Easter Revision Hours HELP?

This is what my timetable for this week looks like:

I have been doing four sessions of revision then a half an hour break, four or five of these each day (except today as I had revision for additional maths and RS at school). Each session is 25 minutes, followed by a five minute break. It's been working fairly well, although I've been losing concentration after about 1 pm, barely working between 3 pm and 5 pm, and managing to get back to work at about 6 or 7 pm, but slightly less productive than in the morning. I didn't start revising until Tuesday (except a very small amount in the car to my grandparents' house and in a cafe by the seaside on Monday) so I'm trying to catch up by doing a little extra. Next week I'll probably do a little less as I have more things other than revision that I need to do.

Something I'm trying is dedicated about half of each Saturday to specific subjects. This Saturday I'm focussing on Engineering (I need to change my timetable a little) as I have lots of research to do (we haven't been taught what we're supposed to just be revising)

I was wondering if anyone has any subjects that there not planning on revising for much? For example, my revision session for additional maths that I had at school is the only revision I've done for that subject, and I don't plan on doing any more other than what we do in lessons and what my teacher sets for homework. Similarly, I'm probably not going to revise for general studies until just before each exam, only doing specific homework tasks we're given. These subjects are extras that I'm doing, so I can afford to not revise for them.

Sorry for the long post! Also, I like your videos @evebennettx, especially the revision ones you've been doing recently. I also go to a girls' grammar school, it's nice to see someone else who does

I'm also struggling loads with English Literature. I'm not sure what i should be doing and which quotes to memorise (our exam is closed book). I'm doing Of Mice and Men and Inspector Calls. Also does anyone have any tips for poetry. What things should you look for when analysing the unseen poetry. I'm freaking out our school hasn't even taught us anything about poetry yet and we're expected to analyse all of them ourselves because they don't have any time to teach us any more.

What year are you in? I'm in Year 10, doing AQA, and my exam is also closed book as it's the first time for the new GCSE's. If you are also in Year 10, i'd say don't worry, you have plenty of time, at our school we have only covered romeo and juliet, and our power and conflict anthology, and when we get back from Easter, we start Jeckyll and Hyde so...

If you're in year 11, first of all, i didn't know there were any exam boards which were closed book! But i'd suggest for poetry, always remember to pick around 3/4 quotes for every poem, and make sure you can analyse the theme, tone, imagery, language and structure/form from them, as this is what gets you the marks, as well as context of the poem (if that's assessed, it is for us!)

If you need to analyse it yourself, if you're struggling, i'd either recommend a revision guide focused on your poetry cluster (CGP's are good) or use youtube like Mr Bruff, he is honestly amazing and does detailed analysis on so many poems, so he might be helpful for starting the thought process. Though try not to only focus your analysis on other people's responses, as the unseen poetry is all about your own skill, so try to find your own alternative interpretations!

Hope this helped!

I'm also struggling loads with English Literature. I'm not sure what i should be doing and which quotes to memorise (our exam is closed book). I'm doing Of Mice and Men and Inspector Calls. Also does anyone have any tips for poetry. What things should you look for when analysing the unseen poetry. I'm freaking out our school hasn't even taught us anything about poetry yet and we're expected to analyse all of them ourselves because they don't have any time to teach us any more.

Hi there!

I'm super new to this whole TSR thing so i just wanted to say hello!

My name is Eve and I'm 16 in Year 11.

Anyways, I'm currently on my Easter break and apart from Easter Sunday i have done 5-9 hours a day revision (that 9 hour day KILLED me so I doubt I shall ever do that again)

i was just wondering how much everyone else is doing, partly to reassure myself and partly out of curiosity!

I have 1 A* in ICT already and I am predicted 11 A*s this year, but I feel like as soon as I move on to revise another subject it all leaves my brain! GAH!

But yeah, feel free to have a chat down below so we can get through this together!

Hope your Easter is going better than mine!

Thanks! I'm in Year 11 and i think we're doing Edexcel (but it's like an IGCSE or something weird like that). Anyway I checked out Mr Bruff and he has a few of the poems we're studying so thanks, you're a lifesaver.

Our school does OCR (shoot me) which used to be 40% coursework and is now 100% exam! It's making me panic because English is probably my least stable subject even though it's one of my faves. But my other 3 options are subjects I'm super strong in so I can drop English after year 12 if it isn't for me!

And yes I just re read the texts, go over my notes and watch Mr Bruff! If anyone has any other good techniques let me know!

I did cambridge igcse.... never again! I found the practical super easy with practice and we didn't have a teacher for theory so I just read over some notes online and did every single past paper from 2004 onwards... when I got in there the paper was basically identical! and I got 95% overall!