ABSTRACT
There is no one correct way to revise; different methods suit different individuals. One can help students not by telling them how to revise but by encouraging them to make their own selection from a range of suggestions. And the more these suggestions are based on hard won experience , the more likely students would want to try them out. This chapter presents an exercise that helps the group to reflect on their own revision strategies and to generate ideas from which to choose. Decisions about what will happen in revision sessions are usually made by the tutors. Since these decisions are based on the tutors’ assumptions about the students, it is unlikely that they will reflect exactly what the students want. The chapter presents another exercise that is based on the assumptions that students are best placed to know what their learning needs are and that they are able and willing to specify these needs given a little encouragement.
