Tips To get A*AA

Hey Guys,
I’m in year 13 currently taking maths economics and chemistry and i am on A*BB.
Could anyone give me advice on how to get my economics and chemistry predicted up to an A in my upcoming mocks in 2 weeks
Economics Mock will be a full paper 1
Chemistry will be mainly A2 content and 2 papers for each side (organic and physical)

Hey Guys,
I’m in year 13 currently taking maths economics and chemistry and i am on A*BB.
Could anyone give me advice on how to get my economics and chemistry predicted up to an A in my upcoming mocks in 2 weeks
Economics Mock will be a full paper 1
Chemistry will be mainly A2 content and 2 papers for each side (organic and physical)

Hey Guys,
I’m in year 13 currently taking maths economics and chemistry and i am on A*BB.
Could anyone give me advice on how to get my economics and chemistry predicted up to an A in my upcoming mocks in 2 weeks
Economics Mock will be a full paper 1
Chemistry will be mainly A2 content and 2 papers for each side (organic and physical)

Hi @xavss
Unfortunately I can't give any subject specific advice as I didn't study these subjects, but I can share some general tips that might help.
See these previous posts I have made for tips
Revision Techniques That Helped Me - The Student Room
Tips on deadlines, motivation and time management - The Student Room
How to Prepare for Exam/Deadline Season - The Student Room
I hope this helps and that someone who has studied these subjects finds this post. Good luck
-Grace (Kingston Rep)

Hi,
can't say much about chemistry as I don't study it, however, I do study economics, and while I can't guarantee that I'm the best source of advice since I'm also around a B (borderline A on a good day), I can share with you some of the things that have worked for me.
The first thing that's helped me is a better understanding of what the assessment objectives are and which of them are in what components/questions. I don't know what exam board you do, but it's probably not the same as me (I do eduqas/wjec) so I can't say what these are for you, but for example, my paper 1 consists of a section of multiple choice questions, short answer questions and data response questions. The multiple choice questions only test AO1 and AO2, which are just knowledge and application of the content, while the data response has more marks for AO3 and AO4, which test your ability to analyse and evaluate. For longer mark questions (at least for my exam board), the mark bands generally stay the same and so it can be really interesting to read these and see what you need to exactly on each question to secure the marks. For example, for eduqas data response, if you forget a conclusion, you automatically lock yourself out of at least 2 marks on an 8 mark question, even if the rest of your answer is really good.
The other thing that's fairly obvious that helps is good knowledge of the content. You need to be able to, for example, be able to (at least for eduqas) draw and understand the diagrams in the specification from memory. This knowledge can be gained through spaced repetition (Also tutor2u.net has a list of these). For things that can be written as question and answer (content that is just facts), you can use flashcards, or a flashcard software such as Anki (which I personally don't use so much for econ but a lot for computer science). Diagrams can be learnt by drawing them over and over again while doing practise questions. Practise questions will also help you to hone your analysis and evaluation skills (I don't know if these are your assessment objectives, but I'm guessing exam boards can't be too different).
The TL;DR of everything, I guess, is that make sure you're confident with the content while also simultanously-at-the-same-time-together reading your exam board's mark-schemes to make sure you know exactly what to do for longer answer questions.

Hey! I got an A* in chemistry last year after getting A/Bs on my mocks. What worked well for me were:
- flashcards (especially for the annoying inorganic equations)
- the chemsheets question packs
- and past paper questions on PMT
I also watched allery chemistry videos on any topics I struggled to understand.

Thank you for replying. Congratulations on your A* btw. Did you have physical flashcards or did you use an app, also did you do OCR A?

thank you for the advice, i do edexcel a economics but the stuff about lock-in yourself in a certain band is true for us too lol. Regarding anki, do you use a laptop and have you tried an app called remnote? Just asking because i know people who have used both but people just prefer one or the other

Sorry for the late reply, but with Anki yes it's an app you can install on a laptop or a desktop. It has a feature whereby you can sync across devices, and there is also a web version, but the web version has limited functionality (I think it only lets you practise cards, not create them). Sorry, but I'm not really familiar with remnote so can't really compare it with anki, but after watching their three-minute tutorial, it seems to be based on the same concept.

Hey Guys,
I’m in year 13 currently taking maths economics and chemistry and i am on A*BB.
Could anyone give me advice on how to get my economics and chemistry predicted up to an A in my upcoming mocks in 2 weeks
Economics Mock will be a full paper 1
Chemistry will be mainly A2 content and 2 papers for each side (organic and physical)

I got my chemistry grade up last year by doing every single past paper, and redoing them like 2/3 times each. Any question I got wrong I’d note what topic it was, and I’d turn the question into a flashcard. The questions basically just repeat every year so if you know them all then you can regurgitate answers/methods