Students are provided with creative revision strategies for exam questions, including exploding exam questions into pieces, organizing questions by theme, having students move between tables to add their ideas to different questions, giving students an answer and having them make the question, and identifying the question that does not link to the others. While the examples are math-based, many of the ideas can be transferred to other classrooms. The guide offers teachers a range of strategies for engaging revision activities during class.

1. Sharing Teaching and Learning Ideas
Half Term Five Focus: Revision Strategies
Key Idea: Creative Approaches to Exam Questions
The guide has a range of different ideas to use in class. Although the examples are
maths based, there are many transferable ideas to use in class.
Ways you can do this in your classroom:
Some excellent strategies for in-class revision might include:
Piece by Piece – exploding exam questions
Sort it Out – organising questions by theme
Carousel / Finish it Off – place a different question on each group table and
students move around, adding their ideas
Detective – give students an answer, they make the question
Odd One Out – 3 questions with a link displayed and one which does not link;
students decide which one is odd and why