{"id":455,"date":"2016-02-05T10:38:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=455"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:39:25","slug":"some-tips-on-planning-your-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2016\/02\/05\/some-tips-on-planning-your-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Some tips on planning your revision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thought of revising a whole course can be very daunting. To make it more approachable, it can be a good idea to break it down into smaller (more manageable) tasks. Here is one way to start breaking your revision down into smaller tasks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a revision plan \u2013 make a <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/study-skills\/time-management.php\">timetable<\/a> and come up with a list of topics you need to revise.<\/li>\n<li>Collate the information you\u2019ve collected over the course of the semester (lecture notes, notes on readings etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Summarise the different topics<\/li>\n<li>Memorise your summaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For further help with revising see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/study-skills\/time-management.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/study-skills\/time-management.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/main\/tests-and-exams.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/main\/tests-and-exams.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/preparation_makes_perfect.pdf\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/preparation_makes_perfect.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/Surviving%20the%20exam_for%20OWLL.pdf\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/Surviving%20the%20exam_for%20OWLL.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thought of revising a whole course can be very daunting. To make it more approachable, it can be a good idea to break it down into smaller (more manageable) tasks. Here is one way to start breaking your revision down into smaller tasks: Make a revision plan \u2013 make a timetable and come up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}