Best time to start revsiing for AS Level Exams?

[lukesh]

I know its eraly now but I want to get ahead of the rest. I need to anyway so I can keep up with the same standards as everyone else. Learning is such a chore for me.

Anyway, when did you start revising for your AS/A Levels exams? Got any tips on how to revise?
I am dreading my 3 Business Studies and Government and Politics exams. They are mightly huge!

Thanks

[Girl_gunner]

ooo i had G&P last year. and we got the bloody EU question :mad: i'd start now. sort out all your notes and start plannin how you're going to do effective revision.

[lukesh]

ooo i had G&P last year. and we got the bloody EU question :mad: i'd start now. sort out all your notes and start plannin how you're going to do effective revision.
oh i hope i get a e.u question. lol

I'll start planning something now then. its mightly scarey!

[nicebutdim23]

As soon As possible. especially with something requiring that much knowledge.

[film_buff]

Last year i started off around the easter holidays and i will be doing the same this year for my A2's. However if your struggling with a subject i'd start to revise at the end of this month

[ruby_soho]

I didn't revise for the first set of my AS exams, and on the second set we just did revision in class, typically none of the stuff came up. I wouldn't start too early because you will only forget and have to go through it all again. I actually found my As levels quite easy, just the next year got quite harder.

I've never properly revised for one exam in my life :yeees:

[Fenix Blade]

I would recommend reading over your notes every couple of day - beginning this a few weeks into each college year. I never revise, I can't bring myself to do any..if I ha more enthusiasm for college and some motivation I'd have read my notes continually then started "proper" revision over Christmas.

I find reading notes a few hours before works a treat too ;)

[Silverberg]

Well technically I did next to no revision, probably why I'm not in college any more. But my girlfriend only resently did her resits, and now she's talking about revising for her AS's in June! Far too much revision...

[stargalaxy]

Start your revision in good time so that you don't have to rush to learn everything, that's all I say. I did, and I got some decent results out of it in the end.

[Randomgirl]

[QUOTE=beans]I wouldn't start too early because you will only forget and have to go through it all again.[QUOTE]No!! It's better to start revising early and then to review and revisit the topics you did early on. This way you'll retain more information overall, will feel more confident and will avoid last minute panic cramming.

[chax]

I did my A levels and AS levels all in one go this last spring/summer and my advice is that its much more important to revise the right way than to spend months revising. If you're going to start early then read some stuff about memory techniques, mind mapping etc. I learned this before my A'levels but only really used it for A2 sociology and I ended up getting 100% in two out of three modules. If you're doing the Ed-excel politics papers I would massively recommend getting revision guides, sylabus lists and all the past papers because they basically do the same stuff every year and its not that hard to learn everything you could possibly need to know if you spend a bit of time on it.

Whatever you do, do not write pages and pages of plain notes from a text book. It is disasterously inneffective (trust me). You've got to do things that engage you like writing essays, drawing up tables of for/against, writing model answers with bullet points etc. Otherwise it will all just evaporate on exam day. Also when it comes to reading from your revision notes before the day of the exam you will find it much easier if they are well presented and in orderly structure. Any scrappy notes you have will probably end up in the bin.

I'd also reccomend not revising in the early hours of the night before or on the day of an exam. It will raise your stress levels and cloud your thinking meaning you will forget stuff and conentrate on the wrong things.
Good luck

Edit to add: Just read some of your posts on the politics forum :eek: and would advice mucho extra revision in this area. I suppose you're probably doing Ideologies next year and this is why you still think 'right is allways right' hoho :p ;)

[The Matadore]

Cram the week before. if you have the technique, it really does work.

[StudentSpot]

I would advice revising a little bit each week, going over the stuff you've just done, and then a month before the exam cram like mad. :s

[ginner]

The night before, they're incredibly easy, just like my degree.

[Yerascrote]

well technically you should've started in september but only a handful do that, you shoud start now if you find revising hard, just read over everything and make notes, preferably bullet points, learn 5-10 bullet points a night, when the exams get closer, do more, i thought AS's were piss easy, like i started in may and did really well, it depends though cos i have a good memory. good luck luke :thumb:

[piccolo]

ooo i had G&P last year. and we got the bloody EU question :mad: Me too (resit) - I was so annoyed!