Revision Papers
A full paper takes three hours and a whole afternoon to use properly. A revision paper takes thirty minutes, which means you will actually do it.
What revision papers are
Revision papers are shorter and more focused than full examination papers. They are meant for the weeks when there is no longer time to sit a complete paper every day, but there is still time to repair particular weaknesses.
A full paper takes a long sitting and a long marking session. A revision paper takes a fraction of that, which means it can actually be done - and a short paper that gets done beats a long one that does not.
Where they fit in the last weeks
The last month before an examination is not the time to meet new material. It is the time to make what you already know reliable under pressure.
- Use one every second day, marked the same day. Practice you have not marked is only writing.
- Alternate the skill. Reading one day, writing the next, so that no single weakness swallows the whole week.
- Keep two full past papers for the final fortnight, done in one sitting at the real length, so the examination is not the first long paper you have written in a month.
- Stop adding new material in the last ten days and use revision papers only to rehearse what is already there. Anxiety in the final week comes mostly from trying to learn something new too late.
Why short papers are often more useful
A complete paper is the right instrument in the last two months. Before that it is usually the wrong one: it takes too long, it mixes too many skills together, and the feedback arrives too late to be acted on.
A revision paper on one task — notices, or context questions, or tenses — can be attempted, marked and learnt from in under an hour. Six of those in a term will teach more than two complete papers.
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O/L English Revision Tute
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Grade 6 English - Third Term Revision Paper
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