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How to Revise for the Component Parts of an Essay

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How to Prepare Quality Essay Responses

How can students revise for essays? Here are some tips for your students to help them with essay preparation:

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Revision tips

  • Students who do well in exams usually have a very clear idea about what they’re going to write before they go into the exam.
  • Generally speaking, they’ll have done lots of practice writing parts of essays in revision.
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What do the best students do?

  • They’ll have practised putting the best paragraphs together to form impressive full essays.
  • They’ll have practised tweaking these essays to fit other similar exam questions.
  • And, most crucially, they’ll have used retrieval practice to memorise the best chunks of their work.

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