- These two weeks off school are desperately,
desperately needed by everyone.
And what I want you to be doing,
and I'm sure is what you want to be doing as well,
is I really hope you get the chance to give some more.
To hang out with your friends,
to sleep in as late as you want.
But I know that a lot of you are
not going to be doing that.
Because I know for a lot of you
school is basically going on as normal
over these two weeks.
So,
lets talk about what we can
do to make our lives a bit better.
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If you do get the chance for a day off school
then please take advantage of it.
Please sleep in as late as you want,
go outside
to the park.
And just
have a day off.
It is so, so important at the moment
that you give yourself a break.
That you do not spend every single
waking hour revising.
Cause you guys are doing a lot of revision at the moment.
And just doing hours and hours and hours
isn't necessarily the best thing
that you can be doing.
We need to be revising, at the moment,
we need to focus on revising
smarter not longer.
If you are in school please try and remember
that your teachers have given up their
holiday as well, they are not
being paid extra for this.
So please be kind to your teachers.
If you would like to suddenly become
the most popular people in your class,
get together with a few group of friends
each chip in 50p each and go to
Tesco's or Sainsbury's or whatever
and buy a big box of biscuits for
like two or three pounds and then
share them around.
A little bit of extra sugar will be use
when you've had to get out of bed during
the holiday in the morning.
And potentially it could be really really sunny outside.
It's always going to be appreciated and welcome.
Or get organizing set up a little
cake rotor amongst your friends.
It will make a big difference.
In your revision time at home you
need to focus on doing as many
practice papers as you can.
Either the predicted papers that I've
got for you on my website for
science, geography, maths
all past exam papers that you've managed
to download from the exam boards.
It is not a great idea to use
old specification exam papers,
there are too many changes.
But for things like maths you can use
different specification exam papers.
For example, if you were doing AQA
go to the Edexcel website and do the Edexcel papers.
Because for maths the specifications are
so so similar that you can use
other exam boards papers.
Do as many practice papers, do as
many work books questions.
And then looking at the answers and comparing
your answer to an exam board answer
is really really gonna be the best way
that you can improve over these last few weeks.
And it is a last few weeks.
So I'm not gonna be asking you to do
things like make timetables.
But what you can do is just open up
your book to the contents page and
make sure you've ticked off everything
in that book.
We don't really have a lot of time left
to make flashcards, so I've made
a load for you and put them up on my website.
Lots of ones for science, lots of ones for language.
There is Spanish and French as well.
All of those are going to be brilliant
brilliant revision for you.
The main thing that I want for you,
if I had one wish that I could give
to every one in the country,
is that when you walk into that exam
you are feeling calm and you are feeling confident.
That when you open up that exam paper
you recognize the questions
because you've put the work in.
Because you've done so many practice questions
in practice papers, predictive papers, in work books.
That you recognize the questions and
you know what the mark scheme answer looks like.
That you're not stressed, that you're not worried.
That you are calm and confident.
That the night before your exam
you are looking after yourself.
You are not staying up till all hours cramming
because you didn't put the hours in
over the Easter holiday.
We are so close to the end.
It is important that you get enough sleep.
Do not stay up for hours
revising and then sleep really late in the morning.
Sleep really late in the morning
because you deserve a break.
Go out with your friends because you
deserve a break, but you do have
to acknowledge that now is the
main bulk of your revision.
Feeling confident when you walk into
the exams is only gonna happen
if you use these two weeks wisely.
If you are looking after yourself,
your physical health and your mental health.
If you're making sure you're eating
properly and sleeping properly.
And doing things to relieve stress.
Whether that's meditating, whether that's
going out for a run, or whether it's
taking the dog for a walk.
That you put in sensible time with predicted
papers, practice papers, workbook questions.
That you do a few questions, then
you mark them, then you move on
to a different subject.
That you're having regular breaks.
That you haven't worked so hard that
you are burnt out by the time it
comes to the exams.
So good luck guys, I'm gonna be here with you
every single step of the way.
I'm working just as hard as you are.
I'm not gonna stop until you do.
Together we will get through this
I promise.
Ouch!
This is why in some videos I have unexplained scratches.
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