okay today we're showing you from start to finish how I revise to get nines in all of
my science duties when I say today film tomorrow because today's Wednesday I was meant to be into
the gym I'm not because I feel like I've got a lot of work to do ah all my work today you'll
see this one yeah today okay yeah it has been a busy week and this is actually a week later but
I'm just gonna go straight in and show you exactly what I did for the last two years to get all nines
in my sign for normalize and show you I'm also gonna show you tips tricks all these little bits
just helped me along the way and honestly if I knew any of this at the start it would have
made my life so much easier so I'm hoping I can make yours okay so in year 10 I actually didn't
do very much and I started preparing for my year ten marks about Easter time and this is the first
time I've ever properly started revising so all I did was made cue cards on all of the content
because it gets you going over everything you've done and also anything you've missed in class it
helps to identify those gaps and sort of just build a broader idea of the whole subject and
if you're gonna do anything make you cards it's as simple as writing a question down on one
side and then on the other side answer in it and these were a godsend I did two of these for each
subject is about 50 cards at each I'd literally just read over them before all of the exams I'd
read over them a week before I'd video for them a month before I just keep reading them getting
all of the answers right and once I've done that that was pretty much all I did for my marks and
that was brilliant it got me eight and nine and but that was obviously only the first portion
so for the science is it spit into like paper one paper two and we just did paper one so coming back
in September I just continued that I just kept making cue cards for all the content as we were
going along and that's all I did all I did happens in about January February once I've made with that
content anything that I didn't understand or when I was going through the cue cards I didn't really
grasp I'd make a poster on and get you an example okay so we didn't quite grasp the the models in
chemistry so I just made a little poster on it and that's it cuz you want to really get like in depth
in every topic and if you don't quite understand it go over it it won't take long and honestly you
can answer then any question they throw at you as long as you understand it there's no point
memorizing all of your cue cards if it doesn't make sense oh god sorry not memorizing memorizing
you wouldn't even know these are bloody real okay and then once I've made all of my cue cards and
all of the posters that I really wanted to make that is when I started going for example artists
I just get a paper wall exam I'd get a paper to exam do it just sit down and do it it doesn't take
like a huge amount of time and it just helps you get all of the technique because technique is one
of the most important things in exams and while doing the tests looking at the marks key marking
your answers you sort of get an idea of what they're looking for and where I had 7s and 8's in
the mock the exam practice is what put me upstairs nines because there's no point no other knowledge
if you don't know how to apply it it was really crucial party practice in fact it was so crucial
that in my mocks where I got 71 in chemistry and 76 in physics which was an eight I got 90 and 94
in chemistry and physics putting it up to a nine but that is all from exam practice and just going
over a few cards and of course the places that we to really understand the content moving on okay
now the first step is knowing whether you actually want it if you don't want to get good grades don't
do all this stuff if you do this is gonna get you there okay here we go tip number one is just get
organized by yourself a diary buy yourself some cue cards buy yourself some board folders okay
now the diary helps to keep track of everything you want to do the cue cards how we to make the
content and the folders how we to keep it all together you might also want some like staplers
and pens and labels but I can come here tip two now this one is crucial you have to be able to
plan ahead there's no point sitting down trying to revise but no idea what you're gonna do to revise
now this is where the diary comes in what I did is I'd literally I get a week and I'd write down
everything I wanted to do this involved I'll give you an example make you cards for p2 thank-you
cards would be to make you cards for p3 make you cards for b3 and that's it you just write it down
and know you're gonna do it and then when it comes to this if you don't get it done move it to the
next day just plan your week and then anything you don't do move over to the next week and then
add anything else you want to do as simple as that once you've got a plan you stick to it and you get
things done but what if I can't be bothered then you don't get the grades tip number three just
do it start as early as possible and now I wish I knew this because if I'd started at the beginning
year ten I wouldn't have done any cramming I could have literally made two of these a day
and I would have got exactly where I was at the moment okay one of those posters a date or like
a few cue cards it all adds up and by the end of it you've got that folder full of content you can
look at it will help just sit down and do it don't procrastinate don't do it it's horrible you feel
