How much revision time?

[vilamoura2003]

So the mock results are starting to come in, and DD has perhaps not performed as well as she could have done.

Can I ask how many hours per subject or per day should a year 11 student be spending on revision?

It isn't about time spent it is about productive time spent. Highlighting sentences doesn't actually teach her anything. So either being tested using flashcards or mind maps or brain dumps (where you write everything you know about X) or being tested on Seneca or a maths website or the school one.

Quizlet have revision cards already done, you can create an account or just look. Lots of them are free, you don't need to pay.

On the mocks she needs to look at where she is lacking, is it lack of knowledge, essay writing issues, knowing it but not knowing how to answer the question, a maths issue? So she needs to go over the papers and look at where she went wrong.

But yes carving out a specific amount of time to spend doing revision is a good idea. This will obviously depend on how much homework she is being set too.

This is what we did for DD1:
Split remaining time into phases and have goals for each phase.

• Between now and end Christmas: review mocks and understand where went wrong. Anything with not understanding the content or what a question type requires, work on that
• Jan-Feb half term: review any content never learned, make sure have revision notes, mind maps etc
• Feb half term-end term: revision of harder content, practice papers

Easter holidays to first exam: Solid learning of all content for all subjects

DD did around 4-4.5 hrs a day over xmas holidays for 11/16 days but she was preparing for Jan mocks, and this was before the reformed GCSEs.

This year of all years is about pacing themselves and nurturing mental health.

All revision sessions should have a goal, not just 'revise physics' but 'learn equations linking things for electricity'

Now I've just asked my daughter how much on average she revised for her pre mock mocks in September (exams they would have done end of Y10 but moved to September due to lockdown). She said about five hours per subject (obviously more for some, less for others). This is separate to day to day homework. So I guess that translates, as she is taking nine GCSEs, to two hours a day over two week period, though in reality it was probably four or five hours one day nothing the next. For proper mocks double that time I imagine.
She's a big fan of flash cards and probably memorises a lot just by writing them out. She loves organising her folders and keeping her notebooks meticulous, and I think there's some passive learning going on when she does that too.
She is predicted all 8s and 7s, but I'm still going to have her go to an English tutor nearer the time as I think there's a lot of exam technique to standardise the marking process. So she needs to hit those key references/quotes/characters to get the basic points for each question. That may translate to getting an 8 rather than a 7 (I know in my sons case it meant a 4 rather than 3)!
But agree, quality over quantity. My son never seemed to grasp revising skills, whereas my daughter helps her friends organise themselves.