Ten must haves to get parents and children through the exam period.. As we enter the exam season, we have put our heads together to offer our ISS top tips for parents to help your children pass with flying colours…
1. Help your child to draw up a revision timetable. This should list dates, details of the subject and topics to revise and what should be finished by when. The timeline could have a checklist, so objectives can be ticked off as your child goes along.
2. Encourage them to create targets and reward them with breaks – a 15-20 minute walk is recommended every 90 minutes.
3. Help your child to see beyond the revision. Remind them how rewarding it will be to know that they did their best.
4. If your child is stuck on a topic, you can always contact their school. It may be possible for your child to arrange a short meeting with the teacher, who can offer a little extra help and advice. If a whole subject is causing problems, it might be appropriate to organise some extra tuition.
5. Try to make sure that revision time is quiet time in the house in order to help your child to focus.
6. A healthy diet and plenty of sleep is especially important when your child is under pressure.
7. Encourage your child to create revision cards in lots of colours - writing information out is a great way to remember things - as is being tested by a friend.
8. Walking around while revising works well, stick notes on the wall and visualising images as 'hooks' on which to hang factual knowledge. Keep condensing notes until they become single words.
9. Suggest that your child revises the subjects that he or she least likes in the morning. Successful people in all walks of life attribute their success to one simple technique: if you have a set of jobs to do, you do the most difficult thing, the thing you dread, first.
10. Keep reminding them that it will soon be over!
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