To all the A/A* students

How did you study for your A levels?
I got DDD and planning to take a gap your to retake.
Anyone used CGP textbooks? Good youtube channels or websites?

Did I use the CGP revision guides? Hell yeah. I used that thing to the point where I could recite pages out of it! It's a fantastic revision guide (emphasis on the word REVISION).

What A-Levels are you doing? I might be able to suggest some resources depending on what you're going to study.

Lol yeah sorry forgot to mention my A levels!
I'm retaking Biology OCR, Chemistry OCR and Psychology AQA
Yeah apparently the CGP textbooks are amazing

Maybe it's changed since I was at school, but if you memorise the CGP textbooks and do practise papers as revision then you will get an A/A*.

To be honest, as someone who just collected their A-Levels, I'm not sure it's changed at all.

Hi, did you get an A grade? or an A*? also would you say that biology is hard because i memorize pages upon pages and understand them but dont get high grades in exams...... can you tell me what im doing wrong? is it my exam technique also any tips personally for Biology

How did you study for your A levels?
I got DDD and planning to take a gap year to retake.
Anyone used CGP textbooks? Good youtube channels or websites?

I got an A.

Biology is hard because of the amount of content in the specification. The science is probably not too hard to get your head round compared to the likes of physics, but it's still fairly difficult.

Pretty much all I did was memorize the pages and do past papers.

May I ask if you are looking at the mark schemes carefully and observing which words are underlined? An underlined word in a mark scheme means that that EXACT word must be used in order to gain credit. That's very important, and you will soon realize that a lot of questions in Biology are similar, and by reviewing the mark scheme carefully you'll know what the examiner is looking for.

Also, take a look at the examiner's reports after doing each paper. The awarding bodies gather how everyone did and identifies common mistakes that people have made in this document.

Hi, nice congrats on the A grade is that OCR? alright ill look at mark schemes also could i ask, what was your teqnique for revision and how early did you start memorizing (and going hardcore), did you make condensed notes in a note book, flash cards etc

I did AQA. Don't worry though - the resources I gave you can still be used.

I probably started a month before the exams doing hardcore memorization, but I did papers across the academic year just to keep my mind up to scratch/to get used to the style of questions.

I didn't use flash cards, I just kept on reading and summarising the revision guide on lined paper.

thanks im retaking, and i have a lot of people doubting me/telling me to quit and settle for my poor D grade in Biology but im determined to get an A, i was a really high achiever at GCSE getting A/A* in the science subjects until a level and something inside me is telling me i can do this

I got an A.

Biology is hard because of the amount of content in the specification. The science is probably not too hard to get your head round compared to the likes of physics, but it's still fairly difficult.

Pretty much all I did was memorize the pages and do past papers.

May I ask if you are looking at the mark schemes carefully and observing which words are underlined? An underlined word in a mark scheme means that that EXACT word must be used in order to gain credit. That's very important, and you will soon realize that a lot of questions in Biology are similar, and by reviewing the mark scheme carefully you'll know what the examiner is looking for.

Also, take a look at the examiner's reports after doing each paper. The awarding bodies gather how everyone did and identifies common mistakes that people have made in this document.

How did you study for your A levels?
I got DDD and planning to take a gap year to retake.
Anyone used CGP textbooks? Good youtube channels or websites?