A-Level realy that hard?

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i think where kids screw their A levels up is the fact that they take their free periods for granted. Instead of working hard and going over notes, they tend to go to the shops or socialise. This is where they go wrong because A levels are so much harder than GCSE's purely because there is a rather significant gap in the amount of work you have to learn

To pass easily...revise from the first week going over everything you know and making sure you understand the areas you couldn't quite get a hold of in class.

Reply 41

Chezua

No, anyone who messes around in class is instantly going to fail.

What do you expect? Of course you can mess around in class and still get good grades. As long as you're putting the work in, it doesn't matter where or when you put the work in. It's incredibly selfish, of course, because there are people who will have less opportunities to put the work in outside class than you, so messing around will disrupt them and potentially endanger their chances. And it means you have to put in more work outside school (in which case, what's the point of dragging yourself out of bed in the morning to go to that hideous place in the first place?). So, you know, you can, but don't.

i'm actually the victim :redface:

i get distracted very easily. what i'm trying to guess is how much the workload is going to be; i got away in my GCSE years even though i messed around alot, but i'm not so sure with Alevels. will i have time to spend in the weekend before an exam crash-coursing and stuffing everything inside my head?

What subject are you on about? You should never need to mention anything that's not on the syllabus and it shouldn't get you extra brownie points to do so, because that would be unfair.

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2nd2god

i mean generally. hmm well i thought i got away with that at GCSE level e.g. the point i mention in an essay is utterly bizarre but somehow you can see how it relates to your argument etc, therefore you get a mark. no?

Yeah thats because quite a few essay mark schemes say at the bottom any other knowledge
so if you blag on about somehting else and tie it in, then you should get marks for it barring its correct and the marker has half a brain.
Its like that in economics so you can add in more complex theoreys and in philsophy.