AS Bio, Chem, Physics 2016

Why are we doing this to ourselves gonna fail these new specs tbh

Same here. Annoying this is with GCSE I saw improvement but now it's just fluctuating but mainly all bad.

Yes, for chemistry, what about you?

Practicals: I tend to make notes on what we do in class and remember every detail of what was taught that lesson, and try to apply it to the question.

I'm on a tipping point right now, these last few weeks are make or break.

Yeah, same I think it's just the fact that there is only one set of specimen papers so we've no idea what to expect beyond what's on that

Yeah so much to revise and so little time! Sucks when I've also got maths and further maths to revise

It's annoying because I can do fine on the old spec papers but then I absolutely flopped my mocks

I have quite a few notes to condense as well, hopefully we get it done with time to spare! *fingers crossed* Good Luck!

Anybody doing these courses, in the run up to the exams, its under 4 weeks roughly. how are you all finding it?
revision going as planned?

Good luck to you too!

On the note of practical exams, how has anyone's school prepared them for said practical examination in the exams? Have you been given any resources? How are you preparing for them yourself?

My school quite literally doesn't have a clue about any of it, it's laughable until you realise that if they did it'd be relatively easier.

I'm just trying to make sure I know all the core practicals well as possible

Are you talking about actually doing the practical exam? or the practical questions that will come up in the paper?

Because we go through the questions they might ask us to do and we go through the practicals step by step. by the end we have a folder full of all the practicals that we need to now and what they expect us to do

The practical questions that will come up in the paper. Sorry, I didn't make that too clear.

It's a good idea to have notes of the practicals and questions about them in one file so you can look back and be able to recall much better.

I'm just trying to make sure I know all the core practicals well as possible

good revision website www.technocratnotes.com

and good revision apphttps://play.google.com/store/apps/d...s.app&hl=en_GB

can you add this to your original post please so that any new ppl to the thread see this. thanks

Yeah so much to revise and so little time! Sucks when I've also got maths and further maths to revise

It's annoying because I can do fine on the old spec papers but then I absolutely flopped my mocks

Yeah, same I think it's just the fact that there is only one set of specimen papers so we've no idea what to expect beyond what's on that

Are you guys doing any past papers apart from the specimens ? I tried doing some but it is very difficult to differentiate between what is no longer on the spec and what is , any tips ? Or should i just keep going over the specimens ?Thanks

The mark schemes are RIDICULOUS, even if you have the knowledge, missing certain words means 0 marks.
6 marks in GCSE, 0 for AS-Level.
We still haven't finished Biology yet go on study leave in 6 days, great....

I know exactly what you mean. we are not alone in that. even the teachers who have looked at the mark schemes and specimen papers cant believe how hard it actually is to get the marks.

Yeah haha, i'm hoping that the grade boundaries will be reflective, 60/80 for a C grade hmm

That sounds reasonable, lets hope the examiners are too