Revision Tips

Could someone please offer me some?

Once you return back from your Christmas holidays the main thing occupying your thoughts and classes will most likely be exams. Some classes may not even continue after Christmas, allowing you plenty of time to ‘revise’, the rest of the classes will continue, perhaps with a brief mention of the exam in the final class. Don’t expect any past exam papers, or guidance on what to revise, in some cases there isn’t even an idea of what to expect in the exam, will it be one large essay question? Several small questions? Multiple Choice? Who knows, certainly not me.

So now that you are completely at a loss as to what you are meant to be revising for, you can sit down with all of your notes, if you are anything like me these notes will be mostly useless. So then you are left with the PowerPoint presentations, if your course has any, so you will trawl through them, skipping the millions of slides with just random pictures (a particular favourite of mine was in the Geografía Regional de Europa, of farmyard animals having a tea party), in order to find the ones with anything that could possibly be classed as useful information. Although this is quite hard, particularly when you don’t know what you are aiming for. Alternatively you may have a big booklet to accompany your course that you can glean information from, or just nothing at all, so you can stab in the dark.

Revision in Spain seems much the same as everywhere else though, the library became busier than normal, and I wasted countless hours procrastinating. Although it did make a nice change to be able to sit on the beach and revise in the sun – that made it more bearable. If anyone does have any ideas on what revision we were meant to be doing for revision then please do let me know, because it was really all just guesswork, which will probably reflect in the results.