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How do you get your Year 11 DCs to revise???

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MonkeyTennis34 · 19/03/2024 19:58

DD is in the middle of her mocks and seems to be doing very little revision.
She has a Maths test tomorrow and hasn’t starting revising yet this evening.

She has an answer for everything.....I revise at school, I’ve already done some revision, etc, etc.

To stay at her school for 6th form, she needs 3 Grade 6s and her first set of mocks were nowhere near this.

Any tips?

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Clarabella77 · 24/03/2024 06:41

crazycrofter · 23/03/2024 18:38

Wow @Clarabella77 , I was going to share what we did, which was also pay per hour of revision but we only gave £2 an hour!

Ds has ADHD and is very disorganised, just didn’t know where to start and didn’t have exercise books he could revise from. On the whole , except for History and Maths, he used the free version of Seneca. The benefit of this was that I could also see progress and verify hours worked! It also gave him a structure to work through and he could do it on the bus, in the car and even in the cinema 🤣

I definitely went too high @crazycrofter! But it was actually £10 every 3 hours, I was mistaken, so not too far away from your £2 an hour. And I suspect the novelty will wear off. . .

ClaudiaWinklepanda · 24/03/2024 07:09

LuluBlakey1 · 23/03/2024 18:41

Does she actually know how to revise? Many teenagers have no idea so go onto an awful app or sit and read through their books and are quickly bored.
They need to be taught how to revise effectively.

DD’s revision strategy seems to be copying out stuff and making it pretty with highlighters, or using flashcards. Any other suggestions are dismissed. What do you find works?

WhereAreWeNow · 24/03/2024 09:27

Marking place. Having same problem with my DD. She's smart and hard working but disorganised and doesn't seem to know how to revise but she gets annoyed if I try to offer suggestions.

Muchtoomuchtodo · 25/03/2024 19:08

Ds finds doing past papers very useful to highlight any areas that need more revision

somewhereovertherain · 25/03/2024 20:43

Popfan · 20/03/2024 07:51

And that's fine if you have intrinsically motivated kids. However, not all are like this and need more help and support to get there!

Mine is bright but hates academic learning (dyslexic so makes it harder) and probably a bit lazy. Wants to do well but just can't get down to revise. Engages well with tutors and is OK at school but anything beyond that is really hard. Leaving him to it is not an option ... the aim is minimum 5 GCSEs with English and Maths which is is more than capable of achieving. He's actually capable of more which does make it so frustrating! Roll on the end of exams!!

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One motivated one not.

if I had boys then maybe we’d look differently.

im also dyslexic and went through school in the 80s with no support.

hangingonfordearlife1 · 25/03/2024 21:19

make a study schedule with plenty of rewarding breaks.
use the syllabus and go through unit by unit making flash cards for each learning outcome.
go onto save my exams and do the past paper quizzes.
Ask school if they can provide marked examples of past papers or look online.
watch youtube videos on the concepts from the syllabus.

TheBottomsOfMyTrousersAreRolled · 25/03/2024 21:21

Look at her revision plan. If she isnt revising at home then she isnt revising enough.

mangololly · 29/03/2024 16:49

somewhereovertherain · 19/03/2024 22:31

We left them to it. They exams their problem.

support was there if they wanted it but other than that we left them too it. No pressure.

they both did very well and now at uni.

This. Bribery and nagging doesn't teach them a thing.

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