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Revision Village Study Sessions are real! RV Study Sessions are live online webinars led by our expert IB teachers, where you'll learn alongside thousands of IB students from around the world.

Our expert IB tutors have put together an even more comprehensive series of sessions, based on the most challenging topic areas. We're also welcoming any questions you have ahead of the sessions to ensure you're getting the best support possible.

Live sessions are free for all users

Sessions

In association with IB English Guys

IB Math

Math AA SL
Math AA HL
Math AI SL
Math AI HL

IB Language B

English B SL
English B HL
Spanish B SL
Spanish B HL
French B SL
French B HL

IB Sciences

Physics SL
Physics HL
Chemistry SL
Chemistry HL
Biology SL
Biology HL

IB English

English Lang Lit SL
English Lang Lit HL
English Lit SL
English Lit HL

IB Individuals & Societies

Economics SL
Economics HL
Business Management SL
Business Management HL
Psychology SL
Psychology HL
ESS SL - 2025
History SL
History HL

November Sessions

IB Maths AA HL

Differential Equations

In this session, we will look at different techniques to solve differential equations both approximately and analytically.

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Steve Smyth

IB Maths AA HL

Essential Vector Techniques

In this session, we will examine a range of different vector techniques required to answer exam questions.

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Steve Smyth

IB Maths AA HL

Complex Numbers

In this session we will cover different forms of complex numbers, roots of complex numbers and applications. The focus will be on solving exam-style questions.

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Steve Smyth

IB Maths AA SL

Taming Trigonometry

This session will focus on important trigonometry concepts for AA SL exams. It will include circular functions, solving equations, trigonometric identities, and applications.

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Ashley Wallace

IB Maths AI HL

Differential Equations and Phase Portraits

In this session, we will find solutions to coupled differential equations. We will also sketch & interpret phase portraits, considering real and complex eigenvalues.

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Clement Mustchin

IB Maths AI HL

Surviving Paper 3

This session will help AI HL students reduce their anxiety around paper 3. We will look at tips to follow when working through the two different types of questions and apply these to some sample problems.

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Clement Mustchin

IB Maths AI SL

Hypothesis Testing

In this session, we will look at chi-squared tests for independence, chi-squared goodness of fit tests, and t-tests.

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Clement Mustchin

IB Maths AI SL

Trigonometry - Sine me Up!

This session covers key trigonometry concepts and applications for AI SL students, including right-angled and non-right-angled triangles, angles of elevation and depression, bearings, sinusoidal functions, Pythagoras' theorem, and constructing labeled diagrams.

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Paudge Brennan

IB Physics SL/HL

Solving Challenging Mechanics Problems

This session will work through complex mechanics problems that combine the concepts of kinematics, forces, conservation of momentum, and conservation of energy.

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Jim Irvine

IB Physics SL/HL

Nuclear Physics

This session covers the SL/HL topics of the Bohr atom and binding energy before discussing the HL nuclear physics concepts such as the photoelectric effect and wave-particle duality.

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Jim Irvine

IB Physics SL/HL

Electric Circuits

After covering the fundamentals of electric circuits, this session will model various approaches for solving circuits with different resistor combinations and cells with internal resistance.

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Alejandro Garcia Rosselli

IB Chemistry SL/HL

Organic Chemistry

This session will focus on organic molecules and their reactions (S3.1, R3.3, R3.4).

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Erin Dallin

IB Chemistry SL/HL

Chemical Reaction Rates

This sections will focus on collision theory and rate laws (R2.2).

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Jesica Stefanetti

IB Chemistry SL/HL

Stoichiometry

This session will focus on the calculations of chemistry (S1.4 and R2.1).

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Erin Dallin

IB Biology HL

Photosynthesis

This session will review chloroplast structure and function. Then, we'll examine the light-dependent and light-independent reactions, including oxidative photophosphorylation and the Calvin cycle.

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Phil Chatterton

IB Biology SL/HL

Cellular Respiration

This session will review ATP, types of respiration, respiration rate, mitochondrion structure and function, and the stages of cellular respiration, including glycolysis, link reaction, the Krebs cycle, electron transport, and chemiosmosis. The first part of this session is relevant to the SL and HL courses, and then the second part is HL only.

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Jesse Versluys

IB Biology SL/HL

Transport

This session will review the circulatory system in animals and vascular tissue in plants. It is relevant to the SL and HL courses.

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Lindsey Gish

IB Econ HL/SL

National Income and Paper 1

This session will review macroeconomic concepts of the circular flow model of income, Keynesian and Monetarist models, and GDP measures. Paper 1 strategies will also be covered.

