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Extremely sorry for the long read.

Hello everyone. I need help immediately regarding higher SQA.
On December I went on holiday to visit my mother's family. During this a sack with our passports went missing. It took months for us to get new passports so we could return to the UK. I've spent this entire week back scrambling to sort things out with my school in order to make sure I am still eligible for exams despite not doing prelims. I am S5 so predicted grades this year do not matter regarding UNI. I managed to finish my essays and assignments during the week.
Whilst I was gone I COMPLETELY forgot about revision and school. I know this is extremely stupid. I am probably a C/D/F student for most my subjects.
I am doing 5 subjects - Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Biology and Higher History.
If I did the exams now this would be the result
History is 1000% an A as I studied it during the start of the holiday and remember everything.
Mathematics is an F, I have forgotten everything.
Chemistry a D or F
Biology a mid C.
English an F.
I believe for English I can 1000% get an A easily through revision but for Bio, Chem and Maths I am extremely worried.

Exam dates:

Eng, 7th of may, in 18 days
Maths, 13th of may, in 24 days
Bio, 15th of may, in 26 days
Chem, in 23rd of may, in 34 days
Hist, in 28th of may, in 39 days.

here is my plan: assuming I study 7 hours a day from 20th of April to my final exam.
This gives 126 hours of revision till eng exam, 168 hours till maths, 182 hours till bio, and 238 till chem
I devote 50 hours to english
100 hours to maths
32 hours to biology
56 hours to chemistry
and the rest of the days i'll study till the history exam.
i doubt it'll take 50 whole hours to get an A in English as I went from an F student to getting an A last year with only 9 hours of revision for national 5. So the remaining hours of those will go to mathematics.

If I study past paper questions and course specification for these hours, is there a considerable chance I can attain an A? Assume I will genuinely work as hard as possible for these hours. Is it feasable, or in August will I come back just to find out that I got a C/B in everything?
Last year I was very aloof and only studied the last 2 days before each exam for my national 5's. I went from an F student to a C (B for history) for my national 5's within these 2 days, for English I got an A though. (I did put alot of effort into my portfolio though)

Please guys, I do not mean to be rude but If I get "well it all matters if you're good at math/eng/biology/chem/history my cortisol will spike hard. Please just estimate the grade I will get with the information provided. I just want to know if I am cooked.

Thank you for taking the time to read my situation. All the best.

Reply 1

Hello!

Omg! Hope your revision goes well after that situation! I'm also revising alot these days, especially for physics but hopefully we'll pass! We can do this!

Reply 2

Original post
by needhelpnow111
Extremely sorry for the long read.
Hello everyone. I need help immediately regarding higher SQA.
On December I went on holiday to visit my mother's family. During this a sack with our passports went missing. It took months for us to get new passports so we could return to the UK. I've spent this entire week back scrambling to sort things out with my school in order to make sure I am still eligible for exams despite not doing prelims. I am S5 so predicted grades this year do not matter regarding UNI. I managed to finish my essays and assignments during the week.
Whilst I was gone I COMPLETELY forgot about revision and school. I know this is extremely stupid. I am probably a C/D/F student for most my subjects.
I am doing 5 subjects - Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Biology and Higher History.
If I did the exams now this would be the result
History is 1000% an A as I studied it during the start of the holiday and remember everything.
Mathematics is an F, I have forgotten everything.
Chemistry a D or F
Biology a mid C.
English an F.
I believe for English I can 1000% get an A easily through revision but for Bio, Chem and Maths I am extremely worried.
Exam dates:
Eng, 7th of may, in 18 days
Maths, 13th of may, in 24 days
Bio, 15th of may, in 26 days
Chem, in 23rd of may, in 34 days
Hist, in 28th of may, in 39 days.
here is my plan: assuming I study 7 hours a day from 20th of April to my final exam.
This gives 126 hours of revision till eng exam, 168 hours till maths, 182 hours till bio, and 238 till chem
I devote 50 hours to english
100 hours to maths
32 hours to biology
56 hours to chemistry
and the rest of the days i'll study till the history exam.
i doubt it'll take 50 whole hours to get an A in English as I went from an F student to getting an A last year with only 9 hours of revision for national 5. So the remaining hours of those will go to mathematics.
If I study past paper questions and course specification for these hours, is there a considerable chance I can attain an A? Assume I will genuinely work as hard as possible for these hours. Is it feasable, or in August will I come back just to find out that I got a C/B in everything?
Last year I was very aloof and only studied the last 2 days before each exam for my national 5's. I went from an F student to a C (B for history) for my national 5's within these 2 days, for English I got an A though. (I did put alot of effort into my portfolio though)
Please guys, I do not mean to be rude but If I get "well it all matters if you're good at math/eng/biology/chem/history my cortisol will spike hard. Please just estimate the grade I will get with the information provided. I just want to know if I am cooked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my situation. All the best.
Hi, if u start spamming ppqs for maths rn, you'll likely get an B/C grade (dont set ur self up for failure)
-for chemistry use jabchems traffic lights for each unit and make sure you know everything

