Heya I got 11A*s at GCSE.
my revision wasn't intense or special I think what i important is how you think about what you're revising, not how much revision you do or even really what you're doing. I would just revise as it came so most of my revision was the day before and the day of each exam with a little extra on weekends. It's just important that you make sure you understand and know what you need to know.
I would read the revision guides and then answer the questions at the bottom of each page. You don't have to write them out if that takes time I would just think it through in my head "Do I know the answer? Can I answer it confidently?" then I would think out the answer in my head or out loud and if I could answer I'd move on to the next topic and if I got stuck read the notes again. Also I did a past paper before going into the exam so that I wasn't shocked by the style of the exams and was in the zone.
For French the day before the exam
my sister and I (we are in the same year she got 9A*s btw) made loads of french flash cards as at the back of the specification it has a list of basically every word you have to know. There are a lot of words like 1000+ so only write down the most unfamiliar ones. This was surprisingly useful I got 100% in the reading exam as I kept seeing words that were I remembered from flash cards - I only wish I'd thought of it earlier to save me from the stress!
i didn't do history but i guess geography and english are closest?? idk.
For geography people overestimate how much detail about case studies you need to know, and I noticed that my school taught some case studies that I didn't actually need to know SO ALWAYS LOOK AT THE SPEC TO SEE WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (this goes for all subjects)! Basically all my revision for all subjects were based around the specifications. For each case study I would learn about 2 facts but all you really need is a general understanding of the study. I got 393/400 and I remember not really using any actual facts with figures in studies so its not that important even though my school was saying know at least 5 facts.
For English lit - get at least 1 sophisticated idea about every character and theme in the book - literally the morning of the exam I had divine inspiration (lol) and thought hey Imma watch youtube videos on different characters as it requires no effort from me. So then in the exam I just remembered stuff from the video (it was like in no way related to my question but i could
enough to make out that it was) and i got 190/200.
english lang - ngl i didn't do
for this i was so confused on how to prepare for this i didn't even answer all the questions bc we'd never done a mock in school so i hadn't practiced it before but i still somehow managed to scrape an A* ( i was literally on the a* mark for the exam but my CA pushed me further in)
um if u want anything for other subjects then ask i just stopped here bc i realised this is getting long and i didn't do history soz.
Well done on starting early enough I remember in easter i hadn't started revision (i hadn't finished the course in most subjects) and instead I was being forced to go to Easter school as I was failing my ICT controlled assessment lol.