- Hey guys!
Past papers are a fantastic way to revise,
but only if you use them effectively.
(rapid reverse)
So, if you are lucky enough
to be redoing one of those specifications
where there are loads and loads and loads
of old past papers
you are really really lucky basically.
Because the examiners,
I'm sure they're lovely people,
but examiners aren't very imaginative.
They reuse old questions
over and over and over and over again.
And the mark schemes don't change.
The mark scheme's the same
from a question from 2012
as it might be for 2017.
The mark schemes will be the same.
So, if you take the time, if you put the effort in
and done all the past papers, you're gonna
go into that exam with a massive, massive advantage.
Which is exactly what I want from you.
So, how do we actually use the past papers
to make sure that we get a good exam experience,
and a good grade?
Because it is possible to go into an exam
feeling not stressed, and to come out of it feeling happy.
It is possible, I've seen it.
First thing, you need to find all of the past papers.
And this can be the tricky bit, because
you need to know the exact specification that you're doing.
And this can be a little confusing on
the exam board's website.
So,
The best thing to do is to ask your teacher for
the specification code.
Apart from that, it's pretty easy.
You just Google like, "EQA past papers,"
and it'll bring you to a site with a load of
dropdown menus.
Same for 8XO, and the other ones.
Just go through, fill in the dropdown menus,
and you'll be able to pick up loads and loads
of past papers.
Download the past papers, and
download the mark scheme as well.
They might be in the same place,
they might be under a different dropdown menu,
you just have to look a little bit for.
But it's really, really important
that you get the mark scheme.
Now, the various different ways you can use these
are, well, loads basically.
You can use them to work out what you do,
and what you don't know.
So, sit down, do the paper.
Don't like, look at your books or anything,
just sit down and do the paper.
And then any questions where you get completely
wrong, or you just don't know,
go revise that topic.
So, work at what you don't know.
Or, you can sit there with your revision guide,
and work out perfect answers for things.
So, the great thing about the C2 exam in chemistry,
is that there are loads and loads of four mark answers
that come up over, and over, and over, and over again.
And it's really worth you just learning the stock answers
to those four mark questions so that you can just go
and answer the questions in the exam.
It's the same with six mark questions.
There are only a limited number of six
mark questions they can ask.
So, if you go and learn a perfect answer for it,
then if that comes up in the exam, you're
gonna be really, really please, really, really happy,
really, really relaxed, because you know what the answer is.
Because the examiners have told you in the previous years
from the mark schemes.
Which is great.
Now, if you're not sure about any of the answers,
or you don't know them when you're doing them,
make sure you do something with that information.
So, you can get flashcards,
put the question on one side, put the answer
on the other side, and then you can add that
to your bank of flashcards, which I hope you
would be making for your keywords,
and your short recall facts.
Flashcards don't just have to be long things,
they can be short things as well.
Now, if you're doing marks, or if you just had
marks, your teachers are gonna be using the
past papers to rank how which bits you don't know,
and which bits you do know.
This is a really good opportunity.
I know it may not seem like a really good opportunity,
but it is a really good opportunity
for you to work with your teachers, and work out
which bits you need to work a little bit harder on,
and which bits you're okay on.
And this is the great thing that past papers will do.
It will show you which buts you're okay on,
and which bits you're not quite okay on.
And it will help you sort out the
bits that you're not okay on.
So, if you do have access to loads and loads
of past papers, please, please, please just go
and do them all.
And once you've done them all, go and do them again.
I mean to do like
two for each subject every single week.
Which I know seems like a lot, but
we don't have a lot of time left before your exams.
I know you're gonna be working so, so hard
over the next five, six months,
but it's only five or six months,
and then you've got that long, glorious summer
stretching out in front of you.
Oh, and one last thing, don't ask me for
the 2016 papers.
Yes, I do have access to them.
No, I'm not gonna give them to you.
No teacher will give them to you.
Okay guys, good luck!
If you need anymore help with revision,
or revision tips, this is probably gonna
be a long playlist, which you can go in and look at.
Any questions, just ask me!