79 Days Till A-Levels — AAAA JOURNEY

Hey! I’m currently a Year 11 Student. I am studying Biology (AQA), Chemistry (Edexcel), Physics (OCR A) and Maths (Edexcel) in A-Levels in 79 days exactly. If you have any tips or advice, please tell me. Here I will be posting what I have been doing to help achieve my goal of AAAA, I aspire to go to Oxford University to study Medicine. Thanks :smile:

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dexterminate

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DAY 1:

Currently looking at some revision books to purchase on Amazon. Any recommendations? I found this revision guide for Maths endorsed by Edexcel that is relatively cheap, and a CGP one for Physics.

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Original post by dexterminate

DAY 1:

Currently looking at some revision books to purchase on Amazon. Any recommendations? I found this revision guide for Maths endorsed by Edexcel that is relatively cheap, and a CGP one for Physics.

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Ok ,this is going to be long,but hopefully this will help guide you.Hopefully you will learn from my mistakes .I will give a series of posts on each subject and give you advice on how to succeed in each one and finally some advice for medicine.
For Maths
http://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/
http://www.examsolutions.net/maths-revision/syllabuses/Edexcel/period-1/specification.php
http://www.m4ths.com/teach-yourself-a-level-maths.html
http://www.furthermaths.org.uk/revision
https://www.youtube.com/user/HEGARTYMATHS/playlists?view=1&sort=dd

What I gave you above are some links for maths.The first in particular is amazing as it also has lots of material for all your other subjects too.
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This book is brilliant for the core maths and is what got me an A more than my official school book.It shows how to derive each formula,gives exercises of varios difficulty from easy to hard.It has at the end of each chapter,exam questions from every maths board.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pure-Mathematics-C1-David-Rayner/dp/1902214455/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466262658&sr=1-4&keywords=david+rayner

Over the summer,I advise you revise your algebraic manipulation as most of AS maths involves algebraic manipulation.So revise that please.
Revise maths regularly is the key to success.Even something like 30 mins a day is sufficient.Try to understand maths,and not fall into the habit of just doing exam papers without understanding why your doing what you are doing.In other words,try to develop your mathematical maturity,something Zacken can explain better than me.
@Zacken.

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For Biology ,here are some links
http://www.thealevelbiologist.co.uk/
http://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/biology
For biology,learn the course and do tons of past papers.It also helps if you read outside the subject,especially on the topics you did in school.In my exam,we had a question involving autosomes,something I was the only who knew the answer to because I read outside the subject,
http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/category.html?code=archive_news
https://www.quantamagazine.org/category/biology-2/
CGP guides are really good,although you cant get an A with only the guides as they dont have all the material.Use it in tangem with your biology textbook.

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dexterminate

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For Biology ,here are some links
http://www.thealevelbiologist.co.uk/
http://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/biology
For biology,learn the course and do tons of past papers.It also helps if you read outside the subject,especially on the topics you did in school.In my exam,we had a question involving autosomes,something I was the only who knew the answer to because I read outside the subject,
http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/category.html?code=archive_news
https://www.quantamagazine.org/category/biology-2/
CGP guides are really good,although you cant get an A with only the guides as they dont have all the material.Use it in tangem with your biology textbook.

Wow, thank you! I am going to buy the Maths C1 C2 book. Algebraic manipulation sounds a tad difficult. Thank you for these links, they seem really helpful, I have bookmarked them.

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dexterminate

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UPDATE:

I am currently going over a CGP Edexcel Chemistry revision book. I am revising Atoms and Moles and doing calculations, seems fairly easy.

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username1533709

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Original post by dexterminate

Wow, thank you! I am going to buy the Maths C1 C2 book. Algebraic manipulation sounds a tad difficult. Thank you for these links, they seem really helpful, I have bookmarked them.

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Ty

.Ill write up ones for Chemistry and Physics later.