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Melissa Kendall

IB Econ HL

Market Power

This session will focus on diagrams and analysis for perfect competition, monopoly (and everything in between) to show how each model of competition impacts stakeholders.

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Nick Streithorst

IB Business Management HL

Paper 3 Assessment Strategies

The Session will focus on approaches to the 2- ,6- and 17-mark questions that are unique to paper 3.

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Niamh Byrnes

IB Business Management SL/HL

Strategies for Success in Paper 2

This session will focus on answering 10-mark questions and on financial tools and concepts.

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Aoife Murtagh

IB History SL/HL

Reaching Top Markbands on Paper 2: From Narrative to Analysis and Evaluation

This session focuses on Paper 2 strategies using examples from the content of the most popular P2 topics, including Authoritarian States, 20th Century Conflicts, and the Cold War.

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Garret Merle

IB English LangLit SL/HL

Nailing Paper 1 - Key Tips and Insights

This session will focus on the close reading, annotating, outlining, and writing skills that will lead you to LAL Paper 1 success. We'll read a text together and discuss the model response.

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Andrew Cohen

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Dave Giles

IB English LangLit & Lit SL/HL

Paper 2 - Strategies and Tips

Join Andrew and Dave for advice on reading time, unpacking questions, and scoring big points on Paper 2. We'll discuss what examiners look for and how you can best study for this comparative beast.

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Andrew Cohen

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Dave Giles

IB English B SL/HL

Ready for Exam Day: Paper 1 and Paper 2 Revision

Join this session to master Paper 1! We'll break down how to refine language, craft clear messages, and demonstrate strong conceptual understanding. Then, tackle Paper 2 reading strategies.

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Veronica Santocildes


Previous Sessions

IB Maths AA HL

All about Proofs!

This session will examine proofs by deduction, counterexample, contradiction, and induction.

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Ellen Thompson

Sessions

IB Maths AA HL

Surviving AA HL Paper 3

This session will help AA HL students reduce their anxiety around paper 3. We will look at tips to follow when working through the two different types of questions and apply these to some sample problems.

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Ellen Thompson

Sessions

IB Maths AA HL

Integrating Quotients

This session will look at various techniques to integrate different families of quotients. It will focus on paper 1 applications and include some paper 2.

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Steve Smyth

Sessions

IB Maths AA SL/HL

Probability and Distributions

This session will begin with Venn diagrams and conditional probability. It will include SL and HL content (clearly identified by the tutor) and build into the concept of random variables.

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Steve Smyth

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IB Maths AA SL/HL

Solving Equations

We will look at various techniques to solve a range of different types of equations, including disguised quadratics, logarithmic functions, trig functions, and more.

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Steve Smyth

Sessions

IB Maths AA SL/HL

Kinematics

In this session, we will review kinematic problems involving displacement, distance, velocity, and acceleration for both paper 1 and paper 2.

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Steve Smyth

Sessions

IB Maths AI HL

Complex Numbers and Sinusoidal Functions

We will review conversion between Cartesian, polar, and exponential forms: products, quotients, and integer powers, and add sinusoidal functions with the same frequencies but different phase angles.

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Clement Mustchin

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IB Maths AI SL

Applications of Functions

In this session, we will look at mathematical modeling with a range of different functions (quadratic, cubic, exponential, sinusoidal) and investigate the key features of graphs of functions not specifically mentioned in topic 2.

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Clement Mustchin

Sessions

IB Physics SL/HL

Gas Laws and Thermodynamics

This session will work through the more challenging aspects of the SL/HL Gas Laws topic before discussing the HL Thermodynamics topic and solving related questions.

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Alejandro Garcia Rosselli

Sessions

IB Physics SL/HL

Circular Motion and Orbits

This session will review centripetal acceleration and circular motion and apply the concepts to solve challenging problems. It will then discuss Kepler's Laws and orbital motion problems.

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Jim Irvine

Sessions

IB Physics SL/HL

Simple Harmonic Motion and Wave Interference

This session will cover the basics of simple harmonic motion before moving on to the concepts of superposition, standing waves, and two-source interference.

This session is in alignment with the syllabus 2016 - 2024. The content remains helpful and relevant to the current syllabus

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Gordon Hirons

Sessions

IB Physics HL

Simple Harmonic Motion and Wave Interference

This session will cover the basics of simple harmonic motion before moving on to the concepts of superposition, standing waves, and two-source interference.

