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The words “today, we’re going to revise for an exam” strike fear into students’ hearts.
But when is revision not revision? Revision lessons have become synonymous with dull, repetitious labour. Revisiting by rote what students have already studied. Sitting past paper after past paper in silent rows, receiving nothing in return but a miserly missive in blood-red ink.
As such, I’ve learnt over the years that it is better to talk not of “revision” but of “exam preparation”, and it is preferable to think of “exam preparation lessons” not as repeating what’s gone before but rather as a form of deliberate practice.
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