No time to revise for C3 and C4.

I will only have enough time to revise for two days for each. I plan on watching maths videos for those two days and doing one paper for each exam. Is this good or bad revision?

The best way is to use Exam solutions the website, watch all of the videos. Then do 3 past papers on each one. 3 minimum. This is exactly what i did, was in your same position.

Past papers are not enough. Despite the fact that exam questions might relate to past paper questions, exam boards have started initiating new styles in answering questions that requires original knowledge in content rather than the same old structure of previous questions, so basically questions coming in the exam will not be as easy as you expect like on past papers.

I suggest you go over the TOPICS that are covered in C34. For example Differentiation, simply google search revision notes on this topic, and master it. Then move on to the next topic ex. Integration and repeat over and over. Once you have covered every topic fully (which will depend on how many hours you are willing to commit to studying) then you could proceed to mixed exercises such as from Math textbooks, or solving the last questions of each past paper since they tend to hold the highest marks and are the ones in which students fail to comply with the most.


Goodluck brother.

Start doing past papers asap and by that I mean now or tomorrow or soon-ish. C3 and C4 are mostly about applying techniques so doing past papers help with that. It also highlights the little errors you may do when answering certain questions so that's also advantageous. Just do a paper each a day, if you reeeealllyy don't have the time.

If you don't know the content then obviously you'll need to learn it (through videos or textbooks), but if you already know the content, watching videos is bad preparation for maths exams imo.

The best way to prepare for a maths exam is to do papers.

Doesn't sound good to me


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I will only have enough time to revise for two days for each. I plan on watching maths videos for those two days and doing one paper for each exam. Is this good or bad revision?

Slip one paper in, a spot in each day. Because i know your not revising all day for your other exams ur taking breaks and wasting some time. So focus on slipping them in where u can.

Also maths videos such as examsolutions.net only help after you've struggled and exhausted your thoughts on the question.

This is so hard for me guys..

If you literally only have two days to revise the content and do a couple of papers, do all the Edexcel C3 & C4 Gold papers (There are 4 of each). These contain the hardest questions that have been set from previous years.

If its Edexcel try using the gold/silver/bronze exam question selections to concentrate your practice on the appropriate level for your skill set and make sure you do the summer 2013 UK and international papers and the jan 2014 international papers. if you find weeknesses revise using text book or videos and do mixed exercise/chapter tests to experiment with a variety of question types.

Where are all the gold questions please?

Ahhhhhhhhh how many past papers are good enough? All?

Thanks for the advice, that's very true..