Blurting method

Are you feeling overwhelmed by your upcoming exams? Maybe you are simply not getting anywhere pouring over your books and notes. You even might be experiencing a mental block! Well, it’s safe to say you’re not alone! As college students, we are constantly seeking effective revision techniques to enhance our learning and retention abilities. As a So if you’re ready to level up your studies game and retain more knowledge like a guru, then let’s get started! We will take a look at the mini-answer first before we get into the details. This post is all about Active Recall vs Blurting. Active recall requires actively pulling information from the brain without external resources. Blurting is summarizing information in your own words and repeatedly testing yourself for better memory retention. Experimenting with both techniques can help improve the learning experience. So now we’ve got the ‘at a glance’ takeaway, let's put these two study styles head to head (active recall vs blurting) and let’s find out more about what active recall is and some examples. Active Recall Method: A Powerful Learning Technique Have you ever found yourself burning the midnight oil for a test, only to forget almost everything you studied in the exam room? Most of us read over our notes in an attempt to push those facts back into our memory but active recall requires you to actively pull information from your brain without looking at any external resources. It can be done through flash cards, quizzes, an...

With GCSE exams back on the timetable, there is so much information that you need to learn How can you test your knowledge in different ways? The blurting revision technique was made popular by successful YouTube ‘study sphere’ content creator, Unjaded Jade. She used it to achieve impressive grades in her GCSEs and A-Levels. Blurting is championed by students in YouTube comment sections and study forums across the net – many claiming it ‘actually works.’ Many people are saying it’s an effective revision technique but what exactly is it? Blurting is not far off what the funny name suggests. You blurt out all the information you know about a topic from memory on to the page. It’s also known as mental mind mapping and tests your knowledge this way. Here’s how you do it: Pick a focus Choose a topic you want to focus on. This could be a theme from a novel in English or a chapter in science. You can choose to create a prompt sheet that triggers memories of the topic which you can glance at if you get stuck. Or you can go hardcore and do it straight off the dome! Blurting revision time This is the fun bit. Relying purely on your memory, word vomit EVERYTHING you can remember from the topic on to the page. Don’t worry about it looking pretty, take as long as you need to do this and see what you can remember. This technique will expose the subjects you’ve mastered and those that need a bit more TLC. You’ll see how much you really know. (As exams edge closer, it’s best to give yours...

Blurting out happens in pretty much every grade and classroom. Sometimes students are just eager to share the right answer. Other times, they just want to share their opinion or story. No matter the reason, it’s a very real (and challenging) dilemma for teachers. How should blurting out be handled? We went to the educators on the [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twNVhAPGNr4[/embedyt] Encourage active listening. When students learn active listening, they are encouraged to focus on what the speaker is saying. This is something Elizabeth C. even uses with her kindergarteners. “I teach all the students who had their hand raised that after I call on a student, they put their hands in their lap, and they shift their eyes to the speaker,” she says. Avoid negative reinforcement. Don’t put a child’s name on the board when they blurt out because it calls attention to the negative behavior. Instead, reverse it and tell students you will put their name on the board when they are showing the kind of behavior you DO want to see. “Put a student’s name on the board when they are working well, respecting rules, etc.,” says Kathy H. Another example of this is from Meg E., who says she will give feathers (kind of like raffle tickets) or Class Dojo points to recognize positive behavior. Give students an incentive. “Incentivize active listening by giving students blurt cubes, coins, beans, or erasers,” says Elizabeth. “I use a strategy in class where I give students points based on ho...

With exam season fully underway, it is clear that this year GCSE, A-Level and university students up and down the country are looking to TikTok for help with their revision. As it stands, the #StudyWithMe hashtag has amassed over 3.7 billion views on the video-sharing platform, while #StudyTips has amassed 3.8 billion. In light of this, education experts from Arora Medical Education have rounded up six of the most popular revision techniques being viewed and shared on TikTok. Arora Medical Education’s education experts said: “Many of the study methods we’re seeing on TikTok are not brand new; a lot of them are versions of tried-and-tested methods of interpreting, remembering and recalling information for exams.” “However, TikTok has allowed many of them to be revived and revamped – and the short run times of these videos mean students can quickly learn how to use many of these methods themselves without needing to read through swathes of revision articles and resources when they’re strapped for time.” The top six revision methods on TikTok The Pomodoro technique – work is focussed into intervals, with 25 minutes of ‘deep work’ followed by a five minute break. This technique is ideally suited to those who struggle to focus for long periods of time and those prone to procrastination. The repetition technique– populated by TikTok accounts like @studentlife101, the repetition method is ideal for memorising key stats, facts, names or quotes for exams. It involves repeating any ...