Supported Study: 2024/2025 – Click the link below for information about what, where and when
Why Homework / Revision / Self-Study is important:
- It improves your thinking and memory
- It helps you develop positive study skills and habits that will serve you well throughout life
- It encourages you to use time wisely
- It teaches you to work independently
- It encourages you to take responsibility for your work
- It allows you to review and practice what has been covered in class
- It helps you to get ready for the next day’s class
- It helps you learn to use resources, such as libraries, reference materials, and computer Web sites to find information
- It encourages you to explores subjects more fully than classroom time permits
- It allows you to extend learning by applying skills to new situations
- It helps you integrate learning by applying many different skills to a single task, such as book reviews or science investigations
- It helps your parents learn more about what you are learning in school
- It allows your parents to communicate with you about learning
- It encourages your parents to share their enthusiasm for learning with you
Successful homework leads to exam success
What helps you learn?
If you’re not the greatest fan of reading and prefer diagrams, sketches, charts and
colourful information – try to:
- Rewrite your notes as mind-maps
- Use colour to highlight important things
- Draw diagrams and sketches to help you remember points.
If you always get the best out of lessons that involve discussion, listening and talking – try
to:
- Read your notes aloud
- Record yourself reading key points of your notes aloud, then listen to the recording.
- Revise with other pupils, if you can
- Teach what you know to an imaginary or real audience
If you get a lot of understanding by reading textbooks, using websites and writing notes try:
- Copying out your notes
- Reading your notes silently
- Rewriting the key points using different words
- Writing down key points from memory
Come up with mnemonics
The word stands for Make Names Easily Memorable by Organising Nominated Initial Characters.
The website Student UK suggests, My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas as a way of remembering the nine planets in order of distance from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto).
You may wish to use mnemonics to help you remember key facts.
Revision Support
MyStudyPlan app
Preparing a study plan can be a huge help in revising. The SQA have an app to support this. Please find the links below.
Download MyStudyPlan from the App Store
Download MyStudyPlan for Android
e-sgoil Online Revision Support – including subject content & webinars
Study Support 2023-24 | e-Sgoil National 5 & Higher
BBC Biteszie
National 4 – Scotland – BBC Bitesize National 4
National 5 – Scotland – BBC Bitesize National 5
Higher – Scotland – BBC Bitesize Higher
SQA – Past Papers with Marking Instructions
