How To Use Our Kits

Using our highlighters

Highlighting key pieces of information can make them stand out and successively help with long-term retention of the material. Try these techniques:

Read through your notes and highlight any key pieces of information you find useful.

Make sure to annotate why you have highlighted this, so that when you re-read your notes you can understand it properly. Remember - even your own notes may not make sense after a long time, so annotations will be useful.

Alternatively, you could use it as code - highlighted words or phrases could indicate a topic which needs improvement.

Try not to fall into the trap of highlighting everything, as this will be counter-productive!

Using our whiteboard

Whiteboards are for quick sketches and notes that you know you won't need in the future.

You might want to 'mini-test' yourself and see how well you can recall a certain diagram.

You may already have this diagram in your notes, but drawing it from memory onto your whiteboard is a very useful active-recall technique that can help you memorise bits of information that you've forgotten.

Alternatively, if you like working online, you can write down your notes on the whiteboard and take a picture. Then you can rub this out and make more notes, taking more pictures as you go along.

This is handy if you don't have that much paper to spare, or you just prefer not having piles of paper on your desk.

Using our eco-pens and pencils

If you have spare time on your hands, it's a good idea to write your notes in pencil from memory first before writing them in pen.

This way, you can double check with your textbook to see if you've missed out anything, and if you have, you can re-write these notes in pen with the parts you've missed.

Again - the active-recall technique is definitely the best way at training your brain to memorise new information.

If you're annotating your textbook or other notes, make sure to annotate in pencil just in case you want to make any changes later on.

Using the Pomodoro technique

This technique has been scientifically proven as being an effective way of managing your time properly whilst also staying motivated. This is how it works:

Break your workday into 25-minute chunks of revision separated by five-minute breaks. Every 25 minutes = 1 Pomodoro. After 4 Pomodoros, you can take a longer 15-30 minute break.

This method is great for getting lots of work done as it involves consistent breaks which everyone needs, even during the stressful exam season.

It has also been scientifically proven as being an effective way of managing your time properly whilst also staying motivated.

Try it!