How to straight 9s and 3A*s! (the BEST revision techniques)

Hello! My names molly
With exam season coming up I just wanted to share some revision tips to help you all as much as I can!
I got 10 9s at GCSE ( I did triple science, history, art, chemistry, religious studies, and German) - and I’m currently in year 13 predicted A*A*A* in chemistry, biology and maths )
For all these exams (with the exception of art of course) I used only a few revision methods:
1. Blurting/ Brain-dumping.
Choose a topic that you’re struggling with in a subject, for example: Homeostasis in biology. Write down literally EVERYTHING you can remember about the topic. This could take you 10 minutes or upwards of 2 hours depending on how much content there is and how much you remember!
Resist the urge to look at your notes when you don’t remember something - try you’re best to recall as much as possible before looking at your notes- this is how you memorise things thoroughly
Once you’re happy that you’ve written down all you can remember, then it’s time to look through your notes!
In a different coloured pen, add in any information that you forgot and correct any mistakes you’ve made.
Make flashcards with all the information you forgot or got wrong, and study these flashcards in your next few study sessions
Then, repeat this entire process again! Keep going until you can remember ALL of the information about the topic!
^ This is my fave revision method! It’s super effective for memorising content )
2. Use your specification to your advantage!
Go online and find the specification for your subject as a PDF - then download it!
Complete a RAG analysis using a highlighter:
- Red: highlight anything you completely don’t understand in Red - these are the areas where you should focus your revision!
- Amber: highlight anything you don’t fully understand in amber, these topics need a short review and some practice questions!
- Green: highlight in green any specification points that you fully understand and definitely don’t need to revise anymore
Sometimes I also find it helpful to add some extra colours:
- Blue: topics we haven’t studied in class yet (useful for when you’re midway through a year)
- Pink: I use pink when I don’t understand what the specification point means - e.g. I don’t understand the wording of the specification point and therefore I don’t know whether I know it or not (I ask my teachers about these ones)
- yellow: I use this when I fully understand the concepts but feel like a few practice questions would be useful to solidify my knowledge
This is helpful to do when you begin your revision to help inform what topics you’ll need to revise most!
3. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
Do as many practice questions as possible! This is not only a super useful method of active recall but is also good to get u used to exam technique!
I’d super recommend doing your practice questions under timed conditions (figure out how many minutes you’ll have per mark during the exam!
The main places where I get my practice questions are savemyexams, physicsandmathstutor, and studymind, but if you just google a topic and ‘exam questions’ it’s usually fairly easy to find free PDFs online
These are genuinely the only revision methods I have ever used- and they work super well for me
Do keep in mind that everyone is different - and what works best for me might be different than what works for you- I’d say active recall is definitely helpful but there are lots of different active recall methods than the ones I described above
A lot of revision techniques is just trial and error - try lots of different techniques out and see what works best for you!
Some more general tips
- don’t pull an all nighter before your exam! It’s never worth it, your brain will work better on a full nights sleep than a full night of cramming - trust me !
- Stay healthy - take breaks, have fun, eat yummy food, take care of your mental health. Your grades won’t matter in 10 years but your health will!
- if you are exhausted and trying to force yourself to revise - please take a break! When you’re super tired nothing is gonna stick in ur head anyway! Taking a break is more productive
I know people who do such a wide range of study methods so seriously just try out loads and find what works for you!
The only revision method that I would strongly advise AGAINST is: reading through your notes, rewriting your notes ( not from memory), or highlighting your notes!
These methods are called PASSIVE recall because you are not actively searching for the information in your brain and are instead just writing it out or reading it! Most people only remember about 10% of what they read!
Rereading notes sometimes gives u a false sense of knowledge because your brain gets used to the sentence structure and begins to recognise parts of the text - but that is not helpful if you don’t understand what that means and can’t apply it in a range of situations!
Hope some of this was helpful - apologies for it being super long!
TLDR: active recall: YESSSS, passive recall: NOOOO
Feel free to ask me for any advice generally about GCSEs, A-Levels, revision - or any particular subject I take ))

What are you wanting to do at uni?

I’m hoping to study biology at Bristol !

I’m hoping to study biology at Bristol !

