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Memorising ALL Notes for Modern
scyouknow13:
Hi,
Okay so I have an essay for every single dot point for Conflict in Europe and National Studies but combined they're around 40 000 words (Excluding conclusions). Without even mentioning WWI and Personalities, how do you possibly memorise everything?
fantasticbeasts3:
--- Quote from: scyouknow13 on September 16, 2017, 09:52:53 pm ---Hi,
Okay so I have an essay for every single dot point for Conflict in Europe and National Studies but combined they're around 40 000 words (Excluding conclusions). Without even mentioning WWI and Personalities, how do you possibly memorise everything?
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totally feel this. my notes for ww1, germany and the cold war are 18-20 pages each, so around 21000 words altogether, not to mention personality notes which are 8 pages handwritten.
my tip for remembering everything is timelines!!! write them everywhere - they're a succinct way to remember pretty much all events. getting your friends, parents, siblings, etc to test you on different parts of the syllabus is a great memory tool as well, i would never have gotten through the trials without that. i think there's some link out here on AN that has a great guide for memorising detail, but i'll leave susie or jake to put it here :-)
good luck!!
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--- Quote from: scyouknow13 on September 16, 2017, 09:52:53 pm ---Hi,
Okay so I have an essay for every single dot point for Conflict in Europe and National Studies but combined they're around 40 000 words (Excluding conclusions). Without even mentioning WWI and Personalities, how do you possibly memorise everything?
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As FB mentioned timelines are a great idea. Apart from that continue reading through your notes and refining your essays regularly. Test yourself under exam conditions then look at your sample to see what you've missed. Note it separately if you like so you can see what's not sticking for future revision.
Natasha.97:
Hi!
This is probably the article that fantasticbeasts3 is referring to :)
katie,rinos:
Hey,
Congrats on doing essays for all of those dot points! :D
One thing I do for Ancient is flashcards which you could do for dates/stats/terms or quotes. I mainly use Quizlet and I sync it with my phone so I can study in the car/not at home. It also can make quizzes that you can test yourself with. Otherwise, you can just write flashcards out yourself.
Something that Susie has recommended is detail tables. Basically you do a table for each topic/option and then have different columns for the syllabus dot point, detail/stats and quotes. You don't include a lot of content but more evidence that will back up your arguments. Susie posted hers in this thread if you would like to have a look. You would already have a lot of the stats/quotes from your essays but putting it into a table that you can test yourself with may help.
Hope this was helpful! Good luck! :D
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