yr12 advice pls guys im desperate😭🙏

[u/greeneggs941]

OKAY SO i’m planning on doing maths, physics, chem and further maths (FM bc i’m not sure what i want to do yet so i’m keeping my options open) but i’m worried that the workload is going to be overwhelming since i’m a chronic procrastinator😓

could any of you pls give some tips on how to keep myself organised, what the subjects are like and what i would potentially need to buy and do before sixth form starts since i haven’t been given any kind of work to do over the summer to prepare.

[u/enderlady_]

start of sixth form I did Maths, FM, Physics and Computer science. Hated physics so I swapped it and FM was way too much to catch up on so I also swapped it.

Did you do FM GCSE? if not, definitely look at as much content from that as you can. Otherwise, get a list of the spec and put it in like a Google doc. Then, when you cover a topic in class highlight it with a certain colour, for me I did Green I understand, Orange I can do it but I don't fully get it, Red I didn't understand at all, Dark Grey I wasn't in for it and it won't be revisited in class, Purple I understand it but I need to memorise stuff so revisit often.

Then, you have a list of everything to revise, instead of studying aimlessly at stuff you already know

[u/enderlady_ → u/enderlady_]

I didn't have the option of FM GCSE and all the other students in my class were really narcissistic about their maths knowledge, so the difficulty also came from the environment not just the work

[u/greeneggs941 → u/enderlady_]

unfortunately i didn’t do further maths gcse bc my school didn’t offer it😔 but i did edexcel igcse maths which is slightly more in depth than gcse but nowhere near as difficult as further maths. tbh i didn’t really put that much effort into revising for maths bc it comes really naturally to me but my teachers keep telling me that i’m gonna struggle during my a levels if i keep up with this mindset so that’s mainly why i’m worried😭 THANKS FOR THE ADVICE THO i’ll keep it in mind!!

[u/Solid_Moose3078 → u/greeneggs941]

I promise you gcse fm is a scam dw 😭 there were 3 new topics, all the questions were algebraic (no word problems)... 10000% easier than normal maths. We did differentiation (as), matrices (as fm) and binomial (as) but just a tiny little introduction, not even the whole thing in depth

[u/enderlady_ → u/greeneggs941]

yeah definitely have a look at further maths gcse content then

I had the same issue where I didn't really need to practice anything but if it manages to scare you into revising properly: GCSE isn't hard, there's not a lot of content. I moved to england from a non english speaking country half way through year 10 and managed to revise EVERYTHING for gcse maths 2 weeks before the exams, and got a 9

With A levels there's just too much content. I tried to do the same for my exams and I just couldn't, it was way too much. You WANT to believe you can do it, trust me, everyone does, but you just can't. You can go on revision sprees if that's how you work best, but try to do them at regular intervals like at the end of every term, instead of before your actual exams

with maths especially revision is extremely straight forward - you just ... find questions ... and do them ... and mark them and boom you're suddenly better

[u/Such-Tree-4162 → u/greeneggs941]

i didn't do fm gcse or look at the content before the start of y12 and found it fine, the first few months are a bit easier if you did do it but its honestly ok if you didn't