Do you print past papers and mark schemes off or just use them from your computer?

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How do you use past papers and mark schemes?

Print both past paper and mark scheme22%

Print just the past paper38%

Print just the mark scheme2%

Don't print past paper or mark scheme37%

Total votes: 86

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Reply 1

Tallon

seems like a waste of time and money by printing anything off if you ask me

Reply 2

-XxX-

i used to print them both when i did a levels last year. I hate revising on my laptop

Reply 3

susie_love

What Tallon said.
And I just use them from my computer.

Reply 4

Kuriso

I already have past paper booklets from sixth form and I just use the mark scheme on the internet, the only things I print off are inserts for D1.

Reply 5

amie05

Does it matter really? :s-smilie:

Reply 6

Chriz M

Unless it is a write in the spaces style paper, I won't print anything. Save paper, and just easier. I find if you go full screen, you don't distract yourself as much as well!

Reply 7

03gshep

I used to not print them but now I do as I find it harder to focus if i have my laptop open in front of me.

Reply 8

Gelvis

I have printed copies of exam papers and use the marking schemes from my computer.

Reply 9

DaGianni

Usually do all but the most recent (so now, for example, everything before Jan 09 and Jun 09) on the screen (full screen so as to avoid distractions), followed by printing off the two most recent papers (i.e. Jan and Jun 09) and doing them the day before the exam (find it quite a good way of preparing for exam). All papers done under exam conditions, with no checking of the mark scheme until I come to actually mark the paper.

Reply 10

Superman_Jr

Print. School printing is free, so why not? :biggrin:

Reply 11

alfkin

Gelvis

I have printed copies of exam papers and use the marking schemes from my computer.

i do this too, we only do exams twice a year so its worth killing a few trees for :wink:

Reply 12

SunnyShine

-XxX-

i used to print them both when i did a levels last year. I hate revising on my laptop

Ditto. My laptop is horrible to revise off of because there are so many distractions on the laptop, as well as the fact that you can't relax and revise with a laptop.

Reply 13

FrancesO

My desk isn't big enough to use the computer. :p:

I have to take the monitor and keyboard off to do any writing, so it's much more convenient to have stuff printed.

Plus, the internet isn't there if it's on paper...

Reply 14

Phobia27

Use them from the computer, and then use a piece of paper to answer the questions. Get the answers by reading from the computer too. Seems like such a waste of ink and paper, I had a friend who printed off every single past paper and mark scheme of every single exam of every single subject he did, wonder how many trees he went through.

Reply 15

rachxl

I print off past papers so I can take them to school/do them in the living room/do them in bed/wherever else I feel like revising :p:

but I always use the markschemes online.

Reply 16

areyousure?

I print the paper and then get the Mark Scheme from the computer

Reply 17

Kmaster

03gshep

I used to not print them but now I do as I find it harder to focus if i have my laptop open in front of me.

Yh i find it hard to concentrate on comp aswell. But i still do it on comp lol. Printing it out is waste of paper if you think about it. this is what i do, open past paer use pdf, then open MS Word and type answers in ms word while going through the paper. Then after you finish go through the answers with the mark scheme. No PAPERS Wasted!

Regards, Kmaster

Reply 18

SuperMario88

o please

will it really affect you that much

thss is really pointless

Reply 19

TheTallOne

If you don't print them off there's always that distraction of a) looking at the mark scheme while you're doing it and b) switching to another window and going off for 1 hour.

When I revised I printed out most past papers and did them in a quiet room. After each one I then mark them via the pdf file.

EDIT: Actually, I just thought, if you are doing essay like subjects, it may not be as important, but definitely for sciences/maths.