how much revision did you do ?
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Re: how much revision did you do ?1 month before the exam i did like an odd hour or 2 and did a bit more a few weeks but during the jubilee i didnt do anything except for in the weekend and i just did some last minute reading/writing. :/ not a lot as I could have done.
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Re: how much revision did you do ?All my revision was done the night before the exam. For every single subject, and I didn't make revision notes. I was somewhat doleful over my procrastination, but that's what happens when you're as foolish as me
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This is what I did for all of mine (except Sciences, Maths and English which I didn't revise at all) and I still got good grades.(Original post by Above.The.Empyrean)
All my revision was done the night before the exam. For every single subject, and I didn't make revision notes. I was somewhat doleful over my procrastination, but that's what happens when you're as foolish as me
As far as I'm concerned as long as you have a good understanding of the subject you'll be fine without revision at GCSE level - save the 10hours a day for A-Level! -
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Re: how much revision did you do ?Mhm, I didn't revise Maths and English at all. I was haphazard and half-hearted in my approach to the sciences. I only did before-night revision of Geography/History(Original post by H011y94)
This is what I did for all of mine (except Sciences, Maths and English which I didn't revise at all) and I still got good grades.
As far as I'm concerned as long as you have a good understanding of the subject you'll be fine without revision at GCSE level - save the 10hours a day for A-Level!
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Re: how much revision did you do ?Basically nothing for GCSEs and not a lot more for A2 level :P i remember watching every world cup game no matter what exams i had that day or the next, still managed to do ok 2A*,3A,4B,2D
im worried now that it may not have been the best plan for a level too, especially for math which is horrible. so far for a2 levels i have done 3 days intense studying before each exam and most have gone well enough apart from a math c3 last thursday every other exam should be 70%+ which is not to shabby even think i got 85-90% in a maths test after comparing my answers with arsey on this website 
long story short, to much is made of revision especially by girls. i dont see how they can start doing 8 hours a day and they started months ago its a wasteof time imo -
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Re: how much revision did you do ?This is for GCSE's? Well this was a general evening:
Mum: "Are you revising?"
Me: "YEAHHHH!"
Mum: "Okay I'll leave you to it."
Me: "Okayyyyy." *reaches for remote*
Then the night before each exam with the revision guide...
Me: "Crap, crap crap!" -
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Re: how much revision did you do ?Not much to be honest... I did quite a lot for Science - probably 4 hours per day in the Easter hols, so before exams even started - purely because I suck at science
But the rest I just did revision the night before, or over the weekend before the exam I reckon if I'd worked harder, I'd have done better, but too late now! I'll have to wait till 23rd August for my results 
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Re: how much revision did you do ?Depends how close to the exam. I couldn't keep it up for a month, but if you have a week with about 3 exams in I'd be well prepared to spend every waking hour revising. It's worth it.(Original post by annaelizabeth26)
ten hours a day is obscene -
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Re: how much revision did you do ?A week in advance for each subject. The amount of hours varied per subject. For my sciences it was about 20 minutes a day whilst with maths, history and geography it was around an hour leading up to the exam and 3 hours the night before. I was very unorganized and didn't have a schedule. Well, I did but chose to ignore it :P.
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Re: how much revision did you do ?You might have "got" good grades but not sure if you're going to "get" good grades -_-(Original post by H011y94)
This is what I did for all of mine (except Sciences, Maths and English which I didn't revise at all) and I still got good grades.
As far as I'm concerned as long as you have a good understanding of the subject you'll be fine without revision at GCSE level - save the 10hours a day for A-Level! -
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Re: how much revision did you do ?You do realise that sentence does not make sense?(Original post by iSoftie)
You might have "got" good grades but not sure if you're going to "get" good grades -_-
