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Year 13 FINAL EXAMS

Hey,

I’ve heard that to be fully prepared for the final A-level examinations, it’s best to start revising properly from January onwards. However, I’m feeling unsure about where to start. I’m studying Maths, Chemistry, and Psychology, and I’m struggling to figure out how to balance revising Year 12 content while also learning new Year 13 material. Any advice from former A-level students would be greatly appreciated, but I’m open to any tips that could help me get on track!

Reply 1

SpaceCad3t

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by an_r24

Hey,
I’ve heard that to be fully prepared for the final A-level examinations, it’s best to start revising properly from January onwards. However, I’m feeling unsure about where to start. I’m studying Maths, Chemistry, and Psychology, and I’m struggling to figure out how to balance revising Year 12 content while also learning new Year 13 material. Any advice from former A-level students would be greatly appreciated, but I’m open to any tips that could help me get on track!

Im not a former student, im a current one. However, I find it useful for older topics to used space repetition. For example, Social influence is a year one topic and i cover it three times a week for max forty minutes as i am confident with the topic it is more a refresh which gives me more time to focus on current content. Id say see which year 1 topics youre weakest with and allocate more time for them but lessen the time on the content youre comfortable with to make more room for current content. :smile:

Reply 2

Banana_99

Original post

by an_r24

Hey,
I’ve heard that to be fully prepared for the final A-level examinations, it’s best to start revising properly from January onwards. However, I’m feeling unsure about where to start. I’m studying Maths, Chemistry, and Psychology, and I’m struggling to figure out how to balance revising Year 12 content while also learning new Year 13 material. Any advice from former A-level students would be greatly appreciated, but I’m open to any tips that could help me get on track!

I would start revising now or ASAP. Maybe spend 70-80% of your time on learning new year 13 material then 20-30% of your time on revising year 12 stuff (that's just a guess, I'm no expert). Then by the time may/June comes round you should hopefully have covered most of the material. The key thing is to start as early as possible and spread revision over a long period of time. I found if I was to make the most out of all the past papers out there then I had to start working through them months and months in advance of the exams to get through them all.
btw I did geography, maths and physics and sat my a levels in summer 2023. Feel free to ask any more questions and I will do my best to help. Hopefully this was of some use to you

Reply 3

BCU Student Rep

Official Rep

Original post

by an_r24

Hey,
I’ve heard that to be fully prepared for the final A-level examinations, it’s best to start revising properly from January onwards. However, I’m feeling unsure about where to start. I’m studying Maths, Chemistry, and Psychology, and I’m struggling to figure out how to balance revising Year 12 content while also learning new Year 13 material. Any advice from former A-level students would be greatly appreciated, but I’m open to any tips that could help me get on track!

Hi @an_r24 ,

My first advice is to look through the specification for all three of your subjects and highlight them using the red, amber, green method. It's super important to identify which topic areas need the most attention so you aren't wasting time revising topics you are solid on. Most of your revision should be Y13 content, as that is what makes up most of the final examinations. As the comment above mentioned, I would suggest that 70% of your revision should be for Y13 content.

During my revision sessions, I would cover one topic from each subject per day. My revision wouldn't be time-based, but rather goal-based. I would only be done with my revision for the day after I had covered the topics/specification points I needed. For each topic I would make sure I re-read resources to refine any notes, I would attempt the blurting method to practice memorising and retaining information, lastly I would do topical past paper questions.

Hope this helps,
Danish
BCU Student Rep