John D Clare has a useful website on ways to make your revision successful. At the heart of what he says is that you should never just read your notes. As well as this he says that you should write things down, find hooks to help you remember things, test yourself, make lists of specialist terms and find out what kind of learner you are. The site also has a lot of really useful material if you are taking History at GCSE.
A much shorter and less detailed site is GCSE.com which uses a simple WHAT, WHERE & WHEN method of finding the best ways to revise. The rest of the site has subject specific revision material for English, Maths, French, ICT and Physics – could be useful.
Finally, for a completely random approach why not see what ebay has to offer to the world of revision. When I looked I did wonder just how much Schooldisco.com – The revision guide would help…
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