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dexterminate

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Original post by Yua

you're a pyschopath

I do try

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Arima

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I wish i had your enthusiasm. Good luck :smile:

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Helloagain1

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Original post by dexterminate

Hey! I’m currently a Year 11 Student. I am studying Biology (AQA), Chemistry (Edexcel), Physics (OCR A) and Maths (Edexcel) in A-Levels in 79 days exactly. If you have any tips or advice, please tell me. Here I will be posting what I have been doing to help achieve my goal of AAAA, I aspire to go to Oxford University to study Medicine. Thanks :smile:

Hey Im a currently a yr13 student. Im studying bio maths and chem i have exams in few days, can u let me borrow ur determination.
Thanks in advance :biggrin:

good luck

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Hey Im a currently a yr13 student. Im studying bio maths and chem i have exams in few days, can u let me borrow ur determination.
Thanks in advance :biggrin:

Ahaha, good luck! You'll do well :smile:

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dexterminate

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Original post by Arima

I wish i had your enthusiasm. Good luck :smile:

Thank you!

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420quickscope

Oxford medicine damn, what were your gcse grades?
Make sure you absolutely smash UKCAT (aim for around 800-850's) to stand out among oxford applicants and prepare loads for BMAT, as they can turn the tide easily on when they're reviewing your application, definitely apply to a few "safe" options and practice the interview technique as much as possible as that will be incredibly important
Just focus on full ums for AS's, so you stress less at A2
Use the summer, but dont already start revising for AS's as you'll likely forget everything and it wont be very useful. However, looking over some stuff cant harm you, a smarter use of your summer would be doing as much work experience and charity work as possible because universities, especially in healthcare (eg medicine dentistry vet medicine) LOVE that.

Original post by dexterminate

Thank you!

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Audrey18

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@dexterminate @Helloagain1 @Arima

I am certain you will do well for your A-levels. If you ever lose motivation or need inspiration, read on. Good luck!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Moeen_Nawazish

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4398668/Teenager-gains-22-A-levels-in-12-months.html

[video="youtube;EbH_dWWIE1Q"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbH_dWWIE1Q[/video]

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Helloagain1

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Original post by Audrey18

@dexterminate @Helloagain1 @Arima

I am certain you will do well for your A-levels. If you ever lose motivation or need inspiration, read on. Good luck!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Moeen_Nawazish

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4398668/Teenager-gains-22-A-levels-in-12-months.html

[video="youtube;EbH_dWWIE1Q"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbH_dWWIE1Q[/video]

I cant motivate myself from that, that guy is smart im dum lol
Someone to achieve such results means theyre not ordinary like me
But thanks for trying your hardest to give me some motivation :biggrin:

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dexterminate

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Original post by 420quickscope

Oxford medicine damn, what were your gcse grades?
Make sure you absolutely smash UKCAT (aim for around 800-850's) to stand out among oxford applicants and prepare loads for BMAT, as they can turn the tide easily on when they're reviewing your application, definitely apply to a few "safe" options and practice the interview technique as much as possible as that will be incredibly important
Just focus on full ums for AS's, so you stress less at A2
Use the summer, but dont already start revising for AS's as you'll likely forget everything and it wont be very useful. However, looking over some stuff cant harm you, a smarter use of your summer would be doing as much work experience and charity work as possible because universities, especially in healthcare (eg medicine dentistry vet medicine) LOVE that.

Thanks for the advice! I currently took my GCSEs, I am getting my results in a month or so, I am predicted high grades for the sciences and maths, history is also a subject I excel in. My option subjects are Drama and Economics, I am good at Drama but Economics is probably my worst, (I get C's). I’m not revising technically, I am just going over and answering a few questions here and there. I live in London so finding work experience is very hard, and to add to that, my school did not allow us to get any work experience at all (only to those who would benefit from it — students who get 100% in every subject they take). Again, thank you for the tips, I’ll take it into consideration.

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Original post by Kadak

Try to understand maths,and not fall into the habit of just doing exam papers without understanding why your doing what you are doing.

When you say don't do past papers without understanding why you're doing what you're doing, do you mean understanding why you're doing past papers (as in how they benefit your learning) or understanding why you're doing each maths question the way you are (as in understanding why maths works how it does)?

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dexterminate

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Original post by KomradeKorbyn

When you say don't do past papers without understanding why you're doing what you're doing, do you mean understanding why you're doing past papers (as in how they benefit your learning) or understanding why you're doing each maths question the way you are (as in understanding why maths works how it does)?

I must say, past papers helped me a lot in GCSEs. I would look at the question, and if I didn’t understand it, I went through my textbook and tried to memorise the topic I misunderstood and then answer the question. Helped a lot.

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