for bio just aim to learn up all the content use knowunity and spam ppqs

I took modern studies instead of History, but just make sure to have revised 6 essays by the exam

Reply 3

Original post
by needhelpnow111
Extremely sorry for the long read.
Hello everyone. I need help immediately regarding higher SQA.
On December I went on holiday to visit my mother's family. During this a sack with our passports went missing. It took months for us to get new passports so we could return to the UK. I've spent this entire week back scrambling to sort things out with my school in order to make sure I am still eligible for exams despite not doing prelims. I am S5 so predicted grades this year do not matter regarding UNI. I managed to finish my essays and assignments during the week.
Whilst I was gone I COMPLETELY forgot about revision and school. I know this is extremely stupid. I am probably a C/D/F student for most my subjects.
I am doing 5 subjects - Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Biology and Higher History.
If I did the exams now this would be the result
History is 1000% an A as I studied it during the start of the holiday and remember everything.
Mathematics is an F, I have forgotten everything.
Chemistry a D or F
Biology a mid C.
English an F.
I believe for English I can 1000% get an A easily through revision but for Bio, Chem and Maths I am extremely worried.
Exam dates:
Eng, 7th of may, in 18 days
Maths, 13th of may, in 24 days
Bio, 15th of may, in 26 days
Chem, in 23rd of may, in 34 days
Hist, in 28th of may, in 39 days.
here is my plan: assuming I study 7 hours a day from 20th of April to my final exam.
This gives 126 hours of revision till eng exam, 168 hours till maths, 182 hours till bio, and 238 till chem
I devote 50 hours to english
100 hours to maths
32 hours to biology
56 hours to chemistry
and the rest of the days i'll study till the history exam.
i doubt it'll take 50 whole hours to get an A in English as I went from an F student to getting an A last year with only 9 hours of revision for national 5. So the remaining hours of those will go to mathematics.
If I study past paper questions and course specification for these hours, is there a considerable chance I can attain an A? Assume I will genuinely work as hard as possible for these hours. Is it feasable, or in August will I come back just to find out that I got a C/B in everything?
Last year I was very aloof and only studied the last 2 days before each exam for my national 5's. I went from an F student to a C (B for history) for my national 5's within these 2 days, for English I got an A though. (I did put alot of effort into my portfolio though)
Please guys, I do not mean to be rude but If I get "well it all matters if you're good at math/eng/biology/chem/history my cortisol will spike hard. Please just estimate the grade I will get with the information provided. I just want to know if I am cooked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my situation. All the best.

Why didn't you keep in touch with school over the internet? You could have had lessons remotely ...
Past papers and use traffic lighting to pinpoint key topics.

Reply 4

Original post
by TDCTV
Hi, if u start spamming ppqs for maths rn, you'll likely get an B/C grade (dont set ur self up for failure)
-for chemistry use jabchems traffic lights for each unit and make sure you know everything

for bio just aim to learn up all the content use knowunity and spam ppqs

I took modern studies instead of History, but just make sure to have revised 6 essays by the exam



B/C is death tier for me as I'll need an A in maths this year. For uni, so I can do advanced and because it's what I told my parents I would get at the start of the school year. B
Is there any significant chance I could get an A if I spam ppqs for hours a day over all the ppqs available on the SQA multiple times over? Or is the potential B?
Since making that post I have already done 3 1/2 hours of ppqs today, and going over them.

