Do any 16 year olds know how to revise?

Published: 10 November, 2008

Stick a webcam in the homes of most 16 year olds as they prepare for their GCSEs and you will find them doing exactly what their parents did 30 years ago when they were at school - reading through their books with the radio or TV on. As a method of doing revision the approach is worse than useless.

To be effective, revision has to be a highly active, highly focussed affair on the part of the student - the student has to be doing something more than just "reading through". It has to be a varied and engaging session.

The only way to get students to change their habits is to give them a complete package that occupies their time and which forces them to engage in a sequence of meaningful and demanding tasks.

ConquerMaths is an online GCSE maths course that enables the student to go back to any aspect of the GCSE maths course that he or she does not understand and get accurate information presented in a multi-sensory way, with text, voice, illustrations on screen and activities to be completed.Those activities are then immediately marked, providing the student and the teacher with instant feedback.

As one student, "I am fast approaching my final maths GCSE exam and for weeks I was panicking. As soon as I found this site and tried the sample lessons I knew it would help me because the guy speaks really slowly and the graphics help to enforce ideas I lost."

Parents or teachers interested in viewing a ConquerMaths lesson or listening to a teacher's experience can visit:

http://www.conquermaths.com/

Tel: 0191 240 1990