#helpful study tips

This month is going to be very important because first, I'm thinking about changing my speciality, second, I have to prepare for a very important exam.

A little motivation for the day ! 💅🏻

I have been studying german non stop lately and I feel a little bit of improvement. It's not easy, studying medicine in a foreign language but there are a few ( actually many ) words that are similar to English which is great.

#Qotd : Do you think it's possible for someone to master a profession ( such as medicine) using a foreign language?

Today I wanna talk about revision, because it literally has to do with 90% of your exam result.

a good revision means you know the most important materials before the exam + you can solve random questions from past papers ( perfectionist alert. )

• Now how can you make your revision effective?

Here are five tips that I believe might help you know exactly how to revise before exams:

Give yourself enough days for revision

Choose the method that works best for you ; flashcards, active recall, mind maps

Review the most important topics first.

Revising what you studied is more important than studying new topics

Use past papers.

Now let's dive deeper into each one of these tips, but before that let's say something to be realistic: if you want your revision to be effective, you gotta work from the starter of the semester. Or at least, a few weeks after that starter .

Why?

So you can try new revision methods ( which I'll talk about in details later ) and choose the perfect one for you.

For example: you want to revise for biology and you haven't figured out how to revise before that exam, but you are still at the beginning of the semester, you have the luxury to try out all the methods and see if they work.

So you tried out the question and answer method but you are more of a visual learner so you found out that flash cards and mind maps are going to work better for you.

Moving on to the next reason, which is:

2. Preparing materials to revise from!

Back to our example, you now know that flash cards are it for biology, so now you need to make sweet, lovely flash cards for each unit , right? So you can save them and use them the two days before the exam!

Now back to our tips on how to revise before exams! And let'talk about time .

1. Give yourself enough days for revision.

Two hours? Six hours? Na na! Time is your only and irreversible card here, so make sure to play it right! Split the days before the exam so you have at least one or two days to go through everything before the time.

Revision is SO SO SO IMPORTANT! No matter how hard you study, you won't remember half of it if you don't revise them over and over.

2 . Good method

The good method is the one that works for you, buddy! I won't tell you to stick to one way and trash the others.if it works, that's it .

HOWEVER, it's known for some methods to work best with certain subjects, such as : flash cards for studying languages! So it's good to see what's up there and try it out.

3. DO NOT REVISE EVERYTHING!

It's very important to figure out what your teachers wants you to know. Every exam has its high yield information that you're more likely to get asked about.

It helps to make a table and organise the materials from the most important to the least important.

4. Revise then study

If you are short on time it's better to start revising what you already know than to cram and study the new topics . Why? Because this way you at least can ensure you don't forget the first half. You can study the other topics after your revision is over.

5. Past papers are very very important.

Don't ever go to your exam without solving a few ones of them.

They help you know how the teachers think, the formula of each question, the design of the paper and that helps you know how to study for each one of them.