okay so welcome to today's video now today's video isn't quite the usual
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it's something to look forward to yeah anyway today's video i mean i'm sure you've probably seen
by the title already but this is today's video we are going to be talking about how you can get all
nines or a stars in these exams for either gcse or a-level now obviously it's a bit weird and there's
so many different things that are schools across the country are doing to give these grades but
essentially offcourse have stressed the fact that they want it to be of an a level or gcse standard
so none of the as marks none of the gcse mocks that didn't have full content and stuff like that
in basically all of the examinations and questions and things you're doing in class at the moment to
a level standard that's what's going to be pretty critical now obviously we don't know exactly how
we're going to get these results but the best thing to do is smash out all of the exams you've
got coming up or whatever you've got between now and well it's literally only like a month
away which is crazy you just want to be smashing them out giving your teachers the best view of
yourself also showing that you've got evidence to back up the claims you deserve certain grace if
that makes sense so we're going to be cracking on with exactly how you can do that in the next few
weeks to maximize your chances of getting those grades now i've been trying to perfect these today
i've been trying to perfect these techniques for the last three or four years i've got all
knowledge of gcse and i've got all a stars in all of my mops so far so i'm pretty experienced
in that realm of revising cramming getting it all done in a small period of time i'm gonna
be sharing that with you and i'm gonna be giving you some tips tricks and everything that you can
do to maximize your chances of getting those grades let's go okay right so what i'm gonna
be doing is showing you the method i had before and then how i've adapted it for this situation
and to cram it in as little time as possible so if you're watching this in the future obviously
you're gonna get my full revision method and how i got all lines and how i'm trying to get a stars
but then you're also gonna be showing a condensed method that kind of reduces the amount of time
you need to spend on it all with a slightly reduced chance of getting those grades obviously
it's the best thing that you could be doing to get them and it just depends if you want to put
in more work or less work pretty much right let's get straight into the original method and then
how that's adapted let's go i'm sorry but i could not be dealing with that hair here is the original
method in under two minutes let's go so what we've got is we've got three phases you've got
preparation purposeful practice and then review this is what each of them are so preparation is
really simple it's condensing all of the content into simple resources that you can look back over
review to help consolidate that information so that's things like cue cards summarize notes
cheat sheets and all of that and then stage two is this purposeful practice and what i mean by this
is going over those cue cards going over those notes and anything that you don't quite understand
you're gonna make a cue card on anki on that topic anki is actually a web-based algorithmic cue card
app that helps you to memorize it at insane speeds so every time something comes up you don't quite
clock you're going to write a cue card on that on anki but also in that practice phase is practice
questions so you're going to be doing loads of practice questions and again when you get a
question wrong you're going to write a cue card on that question with the answer on the back so
you're chucking it into that algorithm and helping you to memorize it at lightning speeds so that
when a similar question comes up in the future you don't make that same mistake again and it's all
calm and then we've got stage three again that stage three is really simple safety is review and
basic is going through all of those anki cue cards just on repeat just continually cycling through it
and iterating towards a state whereby you know everything you know all of the mistakes you've
made in the past and you can kind of put all of that together in practice in exams to be able to
get pretty much everything correct now to put this into a more like a visual form basically you need
the preparation phase to be able to get into this feedback loop of two and three which is
purposeful practice and then reviewing everything from that practice so you're basically identifying
the flaws in your knowledge and then consolidating that information and that iterates again and again
until you get less gaps in the knowledge that you can do less review and then you iterate towards
a hundred percent accuracy in exams and tests in whatever and that is that phase yes okay i
get that that's a lot to take in in such a small period of time so just take a second breathe okay
cool so now that's completely simplified you've only got three stages it makes it so much easier
and you're calm you just gotta find a way of condensing all of that content i prefer
physical cue cards because it helps me to kind of make those physical connections between ideas like
i can write questions on the one side and then the answer on the back and then draw links between
other cue cards and things like that i'm actually going to be having a video coming on how i make my
cue cards very soon so if you wanna watch that don't forget to drop a subscribe but then the
second phase and the third phase are very simple and they work in a loop you practice those cue
cards by going through them or those notes by just reviewing them or the cheat sheets by looking at
