Product reviews for Exam Literacy

In his excellent book Exam Literacy, Jake Hunton uses his considerable teaching experience and knowledge of research literature to provide teachers with considerable insights into a range of practical strategies to help prepare students more effectively for exams.

Jake discusses at length the research on the benefits of regular testing for students to learn the skills of retrieving information to support retention and application of knowledge.

Both teachers and students will gain from the discussions on memory and forgetting, in which the author contrasts the values of retrieval strength (recall) and storage strength (how well we know something). I particularly gained from the sections on the pros and cons of highlighting and elaborative interrogation.

Exam Literacy is an outstanding text which will promote more effective use of revision time, and it should be a key resource within all schools and colleges.