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Revise your worst subjects first. Do so for no more than 3 hours a day, and probably for about that time. Make practice questions and past papers your priority. Also practise your essay-based subjects and 6-marker questions for the sciences. You still have time, but you have to make the most of it. Revising what you like and giving yourself the mark won't be beneficial.
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i only have to revise maths, eng , science and geo
Original post by a16_haz
i only have to revise maths, eng , science and geo

Same advice applies if you're aiming for top grades, but great that you have less to revise for.
Hey, I got two nines in english language and literature so I thought I'd leave you some tips for language!!
Firstly, you MUST remember that you're writing about a moment in time. Don't start writing a story under any circumstance. Just imagine you're writing about an event within a 5 minute time frame. Be as descriptive as possible to bulk out the response - for example if the question is "write about a time you felt scared", talk about how you felt - was your heart racing? Were you sweating or breathing heavily? Could you smell anything or hear any noise?

Just nitpick every single thing you say, breaking it right down, for example, instead of saying "breathing heavily", you could say "my throat was tightening with uneasiness, each intake of air lingering in my throat before reluctantly being released into the eerie stillness of the night". On that note, in terms of revision, you need to try and up your game in terms of vocab. Make vocab banks, try to use them in day to day life. Try and come up with some high level sentences that you can manipulate into any scenario just in case you get truly stumped on exam day.

Before you even start writing the response in the exam, you could even plan it out before you actually start writing - a beginning, middle and end. (Bear in mind that we still aren't writing a story, so avoid sequencing your sentences like "this happened, then this happened", etc)

If you need anymore help, please message me as I'll be happy to give any tips or answer any other queries
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Original post by sophiemontero
Hey, I got two nines in english language and literature so I thought I'd leave you some tips for language!!
Firstly, you MUST remember that you're writing about a moment in time. Don't start writing a story under any circumstance. Just imagine you're writing about an event within a 5 minute time frame. Be as descriptive as possible to bulk out the response - for example if the question is "write about a time you felt scared", talk about how you felt - was your heart racing? Were you sweating or breathing heavily? Could you smell anything or hear any noise?

Just nitpick every single thing you say, breaking it right down, for example, instead of saying "breathing heavily", you could say "my throat was tightening with uneasiness, each intake of air lingering in my throat before reluctantly being released into the eerie stillness of the night". On that note, in terms of revision, you need to try and up your game in terms of vocab. Make vocab banks, try to use them in day to day life. Try and come up with some high level sentences that you can manipulate into any scenario just in case you get truly stumped on exam day.

Before you even start writing the response in the exam, you could even plan it out before you actually start writing - a beginning, middle and end. (Bear in mind that we still aren't writing a story, so avoid sequencing your sentences like "this happened, then this happened", etc)

If you need anymore help, please message me as I'll be happy to give any tips or answer any other queries

thanksss