Speed-dating: a revision, recall and checking technique

If you’re anything like me, you get to those tightening last few pre-exam lessons and face the dilemma of how to spend the remaining time. Should it be practice questions – which inevitably generates a shed-load of marking; class quizzes - which highlight how much is ‘not’ known by some students but doesn't always backfill with essential information; going back over earlier units to reinforce it with them in the memory; or comparing revision habits between different members of the group - which may or may not offer transferable techniques? What would be ideal is something that does all of them in one or two hours.

A technique that has gone down well with my A level groups has been ‘Speed-Dating Revision’. It has helped capture those multi-trajectory needs and had another subject teacher coming down to ask about how to do it in their subject as the students declared for its benefits in their following lessons.