Fifteen minute revision cards

Eight cut-out cards, each one a complete short revision task. Write the topic, process or question on the blank line and hand it out.

Print, cut along the lines, and write the topic, process or question on the line at the bottom of each card. Nothing here is subject specific, which is the point: the same eight cards work in any room.

Six from memory

Write six things you can remember about the topic named below. Close everything first. Then check, and put a mark next to the ones you missed.

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Explain it to someone

Explain the topic named below in writing to someone who has never met it. No jargon unless you also define it.

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What comes next

Put the stages of the process named below in order from memory. Then write one sentence saying why that order matters.

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The three hardest

Write the three parts of the topic named below you are least sure about. For each one, write the question you would ask if you could.

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Wrong on purpose

Write a WRONG answer about the topic named below that would look right to someone who had not revised. Then say what gives it away.

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Connect two

Name a link between the two topics named below. One sentence. Then a second sentence saying why the link matters.

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Key terms cold

Define five key terms from the topic named below without looking. Mark them yourself, then rewrite only the ones you got wrong.

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Exam translation

Take the question named below. In your own words, write what it is actually asking you to do before answering anything.

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