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Knowledge Organiser Study Habits and Revision Year 8
What revision is
What revision isn't
• Using strategies to learn material that you have already studied.
• Building confidence in independent study
• Knowing what you know (and what you don't!) and having strategies to fill these gaps.
• Re-reading class notes
• Highlighting
• Revising for GCSE exams from Year 7
• Cramming for a test or exam
Why?
This section of your Knowledge Organiser is called study habits first (and revision second) for a reason. These techniques should help you to remember information and you should use these techniques to go over material regularly – not just in the lead up to a test or an exam.
Memory
Working memory
This is where you do your thinking. It is where you retrieve existing knowledge and explore new knowledge. The working memory is limited. The thinking space that a task takes up is sometimes referred to as cognitive load. If that is too much, we can struggle. If we waste space with irrelevant information or tasks, learning is harder. We can make learning easier by making the best use of our working memory.
Revision toolkit
Long Term Memory
Our brains have the capacity to store vast quantities of information. Memory is a dynamic, organic system, not a physical place in your brain or a fixed filing system- it helps to think of it as a web of interconnected knowledge linked by pathways that can be made stronger (so that we remember more, and more quickly and more easily).
Forgetting is natural!
Forgetting is part of being a human being. Everyone has difficulty remembering. To try to avoid forgetting we:
• Need to connect ideas to what we already know
• Practice retrieving them in different ways
• Regularly rehearsing and practising strengthens recall.
Toolkit:
• Flashcards
• Highlighters
• Different coloured pens (at least 3)
• A pencil and rubber • Ruler
• Filing system
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