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Do you remember what you were taught last month or even last week?!
Probably not, and it's not your fault. This has got a scientific name, and it's called, "the forgetting curve". Your brain needs to repeat things regularly to remember them.
To maximise your chances of a higher grade, revision should be something you do in years 10 and 12 too. It's like running a marathon. You can't start running 26 miles a few weeks before the race because you need to build up the number of miles your body can cope with over a longer period of time. Exams are a marathon for your brain.
What you remember from your lessons:
After the lesson
The next day
The next week
The next month
Smart Revise was built to fix the forgetting curve. Quiz mode presents you with a never-ending playlist of multiple-choice questions you can dip in and out of as you like. Only got a few minutes while you are waiting for the bus? No problem, open Quiz on your phone and put it away again when the bus arrives. Smart Revise helps you remember more of what you have been taught.
How
Set the topic filters to the topics you want to focus on. These may be controlled by your teacher if you have joined a class.
Research shows it is better to mix questions from different topics. You can focus on one topic at a time, but this can be less effective.
Choose Quiz and answer the questions aiming to get them all right three times in a row, but not knowing when a question might reappear.
You can see how well you are getting on using your personal usage and revision reports.
How many questions should I do?
There are about 600 Quiz questions in a GCSE course and 1000 in an A level course. You won't get them all correct first time, and should aim for mastery - answering every question correctly three times in a row.
Mastery
Answering a question correctly once doesn't mean you will remember the answer over a long period of time. Mastery means answering a question correctly at least three times in a row.
Counting from the start of September in year 10 or 12, you have about 85 weeks until your exams. Let's say you answer each question five times on average, that's 3000 questions. So aim for about 35 a week for a GCSE course and 60 for an A level course.
It's less than 10 a day if you do it regularly, little and often. It also means you can miss a day in the week too.
Digging deeper
That's the basics but if you want to learn more about Quiz, this is how it works...
- Quiz continually evaluates your progress and creates a looping playlist of questions.
Interleaving
Means mixing questions from different topics together. It has been shown to help memory retention more than blocking - looking at just one topic at a time.
Pseudorandom
Means a deterministic but seemingly random order. Random would mean the current question could possibly appear as the next question too. Pseudorandom order prevents this happening.
Spaced learning
Means a period of time elapses between seeing the same question again. Spaced learning has proven to enable the best memory retention effectively beating the forgetting curve.
- The playlist contains a mix of questions from all the topics you have enabled in a pseudorandom order. This enables interleaving.
Interleaving
Means mixing questions from different topics together. It has been shown to help memory retention more than blocking - looking at just one topic at a time.
Pseudorandom
Means a deterministic but seemingly random order. Random would mean the current question could possibly appear as the next question too. Pseudorandom order prevents this happening.
Spaced learning
Means a period of time elapses between seeing the same question again. Spaced learning has proven to enable the best memory retention effectively beating the forgetting curve.
- When new topics are enabled, questions that you have not answered before will move to the top of the playlist.
Interleaving
Means mixing questions from different topics together. It has been shown to help memory retention more than blocking - looking at just one topic at a time.
Pseudorandom
Means a deterministic but seemingly random order. Random would mean the current question could possibly appear as the next question too. Pseudorandom order prevents this happening.
Spaced learning
Means a period of time elapses between seeing the same question again. Spaced learning has proven to enable the best memory retention effectively beating the forgetting curve.
- When you answer a question correctly it is moved to the back of the playlist. This enables spaced learning.
Interleaving
Means mixing questions from different topics together. It has been shown to help memory retention more than blocking - looking at just one topic at a time.
Pseudorandom
Means a deterministic but seemingly random order. Random would mean the current question could possibly appear as the next question too. Pseudorandom order prevents this happening.
Spaced learning
Means a period of time elapses between seeing the same question again. Spaced learning has proven to enable the best memory retention effectively beating the forgetting curve.
- When you answer a question incorrectly it is moved to a new place in the playlist so you see it again more frequently.
Interleaving
Means mixing questions from different topics together. It has been shown to help memory retention more than blocking - looking at just one topic at a time.
Pseudorandom
Means a deterministic but seemingly random order. Random would mean the current question could possibly appear as the next question too. Pseudorandom order prevents this happening.
Spaced learning
Means a period of time elapses between seeing the same question again. Spaced learning has proven to enable the best memory retention effectively beating the forgetting curve.
- Although you will start from the same place as your friends, soon after using Smart Revise your playlist will be personalised to you.