Gcse grades

Hey there!
Year 13 student here, its amazing to hear you're interested in achieving top-band grades and planning to take A-Levels.
I just have some questions to build some more context:
Aside from the questions, I can give you some general advice regarding studying and revision:
a.) Make your revision goals realistic, align how long your revision sessions will be with your concentration, e.g don't jump up to a 2 hour session if you'll spend only 40 minutes actually being productive, start small and build from there.
b.) Always use past exam paper questions in your revision, they are arguably the best method of revising since it prepares you to recall your knowledge and apply that knowledge to questions that mimic the real exam.
c.) Communicate with your teachers, teachers should always be there to help you, make sure they are aware that you're aspiring to achieve top-band grades so that they can work with you to get you there, they can offer one-to-one support on topics you may need improvement on and give you extra resources (like exam questions) for you to utilise.
d.) And on concentration, avoid using your phone or any other distracting objects, phones especially were so detrimental for my study since they were so good at distracting me, the best thing to do is put your phone in another room and surround yourself with a quiet environment with your revision tools (books, questions, etc) out.
e.) Consistency, consistency, consistency, having your revision spread out over the month is known as spaced repetition, its been shown by research to be one of the (and even the most) effective ways to study, in other words do not cram your revision until the last moment, although I do understand that might be a challenge to do?
Hope to hear back from you soon, wishing you the best in your studies!

Hey my actual gcse's are in like 2 months or a lil bit more, i used to get listen to music when doing revision but i do NOT do that anymore because i have finally excepted that it does not in fact help me but distracts me, i usally rewrite text from ny revision guides and do exam questions, but i am starting to do actual recall especially for english literature as that helps me remember quotes and yea, my mocks start tomorrow! My first one is geography paper 1.

heyy, you can try using flashcards to remember content if rewriting notes doesn't necessarily help you. exam practice is really important, sites you can use to find past paper questions are: maths genie (for maths), physics and maths tutor, savemyexams.
i used to use this site called cogntio -https://cognitoedu.org/home- mainly for my sciences at gcses, and it helped me retain content.
some people watch videos on topics they don't understand too.
i hope this helps, don't hesitate to ask any questions !
and good luck for your mocks !