip off your mind. If you start to feel like you don’t want to revise
anymore, even when there are still some things that need your
attention, then try to keep your focus on your learning aim.
• Try to make an easy environment for yourself so that you are not
stressed out while you are revising. If you are stressed out, then
you will feel like you can’t do this. This feeling will not allow you to
accomplish your goals. In order to avoid feeling like you are stuck
on something, try to make a study environment where you feel
comfortable.
• Keep your achievements in mind so that you don’t feel demotivated
if you are going a bit slow. This can happen when there’s much left
to revise, but you feel like time is running out. This can make you
think that you will not accomplish your goals. Just remind yourself
how you have been successful in achieving many goals in the past.
• Try not to demotivate yourself by thinking you might fail the
subject. This is not the thought process you want to have before
attempting an exam. Just remind yourself that whether you ace your
exam or not, you will give your ultimate best in any case.
Planning a revision schedule
You need to plan a revision schedule before you start. Starting randomly
can lead you to face learning obs tacles earlier than you should. Let’s
discuss some way through which you can plan an ideal revision schedule
as per your learning goals and needs.

12. Align the schedule according to your exam dates
Keep a check on your exam dates. As the dates are approaching, you will
need to tighten your revision schedule. Hence you need to start learning
and revising beforehand. Let’s suppose your exams are coming in a
month’s time frame. As per your learning abilities, styles and goals, you
can set up a time slot for mere learning for a few days and then add up a
schedule for revising what you have learned and determining what you
need to learn.
Mark what you need to learn on a priority basis
There are always some subjects that you will find easier than others and
some subjects that you might even dread to start. The best way to make
this situation work right is to make sure what subjec t you want to start
before the other.

13. Start with the subject that you find easy and comfortable to work with.
This will help you in building up motivating energy within yourself. When
you feel like you are revising and learning well, you are readily motiva ted
to learn everything. On the other hand, if you start with a tough subject,
it can help if it’s cleared away in the beginning, but if you get stuck at
some point, your motivation to revise other subjects can decline.
Depending on your learning style, prioritize which subjects you would like
to start first and which subject you will be revising later. This will help
you manage your time better, and in this way, you can revise more in an
easy way. Otherwise, you will be left with clutter, with no management of
time, and you will be left with many topics that you wanted to cover but
couldn’t because of lack of time.
Write down your planned timetable
If you want to revise it all and to make sure that you have gone through
all the important stuff, you need to manage it right. The perfect way to do
this is by writing down the schedule. Decide the time you are going to give
each subject or a particular topic. After planning it out, write it down
somewhere so that it stays in front of you to remind you of the time that
you need to manage. This will help you accomplish your revision goals in
the right manner.
Make schedule for shorter intervals at first
In order to start with a schedule, try to make one for a shorter period of
time. For instance, you can make one for a day or a week instead of
directly jumping on making a schedule for a month. If you are planning
for a longer run, in the beginning, you wi ll have to wait for more to feel
the motivation of accomplishment. When you plan for a shorter interval,
you will come across small accomplishments that will motivate you to
learn more instead of getting exhausted and stopping.

14. Include different subjects in a day
When you are planning a schedule to revise, make sure to bring variations
in the daily schedule—study different subjects in a day. If you are revising
a single subject for a longer time period, you will get bored of it, and
eventually, you will lose interest in it. Instead, if there’s variation in the
subjects, you will have the option to change the subject if one of them
gets a bit overwhelming. In this way, you will be able to study more
attentively without getting distracted by boredom or other e xternal
factors that can lead to exhaustion and less productivity.
For instance, you can set up a few hours studying mates and a few hours
for biology and using this way, you can form up a whole schedule that
works for you.
Unable to decide when to make a shift towards
revising?
Are you preparing for your exams, and you are confused about the time
as to when you should shift from learning to revising? We are here to help
you with this confusion.
As much as you might think that you will revise during the las t miniature,
there are greater chances that you won’t be able to do so because,
without a proper scheduled plan, you won’t be able to start at the end.
If you feel like it might be too early to start revising what you have
learned, we are here to tell you that it’s not. Revising side by side is
always a good choice because leaving it to be done in the end simply
makes it feel like clutter. Hence while you are learning, make up a
schedule to revise alongside.
For how long you should revise?

