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How long do you revise for?

How long do you people revise for? Is there a limit to how long you can revise for in one go?
Revision makes me realize how utterly pathetic my attention span is! (n)

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About 10 minutes then I'm tempted to check TSR. Kind of like right now.

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Reply 2
Same. 15/20 minutes tops for me.
Wish i was one of those people who could work for 2-3 hours straight!
I work for at least 8 hours a day allowing myself a few breaks and a lunch break. Needing 3A's to get into uni sucks.
Reply 4
Wow, 8 hours!
What subjects are you doing?
Reply 5
i do 8 subjects per day for 30-45 minutes each
So jealous of all you people ^ ... :frown:
Original post by charlottematthews
I work for at least 8 hours a day allowing myself a few breaks and a lunch break. Needing 3A's to get into uni sucks.


Exactly the same as me then, revision wise and grades wise. Roll on 22nd June... :smile:
About 8-10 minutes of revision for the whole day. I envisage my record's been somewhere around 15-20 minutes.
I'm in year 11, but I did 2 AS's this year. For gcse's I do 45 minute blocks for about 1:30 minutes a day (well its currently about ) hours a day, hence the username.)

For the AS's i did I did about the same :/

Dreading the results this summer :angry:
I do 40-20-40-20-40-20

The 20s are breaks.
Reply 11
Original post by Moontoon
How long do you people revise for? Is there a limit to how long you can revise for in one go?
Revision makes me realize how utterly pathetic my attention span is! (n)


about 10-20 min of revision and have plenty of breaks. if you revise like for an hour, you'd only remember about 10-25% of the work you revised :smile:
Reply 12
i need AAB but i think im going to get BBB..this really sucks ): there arent any TOP unis which do accept BBB for TOP courses!! :/ life would be so easy
I set my alarm every morning at 8:00 to start work between 8:30am-9. I have a few breaks in between 15 minutes- 30 minutes max (apart from tea), and finish at around 10-10:30pm :smile: However, I often switch between topics and subjects throughout the day so I don't easily get bored of one thing :smile:

Why are people disliking my post? :/ This is how I genuinely revise, and I'm only just trying to get the best out of my A levels as I can :frown:
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Some days I will do multiple hours revision and other days I will be casually on and off... flick through my notes; do a past-question. :biggrin: I go with the flow of what my mind wants to do. Normally motivating music helps :smile:

Also I just keep thinking about the future and how I do not want to look back and wish I did more. SO do as much as I can now.
Reply 15
Depends massively, sometimes I can get a whole past paper done in one go, sometimes I only get one or 2 questions in and I get distracted.

I don't ever set myself time limits, or arbitrary limits on what I must do each day, that only gets me stressed. What I do is each day set myself some work and either do a solid paper (or 2) and mark it, or I'll set a stack of past questions in front of me (half my exams have very few past papers so my teachers have made collections of past questions that are stll relevent).

If I set myself questions rather than papers I'll spend quite a few hours "revising" but half of that time is spent trawling the internet.
Reply 16
When I get into it I do about 10 hour bursts all in one go.

I work very intensively at the end
I have a really bad habit of leaving my revision to a couple of nights revising (or sometimes even the night before the exam), so I have to spend hours cramming non-stop. :colondollar:
I really have to stop that though because I'll be in year 12 in September and apparently you can't do last minute revision at A-level :frown:
Reply 18
Original post by LGrosvenor101
I set my alarm every morning at 8:00 to start work between 8:30am-9. I have a few breaks in between 15 minutes- 30 minutes max (apart from tea), and finish at around 10-10:30pm :smile: However, I often switch between topics and subjects throughout the day so I don't easily get bored of one thing :smile:


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Reply 19
Original post by LGrosvenor101
I set my alarm every morning at 8:00 to start work between 8:30am-9. I have a few breaks in between 15 minutes- 30 minutes max (apart from tea), and finish at around 10-10:30pm :smile: However, I often switch between topics and subjects throughout the day so I don't easily get bored of one thing :smile:


Whaaa?!
That's insane, good on you though! What subjects do you do?

What subjects would you regard as ones that are less 'revision intensive' and reliant on remembering key information?
I have economics and business studies to go, economics will be a killer! :frown:

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