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Anyone ever gone from a C to an A from the start of year 13 to their actual exams? Specifically for maths bio and chemistry A levels . I'd love to hear your stories

Hey @Kinnporche,
A year is more than enough time to go from a grade C to a grade A. Lots of students in my sixth form went from grades C/D to A/B in that time frame simply by concentrating their revision on the topics they were weakest in and improving their overall exam technique.
I studied Chemistry A-Level and ultimately achieved an A; I was probably at B/C level at the start of the year. My best piece of advice for improving your grade is to make sure you understand the content being taught to you in class - if you don't grasp the material immediately (which is very common and understandable for a subject like Chemistry), revise it after class in your study periods or when you go home in the evening. Being able to memorise content is great for certain subjects, but for Chemistry (and from what I've heard, Maths as well) it's important that you understand both what's happening and why it's happening so you can apply that knowledge to different questions in the future.
As always, past papers are also a great revision tool, so make sure you're using them to your full advantage. 🙂
Hope this was helpful and best of luck,
Eve (Kingston Rep).

Anyone ever gone from a C to an A from the start of year 13 to their actual exams? Specifically for maths bio and chemistry A levels . I'd love to hear your stories

100%! For Maths, I would recommend doing lots of past papers. If you do Edexcel, I would jump right into your Applied papers. The questions are very similar, so if you familiarise yourself with the questions, it will come much more naturally (in terms of answering and your thinking process). Try to understand “why” you’re doing what you’re doing. For example, why you’re differentiating or what integration does!

I have 3 weeks left of content and btw I am self studying my self nc college just makes it longer. After 3 weeks I'm thinking of doing straight exam questions madasmaths questions and more exam questions, then after full content is done, I'll do exam papers. Is that good?😭😭😭😭 or bad?

That’s good! Do past papers and time yourself! Stick to that time. I would recommend doing MadAsMaths Questions, but be aware that many of those questions are just an extension. If you can’t do all of them, that’s completely okay. Some of those questions will never appear on a paper. If you do Edexcel, I would also do the Mixed Exercises (in the Pearson Book), EP questions in the exercises, Review Exercises and the past paper at the end of the book. Let me know if you need any help!

Yess I do one topic and then after the small exercise i move to the mixed exercise. Just wanted to know if it was possible to actually get an A/A* in this short span of time. I did 2 maths assessment and both times I was 3 marks away 2 marks away from a B 💀. So I was really doubting abt getting that A. Thank you 😇