all exams taken in june? (not january) what am i going to do..

my college has a policy that all exams are taken in june, no january exams for individual units, so the entire syllabus is examined in june.

is this a good thing? my teachers say that there are pros and cons to this, but i can't spot any pros..

cons: - you have to wait an entire year for a resit
- you have a heavier workload (very heavy)
- if you opt for a resit, you have to take the AS exams on top of the entire a2 which sounds insane
- taking exams during january will motivate you to study (its better to say "crap, its a month before the jan exams, have to revise for half my as" than ".... crap, its a month before june exams, have to revise EVERYTHING".

pros: ummm...

im really confused, my exam boards are:

maths- edexcel
biology- salters nuffield advanced biology edexcel
physics- salters horners advanced physics edexcel
chemistry- salters nuffield advanced chemistry OCR

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username219321

pros:
you'll have been studying the subject for longer so will have a deeper understanding
you'll finish the AS syllabus earlier due to not having any revision time in January, so will have more time to revise for the june exams.