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

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.