This session is in alignment with the syllabus 2016 - 2024. The content remains helpful and relevant to the current syllabus

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Gordon Hirons

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IB Chemistry SL/HL

Covalent Model and Bonding Triangle

This session covers the nature of the covalent model (VSEPR, coordination bonds, bond and molecular polarity, allotropes, intermolecular forces, etc) and the use of the bonding triangle.

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Jesica Stefanetti

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IB Chemistry SL/HL

Electron Transfer Reactions

This session will review voltaic, electrolytic, secondary, and fuel cells.

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Margaret Hennessy

Sessions

IB Chemistry HL

Proton Transfer Reactions

The session will begin with an overview of acid-base chemistry and then focus on a quantitative understanding of the pH of acid, base, and buffer solutions, titration curves, and connections to free energy and calorimetry.

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Margaret Hennessy

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IB Chemistry HL

Spectroscopy

This session will review mass spectrometry, infrared, and NMR spectroscopy. We will practice using these tools in connection with % composition and IHD to deduce molecular structures.

This session is in alignment with the syllabus 2016 - 2024. The content remains helpful and relevant to the current syllabus

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Margaret Hennessy

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IB Chemistry HL

Enthalpy Cycles

This session will review Energetics HL. It includes Hess's Law, the Born-Haber cycle, and building cycles with bond dissociation, formation, and combustion enthalpies to determine enthalpies of reaction.

This session is in alignment with the syllabus 2016 - 2024. The content remains helpful and relevant to the current syllabus

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Margaret Hennessy

Sessions

IB Biology HL

Chemical Signalling

This session covers signalling molecules like hormones, neurotransmitters, and cytokines and how they act through specific pathways, including G protein-coupled receptors, ion channels, and intracellular receptors that regulate gene expression.

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Lindsey Gish

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IB Biology HL

DNA Replication

This session will review the production of identical DNA copies through semi-conservative replication, the enzymes involved, and the advanced mechanisms that regulate directionality, lagging-strand synthesis, and proofreading.

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Jesse Versluys

Sessions

IB Biology HL

Water Potential

This session will review solvation interactions, water, solute and pressure potentials, and cellular changes such as turgor pressure in plants and crenation in animal cells.

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Phil Chatterton

Sessions

IB Biology SL/HL

Biological Molecules

This session will review the structure and function of biological molecules, including carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleotides. It is relevant to the SL and HL courses.

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Bev Eatwell

Sessions

IB Biology SL/HL

Gas Exchange

This session will review adaptations required for efficient gaseous exchange, mammalian lung structure, plant leaf modification, and transpiration. It is relevant to the SL and HL courses.

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Jesse Versluys

Sessions

IB ESS SL

Food Production

We will take a systems approach as we look at both Aquatic and Terrestrial Food Production, particularly with an eye on sustainability. Paper 1- and Paper 2-style questions will focus on using examples in your answers.

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Tamara Jannink

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IB ESS SL

Climate Change - Mitigation & Adaptation

This session will explore climate change, focusing on adaptation and mitigation strategies. We will evaluate the strategies' strengths and limitations and incorporate exam essay question techniques.

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Steve Basaraba

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IB ESS SL

Pollution Management - Land, Water & Air

This session will look at the management of a wide range of pollutants to minimise the impacts on ecosystems and human societies. Practice questions will come from both Paper 1 and Paper 2.

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Steve Basaraba

Sessions

IB Psychology SL/HL

Research Methods & Ethics SAQs for Paper 1

This study session will review essential research methods and ethics content and provide you with techniques to structure strong research methods and ethics SAQs.

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Rachel Davis

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IB Psychology SL/HL

Research Methods and Ethics Essays for Papers 1 and 2

This study session will review some research methods and ethics concepts and provide advice on structuring ethics and research methods essays for papers 1 and 2.

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Rachel Davis

Sessions

IB Psychology SL/HL

Structuring Essay Responses

This study session will advise how to approach and structure essay responses for papers 1 and 2, particularly emphasizing the contrast command term.

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Rachel Davis

Sessions

IB Psychology SL/HL

Power Studies in Psychology

We'll review common overlapping or 'power studies' in Psychology. We will also review strategies for writing high-mark responses on Papers 1 and 2, focusing on critical thinking.

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Caitlyn Homol

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IB Psychology HL

Paper 3 Exam Strategies

This study session focuses on tips and tricks related to Paper 3. It will cover relevant key content, highlight ways to apply it in various contexts, examine methods for structuring your responses to maximise marks, and discuss traps to avoid common mistakes.

