let's get straight to the point mocks are literally either now or right round the corner
and gcses are like within the next few months and i just want to tell you that the time from now
into gcses is going to go so fast whether you're in year 10 and or whether you're whether you're
in year 11 um but trust me this video is going to go get straight to the point and we are going to
be talking about revision techniques that you only need to use if you use these revision techniques
through your routine you're going to do just fine and you will smash your gcses and i'm not going to
like waffle on about revision techniques i just want to be clear with you and give you all of the
revision techniques that i used and the revision techniques that basically will guarantee you get
all a stars in your in your exams as long as you do it properly and as long as you have
the discipline now the first one that everybody rambles rambles on about is the pomodoro technique
you've probably seen this all across tick tock where people have the timer set it for 20 minutes
or 30 minutes or 40 minutes revise for that long take maybe a five minute break then revise for
another 20 40 minutes however long you want to set your timer for take another five minute break
then set another timer for 20 to 40 minutes then take another five minute break then sorry then a
longer break or something like that anyway um when i use the pomodoro technique i used it quite a lot
during gcses especially for my mocs now to do this technique it really does depend on how you like to
learn whether you have a short attention span or a long attention span it really did depend
on me and the circumstance for example during night time my attention span was very very long
because i used to stay up all night with caffeine again this is very very bad if you're a morning
person if you are a morning person which i which is why i am at the moment i wake up at 5 00 a.m
well i try to um then again the pomodoro technique will will be really really good so what i used to
do um in the morning well at the moment now in the morning i do 20 minutes take a five minute break
20 minutes five minute break 20 minutes and then a half an hour break that's what i do currently
but i don't have any exams um but when i had gcses i did around 45 minutes five minute break
45 minutes five minute break another 45 minutes and a half an hour break where i did whatever
whatever i wanted but the thing is it's not the timer that matters what you do in the pomodoro
session really really counts so maybe spend your first pomodoro session reviewing through notes
reviewing through physics physics and math tutor reviewing through youtube videos of that topic
then your second pomodoro session you want to blur i'll come on to blitzing in a bit
but you basically just want to use the blurting or scribbling technique again i'll talk to talk
about that in a bit and the last um session in the pomodoro timer you want to do past papers this is
so crucial and if you do do a fourth uh pomodoro set then you want to review the past paper
so please please please try and do the moment or a technique it's not for everyone but it definitely
did help me now i want to come back on to past papers they are so so important now
during gcse's during mocs i printed out tons of past papers right from 2011 i think and
even though they weren't like the syllabus changed they were very very similar and i'm
going to tell you if you've done every single past paper every single year there's nothing
that could come up in the actual exam that will surprise you because i'm i guarantee you every
single question in your gcse would have come up before maybe slightly different different slightly
different wording but it's it's exactly the same more or less the style the sort of questions
the thing that will probably be different is sort of the sort of like the numbers that they put in
but um just do so many past papers and you will be fine so i try to do three past papers a day
and once i finished all of the past papers i just i just kept repeating them just keep repeating
them and you'll be totally fine the next point is ditch your notes i know this is something that
is very very tricky for a lot of people what i found personally i never touched my notes when i
was revising what i was doing was past papers so if there's really no point of even making notes
to be honest you're literally just copying down information it's more about active recall and you
need to sort of keep testing yourself making sure it stays in your memory than just reading through
your notes so i'd say making notes is pretty much useless um again it's a very very like sort of
thing like a very very discussion i don't know what am i not saying it really does depend on
who you are if you're willing to ditch notice and ditch them because they never helped me but again
if you're the sort of person that likes them uh then keep it but again they weren't helpful for me
now let's talk a bit about blurting which is what i did in my second session of the pomodoro session
so my second 40 minute thingy if you get me anyway blurting is when you write down as much of a topic
as you can remember for example let's say i've just finished uh kidneys osmo regulation etc
so if i wanted to blur that topic i would write down as much stuff as i can remember
on a piece of paper about that topic i usually do this after school once i've learned stuff
from school i write down as much stuff as i can remember and then once i've finished that i look
at my textbook and write down everything i didn't remember now what you have to remember is you do
not have to be neat this is a fast process for me and i basically scribble as fast as i can so
i waste no time so trust me you can scribble don't be neat and do this technique so once you've
written down what you couldn't remember from your textbook or your notes then you want to repeat the
process again until you've basically memorized everything this definitely helped because it was
a form of active record and it just got stuff in my brain it's basically how i learned my biology
