How to revise a module

A module is too big to revise by opening it and starting. This is the order that works: cover it once, find out where you actually are, then spend the rest of your time on the part that is costing you marks.

The short version

Do one pass over the whole module before you do a second pass over any of it.
Use the Unseen filter to make that first pass, so you are never re-doing what you have already met.
Then sit one honest paper in Exam mode and read the coverage figure, not the accuracy.
After that, work only from Incorrect and from your weakest subject, in short sittings, most days.

Why it works

The single most common way to revise badly is to revise what you already know. It feels productive, the accuracy stays high, and the topics you have never opened stay unopened until the week before the exam. Covering the module once — thinly, quickly, without trying to master anything — is what converts an unknown amount of work into a known amount.

The second reason to cover first is that you cannot prioritise what you have not measured. A weak spot is only visible once you have answered something in it. Ten minutes of first-pass questions in a subject tells you more about how much trouble you are in than an hour of re-reading the notes for a subject you like.

Doing it in Clinicoid

One — Open the scope tree and take the whole module: Before your first paper, tick everything. The count tells you the true size of what is ahead of you, which is a number worth knowing early rather than discovering in week eleven.
Two — Set the filter to Unseen and sit short papers: Unseen only serves questions you have never answered, so every sitting moves the front line forward. Twenty questions at a time is plenty. Use Practice mode — you are here to meet the material, not to be tested on it.
Three — When Unseen runs dry, sit one paper in Exam mode: Whole module, nothing filtered, no feedback until the end. This is the only number on the whole page worth trusting, because it is the only one you produced without help.
Four — Read coverage before you read accuracy: In Progress, coverage says how much of the module you have actually met. A high accuracy over a third of the module is not good news, and coverage is the figure that tells you which of the two you are looking at.
Five — Then live in Incorrect, subject by subject: Take your weakest subject from marks-by-subject, scope the paper to it, and set the filter to Incorrect. Repeat until that subject stops being the weakest, then take the next one.

Where it goes wrong

Starting at subject one and going in order until time runs out.

You will know subject one extremely well and subject nine not at all. Cover thinly first; depth is the second pass, not the first.

Re-drilling the same exercise because the score keeps going up.

That score is going up because you are memorising the order of the options. Use Unseen and Incorrect; each sitting is kept separately, so nothing is lost by moving on.

Judging yourself on accuracy alone.

Accuracy is a measure of the questions you chose to answer. Coverage is the measure of the ones you have not. Read them together or neither means anything.

One five-hour session on a Friday.

Four forty-minute sittings across four days will beat it, on the same total time. If you want the evidence for your own habits rather than for the general claim, the study-time calendar has it.