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Hey, rn I'm in year 12 and I do AQA: bio and chem and EDEXCEL: maths. Ive been revising by writing out revision notes from like the CGP revision guides and studen handbook (for bio and chem) and lots of exam style questions from Save my exams and physics and maths tutor...the problem is, im not sure it enough..ive been consistently getting a B in bio and chem and i need A*A*A to get into my dream uni for med. What am i doing wrong? and what else should i do? Also is there any other free website for like worksheet/exam style question?

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by itsme_vii
Hey, rn I'm in year 12 and I do AQA: bio and chem and EDEXCEL: maths. Ive been revising by writing out revision notes from like the CGP revision guides and studen handbook (for bio and chem) and lots of exam style questions from Save my exams and physics and maths tutor...the problem is, im not sure it enough..ive been consistently getting a B in bio and chem and i need A*A*A to get into my dream uni for med. What am i doing wrong? and what else should i do? Also is there any other free website for like worksheet/exam style question?
PMT (Physics Maths Tutor) is great for bio chem and maths! It has notes, flashcards, questions by topic and then past paper questions.

I think it’s good you’ve been making notes, now you need to put it into practice. Lots of people like mind mapping, or flash cards. Personally my favourite method is blurting. If you use an app like Quizlet you can find some pre-made flashcard decks.

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by study23!
PMT (Physics Maths Tutor) is great for bio chem and maths! It has notes, flashcards, questions by topic and then past paper questions.
I think it’s good you’ve been making notes, now you need to put it into practice. Lots of people like mind mapping, or flash cards. Personally my favourite method is blurting. If you use an app like Quizlet you can find some pre-made flashcard decks.

omg thanks....ive been crashing out for an hour..how exactly does blurting work though?

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by itsme_vii
omg thanks....ive been crashing out for an hour..how exactly does blurting work though?

How I do it is choose a subunit to focus on and write down all the things I can remember about it on a piece of paper, let’s say you do this for the circulatory system. Once you can’t think of anything more, you look at some notes (like PMT or your CGP books), and in a red pen I write down all the points that I didn’t remember and make a list of these areas. Let’s say you did this and you realised you couldn’t recall much on the dissociation curve of haemoglobin and on the parts of an ECG. You then repeat this blurting onto a plank paper for these topics you didn’t remember so well and try and see if you can remember more. Repeat as much as you want.

It’s great because it forces you to remember things (active recall). The issue with like reading notes is that you read it and go ah yes i understand this and remember doing this so that means i know it, but really you’re reading it and are just familiar with it - that is it may not be solid in your brain. Doing this it means you also can see what areas you don’t know (so i find if there are a couple of topics that I always forget significant detail for I make like a document with a list of these so i know what I need to look at). Then you can do flashcards or practice papers or even watch a YouTube video if you really can’t remember it and focus on the stuff you don’t know.

‘Spaced learning’ is also important for your long term memory. This basically means if you’re doing blurting/flashcards etc this week, try and redo those topics in a couple of weeks to see how much you remember then - each time it strengthens your overall memory.

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by study23!
How I do it is choose a subunit to focus on and write down all the things I can remember about it on a piece of paper, let’s say you do this for the circulatory system. Once you can’t think of anything more, you look at some notes (like PMT or your CGP books), and in a red pen I write down all the points that I didn’t remember and make a list of these areas. Let’s say you did this and you realised you couldn’t recall much on the dissociation curve of haemoglobin and on the parts of an ECG. You then repeat this blurting onto a plank paper for these topics you didn’t remember so well and try and see if you can remember more. Repeat as much as you want.
It’s great because it forces you to remember things (active recall). The issue with like reading notes is that you read it and go ah yes i understand this and remember doing this so that means i know it, but really you’re reading it and are just familiar with it - that is it may not be solid in your brain. Doing this it means you also can see what areas you don’t know (so i find if there are a couple of topics that I always forget significant detail for I make like a document with a list of these so i know what I need to look at). Then you can do flashcards or practice papers or even watch a YouTube video if you really can’t remember it and focus on the stuff you don’t know.
‘Spaced learning’ is also important for your long term memory. This basically means if you’re doing blurting/flashcards etc this week, try and redo those topics in a couple of weeks to see how much you remember then - each time it strengthens your overall memory.

OHHHHH! that does make sense...imma go try this out. Thank you sm!!

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