Article: Can you predict exam questions?

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Don't ever attempt to predict exam questions! I did this for my AS history exam and not so epically failed getting a U, and I swear its not worth the risk if you want to be happy on results day!

For sociology, english and mostly other essay-based subjects, it's most definitely easier to predict.
For last year's sociology AS exams, TSR was nearly spot-on with what would come.
Predicting the questions is sometimes the only thing you can do if you've realised that you've run out of revision time as you've been procrastinating the whole year.

In A Level Maths, the questions can either be familiar and easy or different and frustrating.

My C4 AQA Maths exam actually copied some Solomon Paper questions and changed the numbers! Good for me who did Solomon Papers, not good for my classmates who didn't do them.

"Solomon Papers" ? What are those?

They're Maths papers from back in the day which are supposed to be harder than the real papers. They don't hold your hand and you're left to do an entire question on your own.

I'd recommend to do them along with past papers. I wouldn't have gotten an A without both of them.

Gonna check them out! Thanks!!

Ya know what? Nope? Well...

The amount of time I hear some people discussing what topics are going to come up, or what questions they're going to get, if they spent that much time actually doing the revision, they wouldn't need to guess the ****ing questions and they'd do fine!

Yeah, so true!

I did a wide variety of questions, ranging from super easy to tear-your-hair-out hard, covering all bases just in case. Just because an examiner can only ask you about something on the syllabus, it doesn't mean it will necessary be a type of question you've seen before.

Example is Maths implicit differentiation. Past papers just ask you to differentiate it but the Solomon papers ask you to find the stationary points in one single question. The final exam had the Solomon-paper-style question and I did well on that question.