When should I start on A level past papers

I am coming towards the end of year 12 now, and I have learnt the A level course in my own time on top of the AS content at college (Fully done for maths, partially done for FM and physics), but an issue I had this year is that I went through the past papers too fast, so I had next to no new material to revise from. Because I would like to maximise my chances for the highest grades possible, I need to make sure I revise the right things at the right time, so anybody in year 13, I was wondering when you started using past papers, and how many times you can repeat a paper until it becomes useless because you memorise the answers

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gglr

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I started past papers literally only near the end of the year when I’ve finished the entire content, so a couple weeks/a month before exams? End of topic questions or just topic specific before that. As for repeating papers, for maths it’s fine but since there’s so many resources out there, I don’t find it as necessary

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Muttley79

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Original post by MathsEnjoyer

I am coming towards the end of year 12 now, and I have learnt the A level course in my own time on top of the AS content at college (Fully done for maths, partially done for FM and physics), but an issue I had this year is that I went through the past papers too fast, so I had next to no new material to revise from. Because I would like to maximise my chances for the highest grades possible, I need to make sure I revise the right things at the right time, so anybody in year 13, I was wondering when you started using past papers, and how many times you can repeat a paper until it becomes useless because you memorise the answers

Are you studying Edexcel? If so then there are loads of additional practice material your teacher can share with you.

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MathsEnjoyer

OP

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Original post by Muttley79

Are you studying Edexcel? If so then there are loads of additional practice material your teacher can share with you.

I am studying ocr in all of my A levels, which is an issue especially for FM because we do additional pure, and not many of the other boards actually do it as an A level, so I need to be careful about how I use past papers, as although very useful and probably the best revision tool out there, they are limited in supply, and if I just crack on with them paper after paper, I will certainly run out of fresh ones a while before exams. Physics is better because old 2010 ish papers still broadly apply, but they are still finite is my main concern

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StudyMind

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Original post by MathsEnjoyer

I am coming towards the end of year 12 now, and I have learnt the A level course in my own time on top of the AS content at college (Fully done for maths, partially done for FM and physics), but an issue I had this year is that I went through the past papers too fast, so I had next to no new material to revise from. Because I would like to maximise my chances for the highest grades possible, I need to make sure I revise the right things at the right time, so anybody in year 13, I was wondering when you started using past papers, and how many times you can repeat a paper until it becomes useless because you memorise the answers

Heya!
I started on proper past papers a few months before the exams :h:

If it helps, Study Mind has more free resources you can use in your revision!

I hope this helps!
Milena
UCL PFE
Study Mind

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