IGCSE生物复习tips.doc

No one can teach you how to revise, as we all learn differently. All we can do is to suggest some guidelines and ideas for you to try. Some ideas will suit you, others may not. However, give all of them a chance and see if they work. Revision guidelines Start your revision early! You should start your revision at least three months before the IGCSE examination. Plan your revision. Split the work into chunks. We will give some advice on this later. Go through the chunks to ensure you understand each piece of work. If you do not understand something, ask for help. You can ask your teacher or a friend who is also studying the course, but do not delay and hope the problem will go away. It won’t. You will never learn anything really well unless you understand it. Summarise the work in a form you can go through easily the next time. We will suggest ways of doing this later. Ensure that you have completed the summarising of the entire course at least a month before your exams start. Go through each summary at least twice more, referring back to more detailed notes where necessary. Make your revision active – do not just sit and read the textbook or your notes. Find activities to make yourself think about what you are doing. The section on revision techniques in this room will give you some ideas on how to make your revision active. Remember that your exam papers will test your skills as well as your knowledge and understanding. Practising past questions will help you to make sure you know how to do calculations, handle data and so on. Look in the syllabus under the heading Assessment Objective B to make sure you know what these skills are. Dont forget to revise your practical work! Make sure you know which Paper you are entered for practical assessment (4, 5 or 6). Revision aims When you revise, you are trying to: Improve your memory You are trying to increase the amount of biology that you can remember. Your brain quickly forgets. Most of what you try to learn by heart