A* in bio, chem and maths a levels

hi there,

I have recently finished my gcses and I was wondering if anyone doing Biology, Chemistry and Maths for alevels have any tips on getting A*s within these subjects.
For my gcses i purely made flashcards of the cgp book for the sciences and then past papers. Would this be enough for bio and chem? OR should i invest in premade flashcards from anki?
Any advice would be amazing :smile:

Thank you

Reply 1

HopefulH

also keen to know what tips people have

Reply 2

depriveofsocial

Original post

by LiamWhittall1

hi there,
I have recently finished my gcses and I was wondering if anyone doing Biology, Chemistry and Maths for alevels have any tips on getting A*s within these subjects.
For my gcses i purely made flashcards of the cgp book for the sciences and then past papers. Would this be enough for bio and chem? OR should i invest in premade flashcards from anki?
Any advice would be amazing :smile:

Thank you

I would watch videos as well. For Maths, TLMaths was incredible when it came to trying to understand content! Past Papers are great for practice and questions in the books—depending on the exam board, of course! I also did Physics, but I would suggest making your own flashcards. Since it may be easier to understand, unless your teacher provides you with flashcards that follow their teaching style (and that they work for you)!

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kitty15

Study Forum Helper

Hi, I just did my exams, so I can’t and wouldn’t say I think I got an A* in all. But here is the study methods I used:

. Premade flashcards can be helpful but what’s more helpful is documenting the mistakes you often make and the exam-style questions you struggle with. This can of course be on one pdf document but I prefer that for writing down exam tips/a reminders sheet to read the night before so I tend to make my own flashcards. It is better to make your own to document the mistakes you make commonly. This can be later in to your revision.
. CGP books okay as revision but don’t go into too much detail at a level. Will help to be making flashcards from your school prescribed textbook, notes or the spec.
. Practice till you get the exam technique drilled in! I remember sitting in front of any electrochemical cells questions that I could find online while revising chemistry a level for about 2+ hours and making sure I could get the technique right. How do you learn the technique? Simply from exposure to model answers/mark schemes and experience.
Oh yes and the same for maths, I remember it took me a day to go over a calculus method. If that helps, So be it. No need to cram all subjects into a day.

(edited 9 months ago)

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Lettuce272

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by LiamWhittall1

hi there,
I have recently finished my gcses and I was wondering if anyone doing Biology, Chemistry and Maths for alevels have any tips on getting A*s within these subjects.
For my gcses i purely made flashcards of the cgp book for the sciences and then past papers. Would this be enough for bio and chem? OR should i invest in premade flashcards from anki?
Any advice would be amazing :smile:

Thank you

Ive just finished these alevels so have some tips! I made flash cards but with condensed content rather than questions and I made them for each end of topic test so I had a full set at the end, I also used the cgp books for bio and chem for mindmaps, machem guy and miss eustrich and free science lessons are great on YouTube for concepts tbat you don’t understand. For maths it is purely practice! I used maths genie with the model answers as they have topic questions. However the best method is past papers galore, but I wouldn’t do them until the end ish of year 12 and near the end of year 13 as you’ll have content gaps etc, use pmt topic questions. Do the complete past paper (if timing is an issue then under time limits) and then mark it, I used to then go through the paper with a walkthrough on yt (a level cook book for bio and chem and mr atsbury or mr Bicen for maths) and then write and annotate my answers and where I went wrong. Don’t be afraid to redo past papers after a few months especially if you’ve done all of them! Good luck and most of all start revising early!!

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Lancaster Student Ambassador

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Original post

by LiamWhittall1

hi there,
I have recently finished my gcses and I was wondering if anyone doing Biology, Chemistry and Maths for alevels have any tips on getting A*s within these subjects.
For my gcses i purely made flashcards of the cgp book for the sciences and then past papers. Would this be enough for bio and chem? OR should i invest in premade flashcards from anki?
Any advice would be amazing :smile:

Thank you

Hi @LiamWhittall1

I did bio chem maths at A level and I mainly used YouTube videos as well as the past paper questions.
https://youtube.com/@adamsmaths?si=UIAVBt8xbv13DPMc for Maths
https://www.a-levelchemistry.co.uk/ and https://youtube.com/@allerychemistry?si=7HAr4IR5frtlW0Kx for chemistry.
https://youtube.com/@missestruchbiology?si=3vPqjrG0HGuqginW for biology.
Doing active recall also helped!

Hope this helps,
Rachel -Lancaster Uni Student Ambassador

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