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A-level grades improvement

Hi everyone,
My school recently gave us an academic summary (I’m in year 12 so it’s my first summary so far) and it says our targeted and predicted grades mine are;
Targeted; CCB
Predicted CCC
The subjects I do are French , politics and sociology (the grades are listed in this order too) all are AQA. Does anyone have any tips to improve my scores? And does anyone have tips to increase motivation for revising?
Original post
by floral-worthy
Hi everyone,
My school recently gave us an academic summary (I’m in year 12 so it’s my first summary so far) and it says our targeted and predicted grades mine are;
Targeted; CCB
Predicted CCC
The subjects I do are French , politics and sociology (the grades are listed in this order too) all are AQA. Does anyone have any tips to improve my scores? And does anyone have tips to increase motivation for revising?

Do you know why you are getting CCC at the moment because it is hard to give advice when you just give grades with no insight into where you are losing marks etc.

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by flowersinmyhair
Do you know why you are getting CCC at the moment because it is hard to give advice when you just give grades with no insight into where you are losing marks etc.


In sociology I’m definitely losing marks in AO2 and AO3. In politics I think it’s about wider knowledge, exam structures and AO2 and AO3 again. For French it’s mostly listening and summarising.

Reply 3

Original post
by floral-worthy
Hi everyone,
My school recently gave us an academic summary (I’m in year 12 so it’s my first summary so far) and it says our targeted and predicted grades mine are;
Targeted; CCB
Predicted CCC
The subjects I do are French , politics and sociology (the grades are listed in this order too) all are AQA. Does anyone have any tips to improve my scores? And does anyone have tips to increase motivation for revising?


Hey! For sociology, I think it really help to go on the sociology guy website, and look at his summaries of the topics and sub topics, and then copy and paste them into Quizlet as you can then use the learn mode to really make sure that you are aware of the basic things, as that will really help to give you a good foundation for your knowledge

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by floral-worthy
In sociology I’m definitely losing marks in AO2 and AO3. In politics I think it’s about wider knowledge, exam structures and AO2 and AO3 again. For French it’s mostly listening and summarising.


I’d say definitely spend some time researching ao2, and maybe make a list of stuff you could reference as part of ao2 and stick it somewhere visible like on your wall or something, so that every day you are seeing it and gradually it will go into your head

Reply 5

Doing timed essays to hand into your teacher, also looking at exam exemplars and YouTube for politics such as Alan the history nerd, mr Patel politics. Making sure you evaluate in your paragraphs in sociology and politics e.g at the end.

Reply 6

Also modern examples for politics and sociology and check the markscheme

Reply 7

If you haven't already it might be a good idea to find the specifications for all your subjects and RAG them so you know what topics you need to focus on revising more. Another thing that could help is properly going over the structure you need to use for specific types of exam questions in order to achieve full marks on each. You might already be doing that but it could help.

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by saraalegria
I’d say definitely spend some time researching ao2, and maybe make a list of stuff you could reference as part of ao2 and stick it somewhere visible like on your wall or something, so that every day you are seeing it and gradually it will go into your head


Thanks for both pieces of advice I’ll have a look at doing these!

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by MillieeM2
Also modern examples for politics and sociology and check the markscheme


Thank you for this advice I’ll have a look into the YouTube accounts!

Reply 10

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by dbsb3272
If you haven't already it might be a good idea to find the specifications for all your subjects and RAG them so you know what topics you need to focus on revising more. Another thing that could help is properly going over the structure you need to use for specific types of exam questions in order to achieve full marks on each. You might already be doing that but it could help.


I think that would be very helpful so I’ll do that soon. Thank you!

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