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How many hours a day should I set aside for physics revision? Any study tips? I cant seem to find any good formula sheets online either, thanks
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Original post by mariamfz
How many hours a day should I set aside for physics revision? Any study tips? I cant seem to find any good formula sheets online either, thanks


As many as you think necessary. If you struggle at physics, I'd probably invest more. Do a lot of past papers, learn the types of questions that could come up and understand how to answer them, every paper can only ask a finite amount of questions, you'll find they are just repeated along the years with different content and the same principle. What board do you do, I'm assuming its A-Level. The AQA formula sheet, which I used back in the day was pretty good.

http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-PHYA4-5-INS-JUN12.PDF
Aim for at least an hour of independent study for each hour of lessons, more if you are struggling with physics. As it happens, I wrote a blog post a few days ago about tips for success in A Level Physics (http://cowenphysics.com/tips-for-success-in-a-level-physics/).

Make sure you revise definitions according to your exam board (Mechanics ones for OCR are here: http://cowenphysics.com/a-level/ocr-physics-a/g481-mechanics/ocr-physics-mechanics-definitions/), as a lot of questions these days are wordy rather than numerical.

Before attempting past papers, build up your confidence and understanding with simpler textbook questions.

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