How to get an A?

Original post by jacksonmeg

Hi, I need some advice on how I can get an A in maths, i'm ressiting AS, and doing A2 at the same time. I have access to mymaths and 2 textbooks (about 300 pages each), how should I revise? how many hows do you think I should do a week? (i'll be doing as/a2 maths, a2 chem/bio)

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How well did you do last year? Obviously if you got an E or a U you're going to have to put in much more effort than someone who got a B for instance.

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Nitrogen

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Original post by jacksonmeg

Hi, I need some advice on how I can get an A in maths, i'm ressiting AS, and doing A2 at the same time. I have access to mymaths and 2 textbooks (about 300 pages each), how should I revise? how many hows do you think I should do a week? (i'll be doing as/a2 maths, a2 chem/bio) 
 
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Screw mymaths and textbooks, it's all about past papers. Go on exam solutions for help of youre stuck.

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Original post by Flauta

How well did you do last year? Obviously if you got an E or a U you're going to have to put in much more effort than someone who got a B for instance.

I got a C, B in D1, 2Cs in C1/C2

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Original post by Nitrogen

Screw mymaths and textbooks, it's all about past papers. Go on exam solutions for help of youre stuck.

should I start them already? we havent covered all of the exam content, just do the questions weve learnt?

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Mike_Ross

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Do every single past paper for each module, each mixed exercise for every chapter in the textbook, and do all of the Solomon papers.

A in the bag.

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to be honest I started revising C2 the week of the exam :/ I know I need to work hard this year

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Original post by Mike_Ross

Do every single past paper for each module, each mixed exercise for every chapter in the textbook, and do all of the Solomon papers.

A in the bag.

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solomon paper?

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Original post by jacksonmeg

I got a mid C, B in D1, 2Cs in C1/C2

Personally I'd just retake the two pure modules, not the decision, it's up to you though.

Start by completely going through your C1-C2 textbook, and answering every question on every exercise. Set yourself a target to get one exercise done everyday. Just keep that consistent throughout the whole year. Then when you're finished, do past papers, mark them, see what you get wrong, then do the exercises in the book that correspond to what you got wrong.

if you get stuck on anything because the textbook doesn't explain it well, use khanacademy or examsolutions, or ask us on here :smile:

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Original post by Flauta

Personally I'd just retake the two pure modules, not the decision, it's up to you though.

Start by completely going through your C1-C2 textbook, and answering every question on every exercise. Set yourself a target to get one exercise done everyday. Just keep that consistent throughout the whole year. Then when you're finished, do past papers, mark them, see what you get wrong, then do the exercises in the book that correspond to what you got wrong.

if you get stuck on anything because the textbook doesn't explain it well, use khanacademy or examsolutions, or ask us on here :smile:

alright thanks

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Mike_Ross

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Original post by jacksonmeg

solomon paper?

Google 'C1 Solomon Papers', replace C1 with whatever module you want.

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Original post by Flauta

Personally I'd just retake the two pure modules, not the decision, it's up to you though.

Start by completely going through your C1-C2 textbook, and answering every question on every exercise. Set yourself a target to get one exercise done everyday. Just keep that consistent throughout the whole year. Then when you're finished, do past papers, mark them, see what you get wrong, then do the exercises in the book that correspond to what you got wrong.

if you get stuck on anything because the textbook doesn't explain it well, use khanacademy or examsolutions, or ask us on here :smile:

how long do you suppose an exercise will take? about an hour? trying to make a rough timetable :smile:

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Original post by jacksonmeg

how long do you suppose an exercise will take? about an hour? trying to make a rough timetable :smile:

Usually between 30 minutes and an hour. I think there's about 60 exercises in total between C1 and C2. If you stay really strict and and stay to doing one a day you'll get them all done by January, then you can start work on past papers. Think how much earlier that is than last year and how much more prepared you'll be.

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Original post by Flauta

Usually between 30 minutes and an hour. I think there's about 60 exercises in total between C1 and C2. If you stay really strict and and stay to doing one a day you'll get them all done by January, then you can start work on past papers. Think how much earlier that is than last year and how much more prepared you'll be.

looking back at AS I really don't know what I found difficult :s-smilie:

A2 is the same, just harder, but Im understanding this much more than AS

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