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Best study-way to revise for 10 subjects with 2x years of content in one week?

I have my EOYs in a week (yr10) and I need to know the BEST way to build short term memory, like as fast as possible. im doing edexcel sciences, ocr history and classics, aqa rs, aqa spanish, igcse english, edexcel maths. i just need to cram all 3 sciences as fast as possible and i dont have time to read the whole textbooks or make notes.
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by franksinatra1
I have my EOYs in a week (yr10) and I need to know the BEST way to build short term memory, like as fast as possible. im doing edexcel sciences, ocr history and classics, aqa rs, aqa spanish, igcse english, edexcel maths. i just need to cram all 3 sciences as fast as possible and i dont have time to read the whole textbooks or make notes.

Unfortunately, you're expecting the impossible. One week is simply not enough time to cover two years worth of content across ten subjects.

Your only option is to prioritise. So either pick the subjects which are most important to you, or which you're weakest at, and focus on those. Within each subject, again prioritise the topics you revise. There's no point covering stuff you know well, so focus on stuff you don't know so well.

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by franksinatra1
I have my EOYs in a week (yr10) and I need to know the BEST way to build short term memory, like as fast as possible. im doing edexcel sciences, ocr history and classics, aqa rs, aqa spanish, igcse english, edexcel maths. i just need to cram all 3 sciences as fast as possible and i dont have time to read the whole textbooks or make notes.


Hey,

Honestly if the exams aren’t counting towards anything, do not stress yourself out much!

Realistically 2 years worth of 10 subjects in a week is not really possibly but that doesn’t mean you can’t still get good grades!
I would work from hardest topics from your worst subjects, but if you genuinely don’t understand something and you feel like it’s taking too much time, move on. Try get your marks elsewhere
Recall questions, past papers & mark schemes are your best bet

Use factfiles posted from your exam boards, they have all key info, so it cuts directly to the point without any waffling and useless info.

Lastly, copy and paste your content into ChatGPT, get it to help explain stuff in ways you understand and get it to ask questions based on the info you gave it.

Good luck, and don’t worry !! You got this

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by KTsmiths
Hey,
Honestly if the exams aren’t counting towards anything, do not stress yourself out much!
Realistically 2 years worth of 10 subjects in a week is not really possibly but that doesn’t mean you can’t still get good grades!
I would work from hardest topics from your worst subjects, but if you genuinely don’t understand something and you feel like it’s taking too much time, move on. Try get your marks elsewhere
Recall questions, past papers & mark schemes are your best bet
Use factfiles posted from your exam boards, they have all key info, so it cuts directly to the point without any waffling and useless info.
Lastly, copy and paste your content into ChatGPT, get it to help explain stuff in ways you understand and get it to ask questions based on the info you gave it.
Good luck, and don’t worry !! You got this

Thank you! but unfortunately they do count for something in the short term, my school doesn't do Yr11 mocks and therefore our predicted grades come from our EOY Y10 exams. Thank you again for your response!

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by franksinatra1
Thank you! but unfortunately they do count for something in the short term, my school doesn't do Yr11 mocks and therefore our predicted grades come from our EOY Y10 exams. Thank you again for your response!

we was also told they count towards predicted grades - but the predicted grades if it means anything don't really do much i mean you can talk to the school and if u just ask teachers they can raise it up one or two bc they understand that in year 10 you don't take it as serious. Plus predicted grades literally don't mean anything they do not limit u at all. You should be good as they said above revise the hard stuff do a bunch of papers you should be good.

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by franksinatra1
I have my EOYs in a week (yr10) and I need to know the BEST way to build short term memory, like as fast as possible. im doing edexcel sciences, ocr history and classics, aqa rs, aqa spanish, igcse english, edexcel maths. i just need to cram all 3 sciences as fast as possible and i dont have time to read the whole textbooks or make notes.

I’m a serial procrastinator and trust me, it’s totally possible to do this (as long as you aren’t hoping for all nines because I got only 6 9s and 4 8s in year 10).

For sciences you’ll find ‘everything you need to know’ videos on YouTube that go through the full spec, I just looked at those the morning of the exam.
For maths run through the spec & practice things you don’t like the look of only
RS is really chill so I decided I wasn’t going to look at any content and just learn a few bible quotes,
For History I answered questions with the textbooks open so I could revise questions with answers
I did nothing for my language because I didn’t know how to revise it and I was too lazy to revise Englishes as well but I watched videos on the day of both exams going through anthology texts.
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by RedFeatherx
I’m a serial procrastinator and trust me, it’s totally possible to do this (as long as you aren’t hoping for all nines because I got only 6 9s and 4 8s in year 10).
For sciences you’ll find ‘everything you need to know’ videos on YouTube that go through the full spec, I just looked at those the morning of the exam.
For maths run through the spec & practice things you don’t like the look of only
RS is really chill so I decided I wasn’t going to look at any content and just learn a few bible quotes,
For History I answered questions with the textbooks open so I could revise questions with answers
I did nothing for my language because I didn’t know how to revise it and I was too lazy to revise Englishes as well but I watched videos on the day of both exams going through anthology texts.

buddy he has a week to revise I don't think he should even be thinking about all 9s, thats pretty ridiculous. even getting 1 9 would be an achievement unless he's naturally gifted in a subject

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by isaac123444566
buddy he has a week to revise I don't think he should even be thinking about all 9s, thats pretty ridiculous. even getting 1 9 would be an achievement unless he's naturally gifted in a subject

One week is totally enough time. The stuff I wrote above is basically what I did with 2 hours revision the morning of each exam.

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by RedFeatherx
One week is totally enough time. The stuff I wrote above is basically what I did with 2 hours revision the morning of each exam.

not many people can do this.

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by RedFeatherx
One week is totally enough time. The stuff I wrote above is basically what I did with 2 hours revision the morning of each exam.


Great, the average person can’t go from knowing nothing to relearning 2 years of content in 2 hours, and I struggle to believe you can either

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by isaac123444566
Great, the average person can’t go from knowing nothing to relearning 2 years of content in 2 hours, and I struggle to believe you can either

Obviously. You have learnt everything in lessons before so it’s not like you’re starting from nothing. Revision is only a refresher of stuff you have done.

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