Ladies and Gents, welcome to my blog thread. I trust you're all healthy and well.
As you may or may not have noticed, I have created a new TSR account to start afresh with big things to come.. ok fine, I forgot my password. You see you can't autosave passwords on your device (privacy!) nor can you write the password down (bit outdated) and then you find yourself in my position.. maybe I'll stick to writing passwords down... Anyway swiftly moving on.
Lets get into it!..
2017
I took my A level exams and I received CDD overall in Geography, Biology and Chemistry. Dissapointed much?
Maybe personal reasons, but then again you have Grenfell Tower victims absolutely smashing their exams despite the trauma they went through.
So I decided to take a gap year and retake my exams to not only improve my grades and absolutely smash them this year round, but to boost my self confidence and belief in myself. During the exam period, my confidence and self-esteem hit rock bottom and I seriously lost all belief in my abilities to do well. Also during my previous exams I felt like I was more comfortable in the back seat, but this year that is all set to change as I am taking the front seat and taking control of my own destiny.
Alrighty lets move on from this soppy past and plan for the future eh?
Biology & Chemistry
Last year, I compiled notes for Bio and Chem from class lessons (although they weren't the best), OCR revision guides, online notes and some summary notes from snaprevise into a self-written notes- I won't be rewriting the notes again as they're colourful and looking great as they are.
Revision Plan?
I will be using different revision techniques which I'm sure you're already aware of inc mindmaps, post its, revision cards to actually condense the info and understand this.
Geography
With notes available online, I incorporated my notes to produce my final set of notes. This may not have been the best approach given writing your own notes will improve revision, however given the amount of notes/case studies and the time, the condensed concise notes I used I found well suited. Although this year, I will be making my own notes using the previous notes and my class notes.
As above, I will use an array of revision techniques to revise for Geography. Given the amount of case studies and information to learn, revision cards and mind maps will definitely come handy.
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I have bought 3 vital tools to keep on top of my revision and be organised:
1) Calendar: Firstly, I have filled in the dates of when my examinations will take place, results day as well as others including family holiday and of course TSR competition results aka gcse results day.
2) List Journal: I will take pics soon and show you, but its a great, customised journal where you can split your revision into small chapters and outline everything to learn within that chapter and the how you will complete this, once completed- you can tick this off.
E.g. Biology- DNA- List everything you need to learn regarding DNA like the structure, DNA replication, DNA identification practical.. Once I'm comfortable with each Unit under that section I can tick this off and move on. This will complement my revision timetable well.
3) Things to do today list: This is a detailed version of the list journal book. I will outline each task I will complete on that specific day including other tasks like Gym whilst incorporating a few units I will revise on that day, once completed: tick them off.
What will serve to be my Motivation this year?
A family holiday is planned during the summer for a few weeks as well as my sisters wedding whilst we're away which I'm looking forward too, but its a matter of smashing the exams out the way first.
University- can't wait to move to another city and make new friends as well studying what I love.
Last year- looking back on last year and my grades I'm really looking forward to improving my grades and proving everyone who may have doubted me wrong. Boom!
TSR Blogging
I will try to blog everyday as long as I can till, the daily blogging will serve as a reminder to review/summarise how much work I have done on that day and push me to work harder on days where I may do little to no work.
Just before I go, I just want to say COME ON 2018! BRING IT ON!
WORK HARD BUT..... GRIND HARDER
ReadySalted28- Peace out.