No problem! :) Hmm... sorry I can't find much in terms of the OCR textbooks. If you can, ask the AS-History teacher or a student!

Honestly, by the time you get to A-level, GCSE's just don't matter unless you want to go to Oxbridge or do a really competitive course like medicine. You're far better off leaving them and concentrating on AS's. Get good AS results to put on your UCAS form and they will be far more impressive than a couple more A's/A*'s at GCSE.

Revised day before every uni exam. Just got the results. Failed three, passed five. But its not something I'd recommend. I was really down at the time.

Sketching on my work ftw


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I'm surprised at how quick people are to criticise when I'm frantically revising my notes before we have to leave our bags and go and wait to be called in to the exam "if you don't know it now you never will... doing yourself more harm than good... anything now is pointless". I find refreshing myself before the exam and doing at least 2 hours revision before the exam itself is vital so that my head is full of ideas when entering the hall so I can jot the harder stuff down before I forget about it!

I try to eat lots of fish during exam period, wear loose, comfy clothing in the exams, eat a banana before I go in and most importantly of all: wear my lucky socks ;)

What? That's simply not the case, the point of mocks is to see what you have learnt without any revision so you can see what you don't know. You then, when it comes to the real exam, can revise the points that you are weaker on which have been demonstrated in the mock exam...

Hello TSR,

As the title of my thread states, I would say that I'm addicted to revision!

I'm currently in Year 11 and I have been revising for about three months for my GCSE Exams in the Summer of 2013.

Every night I usually do between 2 - 4 hours of revision and around 4 - 6 hours of revision on Saturdays and Sundays.

The thing is, I feel like I'm doing something wrong and feel quite guilty when I'm having a break from revision. Sounds weird, I know. For example, if I was to watch TV for 30 mins I would feel bad that I hadn't spent that time revising.

I know this sounds absolutely crazy! I think most people have the opposite problem to me! Most people in my year at school haven't even started revision for their Summer Exams yet!

Does anyone else feel like this too? Don't really know what responses I'll get to this thread, if any!

how bad do you want it?

Exams start on Tuesday. I've written pages of notes for each subject, but I'm at a loss as to what to do next. Reading through notes isn't very helpful really, I feel as if that should be something I do just before the exam, not now. Does anyone have any other tips for ways of revising? I've googled it, but I'm only really getting recording myself and listening to it, and postcards, both of which I do already. Thanks!

I've got around 120 days for my A Levels. I'm answering a November session from CIE. I'm doing science subjects. I'm rather behind on revision. By when should I finish revising and start doing past papers?

How many past papers should I practice before the exam?

Any tips in general?

It's been going on all morning, drilling, banging, sawing!!! Had to put up with this last week and in January too. I don't think my neighbour realises I am on study leave or that I have exams. The noise is so bad that I can't do any revision right now, I ideally need to work in silence or with some soft background noise.

He always used to pop round and warn us when he was going to do some work but that all stopped about a year ago. I have no idea wtf he is doing to his house, this work has been going on for months and months and months.

He is near-deaf so there is no point me going round, he won't have his hearing aid on because he's using loud tools so he won't hear me knock at the door. It's nice that one of us can't hear anything. :rolleyes:

I can't go to a library or anything as the local library is almost always shut and I have animals in the house that can't be left alone. :(

Khan academy is a very useful resource that does cover both basic and more complicated details in a particular topic. Although, if you find that it isn't particularly useful for you there are many other similar videos on youtube if you just do a bit of searching.

Haha your wise words alone have made me motivated. I'll see how it goes tomorrow and if I do well then I will continue to put my head down. The thing that is scary is that for all the other modules I worked so hard to get my good grades and now all that hard work is down to this alone. Anyway thanks !

for goodness sake just use a biro, its not like they're super expensive

I set targets not hours.

Hubba Bubba :$

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to find a spreadsheet to work out my potential grades with but all I can find is the ones with the old UMS points. Any updated version floating around yet?

Hope I'm not being repetitive!


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Is this GCSE or A level? You really should have revised! It's not too late if you get straight on with it.

