Have an A-Level exam in 1 hour!

[Fahd]

The first of many... Wish me luck mofos!
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[MoshizZ]

LOL Good luck then.

I got the first of a 10 hour exam tomorrow morning for ict.
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[benjami]

I have 3 tomorrow

Good luck!

[Visitor Q]

Ouch, remember to learn your essay plan bullet points and rattle them down as soon as you get in.

Really good aide memoir.

Oh and ignore the tossers panicing before the exam, desperate to discuss with everyone that they're panicced due to fuck all revision. The kind of cunts who tell you, with glazed eyes, that if you havent learnt it now you wont gain from before exam cramming.

Fuck that. Make crib sheets as you revise fully, and take the short (maybe 4-6 sides A4) crib sheet with you. Read the bitch continuously until you go in.

Admittedly everyone is different, but ive noticed the ones with condensed notes to look through before an exam (including myself) seem to progress further then the ones trying to 'center' themselves before an exam (aka bouncing of the walls winding everyone trying to revise up) or who bring a textbook sized pile of notes to read through.

Remember, rephrasing something (and especially condensing it) can only be achieved if you understand it. So the actual act of creating the crib sheet solidifies the understanding in your brain, whilst also giving you something handy to revise from pre-exam.

This is obviously just something that works for me, but A-Levels can be abit of a shit. Dont worry, at degree level things get /simpler/. I wont say easier as the information they give you is obviously more indepth, but they are internal exams so the lecturers only teach stuff you NEED to know. Rather then A-Level where you are trying to learn everything from a broad syllabus.
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[JBurrows88]

I had 12 seperate A Level exams last year.

They are well fun ENJOY!

tbh the only ones i revised for were Law. But if you saw all you have to write in a law essay to get a B or higher and you only have 1hr 15min, its alot

(im talking about filling up the booklet and 2 seperate sheets! )
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[GazzaThePiagg...]

Bwahahaha

I got all 3 of my main ones in 3 days, good to get them out the way all at once. Have a few General Studies ones before and after though. Wish me luck, I've only been to 1 lesson of it all year.
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[JonB]

Bonny actually has the same method of revising as I do and it is very very effective, it almost paints a picture in my mind of everything I have to put down and like Bonny it is much easier at degree level as you only learn what will be in the exam.
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[JonB]

P.S General studies is easy as fook. You literally just have to put down your opinion on life pretty much.

Got 100% in one of my G.S exams.
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[Annabella]

Bonny and Jon use the same technique I do. Though rather than crib notes I make mind maps - a graphical/spider diagram type thing, condensing one topic onto one sheet of A4. You might find that you need a few of these, but you start to find that because they are graphical you can visualise them in your head (and hence extract the necessary information).

Part of the strength of these is the process you need to go through to create them - i.e. completely understand the topics you are revising, put them into note form that makes more sense to you, then find any links between them and pick up on the areas that you are most poor at remembering and add more detail to these (an example - my final exam at university was on Polish Music, I couldn't remember how to spell most of the composers' names so these got put onto the mind map almost in full - I can now remember Lutoslawski and Szymanoawski!)


Plus, it's always fun colouring in
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[Annabella]

The process of identifying/inventing a visual image that describes what I'm trying to learn really does help to focus my mind and help me remember it, even if all I'm actually remembering is how bloody difficult it was to draw a picture of the compositional structure of Brahms' Violin Concerto
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[JBurrows88]

They give you a sernario on the modules and you have to explain the extire subject in an hour and 15min Silly really, its not about how much you know its about how fast you can write! (and i got extra time due to being dislexic (sp? ) which was very helpful.

I ace'd all my AS Law exams, AAB in the modules, dont know how i messed up, honest my lazyness aint got nout to do with it!
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[GazzaThePiagg...]

