Exam season is here and that means it’s time to get your heads in the books and revise, revise, revise. For some, it’s easy. They have their mind maps across their bedroom wall and are constantly armed with a highlighter pen and a seemlessly never ending supply of post-it notes.

For everyone else, just having to think about revision can be daunting. But in an ever increasing digital world that doesn’t have to be the way anymore. In this two part series from the Advice Centre we’re going to show you how you can embrace a number of digital technologies to help you streamline your revision and take it to the next level.

First up, we’re going to look at how you can use Twitter as a means of enhancing your revision. These ten simple tips don’t need to be followed step-by-step (but you might like to do that) but instead, you should dip in and use ones that will personally help you improve the way you revise while opening your mind to the creative possibilities a connected world gives us.

In Part Two we’ll take a closer look at the wide range of apps available and pinpoint those that we feel are the most effective at helping you achieve your goals.

Take Control of Revision in 140 Characters

1.  Define one of the terms you are studying in 140 characters – #simple #concise #understood.

2.  Search Twitter for versions of the words and retweet the versions of the definition you think are the best.

Now ‘Favourite’ the ones you like in order to note them down later.

3.  Tweet one advantage or your opinion of the subject you are revising.

4.  Review your opinion and advantage tweets on a regular basis and comment on ones you think are particularly good or bad.

5.  Tweet about the most obscure/advanced thing you have learnt in your last revision.

Review the tweets. This is a great and simple revision tool.

6.  Use the @ function to reply to someone and ask how they used the concepts/case studies they talked about – you will be getting a Twitter conversation going about essay planning – which can continue on the train ride home. (Obviously if you get an @ question your next tweet may be replying).

7.  Either find something online relevant to your studies or find a good revision site and tweet the link with a brief summary of what it’s about.

8.  Possibly the simplest usage – tweet a question about something you have found slightly obscure or difficult to understand.

9.  Find another subject source on Twitter to follow – recommend them to friends on your course using #FF.

10.  Tweet how useful you find this method as a revision tool.

So that's a quick and easy way of taking an everyday social media platform and turning it into a tool to help you revise. Look out for Part Two where we cover a range of apps that you can integrate into your revision process to help you achieve your revision goals. 

Part Two is now online, you can read it here.

We'd love to hear your favourite revision methods. Send them in to us @huddersfieldsu and we'll retweet the best. If you are having problems with revision or on your course in general you can contact the Advice Centre for independent and impartial advice from our team of trained professional advisers.