How do I revise in 1 month for my UCAS
I'm in year 12 and I have my UCAS exams in a month.
My school makes us do 4 subjects and I'm doing psychology, sociology, politics and history.
Throughout the whole year I did absolutely NOTHING- no flashcards, no mind maps, very little notes.
I got my mock results back and I got:
sociology: C
psychology: D
history: D
politics: E
I genuinely don't know HOW to revise cause I've never done revision in my life (idk how I managed to pass my GCSEs). And I have ZERO motivation to revise so I'm lowkey cooked.
Please give tips/advice. I'm aiming for at least B/Cs
My school makes us do 4 subjects and I'm doing psychology, sociology, politics and history.
Throughout the whole year I did absolutely NOTHING- no flashcards, no mind maps, very little notes.
I got my mock results back and I got:
sociology: C
psychology: D
history: D
politics: E
I genuinely don't know HOW to revise cause I've never done revision in my life (idk how I managed to pass my GCSEs). And I have ZERO motivation to revise so I'm lowkey cooked.
Please give tips/advice. I'm aiming for at least B/Cs
Reply 1
having a conversation with your teachers can usually get your predicted grades boosted by at least 1, but doing past papers and exam questions will definitely help you boost your exam scores
Reply 2
I also do psychology and my teacher taught me to make use of essay plans.
Basically write essay plans of 16 mark questions and use those to revise. Do 2-3 very short brief AO1 points and 4 more detailed AO3 points ( strengths, limitations, research studies, etc)
If you're bad at memorising stuff, come up with a list of emergency evaluation points for exams that you can apply to different topics. Like if the topic, say attatchments, has a case study eg. Lorenz's and Maslow's animal studies, you can make an evaluation point on limitations of animal studies ~ that it can't be generalised to humans, hence lacks validity. And the same point can be used in another topic, say Approaches, with the behaviour approach's skinner's operant conditioning mouse box study.
Other emergency evaluation points include, is the study scientific and does that influence the reliability and validity of results? is it ethical? does it have ecological validity (can generalise to real life settings) etc
Revision advice: use save my exams, they have summary notes, and tests, and flashcards, its really good, althhough its not free and its 48 pounds ish annually
And also get a revision guide
Hope that helped a bit!
Basically write essay plans of 16 mark questions and use those to revise. Do 2-3 very short brief AO1 points and 4 more detailed AO3 points ( strengths, limitations, research studies, etc)
If you're bad at memorising stuff, come up with a list of emergency evaluation points for exams that you can apply to different topics. Like if the topic, say attatchments, has a case study eg. Lorenz's and Maslow's animal studies, you can make an evaluation point on limitations of animal studies ~ that it can't be generalised to humans, hence lacks validity. And the same point can be used in another topic, say Approaches, with the behaviour approach's skinner's operant conditioning mouse box study.
Other emergency evaluation points include, is the study scientific and does that influence the reliability and validity of results? is it ethical? does it have ecological validity (can generalise to real life settings) etc
Revision advice: use save my exams, they have summary notes, and tests, and flashcards, its really good, althhough its not free and its 48 pounds ish annually
And also get a revision guide
Hope that helped a bit!
(edited 10 months ago)
Reply 3
Original post
by munipuniI'm in year 12 and I have my UCAS exams in a month.
My school makes us do 4 subjects and I'm doing psychology, sociology, politics and history.
Throughout the whole year I did absolutely NOTHING- no flashcards, no mind maps, very little notes.
I got my mock results back and I got:
sociology: C
psychology: D
history: D
politics: E
I genuinely don't know HOW to revise cause I've never done revision in my life (idk how I managed to pass my GCSEs). And I have ZERO motivation to revise so I'm lowkey cooked.
Please give tips/advice. I'm aiming for at least B/Cs
My school makes us do 4 subjects and I'm doing psychology, sociology, politics and history.
Throughout the whole year I did absolutely NOTHING- no flashcards, no mind maps, very little notes.
I got my mock results back and I got:
sociology: C
psychology: D
history: D
politics: E
I genuinely don't know HOW to revise cause I've never done revision in my life (idk how I managed to pass my GCSEs). And I have ZERO motivation to revise so I'm lowkey cooked.
Please give tips/advice. I'm aiming for at least B/Cs
Hey,
I went from a C in psychology y12 to an A* in the real thing. I defo think a lot of it is exam technique and learning how the marks are given. For example, 16 marker is 6 marks AO1 (knowledge) 10 marks AO3 (evaluation) if there isn't a STEM to apply application marks to. For those questions, don't spend too long writing down everything you know about the topic, spend time evaluating. Learn broad evaluation points to generally apply to everything too, that really helped me. I'm selling my notes too if you're interested!!
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