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Rachel Davis

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IB History SL/HL

Managing Time on Paper 1

This session focuses on effectively managing time on Paper 1, efficiently tackling the short-answer, source-based questions, and writing a strong essay that meets the top mark band criteria.

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Garret Merle

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IB English LangLit SL/HL

Paper 1 - Text Types Review

This session will explore key features of six popular text types for Paper 1, Language & Literature, and delve into Guiding Questions, focusing on how to interpret and respond to them effectively.

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Veronica Santocildes

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IB English LangLit & Lit SL/HL

Paper 2 - Rich Ideas and Comparative Structures

This session will focus on writing rich ideas and comparative statements using model paragraphs.

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Veronica Santocildes

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IB French B SL/HL

Ready for Exam Day: Keys to Success for Papers 1 and 2

Join this session to master Paper 1! Discover how to write clear messages, refine your language, and strengthen your conceptual understanding. We will cover key strategies for Paper 2 Reading and Listening. À ne pas manquer!

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Gilles Collong

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IB Spanish B SL/HL

Ready for Exam Day: Keys to Success for Papers 1 and 2

Join this session to master Paper 1! Discover how to write clear messages, refine your language, and strengthen your conceptual understanding. We will cover key strategies for Paper 2 Reading and Listening. No te lo pierdas!

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Claudia Graf

Sessions

Expert IB Tutors

Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen

IB English

Dave Giles

Dave Giles

IB English

Veronica Santocildes

Veronica Santocildes

IB English

IB Language B

Clement Mustchin

Clement Mustchin

IB Mathematics

Steve Smyth

Steve Smyth

IB Mathematics

Ellen Thompson

Ellen Thompson

IB Mathematics

Paudge Brennan

Paudge Brennan

IB Mathematics

Ashley Wallace

Ashley Wallace

IB Mathematics

Gordon Hirons

Gordon Hirons

IB Physics

Jim Irvine

Jim Irvine

IB Physics

Alejandro Garcia Rosselli

Alejandro Garcia Rosselli

IB Physics

Erin Dallin

Erin Dallin

IB Chemistry

Jesica Stefanetti

Jesica Stefanetti

IB Chemistry

Margaret Hennessy

Margaret Hennessy

IB Chemistry

Jesse Versluys

Jesse Versluys

IB Biology

Phil Chatterton

Phil Chatterton

IB Biology

Lindsey Gish

Lindsey Gish

IB Biology

Bev Eatwell

Bev Eatwell

IB Biology

Nick Streithorst

Nick Streithorst

IB Economics

Melissa Kendall

Melissa Kendall

IB Economics

Aoife Murtagh

Aoife Murtagh

IB Business Management

Niamh Byrnes

Niamh Byrnes

IB Business Management

Tamara Jannink

Tamara Jannink

IB ESS

Steve Basaraba

Steve Basaraba

IB ESS

Rachel Davis

Rachel Davis

IB Psychology

Caitlyn Homol

Caitlyn Homol

IB Psychology

Garret Merle

Garret Merle

IB History

Claudia Graf

Claudia Graf

IB Language B

Gilles Collong

Gilles Collong

IB Language B

Frequently Asked Questions

The Revision Village Study Sessions are approximately 1.5 - 2 hour online review sessions for IB students. Held as a Zoom webinar, they are freely available and open to all - including students, teachers, and tutors. Sessions cover a range of topics, including important concepts, assessment strategies and skills, or difficult questions in IB examinations. They are taught by experienced IB teachers, examiners, and workshop leaders from around the world, all of whom produce materials you can find on Revision Village.

While we would encourage students to attend live sessions, allowing for questions and live feedback, we will be recording each session and will generally seek to make them available for later viewing - linked where the original registration was located. However, for a variety of reasons we cannot guarantee that any particular session will become available after it’s been given.

RV Study Sessions are designed to be most appropriate for students in the second year of the program who have previously studied the material under review. However, students earlier in the program may also find topics being covered they have previously seen, or may attend sessions on topics they haven’t yet encountered as a brief and intense introduction to a particular concept. Additionally, teachers and tutors may find the material examined in the RV Study Sessions helpful and useful as they work with students preparing for the IB examinations.

The times shown on the website and the registration for the Study Sessions are given in your local time. As sessions are being offered for students located around the world, not every session will be at a convenient time or date, but we strive to offer a selection of useful sessions appropriate for every timezone.

The study sessions are completely free. You don’t need to have an active gold subscription, or even have a Revision Village account. These sessions are open to all.