First post!

Lots of work i should look over on this lovely sunny day!

Yesterday I left school for study leave and i am currently fretting over the 45 minute science exam I have to endure tomorrow afternoon. Although the majority of my high school memories are not so pleasant I am sad to leave; the thought of never wearing the itchy sweaters and pleated skirts is sad in a way but overall i am so exited to start sixth form college!

However i still have to finish off these horrible exams first, whilst most of my friends are doing about 10 I'm lucky enough to have 15. I'm slap bang in the middle of the exams at the moment so i only have 9 left to do, I wish that they were spread out more though as soon i get to do 5 exams in the space of 4 days, i'm calling it my hell week. 

The thing i'm most scared about is forgetting everything right before the exam, for example I'm a history student, and a good way to earn marks is by saying the precise dates to show your own knowledge. I can remember a good few that, with my luck, are not going to come up in the exam. Remembering all the others are quite difficult and i'll get confused between them probably... 

I'm searching for good revision techniques to remember them, in school my bio teacher taught me something called "pegging" that people use to remember large amounts of numbers, for instance people who cheat in casino's or memorize people's credit card numbers. In a way it does work as i can remember about 3/4 of the 15 digit number he gave the whole class to memorize so it must be okay to use for four digit numbers!

Here's what you do: create a story using the numbers so you remember them in the right order. So for example the number 542198 "there was a woman counting back from five but she forgot 3, but that's okay because she's 98" it's easier for your brain to recall the numbers this way, i don't know the science bit but it does work!