If you want to do well in your exams, get very good sleep.

Studying hard is obviously important, but you will see the biggest immediate difference once you go from sleeping less than 6 hours to 9 or 10 hours a day. Over the summer, I've been doing STEP modules. I got through them without a single problem while watching suits. I slept badly ONE day, and I'm struggling to even get through the prep questions, and this is an easier module than anything I did yesterday. Same thing happened in my GCSEs. Kept doing horrendously (for my standards, which was 9999876651 pred) and ended up with 9999998888 which I was honestly unlucky to get (1 mark off in 2 and 3 off in another) and all my 9s were pretty far above (I think my worst was eng lang which was 8% above). I went from that pred to that achieved in 1 month. You know what changed? Not studying, I started going to bed at 11:00 every day. It's not optimal, but it's FAR better than going to bed at 2AM like I used to. Do not stay up all night or late studying. Just go to sleep. It'll do you far more good. All the exams I didn't get 9s in, I stayed up late studying for and they were some of my best subjects (comp sci, which I got 94% in in mocks, chemistry which i got 90% on on 2022 past paper series and music where I got 116/120 for coursework and lit was the only actually bad subject). The exams I did well in, I went to sleep early the night before, woke up refreshed, went about my day, studied for 15 minutes before exam and did great.

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Kingston Vee

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Completely agree, sleep is very important and it feels like a waste of a day when you're too tired to do anything. Winding down in the evenings helps to get good quality sleep so no blue light from phones or tv and low lighting in your house in the evenings to trigger your circadian rhythm properly. Rest days are also important as your brain is like any other muscle and you wouldn't go to the gym every day unless you wanted an injury 😂

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