Sunday 29 March 2015

2 Revision Tips 1 For Summer Exams



1.       Change up the nature of your essay plans so that you have experience of writing and planning as many different types of essays as possible.  Also use the mark scheme to plan, write and assess your revision and essay skills.
a.        Write normal essay plans

b.       Additionally you might find it useful to use Essay jigsawing ©  - Practice writing essay plans with introductions and conclusions only and bullet pointed middle paragraphs with 1 or 2 paragraphs evaluated

c.        If you are revising in a group you could write an Essay puzzle © where you write an introduction, different people write each of the main paragraphs and a different person writes the conclusion. 

d.       Then evaluate each person’s section, improve, photocopy and distribute it out to each person to use for revision.



2.         Again if revising in pairs or groups, then you might find it useful to come to a joint revision session together and peer assess each other’s work using the mark schemes.

a.        In pairs you might also find it useful to do half an essay each and come together and finish each other’s essays.

b.       If a friend has written a good essay, then you can use it as a revision tool to create an essay plan and they could do the same with yours.

c.        If it is a different topic you could even use it as a template.

If you written an essay and didn’t get the mark you wanted, again in pairs you could assess each essay focusing on what you can use from the mark scheme to improve your essay


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