Revision

[PaulMacC]

How long before an exam do you revise for, and how long is each session? For my GCSE's and AS Level's I basically revised 2 nights before. For my A2's I'm revising a week before.

[Samantha]

I don't revise much regardless. I didn't revise with my GCSE's and ended up getting a B and C in English which I was more than happy with, however, I think it's also the help you get within school/college too, like I had an english boster forum tutor and a one on one tuition thing for english.

I have 2 AS exams today, I have revised in college, and I have revised a bit at home. I haven't revised a lot but it's been revision over the past 3 weeks.

:)

[Samantha.]

I hardly revised for my GCSEs, just pretty much flicked through a book the night before.
For my AS's I revised about a week before my exam.
For A2, I started revising about a week ago and my exam is on the 21st.
I'll spend a good few hours revising with breaks in between.

[Mathew]

I started revising for Wednesday's AS Psychology exam towards the end of the Christmas holidays, simply because there's so much to fit in :P

I have a Critical Thinking exam today though and I just went through my notes last night. It's Skills based so there isn't really that much theory -as such- to remember.

[Deak]

I've never revised on my own for an exam... the only time i do is when it was done in a school / college lesson & i did pretty well.

I'd recommend you do some revision tho as this could lead to better grades (up to you obviously if you revise or not).

Regarding time scales most people i talk to lately say they try to do at least 1hr / 1hr 30 mins a day for a week before that specific exam going over everything which they think will be the hardest to remember.

Lastly, good luck :)

[Eoin247]

I never really revise too much for exams. I usualy cram the night before, although i'm really trying to break away from doing this and spreading out my revision.

I'm aiming to not cram any more in time by the time of my leaving cert :)

[cocaine]

started on boxing day for an exam on the 12th january

[buttons]

i don't really revise, i just write up my notes after each class & each day i'm off college i give myself 2 hours to look through notes i haven't looked through. then make up possible questions and do them. i don't like cramming or spending more than 2 hours a day revising so for an exam i just do what i've been doing...

[FlyingJesus]

Revision is cheating, if you didn't learn it the first time around then you haven't been paying enough attention to pull it off anyway. The only excuse is if you've been ill/away and therefore didn't get to learn your stuff when you were meant to

[matt$]

I've got an AS exam tomorrow and i haven't revised anything yet :s but i never revised during gcse's and managed to pass all of them getting 4 A*'s quite a few a's and b's.

[Robbie]

I usually do it all the night before, but I have a Sociology exam on the 21st which I am not confident about whatsoever so I have been revising for that since about two weeks ago. I don't need to revise anything for my English exam apart from a few key terms, and I don't need that much revision for I.T, so I'll probably do that the night before.

[Catzsy]

I've got an AS exam tomorrow and i haven't revised anything yet :s but i never revised during gcse's and managed to pass all of them getting 4 A*'s quite a few a's and b's.

Well I guess if it works then keep not doing it but if it doesn't then think again!

[cocaine]

I've got an AS exam tomorrow and i haven't revised anything yet :s but i never revised during gcse's and managed to pass all of them getting 4 A*'s quite a few a's and b's.

AS's are a hell of a lot different to GCSE lol. with GCSE all you need to do is memorise it, A levels requires the application of knowledge. so if i were you i'd get revising haha

[Wig44.]

Did nothing for GCSEs.

I've left revision for my AS exams to the last minute :(
Had maths today and started revising yesterday, did about 12 hours. I haven't done any revision yet for my 3 upcoming exams: Biology chemistry and physics. I have biology tomorrow and (having just got back from college) I'm hoping for around 7 hours of biology revision. Wednesday I have physics so I'll probably get 7-8 hours done after college for physics on tuesday and on thursday I have chemistry so I'll probably do 8 hours of revision on wednesday after college. I think I did well in maths too. I've never been a reviser since I've never needed to but since these are AS's I thought I'd put a day into each.

[FlyingJesus]

Behave I used Black Sabbath as my example of war poetry in my A2 English exam (said it was War Pigs by the poet John Osbourne) and got a B. If you can improvise when you forget everything you were meant to know you'll still be fine, and that's not an ability you can revise

[Shar]

I've been revising since the beginning of December but I still think I'm going to fail.

[Toasten]

Two weeks before the exam 1 hour a night. One week before exam 3 hours a night.

[Zuth]

I'm kida lucky, I dint revise but get high marks.

[Describe]

I didn't revise heavily for anything and I never have. When I do revise I take a block of about three hours, revise for half an hour and then watch half an hour of TV and repeat until that block of time has elapsed. It's apparently no good just to stare at a book for three hours solid so I do some sort of activity that's completely different in between.

I try then to cram a little before said exam so it's fresh in my mind, panicking doesn't help matters mind.

[Monty]

I do two hours a night; one hour of reading the revision, second hour I do some past papers, questions, revision guide activities etc.