Has a Study YouTube/Social Media paper prediction ever influenced your revision?

I’ve done a few predicted papers while revising for my exams and was genuinely so happy to see some of the questions in the predicted paper coming in my actual exams!
Although I do look at predictions, I always try to go over all of the content (or at least most of it) just to be on the safer side I don’t rely too heavily on predictions but they do help you a little at the end of the day! However I personally feel that one must work smart rather than blindly relying on predicted topics - have a moderation in between! Use predictions to focus on a few areas but also make sure your knowledge of the other concepts is equally strong! Anything can come up in a paper, and you must be ready for it!

Same here. For A Levels I know that physics and maths tutor did some predicted papers for my exam board and subjects so I just did them for practice and to get a better idea of how I was performing under exam conditions (but I'm pretty sure most of the questions in bio paper 1 were completely wrong).

As @SilentPrincess13 said, I wouldn't rely only on these papers since no one knows what's going to come up until you actually write the exam. The predicted papers did help me identify certain topics I definitely felt unsure on so it was useful in that aspect but ultimately, I would only use them after I've done all of the past papers and topic questions that are available for my spec.

Overall, if you use these as practice papers rather than predicted papers, I think it would be helpful for revision bc at the end of the day anything can come up and unfortunately, these papers aren't always right. As long as you've revised all of the content and done as many exam style questions that are physically possible before the exams then you'll be fine.