Revision help

If you got all A*/ mostly A*. When did you start revising and did you know all the content, did you have to relearn anything. I’m aiming for all A/A*. I’m in y10 btw.

For GCSE’s I averaged out at a 7/8 with most of mums grades being 8(A*). In terms of when I started revising I started making notes in summer of year 10 especially for content heavy subjects such as Chemistry and Biology I found it helpful to watch free science lessons and copy down everything the guy said to form notes. I then did revision little and often at the beginning of year 11 but really not that much till the end of October where I started revising for November mocks. I would say do lots of revision for your mocks and have notes and flash cards done then. Then take a break after and restart proper revision month or so later as it’s important not to burn out. I started revising from February onwards for gcse having all my notes basically done meant I could focus on past papers cause it really is the key cause questions do repeat themselves.
I am not naturally brainy however I managed to get my way through GCSEs with good grades. Getting a revision time table done is also handy by printing off the month calendar ( I didn’t stick to it but it made me feel organised) splitting subjects into roughly 2 a night picking one harder subjected with one softer one (less content heavy) eg. Chemistry and English Language.

In terms of did I know all the content no I went into exams not knowing some stuff in as much details as I would have liked however looking at past exam papers especially essay based subjects you can kind of work out and teachers tend to as well what hasn’t come up and might this year.

I can give more detailed revision tips for each subject if need be just let me know because it really varied between subject. Just don’t burn out and make sure you have hobbies to enjoy don’t quit everything because of exams I love been busy so reduced some of extra curricular things I did near exam season but not everything.

I would suggest doing past paper questions throughout the whole year but properly start studying around March to get As and A*s. However, it completely depends, if you think you need more study maybe start in January and if you don't think you need at much maybe start a bit later, it completely depends on the person.

Should I do past papers before I even learn the content

Not questions you haven't learnt but you can do the questions on the content you have already studied

What gcse subjects do you take.

AQA triple Science
AQA Spanish
AQA English Lang/ lit
Edexcel Maths
Eduqas geography b
WJEC religious studies B
BTEC business lvl 2