How do you keep on track with coursework based subjects?

I personally like to do all my coursework as soon as I get it. It may be tempting to do other homework in frees however it works much better for me just to try and knock out as much coursework as possible before I get home. This is because coursework isn't as challenging and intensive in most cases as standard revision, so I get easily distracted and find myself at 11pm with 250 words done when I need a few thousand.

I would recommend trying to do some high quality work in your frees, spent on coursework, then as soon as you get home try and finish it off. Not only is it nice not to worry about that deadline, but it also leaves much more time for other homework and revision.

I'm also doing ICT and generally the content isn't too difficult, so as long as you feel the work you're handing up is of high quality, then you'll have no personal quarrels with yourself because you finished it a little earlier than what was expected. Besides, if you do the typical 'leave it to the day before' scenario, then you won't have as much time to proof read and things of that nature.

In short, do it as soon as you get it to get it out of the way, but keep it to a high standard. Don't rush it, just focus on it.

Just make sure you do enough work so you're on track with coursework? e.g. if you have one project that should take 4 weeks (probably unrealistic, not sure how ICT a-levels work), then make sure you do at least 25% of it by the end of the first week, etc. You can revise however much you feel you need to for your other subjects at the same time. Make sure you make good use of your time in class since you can probably get most of the coursework done if you really crack down in lessons. I only did computing as far as coursework subjects go (40% coursework at A2, despite the exam being far easier), but I basically just did it in class. It did stress me out a bit but that's probably because I did screw around a fair bit in class - coursework is boring, not my fault ^^ - and only at the end of the year did I actually put 100% focus into lessons.