Revision Resources and Study Support

Earlston High School provides a range of study support to allow you to prepare for your prelim and final exams. These include online subject specific resources, revision technique guides and specialist external provided support on mindset for exams.

Revision Resources

We have created a Revision channel on each of the S4, S5 and S6 Whole Year Group Teams. It contains all of the following information that can accessed directly from a pupil iPad, or from any mobile device or computer:

Quick Revision Guides

• The Revision channel contains Quick Revision Guides to get you started with commonly used effective revision strategies. These guides can also be downloaded using the links at the bottom of this page.

Achieve

• Achieve Website: Achieve Learning collects together sample questions, concise explanations, links to further learning and links to past paper questions, which are all aligned to the success criteria within a topic of the course you are studying. You can also track your progress on each topic. Sign in details are below.    The quickest way to access ACHIEVE is by following these 3 simple steps:   1. Visit https://achieve.hashtag-learning.co.uk/  2. Sign up with your email address and password 3. When prompted, enter the Earlston High School code that can be found in the whole year group Team.   From here you can select all currently available National 5 and Higher courses, and access the Learn, Assess and Self-evaluate modules for each.
  Note, not all courses are available on Achieve.

Scholar

• Scholar (login through Glow). Scholar provides the core benefits of a course aligned textbook, along with added features including animations, questions with automatic answers and links to further online resources. Scholar can be accessed through Glow. Follow the following steps: 1. Log into glow through an internet browser. 2. Find the Scholar Tile and click on it. This should automatically log you in to Scholar and show you the courses that you are studying.
  Note, not all courses are available on Scholar.

e-sgoil

• The national e-learning service, e-sgoil, offers Study Support through webinars and provides subject specific support. Find out more here: https://www.e-sgoil.com/

Video Guides

• You will also find links to further information on effective learning strategies including
  • a video guide on making effective flash cards,
  • a video guide on effective learning strategies

The Science of Learning

• The Learning Scientists have taken world leading research into how our brain learns information and turned it into resources that you can use for your own revision today. Check out more here: The Learning Scientists

In School Support

Your teacher/department is on hand to be able to support you with your revision. Questions that arise during revision can be asked to your teacher during class time (check with your teacher for a convenient point in the lesson). Many subjects also provide study support sessions out with class time too. Speak to your teacher for subject specific details.

Mindset for Exams

The S4 pupils who will be sitting exams this year recently attended an in-school workshop from Live N Learn. Pupils were provided with a paper booklet to takeaway which included key messages from the session, including:

• resilience planning
• a blank planner for organising time
• 4 easy steps to make studying happen
• marginal gains for incremental improvement
• advice for coping with stress.

In the run up to the exams, a focus on the small things that can be improved on each day (for example reducing screen time by 15 mins per day) are the marginal gains that can make a big difference. Aim to keep these small gains going all the way through to the May exams. Further information from Live N Learn on all of these topics and more can be found in the links at the bottom of this page.