past papers

I don't think there is anything wrong with your revision strategy. Retrieval practice is the most efficient form of revision; it's good that you have opted for flashcards and practice papers rather than just reading notes. This will help you memorise knowledge and recall it under exam conditions.

The issue here seems to be making sense of all the assessment criteria. There are different 'assessment objectives' (AOs) for each course which depend on your exam board. As an example, many Pearson courses have two AOs: 1. Knowledge and 2. Evaluation. Look at the mark schemes for the papers to find out what your AOs are.

Flashcards will help you to develop knowledge, and using specific details in the exam can get you around 1/3 of the total marks. However you need to make sure you are including evaluation. This can be done by expressing more than one point of view, but you need to follow that up with your own opinion about which side of the argument is the most convincing (e.g. "This argument is weaker because... it doesn't help with issues such as...").

Practice papers are a really good strategy for trying out evaluation. If you love your subject you can think about it in your spare time and come to some realisations about which is your favourite argument and why. Then try to write it down in a practice question.

I hope this helps.

1) talk to your teachers and ask them where they think you can improve
2) personally, I like to verbalise and teach others what I (think I) know - it really helps highlight what I'm less confident on
3) revise regularly. I'm bad at this, but it's one of the things that really helps - 1hr a day, 5 dyas a week, with no distractions, is a good way to think of it. phone away, no notes when you do the papers, etc.
You can do this! Your teachers and school councillors and heads of years/subjects etc will always be there to help you, so don't hesitate to ask them - it's literally their job

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my teacher refuses to mark past papers [...] when I look at the question idk what to write down or how to answer it and when I do attempt it for example a 6 marker I only get like 3-4 marks

I would be so annoyed and frustrated if I had a teacher like yours, what a nightmare! My advice would be to ask a different teacher of the same/similar subject, or maybe head of the subject, to mark a paper and explain your situation: one of them should say yes.

Otherwise, there's always the past paper mark schemes which you can match up with the papers you do - try marking your own stuff and seeing where you would loose marks from the perspective of an examiner. There are also 'perfect' answer examples to questions from your subject(s) which can be found on the internet, maybe you can compare those to your own and see where it differs? It's likely about structure or understanding the question, because it seems that you have the knowledge, you just need to be taught the best way to apply it.

May I ask which subject(s) your struggling with? There might be someone here who can help directly.

hey guys, I use past papers and flashcards to revise, ive gone through all my flashcards like 3-4 times and ive done every single past paper since 2018 to 2021 but I still feel stupid idk what to do I still can't get decent grades