advice for revision GCSE

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In terms of english literature, it is best you understand fully each annotation on your poems and the character symbols in the books you study, for me that was the war poems and jekyll & hyde/animal farm, although i didnt revise much for english i would go over all your poems until you understand what each line means and what it symbolises. It is one thing to write about a topic but it is comletely different when you understand it and explain it all in the right format. Now when it comes to books, learning the symbols of different characters and what the book conveys/what ideology does it lean to, like with animal farm it is mostly criticising communist ideology; each characters represents different parts of society.

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Science may be quite more difficult to revise for, I do A Level physics and CS now (i dont know how they let me into CS), I focused more on the physics side of the course; what worked best for me is writing down all you know about a certain topic and then going over what you missed by watching videos to explain it, only then did i do past papers and marked them afterwards, going over what i got wrong by watching more videos explaining it/asking my teachers to send me work on that topic to fully understand it. With bio its best you make flashcards of the definitions as it has the most out of any science, regarding chem you should know bonding and reaction equations like the back of your own hand so make sure to go over every aspect that is listed in the spec or your book.