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Use ‘active revision’ to re-frame your approach to exams

Use ‘active revision’ to re-frame your approach to exams

by Bill Sheate

Shift your whole approach......

Most university students’ approach to exams is shaped by their experience of exams at school, but this means that most are often poorly prepared for the different style of learning at university and the way in which exams are used, from undergraduate through to postgraduate level.  Other forms of assessment are also increasingly utilised at university to assess the attainment of learning outcomes intended by the curriculum.  But exams still have a role .............