revising during Easter holiday!!

soft spot, I didn't mean to hurt you so bad its just the truth hurts

it does.

my biggest problem is history because of the amount of content

For subjects like Maths, Geography and Computer Science. They came naturally so revision was not needed. Additional Maths was just a few days of practice before the exam. I taught myself Chemistry to an AS standard, so the GCSE itself wasn't a problem. Physics was just plugging and chugging. Granted, your year don't have the formulas but they come intuitively eventually.

Granted, English Literature and Language needed some more time. I had technique and knew how to structure essays since I practiced endlessly in class and worked hard. All that was left was just a few days to review some quotes and themes and come exam day, just taking what I had and rolling with it. I got a 9.

Subjects like Biology were very content heavy, that was the brunt of my two weeks.However since I had listened enough in class. Most of that was past paper practice. As opposed to pointlessly rewriting flashcards. Geography was just learning the case studies, some creative thought and a hint of common sense, along with knowledge of assessment objectives.

We all work at different paces, but for one GCSE a MONTH should more than suffice. You asked for my grades and I gave them to you, we shouldn't make assumptions now, because if i didnt have the attitude, I wouldn't have gotten those grades.

It all boils down to revising smart, not inherently revising hard that prevents ultimate burn out and exam failure, while that probably won't be the case with someone as seemingly bright as you are.

One month is plenty of time looool considering hes only doing one gcse

Literally he is doing a btec level 3 course and he only has maths to retake thats all :/

so many case studies for geography tho. hard to balance out

girl that’s fine, you should encourage him instead

my biggest problem is history because of the amount of content

If your friend learnt the course 1 month of revision is plenty

It really does depend on how you structure it, I quite simplified how I did it, literally just laying all of them out on a couple sheets of A4 with short and long term consequences, and primary and secondary responses, and a few bits of facts and context here and there.


You can do it if you put the thought into it!

ah yeah thanks. im currently predicted a 8 for geography and got 8 in my last mock. just wanted a bit of intel on the 2017 paper. how was it? apparently a lot of people tripped up on a abstract conceptual question.

The right attitude is not starting 2 weeks before the exams. What grades did you get?

AQA?

I'm not too sure here, since our year was the last year of A*-G, y'all are on 9-1.

Overall, the paper was fine and dandy on Physical, there were NO case studies which surprised a lot of people. But the actual physical process questions and 6 markers were nice and manageable.

Human had much harsher boundaries but it's always been like that, questions themselves weren't bad though. One 6 marker did throw me off because whilst it was on the One Child Policy, I didn't realise until after reading the question it was on about how the One Child Policy was approached after the 90's, so I had to quickly jot something down lol. Post 90s OCP wasn't' something I had particularly thought was coming but I'm glad I read a bit when I did.

Again, I know people where it all came natural because they were super passionate in it and got A* with minimal work. Whilst OP isn't me, he's not YOU either. Stop making presumptions over people's futures and grades when you don't know them enough first.

I never made any presumptions over people's futures and grades.
History is mainly about remembering content, so I have no idea how someone can get an A* with minimal work.

relax bigman not everyone needs to do 10 hours per day and 15 practice papers to get a 7. doesn't mean they don't have ~the right attitude~

oh wow lol. yes AQA. i mean i think all i need to work on is my timing for physical, always having to rush lol . paper 2 is manageable and paper 3 this year; well we'll see i guess.

There's a paper 3?

Aye aye what's that? Back in myyyy day we only had 2 papers! Physical and Human! I'm curious now, are the case studies any different?

"That is certainly not the right attitude, what grades did you get"

Well you assumed that since I took it late that I didn't have the right work ethic, it was, doesn't have to be the same as yours in order to work effectively. I let my grades speak for themselves.

To those people however, History was about more than just 'remembering content', their outer reading and passion and also working hard in class meant that they only needed to practice come exam day and refine their skills, that's how.