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AS-Level cramming techniques?

Im doing my AS-Level in about 4 days and i'm coming to the slow conclusion that I am so prepared for my first exam economics but when I look past the second I put my pen down after that paper, I can feel it is just going to be a blur of sheer fear that I literally have done no recent revision for my next exams! For GCSEs the exact same thing happened but luckily i'm a expert crammer so managed to still get good results. However I really feel as though for A levels cramming just isn't going to work as there is too much to learn in too little time. I have done revision for mocks and end of topic tests and I have been doing okay so far but I was just wondering if anyone had any tips or advice from past experience for cramming for these kinds of exams?
Ps. I am doing the new linear courses so I have to learn all of my biology syllabus for both papers so any specifically for biology will also be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
:smile:
Feeling similar to you, feel quite good for my first two exams, but the other two after that I have barely revised for, personally, just go over your weakest areas,videos and do some past Papers (3 for each subject)
Original post by lolanewbury
Im doing my AS-Level in about 4 days and i'm coming to the slow conclusion that I am so prepared for my first exam economics but when I look past the second I put my pen down after that paper, I can feel it is just going to be a blur of sheer fear that I literally have done no recent revision for my next exams! For GCSEs the exact same thing happened but luckily i'm a expert crammer so managed to still get good results. However I really feel as though for A levels cramming just isn't going to work as there is too much to learn in too little time. I have done revision for mocks and end of topic tests and I have been doing okay so far but I was just wondering if anyone had any tips or advice from past experience for cramming for these kinds of exams?
Ps. I am doing the new linear courses so I have to learn all of my biology syllabus for both papers so any specifically for biology will also be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
:smile:



I'm feeling the same. My exams are split into 3 weeks, 5 in week 1, 3 in week 2 and 1 in week 3.
Every weekend i am dedicating my time to annotating all of the specifications for that weeks exams and then the night before the exam I'm annotating 2 past papers and reading examiners reports. This is probably the quickest way to revise and it's pretty effective.
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Original post by lolanewbury
Im doing my AS-Level in about 4 days and i'm coming to the slow conclusion that I am so prepared for my first exam economics but when I look past the second I put my pen down after that paper, I can feel it is just going to be a blur of sheer fear that I literally have done no recent revision for my next exams! For GCSEs the exact same thing happened but luckily i'm a expert crammer so managed to still get good results. However I really feel as though for A levels cramming just isn't going to work as there is too much to learn in too little time. I have done revision for mocks and end of topic tests and I have been doing okay so far but I was just wondering if anyone had any tips or advice from past experience for cramming for these kinds of exams?
Ps. I am doing the new linear courses so I have to learn all of my biology syllabus for both papers so any specifically for biology will also be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
:smile:

How much of biology do you know and do you also do chemistry?
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Original post by Ice-cube
How much of biology do you know and do you also do chemistry?


I know mass transport, Nucleic acids, Biological molecules, and biodiversity quite thoroughly, the rest I have done end of topic tests on and the mocks but I just havent had the time to go over them!
Yes, I do chemistry as well
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Original post by Bruce267099
I'm feeling the same. My exams are split into 3 weeks, 5 in week 1, 3 in week 2 and 1 in week 3.
Every weekend i am dedicating my time to annotating all of the specifications for that weeks exams and then the night before the exam I'm annotating 2 past papers and reading examiners reports. This is probably the quickest way to revise and it's pretty effective.


Okay! thank you very much I did this for economics and it seemed to work quite well!
Thanks again,
good luck!

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