What to do after a practice paper?

I was browsing YouTube study videos and came across this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfqOoHVujZE&t=7s
it mentioned doing past papers as a revision technique - but I'm unsure of what I should be doing after marking the paper?? -just throw it away, and move onto the next one? -idk ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ seems like a waste...

Reply 1

DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by Tanjo

You go through the mark scheme, and work out where you lost marks.

If you lost marks because you didn't have a particular piece of knowledge, then add it to a list of topics to review. If you had the knowledge, but lost marks because you didn't apply that knowledge correctly, then you now know how to apply that same knowledge next time. If you lost marks because you ran out of time, then you know where you need to speed up next time.

Doing past papers without reviewing the mark scheme afterwards isn't terribly useful.

Reply 2

scorpion95

I would say you would keep it until after you have done the actual exam. Maybe get a few blank copies of the same practice paper and do one once a week to see if you have improved from the last one. When you have done a few then you can look back and see how far you have come from say not scoring very well to scoring relatively high and can track where the weaknesses are and then focus some more on that but also keeping some revision on where you are strong to keep that way