Hello. The programme you're about to listen to was first broadcast（广播） in June 2006 on the BBC Learning（学习） English website. For more English-language learning programmes and podcasts, search（ 搜寻） for BBC Learning（学习） English. Hello, I'm Jackie Dalton. For many people, this time of the year gets a bit（一点） stressful（产生压力的）. For those who want some kind of qualification（资格） or certificate（证书） to prove（证明） how good their English is, this means exams.

  This programme is about revision（修改） and how to prepare for exams. Even if you don't have any kinds of tests to do, much of the advice in here could be useful to you because it's important to look back over everything you've learnt regularly（定期地） as if you were preparing for an exam so that it stays in your memory（记忆）. An important part of revision is planning. Experienced（经验） English teacher Dermud is going to share three top（最高的） tips（小费 v.给....小费） on how to go about revision（修改）. What are they? OK.

  First of all, make a sensible（感觉得到的） revision（修改） plan. Include times for breaks and meals. Your concentration（浓度） lapses（失误） after a couple（夫妇） of hours, so take regular（规则的） breaks. Know your strong and weak（ 虚弱的） subjects and mix（使混合） them up on your timetable（时间表）. Don't do all the difficult topics at once. Write a list of targets（ 目标） that you know you can reach（抵达） and tick（ 发出滴答声） them off as you accomplish them.

  Did you get those three pieces of advice? Make a revision plan and make sure you include breaks so you don't lose concentration. Don't try to do all the things you find most difficult at once. Mix them up with the easier things. And make a list of things to do and put a tick next to each thing once you've done it.