Revision techniques

Flash cards/revision cards

These are useful for summarising content, key word definitions and important facts. Use colours to make certain things stand out – for example, you could use different colours for advantages and disadvantages or for key words. You can test yourself using the revision cards.

Mind maps These are a really useful visual summary of information and you can put them on the wall. They allow you to show links between ideas and concepts. You can start by adding the topic to the centre of the diagram and then add the sub-topics around that and a summary of the information.

Revise it!

Create a mind map for a topic of your choice.

The cloud Online storage of documents, use internet to access. Multiple users can share and edit.

VoIP Short for Voice over Internet Protocol. Global. Mainly used for calls with many people.

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Making notes and highlighting key areas to go back to is a good way of working out what you do and don’t know. You can then use these notes as you come to your final revision. You can use different colours to highlight different factors or different types of information. For example, when revising the different storage methods of data, you could colour-code which methods are internal and which methods are external.

Summaries

On the revision pages of this book, you’ll find summaries of key ideas and themes. Use these to help you summarise the key points you’ll need to remember to answer questions on those topics. For example, you need to know what the four pillars of the IoE are and how each pillar interacts. You can make a summary of these yourself – and if you think through these points in the exam, you are more likely to remember them. Mnemonics A mnemonic is another useful way of remembering key facts by using the first letter of each of the parts to make up a memorable phrase. For example, ‘CDRIP’ stands for currency, decimal, real, integer, percentages. These are the different data types that numbers can be. Quizzes Everyone enjoys quizzes and creating and sharing quizzes with your friends and class is a great way to remember facts and concepts. You could suggest to your teacher that in pairs you create a quiz of 10 questions and each week go through them together – swapping answers. It’s also a good way for you to check your knowledge. Make a note of the areas where you really didn’t know the answer and add these to your revision list. Practice questions Doing past papers and practice exam questions is an essential part of your revision. It prepares you for answering different types of exam questions and allows you to become familiar with the wording of the questions used by OCR. You should also use the mark scheme. This will help you understand how to get full marks for each question. It is helpful to highlight key words in exam questions so you’re clear what the question is asking before you answer it. SAMPLE

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