bad you don't want to do anything sit down do the work when you're down you do it when you're
not there you don't do it simple number four be small on your revision okay I know so many people
people literally have the textbook there I have a poster and I will just copy out the information
that we listening to music that we can't strain on the phone I'll just be writing it it doesn't
help okay it doesn't yeah you might have a bit more condensed content that you can go over
later you didn't want to be looking over it no getting later to you when you're doing it I've no
distraction that's pre phone somewhere else turn off the music maybe get some like classical or
something cuz that does help sit down understand it and write down everything that will help you to
understand because then you're not just copying our amazing and condensing it for later reading
you're revising it then you're learning it then and then you can just refresh your memory later
by looking at it so let me give you an example I'm sure all of you are aware of the Pascal model
you know liquids solids and gases yeah okay ionic compound what is weakening to turn it or solid to
liquid to gas or for simple molecular compounds with covalent bonds why is it weakening there I
didn't know this but after making a post on it and looking over the textbook and just trying to grasp
the concept I realized that it was actually in the ionic compounds so for example sodium chloride
where you have positive and negative ions is the unless electrostatic attraction between them or
the ionic bonds that weaken causing them to be able to flow over each other or disperse for a
gas whereas in this simple molecular compounds with covalent bonds it wasn't actually the
covalent bonds that weakened like a thought it would be after looking at the ionic it was the
intermolecular forces between these molecules that weakened causing a solid to go to a liquid to a
gas now many people just assume is Oh give it more energy and it will sort of break apart and turn
into a liquid or a gas but there's more science behind that and it's the understanding of that
that enables you to apply it to any exam question they might ask because ample they might ask Oh
what happens inside of a sodium chloride molecule as it turns with Acuto gas without doing that
research and looking at it and understanding it you wouldn't be able to answer it but now you can
because you've understood it oh I don't know if you already knew that you're one step ahead if not
that is what I mean do things like that and in my opinion it makes it more fun because you sort of
really get to grips with the content and it's more satisfying because you know exactly how everything
works but also it's a good trait for life because if you see thing like gaps in knowledge or gaps in
understanding if you identify those and you pick out our knowledge that's what's gonna push you in
life and make you a better person tip number five is practice exam practice okay now this
is a really big part of it once made cue cards and gone over the content for each subtopic for
example in science I had say for physics i had p 1 to 10 once they're done P 1 and made it one
cue card and understood the topics I'd do an end of topic test that would look something like this
it would literally just be loads of questions I'd answer the questions look at the Mart scheme and
if there was anything I didn't quite get or any like specific words like sometimes when they're
asking for one or two markers they want specific words if I didn't get them I'd write a cue card on
it and make sure I got it next time I just do that for the topics and then come sort of three or four
months before the actual exams then I start doing full mocks so this is chemistry paper one in the
axial GCSE exams you have chemistry paper one in chemistry paper - I do those papers and I do the
same thing I'd answer them all check my answers and any that I got wrong I'll either make a poster
on it or make you cards on it depending on the size of the question now over Easter the last
four day before the exams I went a bit crazy on the exam practice because I felt really confident
in all my understanding of the topics so it was all down to exam technique so I actually did about
seven or eight hours a day for the whole of the two weeks just doing exam practice so I look over
the cue cards for that topic and then I do an end of topic Testament now it was kind of overkill but
it meant that I'd mastered the techniques in the exams in the science I actually got about twenty
or to thirty percent above what I needed for a nine just because I bloody nailed the technique
for them and you don't have to do that one but just sit down do a few in the public tests do
a few full marks and just understand what they're asking for and then once you've done all of these
steps you're good to go and I wish you the best of luck you can do it so to conclude get organized
plan do it be smart about it and then practice it now these tips apply the a-levels as well and in
fact I've actually started why a level months few cards I'm almost finished everything we've already
done so yeah this is a guy in the motivator to help you with your original now although these
tips do apply to all of the subjects they were specific to the sciences and I go a bit more in
depth in especially history and business appear English wasn't the best but I might touch on it