Revision HELPP

Hi,
I did my GCSE's last year (9 subjects - with eight 9s and one 8) and this was how I revised for them.

weekday schedule:
- I usually split my work into 3 hour long slots.
- Typically spend 1 hour / 1.5 hours for each subject depending on your confidence (within the slot)
eg 1hr (chem, bio, physics) or 1.5 hr (english lit, english lang)
- on a school day I usually spent 3 hours revising after school

weekend schedule:
- I find it easier to do some work in the morning especially between 10am - 1pm (3 hrs) since time goes by really quickly
- I take an hour break for lunch and spend another 2/3 hrs doing revision.
- during term breaks (april/may) I used the weekend routine.

The time and frequency you spend on each subject depends on your confidence in the subject. For example, I struggled with english lit/lang so near the exams I spent more time revising for those. If you're currently not sure which ones to priorities I would do it in this order
1. Subject most likely to take for a level / uni
2. Maths
3. English Language
4. Chemistry and Physics
On average, I would aim to have each subject present in the timetable twice (within the timeslots) and every 3 days if possible (ensure they're evenly spread).

Don't feel pressured to stick to this plan, this was just what I did, and you can probably achieve better with less time. The revision technique is more important than just checking off hours. I found it better to start revising in September and build up the intensity casually while others may do better cramming before the actual exam, I found it less stressful that way. In general, focus on the subjects you're less confident on and evenly space out your revision for each subject across the week.

Good Luck!

Thank you for this response! This is really helpful! However I have a few questions, for sciences do you revise 1 hour for each science or together in 1 hour? And lastly when your saying I need a subject present in the timetable twice is that about the whole week or per day?

I did an hour for each science. I don't recommend revising them together as they're quite different and it uses up more time.
And for the timetable its per week!

Can one help me how they set their revision timetable, such as how many subjects per day and how long each subject? (also is the pomodoro method real?) Thanks! - p.s this is for GCSE

I did an hour for each science. I don't recommend revising them together as they're quite different and it uses up more time.
And for the timetable its per week!

I did my GCSEs last year (10 9's and 1 8), and my revision timetable was drastically different depending on where I was in the year. I assume ur going into year 11, during my year 10->year 11, I didnt revise too much; I maybe did an hour and a half every day on the 3 sciences. For all 3 sciences my revision would just be going through the spec points, making anki notes on the individual points, and then doing the anki notes. When I actually started to revise properly, and especially in the gcse period itself, I would normally do 2 subjects a day - 1 subject in the morning up until maybe 2? and 1 subject in the evening. For essay based subjects like history I would work in blocks of 2 hours followed by a half an hour rest. This might be too long for you, but I felt like taking 20 minute slots and breaking really interupted my thinking. For sciences I worked in hour slots then had a 15 minute break. I am definitely able to work for quite long without tiring myself out (I think in the 12 days before the history gcse I worked an average of 11 hours a day because I didnt feel prepared), so you might want to do shorter times. However I do thik that the pomodoro method can be annoying in that it breaks ur concentration. It also wouldnt work if doing timed papers for example

Can one help me how they set their revision timetable, such as how many subjects per day and how long each subject? (also is the pomodoro method real?) Thanks! - p.s this is for GCSE