Revision help for A2 Maths and science student.

Do you make questions from textbook/notes or from like exam papers and mark schemes?

For the flashcards? I usually make them from my notes! However it can be helpful to make them from markschemes as they can be quite picky at times. I make mine from notes just to make sure I cover all of the key points in a concise way.

Anymore questions just ask away!

With me I can get away with just doing loads of past papers for maths and chem is alright too because I understand it pretty well and I like doing the calculations but then with biology it's all content and I struggle to answer the questions. I can learn the content and understand it but just find answering questions difficult. Is there anything I could do?

Because bio is very content heavy just constantly going over flash cards helped me a lot to get the facts into my head.

Past papers are also very important. With biology they generally want very specific answers to get the marks such as having to say "enzyme-substrate complex" to get a mark. Practice helps you see and identify what they want you to say for specific questions. I know someone who last year went through a bunch of questions and mark schemes and made little model answers for a generic question so like they'd have "Describe enzyme activity" and made their own sort of little mark scheme that they memorised. This could be a good idea!

I'm currently an A2 student doing Maths, bio and Chem. I revised for my GCSEs by reading over the revision guide the night before ( I have a powerful memory) and that worked for me.

The problem is that with AS and A2, it's no longer a memory game, rather about understanding it, which requires constant revision. But I don't know how to revise! Can someone who's done this before please lay out in how to revise for each subject and how many times a day. I will make a timetable accordingly and follow that.

Thanks!

Ok so i did the same A levels as you and now im at uni . This is what I did:

Maths
- made notes on all the different methods
- past papers about 1/2 months before the exam

Chemistry
- Made notes from CGP guide and class
- Made flashcards for the whole of chem using CGP i.e. small cards with a few ques and answers on the back

Biology
-Ugh hated this one - but same method as chem
- Closer to the exam i made A4 mind maps using CGP - 1 page per topic

Good luck

May I ask what you got ;P