Do you think simply doing past papers is enough for Physics exam revision?
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Do you think simply doing past papers is enough for Physics exam revision?Well, I have a physics exam on next Thursday. Chemistry's on Monday and I've done quite a bit for it - Using the specification. I did Biology on Tuesday and it went good. I've revised a bit of physics - Velocity-time graphs, acceleration and all that. though I genuinely have so little time to revise. Do you think doing a couple of past papers from the new specification would be enough to get an A?
I'd thought physics was mainly consisting of formulas, but from the papers I've looked at, more than half the marks go for knowledge and understanding, and I don't know ANY of it. I feel perhaps, with a whole day of revision tomorrow - from 9:30am up until the evening - With lots of breaks of course, which means roughly nine hours, I could get a lot done. I have the weekend, which I feel will be dedicated to chemistry revision, and then that literally only leaves me with Monday night, (I have an English lit exam on the next day, need to learn quotes), Tuesday night and a revision day on Wednesday (where i'll cram another nine hours or thereabouts!) for revision and I'm not sure if this is enough.
By the way it's GCSE (CCEA) and believe it or not, I managed somehow to get a U in my mock which is really horrific.
I would appreciate ANY advice. Thank you.
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Re: Do you think simply doing past papers is enough for Physics exam revision?Oh right, okay! though I only have two days which is SERIOUSLY worrying me.(Original post by Prettygeek)
Past papers are useless without content. Make sure you revise content first!
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Re: Do you think simply doing past papers is enough for Physics exam revision?You have enough time. It's amazing how much you can learn in a short space of them.
What I think you should do is separate the content into sections. Then learn a section, then do a past paper, then learn another, then another past paper and repeat. I find it really helps because by applying what I've learnt it helps me remember it better. -
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Re: Do you think simply doing past papers is enough for Physics exam revision?Thank you so much. This is a good source of encouragement.(Original post by LeaX)
You have enough time. It's amazing how much you can learn in a short space of them.
What I think you should do is separate the content into sections. Then learn a section, then do a past paper, then learn another, then another past paper and repeat. I find it really helps because by applying what I've learnt it helps me remember it better.
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Re: Do you think simply doing past papers is enough for Physics exam revision?I learned a whole unit of gsce applied science (biology, physics, maths) in a week just doing past papers, as long as you know the subject quite well- you will be fine.
i pulled through with 99% A* - lol i thought it was wrong at first? but you know, just relax and do as many past papers as you can do, gsce is soo easy compared to A levels
