It is that time of term again; classes are over, essays are in, and it is time to have a sit down with your lecture notes and get real friendly. Revision can be both dreaded as it signals your next 14 days chained to your laptop and happily anticipated as a checkpoint out of classes and into the last few weeks before summer. For me, I view our two weeks of revision as somewhat of a purgatory between the heaven of term routine and the hell of exams (9:30am exam on a Saturday? Is that really necessary?).

But many of us (all of us, don’t lie to yourself) get distracted.  The...