Firstly, be sure to get a good 8-10 hour rest every night. There's no point in revising seriously hard really late at night and not being able to retain the information.

Make sure you go over the main points of each topic. Note the fundamental information that you wouldn't be able to re-call if you haven't revised it e.g. How does Carbon get back into the atmosphere from animals when they die? THE POINT -> They decay and the microorganisms which eat them respire, giving out C02 which returns to the atmosphere.

Once you've done this, then you're able to go into more detail. Please note that you shouldn't go into detail in things that you already know for the sake of it - it only wastes time!

When you've completed your notes, be sure to go over it again. After that, go over it again. Be sure that it's really stuck in your head, don't say "Oh, I've read it and it looks too easy to remember so I'll remember it in the exam" because that is not always the case, trust me. Just repeat it out loud because if you're able to say it several times without looking, there should be no problem of you being able to remember the details whilst you're in the exam.

To get that good grade



Anyway, good luck! :)

Well done, a c is very good.

I useally go throught the more specific lessons or topics and sum it up in a few bullet points and key words and write them onto sparate flash cards for each lesson. You could do this once a week a review what you learn each term. It makes revising easier nearer to your exam.

Though u are very close to you exam I still recommend trying this because going through all the topics means u know what u need to know and making the cards helps. You could just do it on topics you find difficult.
You might want to take it to school on the day of your exam so if there is anything you worry on you can take a quick peek. It also calms me to know i have it to look at if i need it

Hope that helps

Cheers bro

You get to bring food in???

:O?well done you.(!)

'Come to Malawi with me.' - Lil B

A-Level?

I hear fibre is good. But probably ignor me cause am always the one with the earthquake loudness of rumbly belly in the silent exam room...embarrassing:$

For various reasons basically boiling down to a three-month mental health crisis at the start of the year actually screwing up my entire second year because of catching up and recovery, tonight I've got to do a 2,000 word-essay in for tomorrow. (It's not actually in for tomorrow, it was in 2 weeks ago, I had a massive extension and somehow it's still not ready ffs). Then I need to revise (read:learn) a module in a week for an exam next Thursday.

Is this possible? Anyone with simialr experience?
and yes I put in MCs :)

Appropriate username :p

This may seem hubris, but it really does help:- If you feel confident that you have memorized the relevant knowledge do not stress about going over it again. I know the feeling, but it really isn't worth it - to make you feel better, I did Biology for Edexcel and got an A with this tactic :p

Just relax, be confident in what you have learnt and don't bother going over it all as it really is a waste of time (what's the likelihood you will forget it in one day?) If you feel adamant, skim over the content for half an hour - but even that isn't necessary.

Good luck with it all

I've been trying to revise but nothing is going in. I'm so unhappy and scared of failing. Only 1 week to go and i'm really panicking. I don't want to fail and i've been unable to stop crying.

What do i do? How can i understand what i'm studying?
Help :(

I couldn't have seen this at a better time.

I was sitting here, watching reruns of friends episodes and randomly googling things, thinking I was completely burned out from revision. Only 13 days left to go until I'm free for the whole summer and I thought I'd hit my 'saturation point'; it feels like I've been working forever for these ****ty exams.

Brick walls are there to show us how much we want things :o

Good video, i'm going to revise now.

If it's a GCSE then 2 days is too much time

I have 1 in each subject, so 10. They will be GCSE papers so thats why I'm a bit worried - they'll be really hard!

Yeah, it does. So, how would this affect my application to the universities? I still have a B, wheras they are asking for an A. The other thing I could do is somehow apply for a c4 resit, which has a ridiculous fee for late entries.

I have faith in you.

FIGHT TO THE END

Taking A2 levels BIO, Sociology and Psychology,

Exams are 10th June -> 17th

Also taking 2 resits in Psy and Bio.

What would be the best suggestion for revising as i have left it a little bit late :(

Just go all out for past papers on everything? or just resits?

I have a bit to learn for the final module papers so best to do the notes or just do all the past papers?

Kinda panicing abit so just want the best method ( I know different methods work best for different people - Im ok with cramming as usually works for me)

Thanks