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I got an A in Psychology which i'm over the moon with and this was my target and was clearly my favorite subject which is why I have managed to grow my grades in this subject. One of the key things, that I think helped me to succeed in psychology was how I enjoyed it, every time I went to revise it I found something interesting about it and used that as a basis to work my revision around, meaning that it was fun and didn't feel like revision. The lesson I have leaned here is to start memorizing the facts (as one of my exams was about 70% recall) a soon as possible, even in small amount such as a fact a day, like there were 40 participants in Milgrams experiment. This left me with a small amount of completely new information that we had just learnt to memorize and made my revision so much easier. Therefore for this subject the advice i'd give to someone else is to constantly find ways of improving your knowledge, one fact at a time.
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I got a B in Biology. which is what I targeted myself to get. I think one of the reasons for me successfully growing my grades is the amount of notes on my wipe board and flash card that I made. Literally for every topic I was instructed (by my teacher) to made notes after notes, summarizing each one, until I could recall a whole page of the text book from just one single trigger word. This has taught me to make as many notes as I can, especially next year, as the summaries really help when it came to the exams as I could read a short sentence and get as much information from that, as I could from a page of the text book but in a fraction of time.
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I got a C in sociology which wasn't what I was hoping for but is a decent grade as I passed. In all honesty, I put this down to spending too much time on my other subjects and as a result my knowledge here suffered. I didn't spend as much time on sociology as I should have as, well, truth be told I was overconfident about it, as at GCSE I achieved an A* and therefore I presumed that I would be able to repeat this success at AS level without much revision, as most of the class didn't do sociology at GCSE and I thought AS would be a recap of GCSE. It was but with a lot of additional info that I didn't really give myself enough time to revise. I have grown my grades, but not the the extent that I wanted. This means that next year I will really have to up my game when it comes to sociology and try and make up for lost time, probably by using one of the techniques that helped me in psychology, such as making lots of flash cards (even though this is what I already did), and learning at least a fact a day (this being that little bit extra that will hopefully help me to achieve the grades that I want next year in A2.
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I got a D in Chemistry. When it comes to the content, I think I did all I could to revise the information that I needed, making wipe board after wipe board of notes, topic after topic. So in this sense I have grown my grades successful, however when it came to the mathematical aspect of the exams, I really struggled. Here I could have done with a lot more revision as unfortunately the equations I focused on didn't come up (I memorized and practiced all the equations but I focused on some more than others). Therefore because of this I didn't achieve the grade that I wanted but hey, I still have an AS in chemistry, and in the future I won't make the same mistake. Advice for people that take chemistry, make sure that you are confident with all the calculations, as they are all equally likely to come up, that way you're good what ever the outcome.
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