Reply 5

Original post
by needhelpnow111
B/C is death tier for me as I'll need an A in maths this year. For uni, so I can do advanced and because it's what I told my parents I would get at the start of the school year. B
Is there any significant chance I could get an A if I spam ppqs for hours a day over all the ppqs available on the SQA multiple times over? Or is the potential B?
Since making that post I have already done 3 1/2 hours of ppqs today, and going over them.

yes, you can get an A, use DLB Maths and the higher maths website them just spam

Reply 6

Original post
by needhelpnow111
Extremely sorry for the long read.
Hello everyone. I need help immediately regarding higher SQA.
On December I went on holiday to visit my mother's family. During this a sack with our passports went missing. It took months for us to get new passports so we could return to the UK. I've spent this entire week back scrambling to sort things out with my school in order to make sure I am still eligible for exams despite not doing prelims. I am S5 so predicted grades this year do not matter regarding UNI. I managed to finish my essays and assignments during the week.
Whilst I was gone I COMPLETELY forgot about revision and school. I know this is extremely stupid. I am probably a C/D/F student for most my subjects.
I am doing 5 subjects - Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Biology and Higher History.
If I did the exams now this would be the result
History is 1000% an A as I studied it during the start of the holiday and remember everything.
Mathematics is an F, I have forgotten everything.
Chemistry a D or F
Biology a mid C.
English an F.
I believe for English I can 1000% get an A easily through revision but for Bio, Chem and Maths I am extremely worried.
Exam dates:
Eng, 7th of may, in 18 days
Maths, 13th of may, in 24 days
Bio, 15th of may, in 26 days
Chem, in 23rd of may, in 34 days
Hist, in 28th of may, in 39 days.
here is my plan: assuming I study 7 hours a day from 20th of April to my final exam.
This gives 126 hours of revision till eng exam, 168 hours till maths, 182 hours till bio, and 238 till chem
I devote 50 hours to english
100 hours to maths
32 hours to biology
56 hours to chemistry
and the rest of the days i'll study till the history exam.
i doubt it'll take 50 whole hours to get an A in English as I went from an F student to getting an A last year with only 9 hours of revision for national 5. So the remaining hours of those will go to mathematics.
If I study past paper questions and course specification for these hours, is there a considerable chance I can attain an A? Assume I will genuinely work as hard as possible for these hours. Is it feasable, or in August will I come back just to find out that I got a C/B in everything?
Last year I was very aloof and only studied the last 2 days before each exam for my national 5's. I went from an F student to a C (B for history) for my national 5's within these 2 days, for English I got an A though. (I did put alot of effort into my portfolio though)
Please guys, I do not mean to be rude but If I get "well it all matters if you're good at math/eng/biology/chem/history my cortisol will spike hard. Please just estimate the grade I will get with the information provided. I just want to know if I am cooked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my situation. All the best.

Higher history is 21st of may

Reply 7

Original post
by needhelpnow111
Extremely sorry for the long read.
Hello everyone. I need help immediately regarding higher SQA.
On December I went on holiday to visit my mother's family. During this a sack with our passports went missing. It took months for us to get new passports so we could return to the UK. I've spent this entire week back scrambling to sort things out with my school in order to make sure I am still eligible for exams despite not doing prelims. I am S5 so predicted grades this year do not matter regarding UNI. I managed to finish my essays and assignments during the week.
Whilst I was gone I COMPLETELY forgot about revision and school. I know this is extremely stupid. I am probably a C/D/F student for most my subjects.
I am doing 5 subjects - Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Biology and Higher History.
If I did the exams now this would be the result
History is 1000% an A as I studied it during the start of the holiday and remember everything.
Mathematics is an F, I have forgotten everything.
Chemistry a D or F
Biology a mid C.
English an F.
I believe for English I can 1000% get an A easily through revision but for Bio, Chem and Maths I am extremely worried.
Exam dates:
Eng, 7th of may, in 18 days
Maths, 13th of may, in 24 days
Bio, 15th of may, in 26 days
Chem, in 23rd of may, in 34 days
Hist, in 28th of may, in 39 days.
here is my plan: assuming I study 7 hours a day from 20th of April to my final exam.
This gives 126 hours of revision till eng exam, 168 hours till maths, 182 hours till bio, and 238 till chem
I devote 50 hours to english
100 hours to maths
32 hours to biology
56 hours to chemistry
and the rest of the days i'll study till the history exam.
i doubt it'll take 50 whole hours to get an A in English as I went from an F student to getting an A last year with only 9 hours of revision for national 5. So the remaining hours of those will go to mathematics.
If I study past paper questions and course specification for these hours, is there a considerable chance I can attain an A? Assume I will genuinely work as hard as possible for these hours. Is it feasable, or in August will I come back just to find out that I got a C/B in everything?
Last year I was very aloof and only studied the last 2 days before each exam for my national 5's. I went from an F student to a C (B for history) for my national 5's within these 2 days, for English I got an A though. (I did put alot of effort into my portfolio though)
Please guys, I do not mean to be rude but If I get "well it all matters if you're good at math/eng/biology/chem/history my cortisol will spike hard. Please just estimate the grade I will get with the information provided. I just want to know if I am cooked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my situation. All the best.

