Education A to Z

Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers

Please note: This page explains a word or a process in education. It is general information about the system, the law and the guidance in England — not advice about your child, your school or your exam. If a decision is going against you, get advice from one of the free services we link to before you agree to anything or miss a deadline. If you are revising, check your own exam board's specification: boards word things differently and yours is the one that marks you.

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40 terms filed under R, showing 31–40 (page 4 of 4).

R

Retrieval practice

Also called Testing effect, Active recall, Spaced repetition, Interleaving

Making yourself remember something without looking. The best-evidenced revision method there is.

Reversible reactions and equilibrium

Reactions that go both ways, and how conditions shift the balance.

Revision by topic weighting

Spending most time on what carries most marks.

Revision timetable

Also called Revision plan, Study schedule

A plan for when you will revise what. Useful, and frequently a way of avoiding revising.

Rhetorical devices

The named techniques of persuasion, and what each does to a listener.

Risk assessment in practicals

Identifying what could go wrong and what you will do about it.

River processes

Erosion, transport and deposition, and the landforms they make.

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's tragedy of two teenagers, a feud and a series of very small accidents.

Rounding and truncation

Cutting a number short, two different ways.

Rural change

How the countryside is changing, and why some rural areas grow while others empty.

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