all the information identifying the gaps in your knowledge so you might like test yourself and if
you can't remember it you'll make a cue card on anki then anki will give you those cue cards in
the review phase at the exact times that you need it to help you learn it faster so you have this
thing called a learning curve and it gives you it at exactly the right time to help you consume
that information and memorize it much faster than without those algorithms and again in that purpose
yeah in that purposeful practice stage you're just going to be answering loads of practice
questions as well as that looking at the mark scheme marking your answers and any that you
don't get right you're going to be making a cue card on anki so that you can remember for the
next time you're faced with a similar question how to avoid going down the route you initially went
down for example if you always put a number to the wrong number of significant figures
write a cue card on that and then every time you're asked to put a number to a specific
number of significant figures you're already looking out for that and that question triggers
your remembering of those cue cards on anki and it causes you not to make that mistake in the future
or ultimately in the exam when it is most crucial and basically it will get to the stage where you
no longer need to do stage two you no longer need to do the purposeful practice because you've seen
most of the exam questions that are out there you've been through your cue cards so many times
that you're confident in all of the content that is on your anki and then you can just go into
the review phase and just keep blasting through those thank you cards again and again and again
a week a day an hour before your exam and then you hit that exam you know everything and it's calm
now i actually use that for my chemistry mark and the three maths mocks i had this week and
they've been brilliant it's been calm in fact i actually forgot to revise my cue cards from maths
until the night before and i just use the anki and it's smashed out i personally think that
this is the best method i personally think that this is the best method to revise anything and
yeah hopefully it worked for you anyway how can we condense that method and make it a bit easier
bypassing that first phase which takes the longest preparatory phase which involves like writing all
of the cue cards and stuff normally how can we eliminate that make it easier and solve
all of our timer-based problems this is how so stage one at the preparation phase has two
main purposes the first purpose is condensing all of the information in these textbooks and revision
guides into simple easy to use resources with the minimum amount of information that you actually
need for the exams this is how i've done that i basically got like hundreds upon hundreds of
cue cards for chemistry here physics here and then maths and further maths all of those and this has
condensed everything from about seven textbooks worth into just this and then i just look through
these i test myself on the information and again use that to then move into stage two of focus
purposeful practice but the reason why going into this condensed form of vision is going to
be slightly more detrimental than actually writing the cue cards themselves is while you're making
these resources in the preparation phase you're actually doing purposeful practice too because
you're taking all of the information from the textbooks sorting through it and finding the
critical information you're kind of reviewing it as you go along to make these cue cards
but luckily that is the most ineffective type of purposeful practice the actual consolidation and
where you learn the most is in the review stage and actually reading through the cue cards not
writing them which is where this comes in now there are actually three levels what i'm about
to explain the first one's free the second one's relatively affordable and the third one is still
affordable but slightly more expensive than the other two but essentially if we rewind
there essentially if we rewind the clock to about a year ago when i first started making videos in
one of my videos when i had about 800 subscribers i actually recommended snap revise and these cheat
sheets let's roll that clip quickly read over your cue cards or if you haven't made these cue cards
there are cheat sheets on snap revise um but biology and chemistry just searched
cheat sheets first chemistry by snap revised and their condensed notes of all of the content or
across the whole course in literally just a few pages now it's crazy because having used these
snap revised cheat sheets for literally years and then recommended them a year ago on one of
my first ever videos they've actually sponsored this video and gave me access to all of their
paid resources so i could explore those for you guys and then give you again an avenue should
you want to go down to help you condense all of the revision and stuff you're doing into a really
short period of time so you can get the grades quicker with less effort so we'll cover those
in a second but first of all let's go in depth into these cheat sheets these cheat sheets cover
the entire a level of each subject in just a few pages for example for a level chemistry which is
this set of cheat sheets there are only 20 sheets that summarize the entirety of the a-level course
so in order to use these sheets is the bypass of the preparatory phase this is what you need to do
you can use these sheets like cue cards so rather than spending like hundreds of hours having made
those cue cards you can use these sheets so for example you can cover up the atomic structure and
ask yourself questions in your head that relate to it for example you might ask yourself what
