Tips to help my year 10 DD (age 14) revise

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I also have an older Ds and hadn’t realised until now how easy he has it when it comes to revising. He can look at something once or twice and know it.
DD has some tests coming up soon and is trying to revise but it’s so much harder for her. She has made mind maps, revision cards, watched YouTube videos on the subjects but still struggling to remember what she’s learnt. She was in tears last night. Anyone else got a similar dc? What helped them?

My DD finds practice questions very helpful. Actually applying the knowledge seems to help make it stick.

I've just had another thought: DH also has her tell/explain to him what she has learned. Apparently, "teaching" what you have learned to someone else helps you remember it and also to identify gaps in your knowledge.

Practice questions and also videos

There's a YouTube channel called Thomas Frank. I recommend it to my students. He's got a nice one effective use of flash cards if it's facts they need to remember with the Leitner system

Thanks they’re great ideas and might just help. It’s so frustrating as stuff just doesn’t seem to stick in her mind.

@hedgehogger1 that’s brilliant thank you.

Everyone learns in different ways and it takes people a while (sometimes years) to figure out what works for them. She might be an auditory or oral learner who needs to speak and listen to move it to the memory part of the brain. Could she record herself talking about the topics and then listen to it back? I also second the 'teaching someone else' technique. Get her to explain it to you. Pretend you don't know anything about it. Only ask questions to clarify what she's saying, don't try to test her at this point. This will build her confidence.