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I am a 3rd year student going into 4th year after the summer Hols .

I Am undertaking these subjects:

English
MAths
Businesss Mangement
Administartion
French
Physics
History

CAn anyone reccoment any Books / Resouces/ Websites / Tips / Advice
to get a Credit grade in all these subjecs ( All SG)

I was thinking about Leckie leckie Books but they have seemed to die in popularity in my opinion , BRIGHTRED Publishing seems to be overtaking got the one SG English ( BrightRED ) and its actually really good so i was thinking that or The How to pass series but they seem quite dear.

And i know about PASt PApers , but i realised you can get them online for free, So there is really no point in buying them as its £8 per subject :eek:

Reply 1

Bipolar Dipole

Look on amazon for past papers. You'll normally find loads of old ones for like £0.01 (probably stained with dubious bodily fluids, but you'll live). In fact, any books can be bought off amazon for a decent price (the ones in waterstones are daylight robbery!)

For History, get course notes, remember 6 things from each topic and you're set. (6 cos there's an eight mark essay where 1 mark is for introduction, 1 mark is for conclusion and 6 for KU). Go through the past papers, answering all the questions. You'll see a pattern and you'll adapt to it. I managed to predict the section and topic of the essay question, got two 1s :awesome:

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Teejay are quite good for SG Maths. Their books are quite friendly/simple to understand, with loads of practice questions. This and past papers.

I think you're going to do really well. A lot of people don't even start think about studying for their SGs until the prelims :awesome:

Reply 2

_Stephieee

For History, learn a few facts for each topic, knowing things in a huge amount of detail won't help you in the exam when you only have 30-35 minutes a section. Also, make sure you know how to answer each type of enquiry skills question correctly. :smile:

The Success Guide for SG History really helped me to take more basic notes to learn up for my exam so I would recommend it!

Maths is literally, practice, practice, practice!

For French, learning all your vocab from S1-S4 is key, you should make sure you can recognise as many words and phrases as possible when they're written down to save wasting time looking through the dictionary, but you should also recognise them when they're spoken aloud for the listening. The more words you know the easier it is to piece together what is being said!

I didn't do SG English, so I don't know anything about the course, but this is one subject definitely worth getting a How to Pass book in. I got one earlier this year before I sat Int 2 and I wished I had it longer, it was just so helpful!

I would recommend getting past papers, and looking through them for trends - what comes up often/year on year and make sure you know those things inside out.

Hope my babbling made some sense. Good luck :smile:

Reply 3

Martyna156

For English, I used Leckie and Leckie's Success Guide, but to be honest, it was a waste of money. I didn't learn anything in particular from it. I did as many past papers as I could, when it was coming close to the exam, I did one close reading one essay each day, to make sure I prepared myslef fully. and well, I guess I'll see next week if it helped me. If you struggle with close reading, then do a lot of it. In my preparation for the exam, I did around 26 SG past papers and 3 Int2 xd. I also bought the practice papers by Leckie and Leckie and well, they were really useful for close reading but they also gave me a lot of tips for writing. I also studied a lot on my own and attended revision classes, so I would recommend you do so as well, later when it gets closer to the prelims. and one thing: read, read, read and check the words that you don't know ; )

some links:
http://www.leckieandleckie.co.uk/online_success/SG_english/ks4_0_en.html
http://www.kilmarnockacademy.co.uk/pupilenglish1of10.htm
http://www.aplustutors.co.uk/students/english_scotland.php
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6011712

For Maths, the past papers again, are really good for revision. BrightRed's Credit maths is a good book, too. and I also used my text book because it provided tests on different topics and. What I did, was I did a topic and then looked for the questions on it; I did the questions it until I got everything right. And do not merely concentrate on Credit, because you have to sit General as well. Don't do much of General questions though, only the topics that you are not so sure about, because everything else should be pretty much straightforward. I hate Maths but I worked hard and hopefully I will get a decent grade ; )

Some links:
http://www.leckieandleckie.co.uk/online_success/SG_maths/ks4_i_ma.html
http://www.mathsrevision.net/
http://www.mathsrevision.com/ (this website is really good, helped me a lot)
http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/courses/

For French, well, it's a bit different. Before the exam, our teacher told us to 'tune our ears' to French and then you would understand more. She was right, before the exam, I watched videos, clips and all in French, and so by the time an exam came along, I actually did understand better. Do reading as well, I know that you get a dictionary and things but still, do some of it, it won't do you any harm. and do Listening as well, you get get the audios and papers from the sqa website.

