As history A-level examinations move to linear assessment the requirement to remember more over a longer period of time increases. This presents various challenges for your studies. It is crucial that you revisit your work on a regular basis and this article will provide some strategies to help you to fully embed your learning over the course of your 2-year studies. Revision should not be a simple bolt-on at the end of a topic or at the end of your course of study. For learning to be effective revision should be developed and refined over time.
When we learn something we can quite often forget it soon afterwards, but when we repeatedly revisit something we’ve learnt, we remember it better. When you are revising the temptation is often to learn things in blocks. The problem is that this doesn’t support repetition, something that is very important to learning. So, rather than revising in ‘topic blocks’, it’s better to chunk these topics up and interleave them. For example, you might be studying the following topics for your OCR history course:
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