Guys I need help I’m actually panicking

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hi guys, I’m in year 12 and do maths, physics and chem, I haven’t done anything this whole summer and am predicted bbc respectively, I have a resit coming up for chem in 5 days and I don’t know what to do. Can I go from c to a in chemistry?? Like I’m literally gonna have a panic attack

Reply 1

McGinger

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A resit for what - just a school test?

Reply 2

confuzzledteen

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Just grind. Get your head down. 5 intense days - you'll be alright. Prioritise PPQs. If you're AQA, bang out the questions on here: https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/chemistry-revision/a-level-aqa/

Reply 3

LoPink

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by McGinger

A resit for what - just a school test?

Yes it’s a mock for chemistry because I got a C

Reply 4

LoPink

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Original post

by confuzzledteen

Just grind. Get your head down. 5 intense days - you'll be alright. Prioritise PPQs. If you're AQA, bang out the questions on here: https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/chemistry-revision/a-level-aqa/

What if my content is really weak?? Can I still do it??

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McGinger

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by LoPink

What if my content is really weak?? Can I still do it??

How on earth can anyone else know?
And all the time you are farpling about on here is time you are not revising.

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LoPink

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by McGinger

How on earth can anyone else know?
And all the time you are farpling about on here is time you are not revising.

I’ve left it till this long, revising aimlessly won’t help, im just trying to find what’s efficient with the time i have left

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Lancaster Student Ambassador

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by LoPink

hi guys, I’m in year 12 and do maths, physics and chem, I haven’t done anything this whole summer and am predicted bbc respectively, I have a resit coming up for chem in 5 days and I don’t know what to do. Can I go from c to a in chemistry?? Like I’m literally gonna have a panic attack

Hi @LoPink

If you are in Year 12 you still have plenty of time. Take a second to breathe and calm down. In a worst case scenario, you don't do great on your mocks and have lower predicted grades than you expected. That doesn't matter - you could go on to work really hard, achieve exactly the grades you want in your actual exams, and apply to any university you want after a gap year with your achieved grades. It is entirely possible for you to bring this back and I truly believe you can.

It's been a while since I sat A levels but here is my advice for increasing grades in science subjects. Obviously the best advice is to revise the subject content, but I found that the techniques below helped me with the format of A levels,

Download past papers and mark schemes for your exam boards from one of the websites online that has them all listed. Sit the questions closed-book, mark the questions using the mark scheme (I would literally write (1), (2), etc. next to the words/steps that got me the mark) and write down the marks you missed as if you were answering the question (e.g. if the mark was for a key word, write out a sentence as if you were answering the question).

Revise the areas you are consistently getting wrong and the parts you are regularly forgetting using your notes or a CGP book (if relevant to your exam board). Make sure you are paying attention to the key words/phrases in mark schemes that consistently gain you marks on similar questions as those are "easy marks" which you can pick up even if you don't understand the question well enough to get the harder marks.

When sitting any exam, I recommend going through the paper once answering any easy questions that take very little time and that you immediately know the answer to. I then do a second pass where I answer any questions that take me a little bit longer but I should be able to answer. Then I tackle the harder questions that I'm not sure I know the answer to or that are likely to take me longer to solve. This means you should've collected as many marks as possible by the time you are onto the questions you struggle with and you wont miss an "easier" question because you ran out of time working on a harder question.

Please take care of yourself - good luck with your final year.
Rebecca (Lancaster Student Ambassador)

(edited 5 months ago)

Reply 8

confuzzledteen

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by LoPink

What if my content is really weak?? Can I still do it??

You only have 1 year of stuff to cover (since you've just finished Y12). 1/3rd of that stuff should be fairly simple, assuming you've done Chem at GCSE. You're fine. Just get started.

Reply 9

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by LoPink

I’ve left it till this long, revising aimlessly won’t help, im just trying to find what’s efficient with the time i have left

Man good luck, literally me and all my classmates been there and done that and it didn’t go out well. AQA chemistry is abysmal and a nightmare. Hope it goes well for you

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