Revision strategies

Revising can be a difficult task, especially when you don’t know where to start or with what topic. Not everyone will revise in the same way and depending on what type of learner you are, you may take in knowledge in different ways. A good way to figure out your learning style is to carry out a learning style questionnaire. Once you know how you learn, you can use the following tips that best suit you to start revising.

Spider diagram (visual/reading/writing learners)

A spider diagram is usually focused on a topic, for example, if you were revising different types of radiographs, you would write that as a title in the middle of your page. It doesn’t matter what size paper you complete this on, but it’s suggested that to get the best out of your mind map you should use paper no smaller than A4. With your subject in the centre of the page you can circle it and then from there you can create branches going towards the outside of the page – these can be labelled with subtitles which can also be branched off again with facts or any other information about the specific topic. You can also add colour to these to create connections between different topics.