This presentation explores effective exam preparation strategies. It recommends creating a revision timetable to help organize study goals and avoid time wasters. The presentation also discusses different learning styles and provides tips for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. Key advice includes looking at past exam papers to anticipate questions, organizing notes well before the exam, and revising topics efficiently rather than trying to cover everything at once.

1. Preparing for Exams – Part 1

2. This presentation will Explore how you can best use your time to prepare for exams Show the usefulness of a revision timetable Explore ways in which you can anticipate exam content Consider different learning styles

3. Preparing for Exams There is no right and wrong way to prepare for exams, it is largely a personal choice.

4. What is revision? This is when you learn things thoroughly in preparation for the exam.

5. Why do we need to revise? To try and remember what we have learned on the course To improve our memory To become more confident To succeed in our exams

6. How should we revise? Long-term planning Set your goals Organise a weekly timetable Identify your time wasters

7. Revision Timetable

8. Why do we procrastinate? Waiting for the ‘right’ time or mood Underdeveloped decision-making skills Poor organisational skills Perfectionism

9. Organise your notes Write out your course notes neatly and clearly, then file them so you can find them easily

10. Your Learning Style Visual Auditory Kinesthetic or Active

11. Tips for Visual Learners Copy out your notes Use colour to highlight important things

12. Tips for Auditory Learners Read your notes aloud. Revise with other students if you can.

13. Tips for Kinesthetic Learners Make use of all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing hands-on approaches trial and error exhibits, samples, photographs... solutions to problems, previous exam papers

14. Try to anticipate what will be on your paper Look at exam questions from previous years: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib/exam

15. Bad revision practice Revising the whole syllabus Concentrating too much on the first exam

16. Effective revision practice Make a timetable Look at past papers Organise your notes efficiently well before the exam.

17. The End of Part 1

18. Good luck with your exam preparation With thanks to: Katerina Mantouvalou, Birkbeck College Sarah Boynton, University of Portsmouth