gcse cram advice

Hey guys! halfway through my exams - all went great so far. but I have a 7 day break till my next exams, and I have 6 in a week. I haven't revised for any of these yet as I started revision quite late. I have completed all my unit 1 gcses and I was wondering if you all had advice on how to cram for geog, maths, English lit, history, business, and RS in 1-2 weeks. Thanks a bunch!

Reply 1

vanillacandles

Original post by anonypixie

in terms of geog and business use flashcards and spend 45 mins or so going over them every day and you should remember key info, with maths you're best off doing practice questions because thats the best way (i find maths becomes like muscle memory). with english lit honestly for me the only way i remembered all the quotes i needed was to basically write them out over and over again, but find quotes that could work for multiple different things (so for example idk what books you do but one of mine was romeo and juliet, so id find a quote that romeo said about juliet (shows something about both if them) and then see how this could fit into themes as well. also make brief essay plans. and icl i havent taken history or rs since y9 so im not sure how to help specifically there but some of the other things ive said might work for them too

Reply 2

spanishjoe

when i did gcses two years ago, i didn’t have that much time to do revision either!! just always make yourself busy with something to do. Your to do list doesn’t have to be an actual list but as long as you’re being productive and balancing subjects.

Some ideas: make a quote bank for inspector calls or whatever book you’re doing and theme summary. do a maths past paper. Watch a youtuber like mr bruff or free science lessons. blurt on a page(write stuff from memory) on topics like a geography topic and then check over what you forgot in a text book.

As I said, as long as it’s productive and you’re focused. Some of the revision I did for GCSE wasn’t intensive at all, I got a grade 8 or 9 in most of my subjects literally by just reading and thinking about the content.

Remember, any muppet can pass GCSEs, so stay calm, be cool and make some flash cards.