I got 2 E's and a U at AS Law

My mate faked dyslexia to get extra time, bastard. I would go for a test but that could mean more time in exams
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[The Tot]

Well, all i can say is "get in the zone". I normally leave my notes at home turning up to the exam hall. And listen to some music, pumping choons, just to get the blood flowing and adrenalin rushing. I'm normally listening to metal or fast trance at this point, occasionally old skool rap and hip-hop. Just want to go into the exam, rip it up and go, grrr i have a mean willy! Get hyped up and psyche out those who are doing the thngs that ricardo mentioned - glazed eyes discussing last minute things.

An old lecturer used to say to people who were frantically trying to cram last minute revision "you're not going to win". It was funnier when he made the announcement over the megaphone.

Always good to have a litre of water by your side. Helps with the concentration and dry mouth. A good night's sleep the day before helps with the exam - recommend 7-8hours! SO NO LATE REVISION! day before the exam, go out, do some exercise. A healthy body instills a healthy mind.

A-levels were probably the hardest exams. I mean in uni, you can literally memorise papers and get away with 60%+.

Krypt sheets are very good at memorising key points, and i mean jst the basics. Everything else stems from those keypoints. In many ways, i find spider diagrams very useful. Key word in the centre and word associations spawning from the middle. You don't need much brain capacity to string the terms and ideas into sentences. Unless you're doing maths or physics where it's a pain in the arse remembering

a) a formula
b) knowing what every factor represents
c) actually knowing how to use it!

Wish you all the best for those doing AS/A levels

Remember, you're not going to win! Prepare for it and you'll do well, and laugh at those who are lazy, cocky and purely just don't give a fuck and you'll feel better about it, knowing you've done your best.
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[Ahmato_]

Main thing to remember is last minute revision works! I do 8hr days revision a week before the exam in question, literally re-writing the whole text book in note form. And then, like bonny said, condensing these notes even further into as few sheets as possible is a good idea...

Oh, and do as many past papers as possible....It sounds clichéd but you'd be surprised how much you can learn from doing them and marking them yourself..

Must have been doing something right got AABCC at AS and going for AAB this year =]
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[The Tot]

Also with past papers, don't "selectively revise" them, question spotting, because YOURS might be the year when they change it. I know with maths and physics, all the questions i revised and expected didn't turn up. So that resulted in me potentially attaining straight 3A's and a B for my a levels, but things went wrong and missed out on an A in physics by about 5 marks over the whole 2 years and missed out on a B in maths by 1%. Utterly, utterly pissed off with myself. So, do loads of past papers, if in doubt, ask a boffin mate to explain it to you.

Like i said, revising with dyslexic people in a group might help because it forces you to explain stuff to them, and the manner in which they revise might be beneficial. Certainly helped with the more essay based modules of my degree.
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[Charlie]

I get extra time in my a-levels for "strong signs of dyslexia" from some test I did. Get 25% extra time, very useful.

I find the best revision for myself, is doing past papers, lots of past papers. Then when I come to the exam I know the paragraphs I need to score the marks for specific questions. Then I just slot together the paragraphs to form my answer. Easy.

When it comes to understand more complex ideas I need to sit done on my own and figure it out in my head. Even after that it might only slightly be stained in my head. Then pretty soon after that I need to explain it thoroughly. Normal sticks in my head then. But if I keep explaining it to people then I can do it, always found helping people the best way.

I had AS maths on Wednesday and have got 3 a2's on Wednesday 23rd (Computing, geography, electronics). Better start doing some proper revision this week.
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[Charlie]

Hmm I shall have to see how university goes then.

Cant wait for it thought, doing one subject, the subject I love all the time sounds really good I cant wait for it.

I got a AAABC (electronics, geography, applied ict, computing, general studies, respective to the grades) last year in AS so I'm hoping to do the same again this year

Doing the AS maths this year as for the courses I want you need A-level maths. But the university I have applied for said they'd take me with as maths but I'd have to achieve well in the subjects.

Oh the fun of exams
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[JonB]

What bonny said.

I'm doing a History degree, yet i'm still having to modules on political theory, current foreign policy, globalisation and international relations, now obviously they all link in with modern history, but in an ideal world i'd like to be studying specific historic events.
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