how long do you revise?

how much time do you guys spend revising everyday in order to get straight A's

At GCSE: 0 hours

At A level:
Basically full time revision for the few weeks before each exam
(A*AAa)

didn't you revise daily? my economics teacher keeps banging on about how we have to revise the lesson's topic when we get home

For a level

didn't you revise daily? my economics teacher keeps banging on about how we have to revise the lesson's topic when we get home

For a level

No, literally didn't even open my work at home until just before each exam. It depends on the subject though and how much you understoof the topic in class. Mine were all sciencey subjects and if i understood how to do mole calculations in chemistry in class then i don't need to revise it that evening.

If you're doing humanities subjects you may need more time for reading etc.

I revise daily taking A2 Biology, Maths and English Language. I find its important to learn it and revise it as you go along so you don't get overloaded in the build-up to exams.

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yeah i haven't been revising daily and I agree because I understand the work and everything, but I also agree with:


That's how I feel too If you don't mind me asking, what did you get in AS?

I got AAAB. One mark off an A in my final subject!

Why didn't you get it remarked? That's reallyyy good though!!!

At A-Level I usually began my revision about six weeks before each exam, and I'd do about four-five hours of work a day if I was on study leave. That doesn't sound like very much but I tried to work as effectively as I could and I never forced myself to revise if I was really not feeling it! I'd regularly have whole days off from revision as well, it helped me refresh.

Edit: my subjects were biology, maths, further maths and geography!

What did you get in maths if you don't mind me asking?

I don't mind at all, will put it under the spoiler though



If there was a day when I was doing past papers for maths I'd definitely be doing closer to the five hours total. They took up quite a bit of my time, being 1.5 hours each.

Oh wow! Averaging 90% is pretty cool.. I was hoping to get somewhere close to that, though realistically not that high lol. But now it's either getting too hard or I'm just getting lazy. I wanted to do it as a single or joint too but zzzz...

Fortunately with Edexcel you only need to get an average of 90% across C3 and C4, not the whole A2 - not sure about other boards though! When I started C3, I really found it very hard. I hated how much trig there was I'd just advise you to do as much of the stuff from the book as you can, it does provide quite a lot of different question types. I personally liked to try and get a good understanding of the theory behind the topics before I started past papers, it helps with seeing ways round the more sneaky questions. None of them are "trick questions", but having thorough knowledge of the stuff on the syllabus can help you pick out that one useful detail that might be slightly obscured by the design of the question