{"id":3327,"date":"2021-10-02T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:39:36","slug":"story-exam-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/02\/3327\/","title":{"rendered":"Exam Revision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The\nstory \u201cExam Revision\u201d outlines one way in which students can mentally prepare\nthemselves for the task of revision. In order to learn effectively, it is often\nuseful to start by asking questions and to provide the unconscious with an\noverview of the unknown territory so that it can create an internal map into\nwhich the answers to these questions can later be slotted. It is also useful to\ndistinguish between central and peripheral content before tackling the main\ntask of revision. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man once had only five months\u2019 time to revise for an\nimportant exam, even though he knew that most other students spent twelve or\neighteen months revising for it, and even then many failed and had to\nresit. How could he do all the necessary work in such a short time? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He gathered together the books he needed to study, and\nstarted off by reading the indexes at the end of the books again and again over\nseveral days. He wondered to himself what all the technical and foreign terms could\nmean, thought up explanations for them and asked himself which chapters would\nfeature them most frequently. Then he examined the tables of contents, learned\nthem off by heart and thought about how the books were structured. After that\nhe read all the sections of the books printed in bold or italics, and the\nintroductions and summaries for each chapter. He tried to work out where the\nkey messages, explanations and supplementary information could be found in each\nbook. Finally he returned to the indexes. After spending a few days like this\nhe began to revise in the conventional fashion, and passed the exam at his\nfirst attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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