Revision for Year 11 help!

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I'd love some advice about gcse revision for this time of year in year 11. Do your DC do a set time each day? Do they use cards? Paper? Regular past papers?
What about at the weekend?
Any advice gratefully received - thank you.

You need to get onto the Secondary education board

Hopefully by now the DC have worked out what kind of revision works best for them - mind maps, cards, online sites such as Seneca, past papers.

Note there aren't many past papers for the new GCSEs so they may be better kept for after the DC believes they have learned the content.

Have they done mocks yet? Those should uncover holes in learning or technique.

I'd expect some revision to be going on either after school and/or at weekends (depends how much directed homework is being set to some extent), but it is still 4 months before the start of the exams and you don't want them to get bored of revising too early.

Main thing is each revision session should have a 'purpose'. e.g. Identify 15 quotes on Banquo's character, or 'learn properties of covalent bonding' not 'revise English and Chemistry'.

DD does the following

2 hours Monday
4 hours Tues
Nothing on Weds
4 hours Thurs
2 hours Fri
3 hours Sat
Nothing Sunday

This is around her extracurricular stuff, which is why some days are lighter than others and the weekend revising is generally over by 11am on Sat so she can go out and meet friends etc.

It seems a mad schedule to me but she is intrinsically motivated and sometimes I try to get her to stop, but she seems to enjoy it.

She does a mix of past papers, flash cards, mind maps and Pomodoro technique.

Thank you! This is already helpful!

The school should be guiding them to find the technique that works for them it’s quite personal. My Dd put everything on revision cards then sadly required Dh and I to test her. For hours. She got all 8s and 9s but at the cost of our evenings for about 3 months but there you go!

Dh was convinced he could have passed most of the exams by the end of it - he bore the brunt of the testing

Tell me about it! That's how I was with DD1.

I can't rely on that...we are not in England and very few children are doing GCSE's at our school...

I mean I can't rely on the school's guidance.

Your DD sounds great!

I’ve got twins in year 11 and fwiw they’re now following the below revision plan:

Monday-Thursday- 3 hours of homework/revision a day
Friday- day off
Saturday and Sunday- 4 hours of revision a day.

The weekend revision will increase as we get closer to exams