hours I should be studying per day as a independant resit student?
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Hi im a resitting two a-levels in June independantly with self studying + some tutoring and past paper marking,
Right now i'm just thoroughly going through each and every video from both chemistry and maths from youtube teachers that I believe seriously helped me last year, doing question sets for chem and textbook (E, E/P and P with some normal) questions for maths, doing additional flashcards for memorisation for chemistry and then doing flashcards on any questions I get wrong. So far it just feels like i'm slowly recalling everything I knew from before and this current technique feels very effective, I will introduce past papers again once i remember enough of the content.
Issue is I can't tell how much time I should be spending a day, I cant tell if im under or overestimating my hours, I started studying around 9 days ago and I started doing 4 hours per day 3 days ago.
From what I have heard from searching online I should do 1290 hours total (570h revision and 720h learning) before may, which is approximatly 10 hours a day, it might be doable but.
On the other hand others are saying do little and be consistent, so like 1-3 hours per day total.
I need to also bring my BC grades to a AA.
Am i currently on the right path by starting with 4 hours or am I taking things too lightly/seriously?
Extra info, ignore if you dont want extra context about how i'm feeling rn:
If i had to put my ability of getting a AA into % with 85% ability needed to reach the AA and any extra % securing the grades and approaching a A*.
I would say im currently on 5%, I feel like a rapid recap+mcq's would put me up to 20%, my current study technique, hours and tutoring would put me up to 60-80% by May I think, my ability in the last exam season was around 75%.
Chemistry currently just feels like I understand all these concepts but when i try to think about for example the synthetic pathways I can't remember most details but can remember the positioning of all the different functional groups and it feels like a hour recap would help me remember it again (https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/359182-organic-synthesis-reaction-pathways.pdf).
Maths is wierd, first of all i forgot most of everything and i would need many hours to remember it all, I have been doing more thorough recaps on videos and I have genuinly been seeing so much extra detail and information that I have SEEN last exam season but not really taken in at all. For example i finished rationalising denominators 2 days ago and I was good at it before but didn't know the extra trick of doing (a^2-b^2) for the denominator instead of expanding out the denominator fully, also I did functions today and it just feels like I now actually know what any of this means compared to last year. Another example is today I saw how the proof of completing the square to give the quadratic formula and thats just insane to me, I have seen this study video before but not taken in any of this info.
Rant over, how many hours of this should I be doing a day?
Right now i'm just thoroughly going through each and every video from both chemistry and maths from youtube teachers that I believe seriously helped me last year, doing question sets for chem and textbook (E, E/P and P with some normal) questions for maths, doing additional flashcards for memorisation for chemistry and then doing flashcards on any questions I get wrong. So far it just feels like i'm slowly recalling everything I knew from before and this current technique feels very effective, I will introduce past papers again once i remember enough of the content.
Issue is I can't tell how much time I should be spending a day, I cant tell if im under or overestimating my hours, I started studying around 9 days ago and I started doing 4 hours per day 3 days ago.
From what I have heard from searching online I should do 1290 hours total (570h revision and 720h learning) before may, which is approximatly 10 hours a day, it might be doable but.
On the other hand others are saying do little and be consistent, so like 1-3 hours per day total.
I need to also bring my BC grades to a AA.
Am i currently on the right path by starting with 4 hours or am I taking things too lightly/seriously?
Extra info, ignore if you dont want extra context about how i'm feeling rn:
If i had to put my ability of getting a AA into % with 85% ability needed to reach the AA and any extra % securing the grades and approaching a A*.
I would say im currently on 5%, I feel like a rapid recap+mcq's would put me up to 20%, my current study technique, hours and tutoring would put me up to 60-80% by May I think, my ability in the last exam season was around 75%.
Chemistry currently just feels like I understand all these concepts but when i try to think about for example the synthetic pathways I can't remember most details but can remember the positioning of all the different functional groups and it feels like a hour recap would help me remember it again (https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/359182-organic-synthesis-reaction-pathways.pdf).
Maths is wierd, first of all i forgot most of everything and i would need many hours to remember it all, I have been doing more thorough recaps on videos and I have genuinly been seeing so much extra detail and information that I have SEEN last exam season but not really taken in at all. For example i finished rationalising denominators 2 days ago and I was good at it before but didn't know the extra trick of doing (a^2-b^2) for the denominator instead of expanding out the denominator fully, also I did functions today and it just feels like I now actually know what any of this means compared to last year. Another example is today I saw how the proof of completing the square to give the quadratic formula and thats just insane to me, I have seen this study video before but not taken in any of this info.
Rant over, how many hours of this should I be doing a day?
Reply 1
I have never resat any a-levels, but I did resit my AS-levels. Over the summer holidays, I would spend about 4 hours max studying each day - that SO what not enough!
If i were in your shoes (and good luck btw from a fellow maths student) i would do about a normal school day of lessons of revision; start at 9ish and work until 3/4ish with a lunch break and a morning break, making it around 5/6 hours of work. Timetables have always worked great for me, i’m sure they would help you structure your day if you already haven’t done one. Make sure you separate up your day enough so you’re getting the rest you deserve!! It depends how much you have going on in your life, but if you have a clear day, spend it wisely!!
Also another huge good luck!! Either way, a resit is unlikely to be worse than your previous exam. YOUR GONNA DO GREAT!!!
If i were in your shoes (and good luck btw from a fellow maths student) i would do about a normal school day of lessons of revision; start at 9ish and work until 3/4ish with a lunch break and a morning break, making it around 5/6 hours of work. Timetables have always worked great for me, i’m sure they would help you structure your day if you already haven’t done one. Make sure you separate up your day enough so you’re getting the rest you deserve!! It depends how much you have going on in your life, but if you have a clear day, spend it wisely!!
Also another huge good luck!! Either way, a resit is unlikely to be worse than your previous exam. YOUR GONNA DO GREAT!!!
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