GCSE revision tips suggesting students revise for seven hours a day met with outrage from teenagers
'We aren't robots. Any test that requires 7 hours revision a day isn't an exam, it's a memory game'
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Your support makes all the difference.Teenagers across the UK have reacted with horror to expert advice to revise for seven hours a day over the Easter holidays.
GCSE and A Level students branded the tip from the chairman of the Independent School Council Barnaby Lenon "traditionalist nonsense", "ridiculous" and "disgusting".
"We aren't robots, we're teenagers," responded Neve Connelly. "Any test that requires 7 hours revision a day isn't an exam, it's a memory game."
"This exam expert can shove his seven hours a day where the sun don't shine," said Twitter user Willem.
"Exams are enough pressure already and we don't need these ridiculous standards! Apparently the government doesn't think that teenagers actually want a social life LOL."
Mr Lenon - a former headteacher at Harrow - the independent boys' boarding school whose pupils have included Winston Churchill and Benedict Cumberbatch - published the recommendation on his blog.
His revision tips include using files, card dividers and highlighters for your study notes, making notes of your own notes, and revising all your work at least three times before the exam to "drive the information into the long-term memory".
He also suggests starting revision at 9am and studying until 6pm with 30 minute breaks between each 60 or 90 minute burst of study.
"Plan to work for seven hours a day most days of the Easter break," he wrote.
"That may seem a lot, but the students who get the best grades will be working this hard and some exams start in May. If you work for 14 days, that will be about 100 hours of revision. If each topic takes two hours to revise, that is 50 topics."
The advice was also mocked by former students who boasted of passing their exams with minimal revision while others were only happy to criticise "Generation Snowflake".
Teenagers have also been advised to take on Saturday jobs by work and pensions secretary Esther McVey.
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