Importance of summarizing your works and index cards

 Making a clear summary of your studies accomplishes two beneficial goals: it drives you to comprehend the material you are summarising and it provides compressed versions of the material that you can then regularly examine before the exam. There are many online summarizing tool that can help students.

Summary tables
To gather various pieces of information, use tabular summaries. Summary tables are an excellent review tool for comparing and contrasting opposing theories, grammatical conventions, or examples of topics found in various sections of your study material. Use a table similar to the ones below. For your own work, change the amount of columns or rows, but keep them straightforward so you can remember them for the test.

Because they condense complex topics and broad concepts into a more digestible format, tabular summaries are quite helpful.
An essential step in the revision process is going over your study notes to see which subjects could need additional in-depth review work.


Ged's revision tips for students
Try using these techniques to create a tabular summary of a broad topic.

1. Compile a summary of your notes on the subject from the various sources you have gathered.
2. Using headings and key points, summarise the main ideas from these notes.
3.Aim to condense these notes to just the main headers and a handful of related key words on one side of an A4 sheet of paper.

Index cards
Notes written on index cards are particularly useful since you can carry them around with you and review or test yourself at random times, like while riding the bus or train or standing in line at the store.

Briefly summarise your topic. By processing the information, using your own words helps your understanding and memory. Brief notes that serve as prompts are best.

Change the way you've organised your notes on the cards by giving an overview of one topic on one and then giving remarks about subtopics on other cards. Consider utilising colour as a memory assist.