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Is there a correlation between exam success

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Meloncoley2 · 09/04/2017 14:09

and the amount of time spent creating the work of art that is a revision timetable?

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ErrolTheDragon · 12/04/2017 07:12

goodbye - ah, but thats revision notes. The question was about the beauteousness of the timetable. Effort put into the former is valuable for crystallising understanding and retention; the latter is mere procrastination.

My timetable refusenik is making some very nice notes for her physics A-level, even of the parts she knows perfectly well so she can chuck them at panicking friends on the bus if needbe.

goodbyestranger · 11/04/2017 23:32

DD2's example would say yes (incredibly beautiful revision notes with drawings for every subject regardless yielded 11A*, in Y10).

OhYouBadBadKitten · 11/04/2017 22:53

was child genius on today?

OhYouBadBadKitten · 11/04/2017 22:52

I suspect it's an inverse relationship!

portico · 11/04/2017 20:17

Drayton, they do questions from CIE IGCSE and O Level, Ed Excel IGCSE, Questions from Singapore, Australia, South Korea and Canada. It's never for fun. It's to Drive then on ahead. What's your point.

Draylon · 11/04/2017 19:48

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Alexandra87 · 11/04/2017 19:15

Not if you're like me and need everything perfect and spend all the time you should be revising making a new revision planner because it wasn't perfect

portico · 11/04/2017 19:00

Watching Child Genius now. One of the contestants has a huge whiteboard in her bedroom. I like the idea of putting a huge whiteboard in the bedrooms of my children. Good for homework and revision.

portico · 11/04/2017 18:55

I enforce 20 minute byte size sessions for homework or revision. Boys travel 1.5 hrs in morning and 1.5 hrs back, so I try to impress efficient ways of working on them. We call each 20 minute session a block. That's how we communicate, i.e. How many blocks did you do tonight. Then I ask, what did you do in each block.

ErrolTheDragon · 11/04/2017 18:46

My DD refused to do a timetable, even though the school was 'making' everyone do one - her teachers know that her untimetabled methods are effective so left her to them. She did however work out roughly how much she needed to do, scheduling past papers (A levels inc double maths so lots of those).

LIZS · 11/04/2017 18:29

Hope not cos dd is refusing to make one!

reup · 11/04/2017 18:29

I'm not sure how mark schemes or doing exam questions alter revision timetables. They aren't a way of revising they just say what subject you are going to do for which section of the day.

reup · 11/04/2017 18:27

I loved making them - they were very scruffy but I often had to redo them as I didn't do exactly what I planned! I got excellent exams results - back in the 80s when Oand A Levels just seemed to be about regurgitating facts and I have an excellent memory.

portico · 11/04/2017 18:21

As you can see, my spelling is still in sepia.

portico · 11/04/2017 18:20

FlyingSqud....I did my O Levels in black and white...lol

portico · 11/04/2017 18:16

Apologies for typos, redone below:

FlyingSquid. I wasn't being funny. I was merely stating that with mark schemes, there need be no faffing about with revision time tables, mind maps et al. Good old fashion revision with exam questions and mar schenes for s all that is needed.

Aye, them were t'days when crisps cost 15p. And were we 'appy. No! 😜

portico · 11/04/2017 18:14

FlyingSquid. I wasn't being funny. I was merely stating with mark schemes, there need be no faffing about switch me no maps et al. Golod old fashion revision with exam questions and mar schenes for s all that is needed.

Aye, them were t'days when crisps cost 15p. And we're we 'appy. No! 😜

booellesmum · 11/04/2017 18:09

Oh this made me laugh. DD spent yesterday making a beautifully coloured in revision timetable.
There has been revision done today though - yay!
(Not biology though as she can't find the text book - the timetable will probably have to redone! :) )

FlyingSquid · 11/04/2017 18:04

...and it were all fields around here, Portico?

I'm a similar vintage. I think, in retrospect, I preferred the 'give it a shot and hope the examiners like you' approach to O levels.

portico · 11/04/2017 17:51

Back in the day, 1982, when I did my O Levels, we never had access to mark schemes. Move forward to now, and kids have access to exam papers and mark schemes online. That should be more than enough revision resources right there.

highinthesky · 11/04/2017 17:27

Well on the basis that I never created one and barely did any work either during my A-levels....I'd say that a revision timetable might have encouraged to take my studies a bit more seriously when I was 16/17.

FlyingSquid · 11/04/2017 17:24

'micely coloured' = small and grey, BackforGood?

FlyingSquid · 11/04/2017 17:23

My A-level chemistry revision itself was a work of technicolour art. I practically wallpapered the room in colour-coded essential equations.

Unfortunately my best mate did the same in different colours, so neither of us could visit the other without dire risk to subliminal revision processes.

BackforGood · 10/04/2017 21:05

I wish Grin

I used to spend quite a lot of time putting together micely coloured timetables!

portico · 10/04/2017 21:00

That's all a waste of time and puts proper revision into abeyance. I get my boys to read chapters, and answer in chapter questions. They are too lazy to take notes. They then do as many exam questions as possible and review progress against the mark scheme. Mind maps would be useful when first taking notes. Nothing beats good 'ole' diligent revision, focussing on exam questions.

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