Gap year re-sitting A-level modules - Too many?

did so many modules last year- all subject AS retakes plus history A2 and english A2 coursework- came out with all As is possible but hard!

Hi I'm retaking all AS and A2 this year, I'm struggling with my timetable I do 4 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon (at best) and was wondering is this enough to cover everything? How did you find it?

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yeah thats loads! especially this early on in the year! i would mainly just advise properly studying the guidelines and examiner feedback

I took a gap year after getting bcc
(got dee in AS so i had 18 exams that year)
this year i had 8 exams and 2 empas and got it upto
AAB in chem law bio so very possible

during your gap year, how many hour per day did you revise? like I'm in my gap year and retaking some exams but I'm revising 4/5 hours per day and building up as I go long and I'm not sure if that's enough

umm not that much as i only had 1 and a half a-levels left ( though one was art which is loads of work)!

how many hours per day do you revise like during your gap year?

id say about 2-3 hrs a day from jan. try and do a bit from an early date, forlaw i made a3 posters for each topic and day by day i could summarise a whole topic on 2 pages

So, I didn't get into the university I wanted to go to. My predicted grades were ABB but I disappointingly achieved BBC. I sort of saw this coming as Y13 was a very hard, busy year for me as I was Head Boy and also my late father was very ill at the time. So in my mind, I always had a back up plan which was to take a gap year and resit my A-levels while at the same time gain some valuable work experience abroad as I'm applying to study French and Spanish.

Anyway, I plan to re-sit two French modules to pull it up from a B to an A. I'm hoping that working in France for 3/4 months will improve my French as well as some private tuition, just to reinforce the grammatical side of things, translation, etc.

The other subject I want to resit modules in is in Psychology which I got a C in. I'd like to bring it up to an A. I only just got a B at AS though so I would have to get 2 A*s in my A2 modules to make this happen. So to be on the safe side, I'd probably have to consider re-sitting an AS module in Psychology. I love Psychology though and really enjoy it! I just messed up big time on the exam. Got an A in my mock but an E in the real thing!

In total, I'd have 5 exams to study for. 2 French, 3 Psychology. Does this seem like too much to study for? I don't actually know of anyone else in my position. Until I go to France in January, I'm working part-time but it's only 12 hours per week so I have quite a bit of free time on my hands. The other subject I studied was Economics and you could not pay me enough to sit down at my desk and start revising that again, which is why I want to bump up my Psychology grades up by 2.

Some advice would be greatly appreciated!

I took a gap year after getting bcc
(got dee in AS so i had 18 exams that year)
this year i had 8 exams and 2 empas and got it upto
AAB in chem law bio so very possible

hi, when did you start doing past papers and also did you retake it as an external candidate and revise by yourself at home?

Heyyy, my first past paper was at college in jan, and i didnt do it external . But individually i started past papers about april for bio, law i didnt do any and for my resits i dint know the format until a week before as i hadnt done them since 2012! Chemistry i started about may. Reason i start late is i wanted to use them after id finished. Id say revision wise i put a lot of effort in mainly in bio and law.

As law 2 weeks from april continuous. A2 law i did bit by bit from october and trust me its so much more easier that way rather than cramming. A2 bio i started from around november and chemistry in may because i was only4 ums off the A

I took a gap year after getting bcc
(got dee in AS so i had 18 exams that year)
this year i had 8 exams and 2 empas and got it upto
AAB in chem law bio so very possible

hey did you do any travelling in your gap year before your re-sits or just work for them? in the same position but not sure whether to just focus on my exams got 11 and an isa in total.. biology, chemistry and self teaching economics from scratch!

I took a gap year after getting bcc
(got dee in AS so i had 18 exams that year)
this year i had 8 exams and 2 empas and got it upto
AAB in chem law bio so very possible

So, I didn't get into the university I wanted to go to. My predicted grades were ABB but I disappointingly achieved BBC. I sort of saw this coming as Y13 was a very hard, busy year for me as I was Head Boy and also my late father was very ill at the time. So in my mind, I always had a back up plan which was to take a gap year and resit my A-levels while at the same time gain some valuable work experience abroad as I'm applying to study French and Spanish.

Anyway, I plan to re-sit two French modules to pull it up from a B to an A. I'm hoping that working in France for 3/4 months will improve my French as well as some private tuition, just to reinforce the grammatical side of things, translation, etc.

The other subject I want to resit modules in is in Psychology which I got a C in. I'd like to bring it up to an A. I only just got a B at AS though so I would have to get 2 A*s in my A2 modules to make this happen. So to be on the safe side, I'd probably have to consider re-sitting an AS module in Psychology. I love Psychology though and really enjoy it! I just messed up big time on the exam. Got an A in my mock but an E in the real thing!

In total, I'd have 5 exams to study for. 2 French, 3 Psychology. Does this seem like too much to study for? I don't actually know of anyone else in my position. Until I go to France in January, I'm working part-time but it's only 12 hours per week so I have quite a bit of free time on my hands. The other subject I studied was Economics and you could not pay me enough to sit down at my desk and start revising that again, which is why I want to bump up my Psychology grades up by 2.

Some advice would be greatly appreciated!