Creating a Review Plan

Creating a Review Plan
What is it?	A review plan is a description of the kinds of information you expect to be on the test, the state of your mastery of those things, strategies for learning them, and a timeline for doing so.
Why do it?	There are several strategies that can help you improve your performance on tests quite easily. They are Predicting the kinds of information that you will encounter on the test, so you can organize it in those categories in your mind and learn it; Spreading your review over days rather than hours, giving you time to absorb information in chunks of meaning so they don't all run together; and Setting priorities for your study instead of spending all of your study time reviewing the material you know best.
How do you do it?	Step 1: Print and fill in the form with all of the kinds of information that you think you will need to know for the test. Don't just think of it as what's in the first section and the third section. Reorganize it in categories of information. For example, New Deal legislation or problems facing the country when FDR was elected. If sequence of actions is important, then include it as a category of information. If there are many important people you need to keep straight, then make that a category. Write it all down. Use the book if you need to do so to include everything. Step 2: Consider what you have already mastered about each of the categories you've listed. Check off those which you are fairly confident of knowing. Now focus on the other categories. Step 3: Write down the day and time between now and the test that you will spend reviewing each category of information. Step 4: Next to each category of information, write down the review activity that you plan to use. Step 5: Implement your plan.
Task #21	Create a review plan for the test on this chapter with topics, review strategies, and timelines. Then complete the review strategies and turn them in.