How can we revise!

[Soyers]

Im also doing my GCSEs and its no fun Ive been writing up piles and piles of essays and doing all the forms of course work thinkable
I cant wait for the exams to be completed!
To actually have some me time [when im not trying to be all smart and clever] will be so blissful!

Tips? Make sure you take breaks and work when ever your brain isnt fizzling. Get plenty of sleep [most important], this should lower the chances of your brain exploding.. eew. Dont have any stimulants after 7pm, so no coffee, tea, chocolate, sugars so on so forth.
Set yourself a timetable and stick to it, so sleep at 10pm wake up at 7am, go to school at 8, home at 3pm, rest, have a snack and watch tv until 4, english untill 4.30, science till 5, break, art till 6, watch the simpsons , dinner at 6.30, history at 7.30, then rest untill 9 or 10 [or earlier if you can] then go sleep.
Dont forget to have all that weeks work done on friday so you can take a breather at the weekend!
Its really hard work but itle all be worth it when you get your bits of paper that say 'clever person' on them
Do write a letter, or five, you should always be heard.
Anyway let us know how it goes!

[---MAD---]

I think its not fair, but lifes a test anyway.
We get exams in year 2 all the way until we graduate and get a job!
Then from then we work our hairs of so we dont get fired and get some money

You will never just sit down and actually have nothing to do!
Even when your old, retired, youll have excersizes to do and go to hospital on check ups and family visits blah blah.

We need a break!
Say after year 9 we get 1 a big years break! Then get on with out gsce then a level then uni then blah blah.
Lifes hard when its exams that are life threatening!

The people that take it the easy way out will find later on they will have a harder life!
So i suggest you revise and yes set a timetable OR just read say 1 hour a day of 1 subject then the next day the next subject for 1 hour etc etc.
Remember to take cold baths, they relax your brain AND then watch tv, get a good nights sleep and off you go to the exam room, happy, confident and prepared!

YEAH RIGHT! lol

But anyway seriously, sats arent life threatening GCSEs are and so are alevels.
Dont worry too much about sats.

Heres a fact most of you didnt know about.

Sats were exams you just took without any revision or anything and were no big a deal, it was just to see the average of the levels in that grade in that country (uk).
They wanted to see what school does how good etc. But now, now that the teachers and parents see the results its more of a problem!
Teachers use the sats you put you in sets the year after in gcses thats why they are VERY important now!

Just remember, the exams last about 1 week. After that the time is all ours until the next year.
BOY I CANT WAIT TILL MAY 20TH IS OVER WOOOOOOOOO NO EXAMS! NO WORRYING NO NOTHING!


Hope that helped

[Steph]

really the S.A.Ts are to see how much you've learnt since year 6, but it's not fair because they can't judge 3 years work on one or two tests. What if you're just having a bad day? And yeah it's mainly to put you in sets in year 10, but what if you do well in class and overall are a good student, then you don't do well in your S.A.Ts so they lower your set. It's stupid. I'm dreading mine though. What Shakespeare is everyone doing?

[Beeniee]

Last year they made us write a FULL story in only 30 mins. =.=

They don't give us enough time to plan and put effort into our work When you worry about the time and having to complete it in such little time makes you worry and rush your work :@ Then you end up getting low scores.

[Haemogloben]

External exams (AKA SATS, AKA Key stage 3's where I come from) are next week.

Then there's the internal exams based on every subject you do. The problem is im getting say a Geography homework which I could do without right now.

[Pulchritudinous]

I havn't really had any homework, if I get homework in Science, Maths or English, it's revision stuff, we've been revising at school for about the past 2 weeks or something.

I have a peice of paper in my lessons, and when an important bit of info about the SATS comes along, I write it down, and revise off of that.

It's definately good for English, if you get told things like 'Annotate your questions, plan what you will write, use time carefully', I write all that down.
Or...look at old test papers for year 7/8.
You can also just read through your exercise book.

[Rarelime]

Last year they made us write a FULL story in only 30 mins. =.=

i remember that.. something about a lost diamond :s, but don't worry too much about the sats, stick to a schedule, set yourself some times to revise but don't over do it as it will just frustrate you.

[AngJum]

Yeah, well I'm suppost to be starting my Exam timetable on the 3rd of May, but I have already been surprised with 2 exams croping up.. the school hasn't issued our timetables yet, and I find it very unfair that we are meant to revise for all of our subjects and we don't even know exactly when all of our exams are, I know it's hard to issue all of them but it's a school; they should be sorted out!

[Surname]

No teacher apart from english maths and science is allowed to give us homework untill the end of the tests

You're very lucky, (Well you do have tests, I suppose that's not lucky)...

[jammy06]

Well i advise you to quit habbo untill the end of your tests as habbo is so fun but ill be elaving for a week or 2 soon