It’s that time of the year, when the sun’s out, the barbecue’s are out and the parks are full. It’s also the time when most students are buried in their books, so to speak.

No matter what level you’re at, be it GCSE, A-level or University, you’re all cursing the system for having something called exams, which happen to fall when the sun’s out…

Mostly everyone within these categories will complain about their bad weekends, of how they’ve tried waking up at 9, snooze it until 12, and eventually started their work at 2. The work day, which may end past midnight for those all-nighter students amongst you, consists of a lot of procrastination.

Beginning from the mobile phone vibration, to the facebook news feed to even the football scores, there’s always something we’d prefer doing when it comes to revision time.

Then there are those, who just struggle to revise. A bit like this; the one who goes to the library on a Monday morning, with a bag full of textbooks, maybe a laptop if the need arises, and sets a goal for the day. As you enter the library, you know there are no possible distractions in an area so silent…where it’s just you, your books, and maybe a pen.

You realise noon come before you know it, and are already sighing worry to yourself, about how the day is flying without any progress. The clocks strike 3’o clock, and for some libraries there are only 2 hours until closing time…in which you must complete…70, no 100, no 200 pages!

Although, this thought becomes almost impossible to achieve, you still feel there’s a chance that maybe today, you will manage to work hard…

Many question how they made it to such a level, and what methods they used to revise for these exams which seem so perplexing in nature. That’s it.

The method of revision, although the material changes from level to level, the techniques used for revision during GCSE’s are the same all the way to University, albeit on a higher level of difficulty.

Everyone has their own ways of working, and although many people would love to be told how to revise, what pages to read, what questions to attempt, what times to revise between, it all comes down to your character, and more relevantly- your concentration span…

The next time you pick up a textbook, think about how you want to revise, the time you want to revise for and maybe even where you want to revise…

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