how much revision time did you do/are doing... for GCSE's?

Question

my friends doing about half an hour a day a suject, but i dont think thats enough
However my teacher seems to think 30 mins revision is better than hours of revision :S but i mean with breaks aswell lol

How much did you do for revision a day for gcse's?
or how much will you do?


xxxx thanks

Answer 1

Your teacher is not too far off the mark. You stop taking things in after about 45 minutes.

Have you drawn up a revision timetable?

I would suggest that serious revision should start in the Easter holidays.

* The first step is to make short - easily remember notes from your class notes and text books. These will form the basis of what you learn for the exam. I think each subject will take about 5-6 hours to do this. Revision Guides will help - Longman and Letts do good ones

* The next step is to learn these notes. This takes a different time for different people - it DOES NOT mean reading your notes through. If you do this you will convince yourself that you know it but recognition is easier than recall - so write out your notes in shorter form over and over taking a topic at a time. For example the subject on the revision timetable is, say, Science and the first topic on the list is The Cell. You try to remember how to draw a plant cell and an animal cell. Compare what you have drawn with what it looks like. Remember the bits you forgot and draw them again without looking at your notes. This is the biggest section and will take several hours per subject to cover all the topics and to spend enough time to really learn it



* Last section is to test your knowledge by answering questions - first from Revision Guides then from past papers. This should be in the last 10 days before you start the actual written exams, so mid May - end of May.

* Mark your answers or ask your teachers to look at them for you. Go back to your notes and re-learn the bits you forgot.

Answer 2

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how much revision time did you do/are doing... for GCSE's?

my friends doing about half an hour a day a suject, but i dont think thats enough

However my teacher seems to think 30 mins revision is better than hours of revision :S but i mean with breaks aswell lol



How much did you do for revision a day for gcse's?

or how much will you do?





xxxx...

Answer 3

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Relax seriously. You took the day off revision to do some coursework - not exactly even a break so you don't need to feel guilty! Make up a revision timetable if it helps so you can plan when you do your revision to ensure all topics are covered. Get the help of others - parents, older siblings - to test you. This really helped me when I did them! And take time off - yes they're important exams but not the end of the world! You need to relax as always working will make you stressed and likely to underachieve. Good luck :)

Answer 4

I did....oh.... 3 minutes at about 7:55 in the morning before the exam for each subject?



I wouldn't recommend doing it, i turned up to my maths exam thinking it was physics....still, at least i had my calculator on me and i was on time. I managed to still pull the A's out the bag.





My friend - who got a mention in our paper for outstanding grades in her GCSE examinations did an entire mixture for each subject. One of her best pointers....and i REALLY recommend this...is to put post-its everywhere.

Highlight. Bold. Colours...lots and lots of colours.



Put them on your desk, your windows, your mirror, your tv, walls, laptop...anywhere you go or will see (maybe keep them inside your room if your family dont want a sticky covered house)



making the post-its in itself is revision. You have to research what you are going to write and what you should learn - then go through your notes.

Then you also have the added help of your mind taking in the information as you walk around - like when a book has stayed upturned on a desk so long you can remember the reviews next to the blurb on the back off by heart. It's the same principle.



But one thing.

Don't stress out. I'm now doing A levels in English, Maths, Sociology and Spanish. Not a single one of them even looks at my GCSEs now, i'm 6 months passed my results and already they're practically forgotten.

They aren't the be all and end all of your education. If you're doing further education, they are in fact only a stepping stone to the higher qualification. They mean barely anything afterwards.



Best of Luck.

Answer 5

i base each week on a subject and do three hours a night with 10 minute breaks every 45 mins, in this revision time i design my own a4 posters for everything to remember i make quizes i make question cards and i watch a lot of you tube based around whatever im studying. Good Luck :)

Answer 6

my brother thinks he is way to cool to revise so the saddo is jus sitting infront of the tv n playing with my little cousin on d playstation

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Answer 8

I did my GCSEs last year and did barely any revision at all. 10mins revision before each exam and the odd extra class at school got me straight As and A*s. I suppose it depends how clever you are to begin with.



Revising for hours on end is pointless and a waste of time.

With GCSEs you can get away with little/no revision. At A-Level if you don't revise, it's simple: You WILL fail. I tried it myself and got a U in my very first Biology test.