Setting your scene

Clear desk = clear mind

Visualise what exam success will lead to…

Get organised

Note your dates on a calendar

Revision plan

Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun10 - 11

11.30 – 12.30

1.30 – 2.30

3 - 4

6 - 8

Make a revision plan…..

Eat and Drink right.

Good food = Brain food

Timing & InterestEffective revision should be done in short bursts with plenty of breaks.

After 20 minutes revision the brain starts to work with less efficiency. It is advised that revision should consist of 20 minute focused revision followed by 10 minutes break. Then another 20 minutes.

Revision should also be made ‘interesting’ (?!). You will always remember things more effectively if they stand out.

Try the following memory test of Household implements and see which ones you remember.

Timing & InterestKettle

Couch

Lamp

Rug

Bed

Table

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa

Television

Curtains

Bath

Mug

Spoon

Dishcloth

Toothbrush

Washing Machine

Microwave

Coffee Table

Computer

Mantlepiece

Knife

Read out the following list of

household objects. Warn

the participants

after ‘Washing Machine’ there

are 5 to go

K C L R B T L T C B M S D T W M C C M K

Pupils now have 2 minutes to write down as many as

they can remember. Plot the responses on the graph

through a show of hands

Hopefully the most remembered objects should be the 1st, 7th, 15th and 20th objects.

If so this shows that effective revision occurs at the start of the time, when something is made to stand out (Leanardo Da Vinci – Mona Lisa), and towards the end of the revision time.

Revision should be in short bursts to maximise the amount of ‘starts’ and ‘ends’.

2.Run, See, Explain

2.Run, See, Explain

•Get into groups

•Decide on a running order – 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.

•Come out in turn to look at the diagram of Housing problems at the front.

•Go back to your group and describe as accurately as possible the diagram you have just seen.

•Look for shapes, space, colours, writing, position etc.

•Each person gets 2 goes each

Mind Maps

Mind Maps

•Always use A3

•Central theme

•Branches (not lines)

•Roots from the branches

•Coloured coded

•Words and Pictures

Population growth – more people = more consumption

Increasing wealth – more money = more consumption

Economic Development – more countries develop = more consumption

Technological advancements = more consumption

Mnemonics

•More Developed (Industry)

•More transport

•Higher wages - More disposable income

•Cheap products

•Materialism – change in values

•Energy waste

MNC

A company with production and distribution all over the world

NIC

A country which is quickly

developing

Greenfield

A site on the edge of a

settlement which has not been

previously developed

Primary Extracting raw materials

LEDC

A Less Economically Developed

CountrySecondary

Manufacture of raw

materials

MEDC

A More Economically Developed

CountryTertiary Service

Industry

Revision cards

The Revision RoomPicture your bedroom.

Or a scene you know well. Landscape, town, walk etc.

Now pick a revision topic…….Reasons why MNC’s relocate to LEDC’s.

Allocate an object/feature of your room to a part of the subject.

Bed = Name of a MNC

Desk = Name of a LEDC

Television = Cheaper Labour

Computer = Government Incentives

Wardrobe = Cheaper Raw Materials

Geography Club Poster = Good communications

Now visualise the room when trying to answer the following question.

‘Explain why MNC’s have located in LEDC’s during the past 25 years’

I pity the fool who doesn’t

include a Case Study!

B.A. Baracas

Primary effects

Secondary effects

Time, Date, Location

Causes

Facts & Figs

Responses

Target Board

Fish For/Against

The Face

Read the question and highlight or underline the key things it wants you to do.

Look at how many marks are available and structure your answer around it.

To what extent do government grants

influence the location of Industry in the UK?