15. When you are making a schedule for revision, make sure that you plan it
according to your routine schedule. If you are attending school, then your
revision time period will be shorter, i.e., for a few hours, but if you have a
weekend off or you are on holiday, it means you have time to revise with
ease instead of revising in a rush. During these free time days, you should
make sure that you are revising for a longer time period, like 5 to 6 hours.
Hence according to your studying schedule in the daily routine, you can
set up a schedule for revision as well.
Make sure that the schedule you have set up is easy to follow, so you
don’t lose your focus while revising. If you have set up a time for revision
when you usually have other commitments like going out with family or
friends, then it will be difficult to concentrate and revise instead.
A good place to revise
This is very important that you revise in a place where you are neither too
relaxed nor too uncomfortable. As much as unnecessary it might seem,
the pace where you sit down to revise is very important. Suppose you sit
on your bed and start revising while sitting there. You will start to feel
less active and a bit drowsy in no time. You might even fall asleep for a
while. This will not be helpful in building up a focus. On the other hand, if
you choose a place from another extreme, like sitting in the cold outside
during winter days. This can also lead you to lose focus without any
reason just because you didn’t choose the right place to revise, even with
the motivation and right study material.
You also need to check for distractions around you. If there is much noise
and movement around you, you will not be able to keep your focus
straight.

16. Hence it is very important to choose a moderately right place to start
revising so that you neither get too comfortable nor too distracted by the
environment in order to start revising for a productive outcome.
Make up your perfect study area
Your study area where you will be preparing, learning, or revising should
be perfect, just like how you need it to be. When your study area is ideal,
you can have a productive revision session. Here are some factors that
you need to consider in order to im prove your environment for revision.
NOISE
When you sit down to revise, you need to concentrate fully in order to
make sure that you don’t forget what you studied during your exam. This
requires you to have a quiet and peaceful environment with minimum
noise from the surroundings.

17. LIGHT
The place where you are studying should be well -lit. There should be
moderate light in a way that it’s neither too bright nor too dull to study
because both of these factors can make you lose focus or it can cause a
headache.
ORGANIZED SPACE
A cluster of things around you will not let you concentrate properly on
your revision. You need to sit where the space is neat and properly
organized. Even if there’s not much space, it should be clean.
Make sure to add the things in your study place that will help you to have
a productive revision session. Some students study better while sitting at
a desk. Some prefer to have some plants placed near them. Some require
natural light coming in. Whatever makes you feel more productive and
active, try to add it to your study area for better motivation.
If you are unable to find a good study place at your home or if it gets too
comfortable at home, try looking for a good space in a school or a local
library near your home where you won’t have any external distractions to
take your focus away.
Exclude the distractions
Try to minimize the distractions around you as much as possible.
Anything, big or small, that can distract you from concentrating on your
revision should be removed from your sight . Currently, as much as mobile
phones help us to find relevant study material, it has become a great tool
of distraction for students.

18. You might have picked up the phone just to check an answer online, but
moments later, you will realize that you are distr acted and checking other
things on your phone. We would suggest that you keep your phone far
away from your sight and reach it when you sit down to revise. Even when
it’s away but in sight, it becomes hard to resist the urge to check your
phone.
If there is any music playing around, or any other destructive factor, make
sure to remove it before you sit down to start studying.
Don’t forget to take breaks
When you are revising what you have learned, make sure to take short
interval breaks in between to help y ou keep your mind refreshed.
Studying continuously for hours without a break can be very hectic. Take
a break where you move out of your study area for a while. Changing the
environment that you are sitting in can help you to improve your focus
and productivity. When you are sitting in the same place for a longer time
period can leave you feeling exhausted and bored. You won’t study with a
fresh mind, and the info you add to your mind while learning will not stay
there for long. Hence your revision will go to waste even while sitting
consistently for hours. Small breaks are necessary.
Let’s talk about how different forms of a break during studying can help
your revision.
Benefits of taking a break
Taking a break is very important, especially when you have be en
exhausted while studying for a longer period of time and sitting at the
same place. One of the main benefits of taking a break is a boost in
concentration.

