I will begin by telling you a story that I will never forget. I have a friend who is studying medicine, the hardest degree in France, and her dream was to become a surgeon. However, in order to achieve her goal she worked all the time without taking a break and she did not sleep or eat enough. If she had slept she would haven't fainted. I think that if she had slept and eaten more and if she had taken more free time she would have felt better during her exam and she may have passed it. I am going to give you advice in order to do productive, and not boring, revision and to arrive in the best condition for the exam.
First of all, I am going to give you practical advice about organising your time and to be productive
If you want to work usefully, do not work more than eight hours a day, have a break, of five or ten minutes, every forty five minutes because you cannot concentrate much longer than that. During the break you can eat and drink a little in order to be full of energy but you can also phone a friend to talk about things other than work.
You can also make index cards with the principal ideas for every subject and read them before going to sleep trying to remember what every main idea refers to. Another good way is to revise with friends. For example, every day meet your friends in a quiet place and ask each other questions about one subject you had chosen from a common timetable. You can also share out the work and the making of the index cards between you in order to work faster.
You have now some principles to organise your work. If you want to come to the exam without any stress don't work all the time and take free time every day
Drawing on my own experiences, I advise you to sleep eight hours a night and to eat three meals a day because you NEED energy. Try to eat food from different groups everyday with vegetables and proteins.
To my mind, it is a good thing to go outside once a day for one hour to see friends or just to walk on the street to alleviate stress. You should go to places that you like or to see people who are not going to take an exam. Because if in your free time you see people who are stressed it will not be a good thing for you to think about other things than your exams.
If you have to remember one thing, remember revision should not be a torture for you. Try to organise your time between working and relaxing. If you work all the time, you will not come to the exam in good condition because you will be tired and you may not remember all you have studied. However if you take free time you will arrive at the exam relaxed and ready to use what you have learnt. My friend is now studying medicine to be a physiotherapist and she passed her exams because she changed her working habits. She slept and ate more, took more breaks and went outside once a day to see friends. You too can learn to manage to organise your time and then to pass your exams.
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