how would u recommend studying for english? especially ruae as i find it quite difficult.

Reply 8

Your post makes no sense, why do you need your passport, is there not other ID you can use, why are you not studying, are you still out of the UK and why?

Reply 9

what did you end up getting in your exams? am in the same position right now and got ds in most of my prelims i do the same subjects as you but i take modern studies instead of history.
(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 10

Original post
by HSISBSGSGS
what did you end up getting in your exams? am in the same position right now and got ds in most of my prelims i do the same subjects as you but i take modern studies instead of history.

lol me too im screwed (I do psychology instead of history), im in s5 and my prelims are TOMORROW help 😭

Reply 11

Original post
by needhelpnow111
Extremely sorry for the long read.
Hello everyone. I need help immediately regarding higher SQA.
On December I went on holiday to visit my mother's family. During this a sack with our passports went missing. It took months for us to get new passports so we could return to the UK. I've spent this entire week back scrambling to sort things out with my school in order to make sure I am still eligible for exams despite not doing prelims. I am S5 so predicted grades this year do not matter regarding UNI. I managed to finish my essays and assignments during the week.
Whilst I was gone I COMPLETELY forgot about revision and school. I know this is extremely stupid. I am probably a C/D/F student for most my subjects.
I am doing 5 subjects - Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Biology and Higher History.
If I did the exams now this would be the result
History is 1000% an A as I studied it during the start of the holiday and remember everything.
Mathematics is an F, I have forgotten everything.
Chemistry a D or F
Biology a mid C.
English an F.
I believe for English I can 1000% get an A easily through revision but for Bio, Chem and Maths I am extremely worried.
Exam dates:
Eng, 7th of may, in 18 days
Maths, 13th of may, in 24 days
Bio, 15th of may, in 26 days
Chem, in 23rd of may, in 34 days
Hist, in 28th of may, in 39 days.
here is my plan: assuming I study 7 hours a day from 20th of April to my final exam.
This gives 126 hours of revision till eng exam, 168 hours till maths, 182 hours till bio, and 238 till chem
I devote 50 hours to english
100 hours to maths
32 hours to biology
56 hours to chemistry
and the rest of the days i'll study till the history exam.
i doubt it'll take 50 whole hours to get an A in English as I went from an F student to getting an A last year with only 9 hours of revision for national 5. So the remaining hours of those will go to mathematics.
If I study past paper questions and course specification for these hours, is there a considerable chance I can attain an A? Assume I will genuinely work as hard as possible for these hours. Is it feasable, or in August will I come back just to find out that I got a C/B in everything?
Last year I was very aloof and only studied the last 2 days before each exam for my national 5's. I went from an F student to a C (B for history) for my national 5's within these 2 days, for English I got an A though. (I did put alot of effort into my portfolio though)
Please guys, I do not mean to be rude but If I get "well it all matters if you're good at math/eng/biology/chem/history my cortisol will spike hard. Please just estimate the grade I will get with the information provided. I just want to know if I am cooked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my situation. All the best.
OP, take a deep breath and relax. Immediately as I read this I did not see this as disadvantage due to the passport thing (though that sounds a nightmare) but any other situation where someone has lost study time.

