Your smart path to exam success
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We have combined our extensive teaching experience with well established models for learning drawn from psychology, to identify 5 key principles of effective learning. We have taken advantage of modern machine learning techniques and expertise in statistical modelling to make effective recommendations so that your time spend studying is easier and more efficient for you.
Work smarter
You only have a limited amount of time, and lots of subjects to study, so make sure your learning time counts.
All the topics you will study in Maths are important, but some of them are more central to your learning than others. Our recommendations prioritise the most important topics for you first.
Gaps in your knowledge
One major challenge when you learn Maths is that many topics build on ideas that you have studied previously. That means that if you don't have the building blocks in place you may really struggle to learn important topics.
ReviseWise directs you towards skills that keep you moving on but that aren’t out of reach for you. And if you are missing the building blocks you need to move on we'll help you put these in place first before moving on.
Forgetting with time
When we first learn new ideas our ability to remember them fades over time. There is a well-established forgetting curve which suggests that to learn things effectively you need to keep revisiting at practising them at appropriate times.
Working on the same topic at one point in time is not as effective as revisiting at widening intervals: recalling, reminding and practising.
Interleaving
Often when learn Maths you do repeated practise of the same technique in class. That's a quick way to learn how to do something, but shallow practise like this is also easy to forget.
We encourage you to follow our recommendations when you work on the site. These will allow you to practice identifying when to use particular techniques and how to use the techniques in different contexts. Our system takes account of the higher quality of learning when questions are mixed up or 'Interleaved' in this way. You will benefit from the mixture of topics you have to work on and working out how to answer every question you face.
The best way to really learn topics is to test yourself on them - the mental effort of working out how to solve problems and recalling techniques really helps you fix them in your mind.
Areas of weakness
We all have some areas where we often make mistakes, and we firmly believe that with the right practise you can improve in those areas.
If you have been making mistakes with particular topics Revise Wise will recommend you to revisit them more often, so that you can make improvements in the areas you need to.
