Revision
Failing to plan is planning to fail, so let's start planning. This page covers using AI honestly in assessments, apps worth trying, and how to plan your revision properly.
🤖AI and Assessments: a quick guide for students
What is AI?
- AI stands for artificial intelligence, and using it is like having a computer that thinks.
- AI tools like ChatGPT or Snapchat My AI can write text, make art and create music by learning from data from the internet, but watch out: they can also make things up and be biased.
How can AI be misused in assessments?
AI misuse is when you take something made using AI and say it is your own work. That is cheating.
How do I make sure I do not misuse AI?
- Know the rules. You are not allowed to use AI tools when you are in an exam. Your teachers will tell you if you are allowed to use AI tools when doing your coursework, the rules depend on your qualification. Even if you are allowed to use AI tools, you cannot get marks for content just produced by AI: your marks come from showing your own understanding and producing your own work.
- Reference, reference, reference. If you are allowed to use AI tools, you must reference them clearly: name the AI tool you used, add the date you generated the content, explain how you used it, and save a screenshot of the questions you asked and the answers you got.
- Declare it is all your own work. When you hand in your assessment you have to sign a declaration. Anything without a reference must be all your own work. If you have used an AI tool, do not sign the declaration until you are sure you have added all the references.
What happens if I misuse AI?
If you have misused AI, you could lose your marks for the assessment, you could even be disqualified from the subject. Do not risk it.
📱Revision Apps
A few tools other students and former teachers rate highly. Try one or two rather than all of them at once.
📝Revision Planning
Failing to plan is planning to fail, so let's start planning: how can students revise effectively?
The golden rules of effective revision
Students should know:
- WHAT they need to learn
- WHEN and how they will be assessed
- HOW to learn / revise it
- HOW to test themselves
- WHERE to go for help
Before we begin: knowledge is power
You need to commit the basic knowledge to your long term memory to begin to access or do more complicated tasks. This is hard and requires regular revision and revisiting, unless you have a photographic memory.
Step one: what do you need to learn for each subject?
- How many marks do you need to get to the next grade?
- What are the topics and skills?
- Ask your teachers what your weak areas are.
- Look at your mocks and marked work.
- What topics did your assessment feedback say you need to revisit?
- Then plan it out.