Best 'Cramming' success story you know..

What is the best result you've heard someone achieve in their A-Level results with a month or under revision.

Personally, mine is my brother. He started his Maths revision 16 days before the exam and got an A* in the A-Level.

Did you by any chance focus on just knowing the content really well?I know one girl in my year who did this-that is to say she practically knew every topic by heart-and came out with a B and C ..

I'd say,be thoroughly argumentative in your essays. Honestly you don't even need to know the entire content that your teacher gives you.
I went into those exams with MASSIVE gaps in my knowledge('cause let's face it,there's only so many pages you can cover within 6/7 hours).
The thing to do is to get acquainted with the general argument for each topic so that you can produce a logical solidly-argued essay.

Basically essay-writing skills trumps knowledge when it comes to achieving the higher grade in the exam itself. So my main advice to anyone actually doing philosophy would probably be to practice writing argumentative-type essays-i.e. focus 30% of your revision on studying the content and the other 70% on reproducing it into actual essays,ones that are argumentative and analytic and not just descriptive(so don't just say what one scholar said and then just juxtapose him to someone else,actually ANALYSE which is stronger etc etc etc )

My A's weren't super high to be perfectly honest because I lost marks in the first section(the 15 markers,where actual content knowledge is assessed),but I got really high scores on the 30 markers with minimal revision purely because i focused on building a solid argument that answered the question.

What is the best result you've heard someone achieve in their A-Level results with a month or under revision.

Personally, mine is my brother. He started his Maths revision 16 days before the exam and got an A* in the A-Level.

Was expelled (very unfairly) from school in March Year 13. Was on BBC with my final exam session in june coming up.

Started cramming one exam 24 hours before (about 40 pages of notes)

Got 100% in 4 exams, 95%+ in my other 3 ...ended up getting A*A*A overall with no teaching all self taught

just learn the mark schemes and your notes by writing them out over and over, thats what i did. Had about 2hrs sleep over 3 days.

Anything is possible , believe me!

Started properly revising the day before for AS level History and English Literature. Got As.

I did the same for Biology but got a B, so now I'm having to resit a unit

Not cramming quite as badly this year.

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I'm calling bull****.

Not at all, I'm not sad enough to make that up, nor am I proud of my work ethic.

Well did you revise the topics as you learnt them for history? And for English you must have done wider reading (I presume you did AQA)

Nope, for one exam I just revised a few topics rather than the whole book, the ones I revised didn't come up. Luckily I had wrote essays on the ones that did come up so could just about pluck some information from the back of my mind. The second history I barely revised any topics because I only needed my own knowledge for the second source question; the topic I revised most thankfully came up. I was SO lucky as it was an unusual choice of question.

English, nope, but I did do AQA. I honestly, and I mean honestly, just wrote about one page of notes. The boundaries were 47/84 for an A so it wasn't much of a problem.

Okay, I apologise, that's understandable/believable. And our English exam is out of 90 and the grade boundaries are really high :/ that sucks. Were you doing the Victorian era or a different topic?