is the relative mass of a proton you'd ask yourself that in your head you'd think of an
answer and then if you got it right then that's fine move on if you got it wrong for example if
you said like half rather than a full one then you would use that and make a cue card on anki
going into that feedback loop and you just repeat that for all of these pages maybe going through
like one even two a day if you do two a day you've done it all in attendant days realistic you'll
probably do one every day and maybe even every two days so you could probably get the entire course
done in terms of the preparation phase in a month or if you wanted to absolutely grind out like
five days to a week and that would be calm you just smashed it you'd have all of the anki cue
cards ready to go to just cycle through stage two and three which is purposeful practice and then
the review so if that makes sense you would work your way through these cheat sheets but make aware
of the gaps in your knowledge so that you could solidify them with anki now let's quickly just get
a cinematic of these sheets because they deserve some spotlight they just look so good let's go
now the cheat sheets themselves can all be found at snaprevise.cod.uk under the freebies tab on
their website and they've currently got a level chemistry and a level biology but as we speak
they're also developing edible physics edible mass and a little further math so by the time
you're watching this those might be out so if you want to check it out links in the description
snap rise.code uk okay cool on to the first page resource now what we've got here is arguably the
best thing that you can spend your money on for revision there are sets of cue cards and made by
snap revised that are exam board specific and they cover everything in only 200 cards to put
that into perspective i probably made about 400 or 500 cards to cover the entire a-levels the fact
they've done it in just 200 is absolutely mental but the reason why i'm saying this is probably
the best thing that you can spend your money on is they're not just cue cards they don't just
cover the information they combine the two best aspects of the purposeful practice the review of
the cue cards to make more anki cue cards and then the exam practice because these cue cards
actually have exam questions on the back written by snap revise so they're not seen anywhere else
you can only get them on these cards for example on the front you've got all of the information
that you need and then on the back you've got those exam questions so let's crack these out
here is the full stack of those 200 cards you've got contents that literally shows you
what cards are going to cover which pieces of content numbered from
one in this case all the way obviously up to 200 because that's how many cards there are and
basically each cue card covers a different topic so it's kind of like the cheat sheets but put
into these detailed cue cards with exam specific questions it even breaks it down further into the
sub topics so for example physical chemistry it tells you all of the cue cards that are covering
that topic of physical chemistry they set up the first one changing ideas of the atom it takes
you through the entire yeah takes you through the entire timeline of the atom covering boreal
dalton thompson rutherford and then burr and then on the back asks you an exam question with
the actual answer so you can test your understanding of the information on the
front of the card and there are 200 of these absolute beasts that is going to be a godsend
okay so those are the snap revised cue cards and they are arguably going to be the best resource
if you don't want to spend too much on revision resources you want something that's going to be
as beneficial as possible it bypasses that first stage and allows you to just go straight into that
feedback loop and get the grades in the smaller time as possible but now the final resource
before we go into the summary of everything a snap revises online courses now these are kind
of like the complete package they basically do the entire method for you it's all in one simple
easy to use space on their website that takes into account what you already know highlights the areas
that you need to improve on and then gives you bite-sized videos to fill in those gaps in your
knowledge this is like a kind of weird metaphor but think of like your brain as the subject
and obviously you're gonna have slight dense in that where you kind of don't fully understand a
certain concept those videos are gonna act as the filling for ensuring that you have a fully
rounded understanding of the topic as a whole so that you have everything that you need to go
in and answer those questions but then it's also going to provide you with exam questions straight
after those videos with real-time feedback so it will mark it for you and tell you when you got it
right or obviously not and then if you didn't get it right it's going to provide you more questions
like that if you've got it right it's going to leave that move on and it's going to get into that
feedback loop for you but there's no point me just talking about it let's actually go and show you
okay so this is the snap revised courses home page now as you can see i've already got all of the
courses so if we go on to the a-level chemistry we'll take a little tour through that so this is
what comes up when you go through it you've got the entire course progress as you can see you've
also got weekly progress you kind of earn xp which keeps you motivated to keep going so now let's go
on to the year 12 topics we'll start easy we'll go atomic structure and isotopes when you get onto it
you actually get a short quiz that assesses your current understanding of the topic two like i said