Hello! My names molly
With exam season coming up I just wanted to share some revision tips to help you all as much as I can!
I got 10 9s at GCSE ( I did triple science, history, art, chemistry, religious studies, and German) - and I’m currently in year 13 predicted A*A*A* in chemistry, biology and maths )
For all these exams (with the exception of art of course) I used only a few revision methods:
1. Blurting/ Brain-dumping.
Choose a topic that you’re struggling with in a subject, for example: Homeostasis in biology. Write down literally EVERYTHING you can remember about the topic. This could take you 10 minutes or upwards of 2 hours depending on how much content there is and how much you remember!
Resist the urge to look at your notes when you don’t remember something - try you’re best to recall as much as possible before looking at your notes- this is how you memorise things thoroughly
Once you’re happy that you’ve written down all you can remember, then it’s time to look through your notes!
In a different coloured pen, add in any information that you forgot and correct any mistakes you’ve made.
Make flashcards with all the information you forgot or got wrong, and study these flashcards in your next few study sessions
Then, repeat this entire process again! Keep going until you can remember ALL of the information about the topic!
^ This is my fave revision method! It’s super effective for memorising content )
2. Use your specification to your advantage!
Go online and find the specification for your subject as a PDF - then download it!
Complete a RAG analysis using a highlighter:
- Red: highlight anything you completely don’t understand in Red - these are the areas where you should focus your revision!
- Amber: highlight anything you don’t fully understand in amber, these topics need a short review and some practice questions!
- Green: highlight in green any specification points that you fully understand and definitely don’t need to revise anymore
Sometimes I also find it helpful to add some extra colours:
- Blue: topics we haven’t studied in class yet (useful for when you’re midway through a year)
- Pink: I use pink when I don’t understand what the specification point means - e.g. I don’t understand the wording of the specification point and therefore I don’t know whether I know it or not (I ask my teachers about these ones)
- yellow: I use this when I fully understand the concepts but feel like a few practice questions would be useful to solidify my knowledge
This is helpful to do when you begin your revision to help inform what topics you’ll need to revise most!
3. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
Do as many practice questions as possible! This is not only a super useful method of active recall but is also good to get u used to exam technique!
I’d super recommend doing your practice questions under timed conditions (figure out how many minutes you’ll have per mark during the exam!
The main places where I get my practice questions are savemyexams, physicsandmathstutor, and studymind, but if you just google a topic and ‘exam questions’ it’s usually fairly easy to find free PDFs online
These are genuinely the only revision methods I have ever used- and they work super well for me
Do keep in mind that everyone is different - and what works best for me might be different than what works for you- I’d say active recall is definitely helpful but there are lots of different active recall methods than the ones I described above
A lot of revision techniques is just trial and error - try lots of different techniques out and see what works best for you!
Some more general tips
- don’t pull an all nighter before your exam! It’s never worth it, your brain will work better on a full nights sleep than a full night of cramming - trust me !
- Stay healthy - take breaks, have fun, eat yummy food, take care of your mental health. Your grades won’t matter in 10 years but your health will!
- if you are exhausted and trying to force yourself to revise - please take a break! When you’re super tired nothing is gonna stick in ur head anyway! Taking a break is more productive
I know people who do such a wide range of study methods so seriously just try out loads and find what works for you!
The only revision method that I would strongly advise AGAINST is: reading through your notes, rewriting your notes ( not from memory), or highlighting your notes!
These methods are called PASSIVE recall because you are not actively searching for the information in your brain and are instead just writing it out or reading it! Most people only remember about 10% of what they read!
Rereading notes sometimes gives u a false sense of knowledge because your brain gets used to the sentence structure and begins to recognise parts of the text - but that is not helpful if you don’t understand what that means and can’t apply it in a range of situations!
Hope some of this was helpful - apologies for it being super long!
TLDR: active recall: YESSSS, passive recall: NOOOO
Feel free to ask me for any advice generally about GCSEs, A-Levels, revision - or any particular subject I take ))

Did u mainly blurt and do practice questions for a level chemistry?

How often did you study in year 10?

