How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's?
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How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's??
do you think it's possible to go into an exam, like Biology, without having done any past papers but confident you know and understand the content.
Especially with the new specs do you think it's hard and annoying looking for past paper questions for your exam; would you feel comfortable going into an exam without having done any past questions?
Those that have done their AS's how many past papers/questions did you do for them..(particularly would like experiences on subjects like Bio and Chem)
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Re: How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's?For Maths - I lost count
For Economics - most of the recent ones
For History - none
May I just add, that History ended up being my best AS subject, so there wasn't really a correlation between exam practice and performance - nevertheless, this not to say that practice papers should not be attempted! -
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Re: How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's?stop trying to be clever and do past papers. technique is necessary
plenty of people at my college sailed through GCSE with out any practice. They mostly got Cs at AS...your choice though -
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Re: How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's?For biology its ALL in technique. You could know everything on the syllabus like the back of your hand and still not get an A. I would advise about 10 past papers for biology, and 5 each for the rest of your modules
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Re: How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's?All we did for a few weeks before the biology exams was past papers and it really helped, because with some questions you need to answer them in a certain way, or give a really specific answer.
For chemistry I did about 1 per module and ended up with a D
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Re: How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's?I did as many as I could get my hands on, I surfed the internet for ages trying to get as many as possible, I managed to find all the past papers going back to 2001. [The questions were harder back then] It must've helped because I did manage a rather respectable 556 in my biology exam.(Original post by Malsi101)
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do you think it's possible to go into an exam, like Biology, without having done any past papers but confident you know and understand the content.
Especially with the new specs do you think it's hard and annoying looking for past paper questions for your exam; would you feel comfortable going into an exam without having done any past questions?
Those that have done their AS's how many past papers/questions did you do for them..(particularly would like experiences on subjects like Bio and Chem)
thanks
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I would be scared and seriously underprepared if I didn't go into an exam without doing past papers. -
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Re: How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's?biology none, we were given packs of questions, but no answers so i didnt bother doing them, maths none outside lessons, but im retaking now so wish i did some. chemistry none, and im retaking
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Re: How many past papers did you do in prep. for your AS's?hmm, about 10++ i guess.
To me, any studies without practise isn't really complete. And doing past years provide the practise i need. Helps refresh you memory, promote more active learning and uhm, familiar yrself with the right way of answering questions and the style in which they ask questions?
