In order to prepare for your exams, you are more than likely going to need to revise. It is unlikely that you will be able to achieve your best grade in your final exam without revising the content that you have covered in class. There are many ways in which you can revise, you should try to use a method of revision that will meet your preferred learning style.

Before you begin revising for your exams you need to have a strategy of when, where, who, what and how you will revise. Creating a revision timetable is necessary, your revision timetable should ensure that ALL your subjects have had some element of revision. You must include enough lead time in the run up to each specific exam to make sure you have revised for it.

There are a range of revision techniques that work when revising:

  • Flashcards
  • Mind maps
  • Previous exam questions
  • YouTube educational videos
  • Mastermind
  • Post it notes
  • Acronyms
  • Revision guide and notes
  • Mark schemes
  • Podcasts (audio and video)

Before you start looking at the different revision topics you should identify if you are a Visual, Auditory, Reading/writing, and Kinesthetic learner. If you are unsure which type of learner, you are then it would be worthwhile answering the VARK questionnaire to identify this.

Visual
Mind maps
YouTube educational videos
Post it notes
Podcasts (video)		Auditory
YouTube educational videos
Podcasts (audio)
Mastermind
Read/Write
Flash Cards
Previous exam questions
Acronyms
Mark schemes
Revision guide and notes		Kinesthetic
Flash Cards
Post it notes

FLASH CARDS – use pieces of card that have a KEY TERM on one side and a DEFINITION plus EXAMPLE for that KEY TERM on the other side. Use these by either guessing the missing element from the card given either the KEY TERM or DEFINITION. There are many resources that can be used to create FLASH CARDS look at the sites below:
https://www.kitzkikz.com/flashcards/
https://www.cram.com/ (pre-populated J276)
https://quizlet.com/features/flashcards (pre-populated J276)

Mind maps

Previous exam questions/ mark schemes

Many different exam boards provide access to prior papers or exam question banks.

YouTube educational videos

The go to YouTube resource for computer science students within the UK is ‘Craig n Dave‘. They have developed a vast array of resources and have worked with different providers to help develop other content.

Other Channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@ComputerScienceTutor

https://www.youtube.com/@mattdoblescomputersciencer3977

Revision guide and notes -Revisit your classroom work. Absorbing your class work and using revision guides will help to move content from your long-term memory into your working memory.