is how i learned my latin flat like my latin set text geography chemistry any theory based
subjects now the next tip i'm going to give you is flash cards please please please do flash cards i
couldn't stand paper flashcards they were just a mess so i used anki anki is just paper flash cards
is down here anki is like way way up there because anki implements space repetition it implements
active recall it is honestly the best app for flashcards hands down and i'll make a tutorial on
how to use anki soon hopefully um just yeah maybe in the next few weeks hopefully if i can fingers
crossed it will come out but honestly anki is amazing it's it's a lifesaver because it tells you
when you need to revise it tells you what you need to revise at a certain time uh you can like track
your progress online through this like heat map heat map grid thingy and again it's a lifesaver
a lot of gcse students don't use anki it's mostly medics and medicine medical students that use anki
just because not many gcc students know about it but trust me if you do use it at gcc you will do
literally amazing because it's forcing your brain to memorize stuff it's literally forcing
your brain to memorize stuff and you end up memorizing it the next tip i'm going to give you
is do past papers but once you've done a past paper mark it and every question you got wrong
or every question that you didn't get for marx and even if you got seven out six out of uh six out of
seven you want to write those questions down on a anki an anki deck or a quizlet deck however you
want to do them and write down the answer from the mark scheme and go through this anki deck
or quizlet deck every single day until you know how to answer each question because that's going
to probably come up in your gcse exam um yeah if you don't know how to answer a question you
you need to learn how to simply putting it simply you you just need to learn how to do it and the
only way you're going to do this is by looking at the mark scheme looking at what the examiner wants
you to write and making sure you're ticking off the boxes so please please please please
any question you get wrong in a past paper put it in an anki deck or a quizlet deck and the monk
scene for that question on the flash card it will be a lifesaver like i made i made a like deck for
chemistry with all the exam questions that i got wrong and it turned out like so many of them came
up in my gcse um obviously not the exact same question but a lot of very similar questions
which was basically like just a copy and paste of the mark scheme from a paper that i did before
into the paper that i was doing for gcses so trust me past papers is literally a heaven
for jesus it's it it has everything that you need to know so why why don't you just do it
now the next point i want to give you is sort of english gcse related you're going to have to do a
um what do you call it you're going to have to do like a creative writing task
and i ended up getting nearly full marks i was one or two marks away from full marks on that on
that question which which was out of 40. now for that i'd really really recommend reading read as
much as you can it doesn't have to be novels but like take inspiration from like people online look
at what people online have done read descriptions of sort of like woodlands forests um marketplaces
graveyards because they will probably come up i'll put a few pictures on the screen right now
you're probably going to be expected to describe one of these images and um yeah so make sure you
you're able to describe these images uh because i remember one of these
these images that i'm showing right now was in one of my gcse exams um so please please please
learn how to describe these images for example you can describe the trees as like the branches like
barbed wires make sure you describe um this like the colors you see look at um color charts i'm
gonna put a color chart here right now for example the lapis sky or the honey sun the honey sun tree
calls light so and so instead of saying like the green grass maybe choose a different word for
green the emerald grass or um the lime grass or the apple grass things like that you don't just
like save the green grass or the blue sky or the or the yellow sun maybe think of different
shades of the color because that really does help and then another tip is please please
please write in present tense and stick to the present tense don't shift to the past
tense then the present then past let's just stick to the present tense for example um
for example um the the two sentences um the moon looms over
the moon looms over the baron bodies or the barren land the moon looms over the barren land
that sentence one then some people say the trees whispered quietly now what's what's bad about that
is the you've switched tenses so instead keep to one tense for example um the moon looms over
the um the moon looms over the what can i say the body smeared with rotten flesh while the trees
whisper in the cool summer breeze something like that and then um maybe use alliteration maybe use
um sibilance etc another tip i give you is you can use inspiration from the comprehension you're
given for example from the passage you're given for example um you're probably the the picture
you're going to be asked to describe is going to have some links to the passage you would have been
given um already so maybe throw in a few verbs that they used in the passage into your writing
because you can take inspiration but whatever you do do not plagiarize because yeah that's bad
okay anyway that's the end of this video i hope these tips have helped you if you want me to do
like subject specific um subject specific advice i can maybe make a video on like how i got online
in biochem physics etc and make a video dedicated to them let me know your thoughts but thank you so
much for watching hopefully you're gonna you're gonna use some of these i mean a lot of you guys
could go subscribe to my channel but yeah have a great day guys see you soon in my next video bye