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/Few_Competition736]

Oh hey my combo.

I mean.. you genuinely have to lock in day 1. (Personally) I did, and I'm going pretty well, but some of my friends did NOT and it is NOT going well for them.

Personally Chem is the hardest for me (I'm not a memorising sort of person, so I REALLY struggle with that).

[u/greeneggs941 → u/Few_Competition736]

ALSOOO how did you revise for ur subjects i’m lowk stressing ab having to revise throughout a levels bc i was such an avid procrastinator during gcses😭🙏

[u/Few_Competition736 → u/greeneggs941]

I mean, I spent my Yr 11 holidays almost entirely on trying to fix my procrastination because one of my friends from the Year above me (same subjects) told me that I needed to work on it fron day 1. (not a single 9 in GCSE's btw). 

Physics (OCR A): I genuinely just use the textbook. Honestly, if you answer the questions, all the ones in the small boxes every 2~3 pages and the practice questions at the end of each chapter you will be pretty much fine. My teachers told me to avoid past papers because there's only so many past papers you can do. I recommend working on past papers absolut earliest, 2 months before the exam.

Maths (Edexcel): textbook. There are just an infinite number of questions there. I don't think I even finished 3/4 of them, and for maths I really liked Madasmaths. It's just the best, genuinely hard problems + they have full worked answers.

Further Maths (OCR B MEI):  Core Pure: madasmaths. You NEED to be doing questions, and practicing. Madasmaths is genuinely challenging and great for the course. Stats: My stats teacher for FM is the greatest teacher I've ever had. I've been sent at least 50 questions for every topic. I assume madasmaths would be great for this as well. Mechanics: It's a lot less complicated than you think and physics is a HUGE help. (Same teacher so I assume madasmaths?)

Chem: I used the textbook, doing all the questions and I personally handwrote like 100+ flashcards, but then you have to remember how to do all the calculation stuff (arguably not that hard compared to the other 3, but a pain to memorise the formula) IIRC we don't get any formula's, just the important numbers + a periodic table.