An A2 Study Journal

This is a pretty broad question!

For organisation, I printed out the specification, wrote notes (condensed my textbook + revision guide), then I made flash cards and did past papers. It was a case of understanding it (when writing notes), testing myself on how much I knew (flash cards) then practising exam technique (doing papers and learning the structure of answers to questions that could be repeated).

The way to remember things is to keep testing yourself on them. This can be any method of looking at something, then looking away and checking it to see how much you remember. Keep doing that until you know all of it without having to look. Some people write things down over and over again, others use flash cards or posters, mind maps or just saying it in their heads. You can also use a friend to check if you've got it right and tell you where you went wrong or what you forgot.

A2 physics: halfway through unit 1:

Teachers are usually pretty slow that's why I self study. I learnt that the hard way: in GCSE chemistry, we didn't have a teacher until 6 weeks before the exams, when we only covered the last unit (c3 aqa).

Your teacher really needs to hurry up! You could self-study the last half of unit 1 (solids, liquids, gases, temperature, thermal properties and ideal gases) because they're very 'wordy'. Unit 2 is considerably harder

I cant wait to do the astrophysics though: I knew it all years ago!

Of course There's quite a bit of gcse physics that comes up again (from AQA to OCR A2). Astrophysics has to be one of the most interesting parts of the subject!

Ha I just made a revision tracker this morning

Good to hear! How's it working out for you so far?

Not bad I have made over half of the flash cards for AS Biology. How are you finding it?

Well done, you sound like you're doing really well so far! Are you in year 12 then? I haven't made as many flashcards this year, I'm saving them for definitions only - otherwise it's going to take me a month to write everything out! I like using the tracker though, its easier to look at things you need to do as little blocks than as a to do list!

Yes I am in Year 12. I definitely need to focus on biology as it is the one I struggle most. You are so right, the flashcards are taking forever but I feel like it is time well spent . How is your revision going?

Awesome, year 12 is interesting this year for most people who have to contend with the new specifications. Biology can be a pretty hard subject, especially with how much you need to learn, but it can keep a lot of doors open when applying to uni. Flashcards are good for biology, mind maps also. It's important to draw links across different topics

I'm finding revision okay, I've got A2 unit 1 mocks in a couple of weeks, so I've been ignoring unit 2 for a while, but it's all going well overall

This is part of my revision-tracker spreadsheet. Each grey block shows how many times I want to go over that particular topic. The coloured blocks show how many times I have already revised that topic (one for each day) and each subject has a different colour (biology is green, chemistry is red and physics is purple. A light coloured block means I have revised only the content, whereas a dark coloured block means I have done practice questions on that topic.
I had always wanted to do this with lego pieces, but this is probably better :P