Yep I also found flashcards quite useful for chemistry! I used Quizlet and made flashcards for all the topics which I use quite a lot to revise content

In year 10 I think I was doing around 3 hours daily on school days (I tried to do 1 hour in the morning before I went to school and 2 hours when I got home), and then I was doing between 4-8 hours on weekends/ holidays depending on whether or not I had tests/mocks coming up

Thanks for replyingg, I'm in year 10 do you think if i do this starting now I can get straight 9s, btw well done for the amazing resultsss

Did u use the chemrevise notes?

Hello! My names molly
With exam season coming up I just wanted to share some revision tips to help you all as much as I can!
I got 10 9s at GCSE ( I did triple science, history, art, chemistry, religious studies, and German) - and I’m currently in year 13 predicted A*A*A* in chemistry, biology and maths )
For all these exams (with the exception of art of course) I used only a few revision methods:
1. Blurting/ Brain-dumping.
Choose a topic that you’re struggling with in a subject, for example: Homeostasis in biology. Write down literally EVERYTHING you can remember about the topic. This could take you 10 minutes or upwards of 2 hours depending on how much content there is and how much you remember!
Resist the urge to look at your notes when you don’t remember something - try you’re best to recall as much as possible before looking at your notes- this is how you memorise things thoroughly
Once you’re happy that you’ve written down all you can remember, then it’s time to look through your notes!
In a different coloured pen, add in any information that you forgot and correct any mistakes you’ve made.
Make flashcards with all the information you forgot or got wrong, and study these flashcards in your next few study sessions
Then, repeat this entire process again! Keep going until you can remember ALL of the information about the topic!
^ This is my fave revision method! It’s super effective for memorising content )
2. Use your specification to your advantage!
Go online and find the specification for your subject as a PDF - then download it!
Complete a RAG analysis using a highlighter:
- Red: highlight anything you completely don’t understand in Red - these are the areas where you should focus your revision!
- Amber: highlight anything you don’t fully understand in amber, these topics need a short review and some practice questions!
- Green: highlight in green any specification points that you fully understand and definitely don’t need to revise anymore
Sometimes I also find it helpful to add some extra colours:
- Blue: topics we haven’t studied in class yet (useful for when you’re midway through a year)
- Pink: I use pink when I don’t understand what the specification point means - e.g. I don’t understand the wording of the specification point and therefore I don’t know whether I know it or not (I ask my teachers about these ones)
- yellow: I use this when I fully understand the concepts but feel like a few practice questions would be useful to solidify my knowledge
This is helpful to do when you begin your revision to help inform what topics you’ll need to revise most!
3. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
Do as many practice questions as possible! This is not only a super useful method of active recall but is also good to get u used to exam technique!
I’d super recommend doing your practice questions under timed conditions (figure out how many minutes you’ll have per mark during the exam!
The main places where I get my practice questions are savemyexams, physicsandmathstutor, and studymind, but if you just google a topic and ‘exam questions’ it’s usually fairly easy to find free PDFs online
These are genuinely the only revision methods I have ever used- and they work super well for me
Do keep in mind that everyone is different - and what works best for me might be different than what works for you- I’d say active recall is definitely helpful but there are lots of different active recall methods than the ones I described above
A lot of revision techniques is just trial and error - try lots of different techniques out and see what works best for you!
Some more general tips
- don’t pull an all nighter before your exam! It’s never worth it, your brain will work better on a full nights sleep than a full night of cramming - trust me !
- Stay healthy - take breaks, have fun, eat yummy food, take care of your mental health. Your grades won’t matter in 10 years but your health will!
- if you are exhausted and trying to force yourself to revise - please take a break! When you’re super tired nothing is gonna stick in ur head anyway! Taking a break is more productive
I know people who do such a wide range of study methods so seriously just try out loads and find what works for you!
The only revision method that I would strongly advise AGAINST is: reading through your notes, rewriting your notes ( not from memory), or highlighting your notes!
These methods are called PASSIVE recall because you are not actively searching for the information in your brain and are instead just writing it out or reading it! Most people only remember about 10% of what they read!
Rereading notes sometimes gives u a false sense of knowledge because your brain gets used to the sentence structure and begins to recognise parts of the text - but that is not helpful if you don’t understand what that means and can’t apply it in a range of situations!
Hope some of this was helpful - apologies for it being super long!
TLDR: active recall: YESSSS, passive recall: NOOOO
Feel free to ask me for any advice generally about GCSEs, A-Levels, revision - or any particular subject I take ))

