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Chemistry mocks

Our schools doing our our year 12 mocks in end of February - beginning of march WHAT A JOKE?? We haven’t even done all of chemistry as level content which gives me no time to revise. Ive always been bad at chemistry but this doesn’t make it better, like what do i do?? Do I try to do questions on half the topics we’ve learned even though I don’t know the content? Do I instead learn the content now with my flashcards and do some questions at the very end (even though everyone’s telling me how important past papers are??) do I get ahead and study the remaining topics we haven’t in school yet and memorise the whole content?? Like what am I supposed to do to an A/A* in this situation because they use those mocks as predictions for ucas and I want to do medicine MEANING I NEED A GOOD PREDICTION. I’m so done for A* students help me

Reply 1

your school probably won’t put stuff you haven’t learnt on ur mocks (ask them about it!)
Use pmt, savemyexams, youtubers like allery chemistry to learn the content
do specific topic exam questions from pmt
use ur flashcards to memorise definitions (based on how the mark scheme would want it) and key concepts

Reply 2

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by Iqster
your school probably won’t put stuff you haven’t learnt on ur mocks (ask them about it!)
Use pmt, savemyexams, youtubers like allery chemistry to learn the content
do specific topic exam questions from pmt
use ur flashcards to memorise definitions (based on how the mark scheme would want it) and key concepts


WAIT so should I not do full past papers? Also should I do flashcards first (aka memorise the content first) and then do topic questions? If so how do I structure it? Do I for instance learn my Atomic structure flashcards and then do topic questions and then move on to next topic or do all my flashcards and then topic questions?

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by Dain00000
WAIT so should I not do full past papers? Also should I do flashcards first (aka memorise the content first) and then do topic questions? If so how do I structure it? Do I for instance learn my Atomic structure flashcards and then do topic questions and then move on to next topic or do all my flashcards and then topic questions?

Unless if you’re sitting the official AS Chemistry exam this year (I’m assuming you’re doing the full a level, sitting all ur actual exams at the end of yr13), I wouldn’t recommend doing full past papers at the moment. I’m in Yr13 and I’ve never done any full past papers for chem (and i’m predicted a A). What exam board are you doing? You could sit AS papers if you like but they may have a different style of exam questions and mark schemes (which wouldn’t help you). Topic + Exam board specific questions on PMT are very helpful, as they will be probably be the most similar questions to what you’ll get in your mock (assuming that your school doesn’t make their own questions which aren’t similar to ur exam board’s questions).
I usually memorise the topics first before doing exam questions, so that means I do flashcards first. You could do ur atomic structure flashcards and then do exam questions for the topic and move onto the next topic. I do that sometimes. There’s no specific way of revising, so you should try methods like this until you find something that works for u. I know you don’t have a lot of time but it’d help you massively for your real exams if you can figure out the best way to revise for urself

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by Dain00000
WAIT so should I not do full past papers? Also should I do flashcards first (aka memorise the content first) and then do topic questions? If so how do I structure it? Do I for instance learn my Atomic structure flashcards and then do topic questions and then move on to next topic or do all my flashcards and then topic questions?

If you want to do a past paper, you should ask your school if you can they can give you previous UCAS chemistry mock papers they’ve given in the past.

Reply 5

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by Iqster
Unless if you’re sitting the official AS Chemistry exam this year (I’m assuming you’re doing the full a level, sitting all ur actual exams at the end of yr13), I wouldn’t recommend doing full past papers at the moment. I’m in Yr13 and I’ve never done any full past papers for chem (and i’m predicted a A). What exam board are you doing? You could sit AS papers if you like but they may have a different style of exam questions and mark schemes (which wouldn’t help you). Topic + Exam board specific questions on PMT are very helpful, as they will be probably be the most similar questions to what you’ll get in your mock (assuming that your school doesn’t make their own questions which aren’t similar to ur exam board’s questions).
I usually memorise the topics first before doing exam questions, so that means I do flashcards first. You could do ur atomic structure flashcards and then do exam questions for the topic and move onto the next topic. I do that sometimes. There’s no specific way of revising, so you should try methods like this until you find something that works for u. I know you don’t have a lot of time but it’d help you massively for your real exams if you can figure out the best way to revise for urself


I’m doing aqa. I’m doing good in biology and my technique for it is to memorise my flashcards and then do a bit of topic questions. But the things is there is double the amount of flashcards for chemistry than there is for biology so if I had to do all that I would be sat there for days (and that’s just focusing on chemistry) but I guess l will just do that and see if the same technique works on chemistry😭 hope I don’t flip this up and get a bad predicted ruining my chances at medicine🙏 thanks for the advice 💓💓

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by Dain00000
I’m doing aqa. I’m doing good in biology and my technique for it is to memorise my flashcards and then do a bit of topic questions. But the things is there is double the amount of flashcards for chemistry than there is for biology so if I had to do all that I would be sat there for days (and that’s just focusing on chemistry) but I guess l will just do that and see if the same technique works on chemistry😭 hope I don’t flip this up and get a bad predicted ruining my chances at medicine🙏 thanks for the advice 💓💓

No problem! I do AQA chem as well so feel free to reach out if you need help. Don’t stress too much about your exams as it won’t help and your school may give u another chance to prove that u deserve an A/A* prediction if things go wrong.
As there is a lot of content for chem, you could focus on the content that specifically come up in exam questions. Allery chemistry on YT goes through most AQA chem topics without telling you more stuff than you need for the exams

Reply 7

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by Iqster
No problem! I do AQA chem as well so feel free to reach out if you need help. Don’t stress too much about your exams as it won’t help and your school may give u another chance to prove that u deserve an A/A* prediction if things go wrong.
As there is a lot of content for chem, you could focus on the content that specifically come up in exam questions. Allery chemistry on YT goes through most AQA chem topics without telling you more stuff than you need for the exams


Thanks your so sweet!! I’ll try my best to get through all the flashcards and then just spam topic questions lolll hope the best for you too!

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