How Many Free Guides?
All 20 of my guides (and 3 of my books on teaching) are available, completely free, for 30 days on Kindle. Or, 60 days for 99 pence. I know. It is insane.
There’s a catch. You won’t want to start revising now. I know you (because I used to be you).
That’s until I learned about how the brain remembers. You might have heard of spaced learning and interleaving, and how to build long term memory. You might not.
The Most Efficient Way to Space Your Revision
Here’s a brief summary. You learn more by studying less. If you revise now, you will forget most of it. But, when you return to revise later, you will forget much more slowly. And, when you revise the same stuff still later, you will forget much more slowly.
Your brain is designed to forget. (This design is called The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve). Spacing out the revision is the best way to trick it into remembering.
Why is this less? Because the later revision takes hardly any time - your memory will already know so much more.
60 Days for 99p!
Let me show you with the genius of Kindle Unlimited. (That’s a link in case you want to check it out). You can read on any device with the free Kindle App.
Ok, you take out your free trial. You spend 10 -15 per day dipping into each guide which is relevant to you. At the end of that time, you shut it and write down everything you can remember.
Your brain will automatically focus on the important stuff.
After 30 days, at 15 minutes a day, you will have dipped into each guide once, and 10 guides twice. You’ll have revised every text for literature and every language question. You will have spent 7.5 hours revising.
In 60 days, you will have nailed 15 hours. You’ll know everything!
But, that takes you to November, and the mocks. You’ll get really high marks, way ahead of your target grades.
Building Long Term Memory
Ok, now you have to pay £9.49 for the next month. You don’t want to do that, because that’s money! So, you cancel your membership, and you have spent the sweet sum of £0.99.
But, you will want to revise them again in February. So, for £9.49 you get all 20 guides, and the other 4 I will have published long before then.
You don’t have to spend 15 hours revising this time, as your memories will come back stronger. You cancel your subscription, because, you know, it’s money.
And then, you need to revise again in April. Again, your memory is much stronger, so you don’t need to revise as long. And you fork out another £9.49 and your sorted for your GCSEs. Top grades for the enormous cost of £19.97.
What’s in it for me?
Amazon pays me if you take up the free month. I get £3. They know that lots of you will get carried away with my guides and keep your membership. Joanna, who is in charge of all the authors in the UK, rang me up.
Dominic, she said, you are one of our most successful authors. Readers seem to love your guides. We want to incentivise you. If 300 of your readers take up the free offer by Christmas, we’ll give you £4.50.
That’s a year’s supply of coffee for me, and top grades for you.
What’s not to love?
(Greetings from New Zealand!
Waiting for my coffee in Rotorua - my daughter has stopped teaching psychology in Cardiff in order to teach English in Auckland! The Fat Dog is amazing and, of course, named after me).
How Will This Help Me if I Don’t Get Your Guides?
The key message is start your revision now, so it will take you a lot less time, and you will remember much more.
Retrieval practice in September, then again for the November/December mocks, again in February, again in April and you will be good to go!