When did you start revising for your GCSE's

I know you want a definite answer with a timeframe but it's hard to say; it depends on the individual - how good your revision methods are, how much you spend revising per day, how much you space the revision out, etc.

What I wouldn't recommend is trying to start doing more than an hour of revision a day until you get to the time before year 11 mocks, as if you do start revising heavily at the start of year 11 then you will likely feel burnt out by the time you get to the mocks, let alone the actual exams.

As a general guideline: revise a couple hours a day for the weeks before your mocks, and then a few hours a day for the couple months leading up to your real exams.

But really, it's not the amount of time that matters, it's how much you need to learn and how much of that you have learnt. If you already know 100% of each topic then you wouldn't need to revise at all, but obviously none of us are in this position.

You will have subjects, and topics within those subjects, that you know very well, and subjects/topics that you know very badly. Revise the bad ones more, and prioritize getting your core subjects (English, maths, science) up to whatever grade you want as they will be the only ones that most universities care about.

If you're a year 10 (I assume you are) then at this moment the best thing to do is to ensure you understand everything they're teaching you in lessons, and asking questions when necessary. If you want to give yourself a headstart, do a quick review of content you have learnt in lessons whenever you feel you're starting to forget it, but don't feel the need to do hours of revision a day until year 11. Revise for mocks, but other than that as long as you understand what you're learning at the moment then you'll be fine.

Oh, the only exception to this would be languages - languages essentially require you to memorize a ton of different words, so a small amount of revision (even just five or ten minutes a day) will pay off a lot.

Oh, thank you so much, however, everything I learn in class I forget it in about a few days. Even when I revise the full topic, it will all be gone in about 2 weeks. It's like am just revising the information not learning it as it does not stay in my brain forever.

Also, I appreciate you typing all of that, ty.

Don't worry, nothing stays in anyone's brain forever; that's why we have to revise

If you feel you are forgetting everything soon, then you should change the way you're learning. In class try noting down things that the teacher says that seem important - sometimes writing things down helps embed them into your memory - although don't just write everything down as listening to them speak is still important to make sure you're actually taking the information in.

Don't try revising the entire topic in a short space of time if you feel you forget the information soon, you have plenty of time so you can just break each topic down and do a little bit of it each day in lots of detail, ensuring you understand everything before going onto the next bit. Textbooks are bad for this - they contain a lot of extra information, the majority of which you don't really need to know and will just slow down your revision.

Instead, you should get a revision guide, I find the CGP ones to be best, especially for more memory-based subjects like the sciences. Now, other guides on the internet will be able to explain good revision techniques better than me, but essentially just avoid doing nothing but reading the revision guide - this is passive revision, and you won't take in much information, so you'll forget it quickly.

You should instead do active revision, where you're actively doing something to interact with the content you're learning - such as creating revision cards to test yourself on the content, or writing out the stuff you need to learn in your own words, condensing down the important bits from the revision guide in a way you remember well.

These things still aren't entirely necessary yet, considering it's only year 10. Try out different revision methods before the mocks, find something that works well. The sooner you develop these good revision techniques, the easier next year will be and remember, year 10 is essentially practice for year 11 - you have lots of time to figure out how to learn best, how the exams work, etc, and whilst it's important to make sure you understand the content you're learning, it isn't necessary to be a master at every subject at this point in time.

I started the weekend before my GCSEs

Really? How can you revise so much in such little time then?

Who said I revised a lot?

Some subjects I only needed a brief glance at because I could fluke those exams. Like in Geography, I got an A in the mock without any revision. Most of my revision is in English, Science and History, because they do require substantial knowledge.

Aha yeah, but I meant there is a ton to revise but how could you fit it in all, in such little time. Or maybe when you learn it sticks in your head for a long period of time, therefore it wouldn't take you long to revise at all.

Well, it takes me about 3 weeks to revise chemistry, biology, and physics.

Around what month did you start revising for your GCSE's and when do you think is the best time to start?

How long did you spend revising for each individual subject?