Focus on Science or History

You should be able to do well on both - it's a question of revising efficiently and doing the topics you find most difficult first. Science is relatively each to improve on, as it's a question of understanding and being able to answer the questions well rather than understanding and explanation like it is for history. If I were you, I'd use practice questions and research to improve science, but the incorporate history into your day-to-day as well as having dedicated study sessions - if you learn 5 dates every morning on your way to school, for example, they do accumulate. For a level history I have a timeline who one of my topics as every day I'm learning 20 dates by reading through the section I'm learning, writing down everything I remember on a whiteboard, correcting my answers, redoing until I can write it down perfectly, and redoing it just before I go to bed to make sure that I know them. It probably takes 20 minutes in total, but it's really worth it, and it means that I can use actual study sessions for that topic to learn facts surrounding those dates, and for practice questions. SO in short, it is possible to do both, but for now prioritise study sessions in science a little more, but learn some history every day.

Thank you so much thats really helpful as i would like to do well in both but I really feel torn.

For me science is hard with so many things to remember and so is history, so I'm going to try follow your advice on the doing bits of history each day/

So you think it's possible for me to focus on 5 subjects in four months? Bear in mind I am so weak in science and maths rn.

Appreciate your advice so much thank you.

4 months is plenty of time to improve, I would recommend doing lots of practice for maths and science (physics and maths tutor has loads of questions for science that I find really helpful), for science if there is something you don’t understand I would recommend watching freescience lessons on YouTube as he is really concise and easy to understand. For maths just do loads of practice and make sure you know how to solve different styles of questions good luck 😊

Thank you so much thats really helpful as i would like to do well in both but I really feel torn.

For me science is hard with so many things to remember and so is history, so I'm going to try follow your advice on the doing bits of history each day/

So you think it's possible for me to focus on 5 subjects in four months? Bear in mind I am so weak in science and maths rn.

Appreciate your advice so much thank you.

In my science mocks I got 6s, in the real thing I got 9s. At the end of year 10 I was worried about passing at all. There is no limit to your potential as long as you work dilligently and efficiently, but also remember to look after your mental health! Start now with the topics you find hardest and imagine that every revision session you're gaining another mark on your exam paper for every difficult thing you find a way to learn and understand. Remember to also do some work on your other subejcts, thoguh, as people are often surprised by how the am=ount/ quality of work they do for a subject makes much more difference than how difficult they found it to start with.

Thanks for sharing your experience it really does give me hope to turn things around and for the tips too, the imagining the extra marks will motivate me