[bigbrowneyes]

Hey

I was wondering if anyone if had any good ideas how to revise for biology and chemistry aqa?

Thanks
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[books28]

What always works for me is doing tons of past papers and that way you can see what you don't know and work on that but also checking with the mark scheme means that you know how you can get the most marks and what the examiner is looking for. It will also show you the most common questions. Also make sure that you go through the syllabi so that you can see exactly what you are expected to know.

Good Luck!

[Contrad!ction.]

I'm not on AQA but I have had experience with chemistry A-level exams. I'd say past papers are pretty important as they tend to be really specific with what they want you to say. Definitions, for example. They tend to only have a select few words that they'll ask you about, so I found it helped me to make revision cards with key definitions on and just reel them off. I knew what the words meant anyway (as you should, because if there's an 'explain' question, you'll need to work out how to answer it) but my own definitions would be awkward and might not get me the marks because chances are I wouldn't use all the words they wanted.

Generally there'll be longer 'explain' questions as well - I found bullet pointing the key ideas and learning those helped me as again, there are only a few things they'll ask about. When you're in the exams, it'll probably help you to bullet point before you answer, one point for each mark, so that you don't end up waffling and missing out.

Mechanisms tend to have pretty good logical reasoning behind them, so I'd try to get an understanding of how they work as if you forget them in the exam, you'll then be more likely to be able to work out how they work. Calculations - it can be handy to do revision cards with equations on them. Knowing how to manipulate units can also be a saviour - I never memorised any equations for my chemistry exams, instead I derived them by looking at the units of what I was given and what I needed to find. Say '2 moles' 'carbon-12', find the mass - you'd have moles and g mol^-1 - in order to get grams, you just have to multiply the quantities, which is easy to see from the units they give you. There'd be 24g.

Hope this stuff helps