19. Here are some reasons why taking a break is good sometimes:
• It helps to increase your concentrati on and focus.
• A fresh mind allows you to revise from another perspective which
helps to strengthen the roots of that info in mind.
• A break helps your mind to have the time it needs to make the base
of info in your mind strong so that you will not be easily forgotten
during the exam what you had learned
What you can do during a break
When you decide to take a break, there are several t hings that you can do
to refresh your mind instantly to help you increase productivity. Here are
some activities that you can consider for your break:
1. Go have some quality time with your friends and family. Sit and talk
about random things or ask about what they had been doing.
2. Walkout and relax your mind. If there’s a garden nearby, then walk
there or simply walk in the street outside for a few minutes.
3. If you own a pet, give them some time, and play with them. A good
connection with your pets during a sho rt break can be very
refreshing.
4. Doodling has proved to have very therapeutic effects on the mind. If
you take a break, simply go out, pick and pen and doodle freehand
and a free mind.
5. If there is a musical instrument that you like to play, practice that
or simply play for your own peace. Soothe your mind with it.
As much as it is important to take a break while revising, it is also
important to keep a time check during your break. Set up a time period
for your break and come back to revise within that time slot so that no

20. time is wasted. Try those activities that would not catch up your attention
for more than the allocated time slot.
If you use more time than the allocated one, then you will have to cut off
the next break from your schedule in order to kee p up with the learning
goal.
Revision for creative subjects
Creative subjects include essay-based questions. If you are revising for a
creative subject that requires you to think out of the box to write your
answers, then we have some tips on how to prepar e for these subjects.
1. Keep your answer to the point. Make sure you do not travel around
the question so much that it becomes difficult for the examiner to
determine your point. Practice answering random questions on your
own, being on point.
2. Practice creative writing on your own. Bring your thoughts and
opinions to a paper. This will help you answer the questions in the
exam with logical opinions of your own, enabling your answer to
stand out.
3. Make sure that the answer you are giving has a logical and
reasonable back. Giving an answer with no base can make your
answer seem vague.
4. Know about the depths of your topic. Do not limit your knowledge
to only a few aspects. Read and learn more to have a clear idea of
your topic.
How to cope with exam stress
If your exams are near and you are getting panicked about their
preparation, then know that the stress will only make it difficult for you

21. to learn with full learning capacity as you would with a free and relaxed
mind.
While preparing for your exam, do not overthink about the result or what
the outcome will be, just have maximum preparation and give your best,
and then leave the stress of the result to the examiner afterward.
When you are stressing too much, you won’t be able to grasp the concepts
no matter how many times you revise one thing. It will not sit in your
mind for enough time for you to write clearly about it in the exam.
Hence we emphasize greatly preparing for exams without thinking about
how you will perform or what will be the result in order to prepare freely.
Get help for revision
If you are unable to plan a good revision session on your own, then you
can simply get help from someone who can guide you tow ards a perfect

22. revision pathway. This can enable you to have a different learning
approach, especially when you are feeling stuck and unable to revise
something even when you read it over and over again.
HIRE A TUTOR
The best way to get guidance during rev ision is to book a session with a
private tutor who will offer you personal attention to help you learn
according to your own learning goals and abilities. The tutor uses creative
ways, and when required, they will change their approach in order to
make sure that you don’t get stuck anywhere while revising.
LEARN WITH FRIENDS
When you are revising a hard exam, sit together with your friends before
the exam and go through the things and concepts that you all have
studied. In this way, you all will share diff erent learned concepts from a
different perspective, giving you the option to learn from the better one.
Other than your friends, you can also ask for help from your family. Your
siblings or parents or any other member of the family can offer a
different learning approach to help you revise better.
ONLINE LECTURES
When you learn a lesson, look for its relevant information on the internet.
There will be articles, journals, slides, or video lectures related to your
lesson. With these sources, you will get add itional lesson notes and
maybe another approach to help you learn if you are stuck while learning.
Conclusion

23. Revision is one of the most important parts of attempting an exam. When
your exams are approaching, you start studying and learning about them.
Whatever you learn during your preparation, you will get a stronger grip
over it only when you go through it again. This is referred to as revision.
You should be revising in the right way to make sure that whatever you
learn while revising stays with you ti ll you attempt the exam and write
about it.
Revised knowledge not only stays with you only till the exam, it stays with
you forever if you have learned through concept -based learning.
If you are looking for help during revision, our online or private home
tutors offer personalized lesson plans to help you learn better.