Replay Webinar: Supercharge your Child’s Learning II: Revision Habits for Best Exam Retention

Thank you to all who attended our webinar last week with Ms Cheryl Chia.

Here are the 3 key takeaways: 

1) We have positive thoughts about learning but negative thoughts about exams:

• An exam is simply a measure of learning
• We should shift our focus away from “exams” towards “learning”
• It should not be so much about “doing well in exams” but “have you learnt?”

 2) Three best research-based revision habits are discussed:

• Space repetition – spread out revision over time
• Interleaved revision – mix up revision topics
• Retrieval practice – test recall from memory 

3) Effective revision habits may be perceived as “hard” by students: 

• Researchers recognise that effective strategies are not easy to put into practice.
• However, it is because of this difficulty —the process of learning, forgetting and retrieving that eventually pushes new knowledge into our long-term memory.
• In the short term, it is easier not to use these strategies, but in the long term, these strategies help us to retain information and learn better