87 Theorists: Revision Cards

Eighty-seven theorists, one card each, every one carrying the contribution and the single sentence that belongs in an exam answer. The sentence is the point: an examiner is not looking for a biography, they are looking for evidence that you know what this person changed.

Being straightforward about the source: the underlying list is published free on shahzebspeaks.com. What you are buying is the revision form. Grouped by topic rather than alphabetically, printable, and with two things that are not on the site.

The first is the confusion pairs. Marks are lost far more often to a plausible mix-up than to a blank, and a student who writes Herzberg’s answer to a Maslow question has demonstrated reading and lost the point anyway. Eight pairs, each with the difference in one line.

The second is the method. Reading a card feels like learning and is close to useless; retrieval is what works, and it feels worse, which is why almost nobody does it. Four steps, and two things worth doing beyond the cards, including the one that separates a top-band answer from a competent one: for each theorist, name who they were arguing with.

What it is not: understanding. Cards make the names automatic so the reading time you have left goes on the arguments between them.

30 pages, A4, formatted for printing. Delivered as a PDF immediately after payment.