and make aware of the areas that you're not quite as confident on so that it can give you those
bite-sized videos and exam based questions based on those rather than just chucking it all at you
so kind of help you save time and make your vision more effective as a whole so if we start that quiz
now i'm just going to quickly blasty that answer a few right for you wrong just to get the gist of it
okay so i've been through the quiz it tells me what i've got right what i've
got wrong and then the topics that correlate to those questions so i got the shots with the
atom master atomic number right i say it's wrong so then we click get started and it
will give you those videos on the stuff that you need so first off it gives you videos of
an oversight of the entire topic and then videos on the things i needed so for example question
four or the fourth segment is on isotope so i'll go down to isotopes i'll watch that video
okay so i've now finished that video and it's giving me a summary and as you can see
the progress bar at the bottom has gone completely green rather than partially orange and partially
gray basically gray it means you haven't watched any of that plot orange means you've
watched some of it and then green means you've watched the entire video and then it completes
that section so now that i've watched that video on isotopes i can then go and re-attempt
an isotopes quiz with different questions to assess whether or not i fully grasped
that concept and again if i have great move on next thing if not it will recycle that later on
and give me more questions on it now they've even got after that quiz a work through exam
question to further enhance your understanding of it okay so let's get on with the quiz
okay so now that i've got 100 on that test it says i know isotopes and it can move on from
that testing on other topics that is only one part of the subscription with the subscription
you actually get a lot more so i'm now back on the home page of that course and as you can see
there's not just the course there's also web classes so if you go into web classes first of
all it tells you the most not the most the one that's coming up next so for me at the moment
on saturday the 24th the next one is on sunday the 24th between six and seven it tells you the tutor
it tells you what they're going to do on this one there's a recap of moles amounts of substances
calculations using moles concentration volume and mass and then it also gives you a bit of
details about the tutor themselves and then when it actually is that time you can join the class
and go through the lesson with them but before that you can also download the presentation that
they're going to be using so i just click download a presentation it will open it up and it will give
you a rundown of everything they're going to go through in that class honestly my wifi is
terrible recently it's a joke and yeah this gives you the entire presentation and everything they're
going to be running through so you can look over it before if you want to get a bit of an idea and
then just use that hour as kind of like revision for you so going back to that page if you scroll
down it gives you the schedule and all of the planned sessions on a monthly basis with each
being posted for that month at the beginning of each month so for example for april we've got all
of these sessions that we can attend and they vary completely from drop-in tutors to actual sessions
so the actual sessions are basically where the tutor goes over the content of that whereas the
drop-in sessions are you submit your own questions then they'll go through those questions that you
have and that's all included with the course subscription now of course if you can't attend
them for every reason they are also recorded so they are there if you miss them but still want
to look over the content cool and that is the complete snap revised course now i'm gonna do
a quick review of everything that we covered in this video okay i'm gonna try and summarize it
all in just one minute let's go so the first step is preparation and this involves condensing all
of the information into simple resources that can be used to identify gaps in your knowledge
then you've got stage 2 which is purposeful practice and this is used as the resources
you've just made in the preparation phase to identify those gaps in your knowledge and make
cue cards on anki on the information in those gaps so that you can then go into stage 3 which
is review and just keep cycling through those anki cue cards just solidify that information
and make sure you can smash the exam but then again you can go back around into stage two do
loads of practice questions take information from those and the things you got wrong to put
back into anki and more cue cards and keep going through those cue cards to make sure that you're
iterating towards 100 accuracy in exams and a full understanding of the content but then if you want
to fast track this process you can use pre-made resources for example snap advisors cheat sheets
their cue cards or even their online course and that just does it all in a lot less time
with minimal sacrifice of the effectiveness of the revision and that is a revision method
okay unfortunately that is it for today's video but i hope you found it helpful i hope you've
enjoyed and hopefully it'll help you to smash out these exams like whether you're in 2021 currently
or you're going to be watching this like a couple years down the line i don't know but hopefully
it's been helpful but if it has don't forget to drop a like don't forget to drop a subscribe
because i've got loads more videos coming like this but also like the energetic vloggy stuff
that i showed you at the start but yeah see in the next inside one own world of make believe