Remember this is only January and you have until May to revise and catch up - and the key thing - as best as you can. Don't beat yourself up if you aren't at the same level as your classmates, as long as you revise you'll have a fighting chance at all your exams. I definitely think it's possible for you to get at least Bs in everything.

Revise as best as you can now, but please also be careful not to overload yourself - 7 hours solid revision is a lot of study. Be sure to break up your time with going outside, exercise, and doing things you enjoy. If you're studying for long periods every day there will likely be days where you feel flagging - this is your body telling you to rest. From personal experience, listen to it, then get back to studying the next day.

Good luck OP, you got this 💪

Reply 12

Original post
by Sparklygreentea
OP, take a deep breath and relax. Immediately as I read this I did not see this as disadvantage due to the passport thing (though that sounds a nightmare) but any other situation where someone has lost study time.
Remember this is only January and you have until May to revise and catch up - and the key thing - as best as you can. Don't beat yourself up if you aren't at the same level as your classmates, as long as you revise you'll have a fighting chance at all your exams. I definitely think it's possible for you to get at least Bs in everything.
Revise as best as you can now, but please also be careful not to overload yourself - 7 hours solid revision is a lot of study. Be sure to break up your time with going outside, exercise, and doing things you enjoy. If you're studying for long periods every day there will likely be days where you feel flagging - this is your body telling you to rest. From personal experience, listen to it, then get back to studying the next day.
Good luck OP, you got this 💪

Wait, just realised the parent comment was 8 months ago! Lol 😂 hope all went well OP and you're at uni or smashing your AHs :smile:

I'll leave my comment up for anyone in a similar position

Reply 13

Original post
by needhelpnow111
Extremely sorry for the long read.
Hello everyone. I need help immediately regarding higher SQA.
On December I went on holiday to visit my mother's family. During this a sack with our passports went missing. It took months for us to get new passports so we could return to the UK. I've spent this entire week back scrambling to sort things out with my school in order to make sure I am still eligible for exams despite not doing prelims. I am S5 so predicted grades this year do not matter regarding UNI. I managed to finish my essays and assignments during the week.
Whilst I was gone I COMPLETELY forgot about revision and school. I know this is extremely stupid. I am probably a C/D/F student for most my subjects.
I am doing 5 subjects - Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Biology and Higher History.
If I did the exams now this would be the result
History is 1000% an A as I studied it during the start of the holiday and remember everything.
Mathematics is an F, I have forgotten everything.
Chemistry a D or F
Biology a mid C.
English an F.
I believe for English I can 1000% get an A easily through revision but for Bio, Chem and Maths I am extremely worried.
Exam dates:
Eng, 7th of may, in 18 days
Maths, 13th of may, in 24 days
Bio, 15th of may, in 26 days
Chem, in 23rd of may, in 34 days
Hist, in 28th of may, in 39 days.
here is my plan: assuming I study 7 hours a day from 20th of April to my final exam.
This gives 126 hours of revision till eng exam, 168 hours till maths, 182 hours till bio, and 238 till chem
I devote 50 hours to english
100 hours to maths
32 hours to biology
56 hours to chemistry
and the rest of the days i'll study till the history exam.
i doubt it'll take 50 whole hours to get an A in English as I went from an F student to getting an A last year with only 9 hours of revision for national 5. So the remaining hours of those will go to mathematics.
If I study past paper questions and course specification for these hours, is there a considerable chance I can attain an A? Assume I will genuinely work as hard as possible for these hours. Is it feasable, or in August will I come back just to find out that I got a C/B in everything?
Last year I was very aloof and only studied the last 2 days before each exam for my national 5's. I went from an F student to a C (B for history) for my national 5's within these 2 days, for English I got an A though. (I did put alot of effort into my portfolio though)
Please guys, I do not mean to be rude but If I get "well it all matters if you're good at math/eng/biology/chem/history my cortisol will spike hard. Please just estimate the grade I will get with the information provided. I just want to know if I am cooked.
Thank you for taking the time to read my situation. All the best.

okay to make up and reintegrate the knowlege- you need to study 4 hours daily - additionally you need to use flashcards and feynman technque to retain the information.

Please blurt and chunk the information into your category after you read and understand the topic. Paraphase the information when you chunk and remember to not look at your notes when you blurt the information

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