• If you have missed work you will need to catch up on any notes and make sure that you have all the information you need.� Remember that a lot of the information is on the college intranet, on the Sociology pages (for Esher students) or on this website, it will not provide you with all the detail you need but it will give you a framework to work from.
  

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How do I revise?

There are lots of different ways of revising – try a few different methods and work out what’s best for you.

• Make notes on index cards
  

• this is a good way of learning concepts and terms – you can put the word on one side and the meaning on the other
  

• Draw spider diagrams
  

• put a topic at the centre and then write down all the things you can think of associated with that topic
  
• you can then link the words together and look up any missing bits in your notes
  

• Try and summarise a sub-topic onto one side of A4 – this will take several goes – work your way down from several sides of A4 to one
  
• Pick out key words for each topic
  
• Read the relevant chapters in your textbook and look at other textbooks and resources in the LRC
  

• Taylor et al, Sociology in Focus – a good overall textbook, with relevant chapters, although it is a little out of date
  
• Haralambos & Holborn – Sociology Themes and Perspectives – more in depth, if you want extra information, and the 5^th edition is up to date
  
• Browne, Introducing Sociology for AS Level – good, up to date and written to meet the syllabus although it sometimes lacks sufficient detail
  
• Giddens, Sociology is also helpful
  
• Sociology Review has lots of relevant articles and quizzes/questions so that you can test your knowledge, use the college’s database of articles to search for something specific or just browse the recent issues and read anything that looks relevant.
  

• Get together with other students
  

• test each other – this is good for learning names & dates
  
• discuss the things that you don’t understand
  
• draw spider diagrams together – have a competition to see who can get the most points down
  

• Stick key points up around your bedroom – read them before you go to bed and when you get up in the morning
  
• Do practise questions
  

• from your textbook
  
• ask your teacher to mark some of them