Starting prep work for A2 year in summer - where do I start?

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  1. Anyafrieda's Avatar
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    Starting prep work for A2 year in summer - where do I start?
    It's the summer holidays - and I'm bored!
    So I thought that I would start some preparation work for next year, seeing as when I took my AS summer exams I had chicken pox and was very ill, so looking at resiting a few exams.
    So, with my exams 5 months away - where do I start?
    I'm doing A2 OCR Biology (With the AS resit in F212) WJEC A2 Psychology (With the AS resit of PY2) and A2 AQA Religious studies.

    Any tips for anyone also doing prep work for the exams in January?
    What would you suggest?
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    Re: Starting prep work for A2 year in summer - where do I start?
    (Original post by Anyafrieda)
    It's the summer holidays - and I'm bored!
    So I thought that I would start some preparation work for next year, seeing as when I took my AS summer exams I had chicken pox and was very ill, so looking at resiting a few exams.
    So, with my exams 5 months away - where do I start?
    I'm doing A2 OCR Biology (With the AS resit in F212) WJEC A2 Psychology (With the AS resit of PY2) and A2 AQA Religious studies.

    Any tips for anyone also doing prep work for the exams in January?
    What would you suggest?
    If you have a keen interest in biology, watch some videos at Khan Academy. If you have the A2 textbook, flick through to see which ones are relevant.
  3. Benny100's Avatar
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    Re: Starting prep work for A2 year in summer - where do I start?
    If I was you, I would get any external work such as your UCAS application ready to send off when the applications open. You don't want to be finishing your personal statement and having a massive headache about which university to pick in November when you could be concentrating on exams. We were also forced to do the COPE award, do many of my friends got dragged down at Christmas trying to get this done.

    If you get all of your external work out of the way then it will make your life easier come revision time and allow you to concentrate.

    Other than that just start to read up again on your results to jog your memory and to make sure you're not doing them for a third time.
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