Some links:
http://www.realfrench.net/
http://www.quia.com/profiles/lstormonth
http://www.litteratureaudio.com/

I can't say anything about the other subjects because I never took them :wink:

I hope I somehow helped you ; )

Reply 4

animelover123

OP

9

Martyna156

For English, I used Leckie and Leckie's Success Guide, but to be honest, it was a waste of money. I didn't learn anything in particular from it. I did as many past papers as I could, when it was coming close to the exam, I did one close reading one essay each day, to make sure I prepared myslef fully. and well, I guess I'll see next week if it helped me. If you struggle with close reading, then do a lot of it. In my preparation for the exam, I did around 26 SG past papers and 3 Int2 xd. I also bought the practice papers by Leckie and Leckie and well, they were really useful for close reading but they also gave me a lot of tips for writing. I also studied a lot on my own and attended revision classes, so I would recommend you do so as well, later when it gets closer to the prelims. and one thing: read, read, read and check the words that you don't know ; )

some links:
http://www.leckieandleckie.co.uk/online_success/SG_english/ks4_0_en.html
http://www.kilmarnockacademy.co.uk/pupilenglish1of10.htm
http://www.aplustutors.co.uk/students/english_scotland.php
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6011712

For Maths, the past papers again, are really good for revision. BrightRed's Credit maths is a good book, too. and I also used my text book because it provided tests on different topics and. What I did, was I did a topic and then looked for the questions on it; I did the questions it until I got everything right. And do not merely concentrate on Credit, because you have to sit General as well. Don't do much of General questions though, only the topics that you are not so sure about, because everything else should be pretty much straightforward. I hate Maths but I worked hard and hopefully I will get a decent grade ; )

Some links:
http://www.leckieandleckie.co.uk/online_success/SG_maths/ks4_i_ma.html
http://www.mathsrevision.net/
http://www.mathsrevision.com/ (this website is really good, helped me a lot)
http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/courses/

For French, well, it's a bit different. Before the exam, our teacher told us to 'tune our ears' to French and then you would understand more. She was right, before the exam, I watched videos, clips and all in French, and so by the time an exam came along, I actually did understand better. Do reading as well, I know that you get a dictionary and things but still, do some of it, it won't do you any harm. and do Listening as well, you get get the audios and papers from the sqa website.

Some links:
http://www.realfrench.net/
http://www.quia.com/profiles/lstormonth
http://www.litteratureaudio.com/

I can't say anything about the other subjects because I never took them :wink:

I hope I somehow helped you ; )

Thanks for the Detailed answer ,.... how did you do " About 26 Past papers " what year of past papers did you do up to ..maybe up until 2000 ?

Reply 5

Martyna156

animelover123

Thanks for the Detailed answer ,.... how did you do " About 26 Past papers " what year of past papers did you do up to ..maybe up until 2000 ?

I did all the Credit ones from 1996 till 2009 xd and of course General ones too. Ask your teacher for the really old ones xd

Reply 6

Adala

8

Martyna156

I did all the Credit ones from 1996 till 2009 xd and of course General ones too. Ask your teacher for the really old ones xd

God

You are such a nerd Martyna :yep:

Reply 7

Martyna156

Adala

God

You are such a nerd Martyna :yep:

We'll see how much of a 'nerd' I am next week ; pp

I simply love English, remember? xd

Reply 8

animelover123

OP

9

Martyna156

We'll see how much of a 'nerd' I am next week ; pp

I simply love English, remember? xd

I got most of the past papers books , i bought them off of amazon a while back . I've got back till 1997 but don't have the 1996 one, but i persume thats still alot of revision to do .

Reply 9

Adala

8

In my class we did some even older past papers. So you might do them as well in class.

Our teacher made us do 1990 and 1994 credit. :woo:

Just remember to do a little by little. You can't go wrong if you revise even 15 minutes each day.

Teachers say you need to start revising 3 months before your exams/prelims.

Good Luck bro :smile:

Reply 10

Delaney

16

For past papers, go to your library and have the librarian order them all in (Costs maybe 50p per past paper) then photocopy/scan them. Sorted :smile:

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