Advice for exams?

Hi, I've started my A levels and I'm doing Law, English and Psychology. I'm mostly an A grade student but I've noticed in Law that I have issues with the timing, if given the time I get As in all of my assessment we've done so far but I don't get as much time given to me in the exam. So I was wondering if anyone had any advice for timing everything better?

I hope this makes sense, I'm half asleep. If you want a more detailed answer at a later date I'll write it below but I have a mock on thursday which I'd like to try out any techniques for timings you suggest.

@CraigKirik, We do a lot of past papers regularly, probably 3 per week (one every lesson). I agree wholly but the paper has 3 sections, A, B and C. B I can do relatively quickly everytime, but A is only 1 question and C is only 2 questions so obviously not much to skip ahead and do other questions and come back to the harder questions because if I do it'd be harder to get higher marks.

My logic may be flawed in this comment but as said, I'm half asleep

Okay, and despite doing these papers are there no improvements?

Assuming they're essay questions, are you reflecting on how you write them? Review your planning ability for each essay and see how you can improve it to put yourself in a better position to write the actual body text of the essay. Then review your structure and see if you can find common arguments that arise in your essays and you can become familiar with them so that you can splurge them out on exam day. Make sure that you're able to quickly write introductions so that you don't get bogged down with 'how do I start?' and do the same for conclusions. If it's taking too long to write your introduction, you can leave the space for one and come back.

Sorry for the slow reply - quote me for a quicker one next time

What exam board have you got?

OCR

Oh right well im on AQA and i struggle with timing as well, so the only thing i would say is keep on doing the questions until your timing improves and if your adding cases try to keep the case facts to a minimum but make sure you put down the legal principles as that is far more important.

I thought I should just say to you, that you need to go into detail about your cases. My tutor told me today that you have to write atleast two case example, and go into detail with each of them. It's something that has been introduced quite recently that you can only get level 4 (an A or B) by what they refer to as 'developed points' which means you must 'develop' the points you make.

I will say though, this may be specific to OCR or rather exclude AQA from requiring the 'developed points' but I thought I should notify you so you can query your tutor about it to find if you need to do the same thing .

Hmm right are you doing As or A2? Because in A2 were not supposed to give any case facts, they just ignore it , but you have to put the principle, In As last year we had to put case facts down but even so only minimal detail is needed. Of course thats only AQA, have know idea about OCR then. But thanks for sharing that anyway, will ask about it

usually in exams you have more time as you are more focused, plus after you've done a lot of past papers you get quicker.