GCSE help from a current Year 12

if anyone needs any tips or advice or questions about gcse's or choosing as levels or whatever feel free to ask! Feels like a lifetime ago but i'll try and answer as best i can!
GCSE's i took:
Maths
Science
Additional science
Further Additional science
Humanities
Geography
History
English Lit
English Lang
Ethics
Philosophy
Physical education
Italian
DT Food
Child DEvelopment


AS's that I've taken: Geography, History, Chemistry, Biology

How many hours a day did you revise (excluding homework) at this point of time
How many hours a week?

How did revision hours increase as you got nearer the time of exams?

English literature: how do you memorize quotes/what sort of things should i revise like characters, plots, historical context? etc

What books are you studying?
Luckily for our exam board (OCR) we didn't have to memorise quotes as it was open book, but if any quotes stuck out and i knew i couldn't be bothered to look for them in the exam then i would make a note of them on a sheet and create like a 'glossary' of quotes.
For english lit i made big mind maps on the characters, context, events, quotes, analysis of quotes to practice, language, setting all of key themes.

HEY!!!

Hows History like at A level?
What board do you study for A level History?
What board did you study for GCSE History?
Any tips for History GCSE?

Thanks
I'm doing of mice and men and an inspector calls, but AQA exam board so we have to memorize most of the stuff

hiya
I'm quite enjoying history at a level, my subjects are quite diverse: Doing the tudors and then the vietnam war!
They are very heavy and quite a lot to remember including lots of Henry's and richards!! but it's very interesting!
For GCSE History i did OCR
For AS History we are on AQA

In terms of tips, i would go through each topic and make a timeline of the keydates as that really helps to remember them and it helps score extra credit as evidence!!

ah cool we did those to, and we had to do poems
In that case i wouldn't go crazy with quotes as it will just overwhelm you and make it more intimidating to remember! choose quotes that you can apply to different questions to limit the amount you need to remember!!
I did enjoy the inspector calls section though!

Cool I'm doing OCR as well for History. What topics did you study?

Thanks, that really helps actually
Well done on your AMAZING results btw

I did Hitler/Nazi REgime/ League of Nations and then British Depth Studies wbu?

ToV/LoN/America, Land of Freedom

British depth study

ah nice, i did everything but Land of Freedom- the history learning site may be helpful if you haven't already checked that out- also bitesize on brief bits of info

cool, thanks I'll check the history learning site, never heard of it. What did you do for your controlled assessment topic?

We actually did it on the civil rights movement right back at the start of year 9 before we started the content of the course as I chose it as a 2 yr option )


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okay cool lol. The civil rights movement is part of American study so we had to do ours on America in the Roaring 20s. The year before us did it on Nazi Germany.

Ah nice, i found the civil rights movement quite a good piece as i did a humanities gcse that year to so it helped me with background info and context as well )

Did you find British Depth study harder? That's what all the history teachers are saying, that the BDS is the toughest part of the course.