Revision Tips for UPEs

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hey, i have my UPEs (university predicted exams) at the start of December so i really only have a month to revise. in my September exams i got B in english lit, C in History and D in business. i really need to get AAA for my top choice uni. what are the best revision techniques that will genuinely work and boost my grades in a short time. Thanks !!

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Gabbydecruz

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by rubsann

hey, i have my UPEs (university predicted exams) at the start of December so i really only have a month to revise. in my September exams i got B in english lit, C in History and D in business. i really need to get AAA for my top choice uni. what are the best revision techniques that will genuinely work and boost my grades in a short time. Thanks !!

There is a free website called study smarter, where if you write flashcards, it tells you when to revise them and that helps with organisation. You can also access study sets that people have made, so there may be premade one for your course. I used it for my history and english lit a level. With english, you need to make a structure in which you write all your essays, and you need notes on characters and themes, but don't worry too much about quote, you just need a few important ones.

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alestalagie

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by rubsann

hey, i have my UPEs (university predicted exams) at the start of December so i really only have a month to revise. in my September exams i got B in english lit, C in History and D in business. i really need to get AAA for my top choice uni. what are the best revision techniques that will genuinely work and boost my grades in a short time. Thanks !!

I sat History with WJEC so this could be different for you, but the WJEC have a just overviews of each topic which I found extremely useful I went from ACD (in my AS exams) to A*BB with my History going from the D to almost being an A purely from going through the resources offered by the WJEC and rewriting notes for each topic.

https://resources-legacy.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs.aspx?subId=17&lvlId=1

Also, for your essay writing if you don't know how to write (like I did in my first year and I used this in my second set of exams and got full UMS) I'd recommend using the format: Point, Evidence, Argument, Counter, Evaluation.

I took two other STEM subjects for my A-Levels, but if Business has definitive answers (like bullet points on mark schemes then I'd heavily recommend past papers, you can easily pump them out and self mark. For your History and English Literature, I'd also heavily recommend them but obviously they take longer to mark since you ideally want your teacher to mark them. I started revising a month out from my exams, so I'd heavily recommend you start revising right now around 2 hours a day.

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