Try different learning styles while you revise. What kind of learner are you depends on what you enjoy most.

Tips for Visual Learners

• Rewrite your notes as mind-maps
• Use colour to highlight important things
• Draw diagrams and sketches to help you remember points.

Tips for Auditory Learners

• Read your notes aloud
• Record yourself on the tablet sound recorder reading key points of your notes aloud, then listen to the recording afterwards
• Revise with other students if you can
• Sing the main points, linking them with a tune you like may help you remember them.
• Use mnemonics: Mnemonics are memory devices that use a word or a phrase to help jog your memory.

For example, to remember the order of the planets from the sun outward:

Mercury, Venus, Earth,Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, can be remembered by making a phrase like:
  My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
  or My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Potatoes.

Tips for learners who are readers and writers

• Copy out your notes.
• Read your notes silently.
• Rewrite the key points using different words.
• Write down key points from memory.

Tips for Active Learners

• Move around the room
• Revise while you do kung-fu moves or other physical activity
• Mentally review what you’ve been revising while you’re swimming or jogging.