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Well, I personally did it myself without teaching of any kind (self-learning), but as I said, I was familiar with the course material before even deciding to take the A-Level, so it was just details I still had to learn (which I used the textbook for). As for exam technique, once I had learnt everything, I simply started some past papers; looking at mark schemes seems to do the trick. I got an in-school teacher to help mark some of my essays from time to time for exam technique; maybe you could do the same, or have a tutor do that job. Except for that, I didn't really require any other support.

This situation will not be the same for everyone; if you feel that you find it difficult to grasp what the examiner is looking for after reading a few mark schemes, it might be well worth your while to hire a tutor to tell you.

I'm afraid I don't really have any tips that I can verbalize.

I will assume you're talking about OCR A-Level Economics (they have an 18-marker at the end); I'm not familiar with any other board's paper style.

As for notes, I had a clear understanding of the concepts before even starting the A-Level syllabus, and for the rest I read through (memorized and grasped) the AS-Level textbook (the one I'm talking about is written by Colin Bamford, for clarification). That was all I needed.

On the whole, the subject merely requires knowledge of the key points (and a slight ability to see which ones are relevant and being asked for), followed by the essay knowledge being tested as well (which requires an exam technique, etc.)

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I've been curious...where did you find my GCSEs? Even I can't find them

I just scribbled some stuff down whilst I was reading, but I never kept my own notes, I just used the book as a reference. When I was revising I wrote down the SUVAT equations and Newton's laws and so on, but to be honest most of what I needed to knew was ingrained in my head from having worked through so many exercises.

I self-taught M1 alongside C3 and C4, and it was quite a while ago, so I don't really remember how long it took all in all. I spent 2-3 months on all 3 modules, so a month is a rough estimate.

I just read through a textbook and did all the exercises, and when it got to a couple of weeks before the exam I did past papers. (The textbook was for OCR though so might not follow your syllabus.)