Advice for Year 12

I too did those courses and the best advice I can give is to stay on top of the workload and revision (start early) but also just enjoy your time at sixth form or college (wherever you are doing them). Its a great few years where you can study the courses you have opted to do. Some advice regarding the maths, do plenty of practice alongside lessons. For me it was easier to revise as it was more involved than just reading notes as is the case with the other two. With subjects like these, doing an EPQ probably won't make much difference so if you need to drop it so you have time for your main subjects, don't worry.
Hope that helps.

Revise little and often every day. Make revision a habit as itll be easier in the long run. Make revision resources as you go. Biology make sure to do tonnes of past paper questions. As soon as you done content go to pmt and do the topic past paper questions on there

Hiya😊
Just asking for advice and tips for a levels! I'm planning to do biology, chemistry and maths and possibly an EPQ. So advise tailored to those are also useful as well.
Thank you in advance xx

Depending on what time of year I start ur epq I would start coming up with topics. I had to start mine by October so came up with my final idea by mid September and also just prove everything u have done and write it all down in the project log. The essay u can honestly do in a day ( wouldn’t reccomend but u can) the project log is the main focus. I got 43/50 on mine (so annoying 2 marks off A*) also make sure all ur references are done before u start writing I made the mistake of not doing this and it wasted a lot of my writing time

Hiya😊
Just asking for advice and tips for a levels! I'm planning to do biology, chemistry and maths and possibly an EPQ. So advise tailored to those are also useful as well.
Thank you in advance xx

I did chemistry and maths (both Edexcel), but I may be recommend some resources dedicated to other exam boards for chemistry as I used to mentor it (note some exam boards like Edexcel and OCR B have next to nothing).
With maths, you can get away with using pretty much any A level resource, regardless of the exam board it is dedicated to. The exception to this is the large data set, which will be unique to your exam board (if do one of the English exam boards for A level maths, i.e OCR (A), OCR MEI/(B), Edexcel or AQA. WJEC and CCEA don’t have large data sets).
I would say having a routine is definitely wise. Know when is best to get up, when to stop studying, when to take breaks etc.
I would say you should also use your frees well. Since later on in the day, most people tend to get more tired and become more easily distracted, these may well be your most productive times to recap material that you will build on later, learn content ahead of lessons etc rather than just deciding to study x later.
For chemistry, you should recognise that it is quite repetitive and there are a lot of trends and patterns to recognise. As such, regular practice and active recall methods of revision such as flashcards and blurting tend to be recommended. You can usually get away with using a mix of new spec and old spec past papers, but bear in mind a few topics on the old papers are no longer assessed and new topics may have replaced them.
Maths is also something you will need to do regular practice for. For pure maths, I personally recommend first practicing individual topics using old spec past papers (C1 and C2 in year 13, C3 and C4 in year 13) and cherry-picking questions from them as these tend not to have a lot of overlap between topics and then later using newer questions once you have built a stronger understanding of the relevant topics and begin to see how they overlap. For stats and mechanics, you will need to use exclusively new spec questions as these areas have changed too drastically from the old spec for the pre-2017 papers to be any use.

Hiya😊
Just asking for advice and tips for a levels! I'm planning to do biology, chemistry and maths and possibly an EPQ. So advise tailored to those are also useful as well.
Thank you in advance xx

Just finished Y12 and I also did bio and chem. I would say that you should use your independent study wisely. It is really helpful to do some extra work during independent study and making ur notes and flashcards then rather than before an exam. During Y12, you have plenty of time and opportunity to do extra curricular activities so I would say take those opportunities. Also, it is so so so important to stay on top of work. For example, don't leave homework last minute and you need to constantly refresh your memory about content you've already learnt. From what I've seen, people who fall behind usually get low grades which can be recovered but its just wayy better to keep up in you subjects. But overall, enjoy y12 and remember to take breaks bc I got burned out a bit early in the year but I managed to get back into my old habits.

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