Are you seeing the following:

• Students reach a plateau?
• In internal examinations, such as 'Mocks', students achieve lower than expected results?
• Your teaching staff are disappointed with the achievement of certain students?
• An increase in negative attitudes in the later stages of a student’s time at school due to a decrease in their confidence levels?
• Students fail to attend topic or subject revision sessions arranged by the school?
• Certain students switch-off learning and generally find school boring?

Revision is often seen by students as a boring chore that must be done at the end of their studies and not as the most important thing they have to do to achieve the highest marks in an examination, or to ensure that they do well in a job interview. Revision affects us every day and if we can develop a revision mind, it is a major step to our success in life!

28,000 students where asked to write 10 lines on how they revise, these are the results:

• 38% did no revision whatsoever
• 15% did less than 5-hours per month, which is worthless considering the volume of material needed for their GCSE’s
• 45% found revision boring but did revise using the “note-reading method” which is the most ineffective method of revision
• 2% experimented with different methods of revision and noticeably did better in their examinations

The bookshelves in our shops have numerous books on revision and guides, but they are all directed to content on a particular subject. The vital recognition that revision is a very different process to studying is essential! This must be coupled with the acknowledgement of problems stemming from the majority of revision being carried out by students alone in theirs homes across the country: in this vital stage of their achievement process no help is given.

What is wrong with the “Reading Notes” method of revision?

• It uses the student’s own handwriting which is not a good trigger for memory due to its familiarity
• It lacks focus: students can read and re-read material which is not relevant
• It does not prepare them for the examinations
• Above all it does not identify weaknesses and gaps in their knowledge accurately
• It is boring

The graph above shows how knowledge decays with time if no revision is integrated with studying: look at the decay in series 1, here you see the decay after 28 days been just 25%.

Now look at series 4, here you have revised the material each week during the month following the topic being taught and can see it maintaining very high levels. Now the material as been over-learned with the effect that it will stay in your working memory virtually for ever!

The other 2 series show the effect if you only revise once 7 days after the knowledge input ,and series 3 shows the effect if you revise the material 7 and 14 days after the knowledge input.

The day will consist of the following:

• How students can develop the revision mind, for without intrinsic motivation all revision approaches are useless
• How to decide what subjects or topics require a focused revision plan
• In the time available, how to design an effective revision plan and implement the plan right up to the examinations
• Students are shown 3-ways of revision to enable the students to find the one appropriate for them

The unique feedback plan, which is currently being used by over 3000 students across the UK, will ensure that students follow their design plan.

500 e-mails a week from students tell us that our revision programme is working: it is also having a dramatic impact in the classroom in the closing weeks of the Year 11 schedule. For example, students are asking more questions of the teachers and participating in all school revision activities, such as using the net for researching their knowledge weaknesses.

However, above all they are confident and believe in themselves that they will go up one grade in a least 5 subjects!

In addition, all revision activities that have been set-up by the schools will be fully supported by BAAT.

Financial

The workshop is £1500 or £15 per student assuming a year group of 100; if it is greater then the cost per student is reduced.

Contained within the above fee is our unique feedback and support system:

• On the day of the workshop we will carry-out a parent workshop where parents will be given simple procedures to use that can help their children study and revise
• We will carry, on the same day, a staff briefing to show staff how to make revision effective
• Through the use of the students email we will send each student who joins the system a 4-page issue every week up to their examinations. For safety, we also embed a teacher's email address so that they can see exactly what their students are receiving from us
• Students also have a 24/7 help line for when they require it: the response from which is also forwarded to the appointed teacher providing it is not of a confidential nature

Of the 30,000 parents we have spoken to, there was not one who would not fund this for their child's future. It is of course a matter for the school whether this funding approach is used.

Venue and resources

We will require each student to be sat behind examination tables in an examination format.

In addition we require the use of a flip-chart and pens.

If there is a particular subject area that you would like us to concentrate on please inform us as soon as possible.