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Your first exam paper is the 'core physical and human paper'. It is a 2 hour exam and is made up of long and short structured questions - there are 120 marks available, meaning it constitutes for 70% of the AS. You need to know all the content that you covered over the year in detail so here are some effective ways of revising it.

Techniques:

• Writing 'easy to understand' notes
• Teaching someone else the topic: if you can't reiterate your notes fluently in speech then you do not know them well enough to write down during an exam
• Create posters and flash cards (this is particularly useful for key words)
• Recap your lesson mentally 10 mins, 1 day, 1 week and 1 month after learning it so that it is in your long-term memory 
• Remember facts by mentally travelling around your house and matching key words to objects in each room
• Create stories using a piece of information you need to know, if the words are too scientific then choose words that sound similar - by remembering only a significant 10% of notes, your brain will fill in the rest of the information
• Our brains are very visual, use drawings and images to help you remember the information
• Create acronyms e.g. when revising for her ICT exam Anastasia created the acronym: I Bit a Bite Killing My Giddy Taunt, meaning the order of size for memory (bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, terabyte) although, this makes no sense at all she still remembers it 1.5 years after her exam!
• Make sure you find a good balance between rest and work, working for too long at one time can actually reduce your memory intake

Here are some tips on note-taking:



A range of command words are used in the exam, make sure you practice answering all these types so you know what the question is asking you:

Olivia's guide on how to answer types of questions: