- Hey guys, you constantly ask me when
you should start revising.
The answer is now, now.
Just now.
All the time.
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Every single year,
the night before the exams,
the views, the comments,
the everything on my YouTube channel
just goes absolutely crazy.
Because everyone is spending the night before the exam
or the morning of the exam watching all the videos.
And I always get comments like,
oh Miss I need an A star to get into this college,
haven't started yet, the exam's tomorrow.
Do you think I can do it?
No, no you can't do it.
I'm sorry.
Now there are always always gonna be people
who are gonna comment below again,
oh but I did this.
I did absolutely no revision and I got an A star.
Well that's good for you.
That's really really nice for you,
but that's not gonna work for everybody
and that's not gonna work for every single exam.
So if you want to really really try
and get that top grade,
that A, that A star,
that nine,
then we need to start thinking about revision now.
Now I know we still have months and months and months
before the exams.
But your brain needs that time to process
the information.
Because we need to think about the difference
between long and short-term memory.
Long-term memory is like it's gonna be in there,
it's gonna be understanding,
you're gonna be able to recall it quickly.
Short-term memory's gonna be like,
oh what did I have for breakfast?
Oh and sometimes you'll be able to remember it,
and sometimes you won't be able to remember it.
Because your brain hasn't registered it,
it's like an important bit of information
that's stuck in there.
Where as if it's we've solidified it
in your long-term memory,
if it's something that we've gone over
loads and loads and loads of times,
it's going to be important information.
So there are always gonna be people that say,
if I revise it now I'm going to forget it.
If you revise it once, you're going to forget it.
So you need to revise it more than once.
And this is why in the revision book I've made for you,
I've done several columns you know.
First review, which is few months before the exam,
second review, which is a couple of months before the exam,
and then third review, which is like couple
of weeks before the exam.
So you can through and make sure that you know
everything that you need to know.
Because yes you're right,
if you revise something now and then don't revise it again,
you're going to forget it.
It's exactly the same as like you were playing football,
play piano or gymnastics, or whatever.
If you just do something once,
you're going to forget it.
Whereas if we do stuff over and over and over
and over and over again,
over a long period of time,
it's going to solidify in our brain.
It's gonna turn into one of those long-term memories.
Like I can still remember
stuff from my GCSE science.
Like I can still remember it.
I can't remember a lot from all the other GCSEs.
But I can still remember stuff from my GCSE science,
like you know your silly little acronyms
that my teacher taught me that I still use in class
today to teach.
Because it solidified in my long-term memory
because I did a lot of revision,
because it's been there like all the way
solidly stored in there.
So you need to start revising now.
And this advice is true whether you're in year 11
or you're in year 10 or year nine.
Doesn't matter what year you're in.
The sooner you start revising,
the better it is going to be.
And I'm not talking about doing hours and hours
and hours of revision every single night.
Maybe like at the end of each lesson
do some like flashcards,
have a look at what you're doing,
at what you've done that day, go over it.
Come back to it a week later, go over it again.
You're kinda like oh yeah I get that.
And then the more you come back to it,
the more you go over it,
the more it's gonna stick in your brain.
If you just have a lesson and leave it
and don't do anything,
and then six months later the day before the exam
try and revise it,
it's not going to work.
You need to start revising now.
Like I said, just little bit each day and
hopefully we will see some really really good grades.