How to Revise for boards? – Revision Tips for Students

Preparation right before the exam has two main components – Revising the entire syllabus, and solving mock tests. In this article, we will focus on revision of the syllabus, and we will follow it with another video on how to improve your performance by taking mock tests.

1. Make a study plan – managing your time just before the exams is very necessary. Trying to study everything can make you stressed, and studying less can end you up underprepared.

So the question is, how do you manage your limited time and what do you do?

Revising the entire syllabus may get overwhelming. A lot of students struggle with deciding the order in which to revise chapters based on importance. To solve this problem, we have created a study planner tool that will give you a suitable suggestion.

Access the plan here: http://www.myavanti.in/study-timetable-for-class-10/

You would see that the chapters scoring more marks are mostly on top. In cases, they are at bottom, its because studying the chapter for first time requires a large amount of time. So before doing that, it is better that you finish off other easy chapters to ensure you score full in them.

Quick Revision Tips

For the chapters you feel confident in, reading a quick summary should be enough.

1. Practice drawing diagrams once – you can be asked to draw diagrams in your exam, and they carry at least 3 to 5 marks. You can score these marks easily by just practicing them once before the exam. Practicing ray diagrams from chapter Light is also important, as they are definitely asked in exams.

For your quick reference, here is a list of diagrams that you should practice:

1. Life Processes
   • Cross-section of a leaf
   • Stomatal pores
   • Nutrition in amoeba
   • Human Digestive System
   • Human Respiratory System
   • The sectional view of a Human heart
   • Human Excretory System
   • Nephron
2. Control and coordination
   • Neuron
   • Reflex arc
   • Human Brain
   • Human Endocrine System (labeling to be remembered)
3. How do Organisms Reproduce?
   • Binary fission in Amoeba
   • Multiple fission
   • Regeneration
   • Budding in Hydra and yeast
   • Section of  flower
   • Germination of pollen on the stigma
   • Germination of seed
   • Human male reproductive system
   • Human female reproductive system
4. Heredity and Evolution
   • Sex determination in humans
5. Light – Reflection and Refraction
   • Ray diagrams for concave and convex mirrors
   • Ray diagrams for concave and convex lenses
   • Refraction through a glass slab
6. Human Eye and the Colourful World
   • Human Eye
   • Ray diagrams for Myopia and Hypermetropia
   • Refraction through prism
7. Electricity
   • Series and parallel circuits
8. Magnetic Effects of Electric Current
   • Field lines around a bar magnet
   • Solenoid
   • Electric motor
   • Electric generator
9. Our environment
   • Trophic levels

1. Go through all formulae, chemical equations, and theorems: You can score full marks in numerals if you apply the right formula and avoid silly mistakes!

For science, make sure to practice 5-6 numerical every day and go through all formulae a day before the exam. Also, go through the chemical equations given in your NCERT once to ensure you remember the product formed in each case.

Here is a list of chapters from which numerical can be asked:

1. Light – Reflection and Refraction
2. Human Eye and the Colourful World
3. Electricity
4. Our environment (transfer of energy in a food chain)

In addition to this, you should also remember first 20 elements of the modern periodic table, and also first three elements belonging to each group, as they are helpful for answering questions around trends in the modern periodic table.

For maths, make sure you practice doing every type of construction once on paper. Revising formulae from some chapters is very important, like trigonometry, statistics, and mensuration. You can score full marks in these chapters if you apply the correct formula.

Theorems from circles and triangles can be asked, make sure to learn them by heart.

Important points to revise:

1. Theorems –
   1. Circles
   2. Triangles
2. Formulae –
   1. Trigonometry
   2. Statistics
   3. Mensuration   
3. Drawing –
   1. Constructions

Also, be calm during the exam, and do not make any silly calculation mistake! After you are done with your exam, go through your calculations once again to spot any calculation error you might have made in a hurry.

1. Solve sample papers and previous year board papers: solving practice papers by writing down each and every answer in a quiet room is a must before the exam.

This is very very important, and has multiple benefits –

• You will be solving questions from previous years or sample papers, and they are likely to come in exam this year also. You will get an idea of what to write and how much to write
• Writing each and every answer will give you an estimate of your writing speed and neatness. If you notice that you are not able to solve paper on time with clean handwriting, do not worry, just keep practicing – speed increases with time 🙂
• Sitting for 3 hours in a quiet environment will give you an exam hall like experience, and you will be more comfortable replicating the same during the actual exam

For this, we suggest that you fix 3 hours in your daytime, and solve a paper daily at this time. It will also help you attain a disciplined routine 🙂