Hello! My names molly
With exam season coming up I just wanted to share some revision tips to help you all as much as I can!
I got 10 9s at GCSE ( I did triple science, history, art, chemistry, religious studies, and German) - and I’m currently in year 13 predicted A*A*A* in chemistry, biology and maths )
For all these exams (with the exception of art of course) I used only a few revision methods:
1. Blurting/ Brain-dumping.
Choose a topic that you’re struggling with in a subject, for example: Homeostasis in biology. Write down literally EVERYTHING you can remember about the topic. This could take you 10 minutes or upwards of 2 hours depending on how much content there is and how much you remember!
Resist the urge to look at your notes when you don’t remember something - try you’re best to recall as much as possible before looking at your notes- this is how you memorise things thoroughly
Once you’re happy that you’ve written down all you can remember, then it’s time to look through your notes!
In a different coloured pen, add in any information that you forgot and correct any mistakes you’ve made.
Make flashcards with all the information you forgot or got wrong, and study these flashcards in your next few study sessions
Then, repeat this entire process again! Keep going until you can remember ALL of the information about the topic!
^ This is my fave revision method! It’s super effective for memorising content )
2. Use your specification to your advantage!
Go online and find the specification for your subject as a PDF - then download it!
Complete a RAG analysis using a highlighter:
- Red: highlight anything you completely don’t understand in Red - these are the areas where you should focus your revision!
- Amber: highlight anything you don’t fully understand in amber, these topics need a short review and some practice questions!
- Green: highlight in green any specification points that you fully understand and definitely don’t need to revise anymore
Sometimes I also find it helpful to add some extra colours:
- Blue: topics we haven’t studied in class yet (useful for when you’re midway through a year)
- Pink: I use pink when I don’t understand what the specification point means - e.g. I don’t understand the wording of the specification point and therefore I don’t know whether I know it or not (I ask my teachers about these ones)
- yellow: I use this when I fully understand the concepts but feel like a few practice questions would be useful to solidify my knowledge
This is helpful to do when you begin your revision to help inform what topics you’ll need to revise most!
3. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
Do as many practice questions as possible! This is not only a super useful method of active recall but is also good to get u used to exam technique!
I’d super recommend doing your practice questions under timed conditions (figure out how many minutes you’ll have per mark during the exam!
The main places where I get my practice questions are savemyexams, physicsandmathstutor, and studymind, but if you just google a topic and ‘exam questions’ it’s usually fairly easy to find free PDFs online
These are genuinely the only revision methods I have ever used- and they work super well for me
Do keep in mind that everyone is different - and what works best for me might be different than what works for you- I’d say active recall is definitely helpful but there are lots of different active recall methods than the ones I described above
A lot of revision techniques is just trial and error - try lots of different techniques out and see what works best for you!
Some more general tips
- don’t pull an all nighter before your exam! It’s never worth it, your brain will work better on a full nights sleep than a full night of cramming - trust me !
- Stay healthy - take breaks, have fun, eat yummy food, take care of your mental health. Your grades won’t matter in 10 years but your health will!
- if you are exhausted and trying to force yourself to revise - please take a break! When you’re super tired nothing is gonna stick in ur head anyway! Taking a break is more productive
I know people who do such a wide range of study methods so seriously just try out loads and find what works for you!
The only revision method that I would strongly advise AGAINST is: reading through your notes, rewriting your notes ( not from memory), or highlighting your notes!
These methods are called PASSIVE recall because you are not actively searching for the information in your brain and are instead just writing it out or reading it! Most people only remember about 10% of what they read!
Rereading notes sometimes gives u a false sense of knowledge because your brain gets used to the sentence structure and begins to recognise parts of the text - but that is not helpful if you don’t understand what that means and can’t apply it in a range of situations!
Hope some of this was helpful - apologies for it being super long!
TLDR: active recall: YESSSS, passive recall: NOOOO
Feel free to ask me for any advice generally about GCSEs, A-Levels, revision - or any particular subject I take ))

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