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Hello my beautiful friends! Today, as promised in my previous post, I am going to offer my advice regarding how to make a revision timetable. I used two different revision timetables during my GCSEs and I intend to do the same at A-Level. Holiday Revision Timetable Term Time Revision Timetable I featured the top timetable in my previous post . This is a holiday timetable, which I used during my Year 11 Christmas Holiday. In this timetable, I have put hour-long blocks of revision with thirty-minute breaks in between. However, I often did revision blocks of 3 or more hours with hour-long breaks for lunch and dinner. The extra break time compensated for unplanned activities I did during the day (e.g. visiting friends or family), so I was still able to complete my revision. It also enabled me freedom to do additional revision at the end of the day if I felt I needed it. The bottom timetable is a term time revision timetable, which I used from around January to around April ...

Hello my beautiful friends! This week I am on my half term holiday similar to many other schools and Sixth Forms in the UK. This is a one (or two) week break from school/Sixth Form. For those in year 11 and year 13 (and some year 12s) this is the most important holiday for revision, aside from the Easter Holiday. This half term is an opportunity to begin hardcore revision for GCSE, AS or A-Level exams. In this post I will offer some tips and advice regarding how to stay productive and motivated. Tip 1: Make a revision timetable. Revision timetables act as motivation because you strive to achieve everything on your timetable! My next blog post will go into the detail of revision timetables.  I used the following revision timetable during my Year 11 Christmas Holiday. I made this timetable on Excel. Tip 2: TURN OFF YOUR PHONE! This is the BIGGEST revision tip in any circumstance. Quality of revision is more essential than quantity of revision and your phone will act a...

Hello my beautiful friends! For the past week I have been waking up at 5am inspired by the YouTuber UnJaded Jade, who I mentioned in my previous post . I started waking up at 5am in September when I began Sixth Form; however, this phase quickly failed. This time I hope to stick to this routine. Waking up at 5am does cause me to feel more tired towards the end of the day, but I enjoy having additional time to study really productively during the morning. Previously, I found it difficult to study productively in the evenings because I would feel tired and unmotivated. Additionally, at 5am in the morning your phone is not a distraction because you are (probably) the only teenager awake, which really contributes towards productive revision. Although I try to avoid the distraction of my phone during a study period, sometimes it is too tempting! Here is my morning routine for a Sixth Form day... 5.00am: Wake up and meditate - I use the app 'Stop, Breathe & Think' for medit...

Hello my beautiful friends! As a teenager, it can often be difficult to balance different aspects of your life. I have a part-time job and do various extracurricular activities alongside my Sixth Form studies. This post aims to offer advice about balancing these things from my own experience. Primarily, school work or Sixth Form work should be your priority. Your grades determine your future whereas a part-time job and extracurricular clubs are often temporary. If you are finding your contracted hours for your part-time job overwhelming, discuss this with your boss. Do not be afraid to ask to reduce your hours or say no to overtime. It is equally acceptable to miss extracurricular sessions from time to time if you feel behind with school or Sixth Form work. Plan your time! Usually you know when you have extracurricular commitments and what hours you are working in advance. Plan when you are going to do your work around these commitments. In Sixth Form, use your free periods or st...

Hello my beautiful friends! Today I have decided to write a bonus Friday post! I am currently at home because I am ill, so I've had a day off sixth form. Often people advise you to take a day off studying if you are unwell; however, as a workaholic, I am often conflicted by this advice. Today's post aims to advise you on how to study whilst ill without worsening your illness. However, please note that it is completely acceptable to have time off studying when you are feeling unwell! Tip 1: Do essential work only. Essential work could be interpreted differently by different people; however, I would define essential work as homework. Additionally, if you are ill, particularly at A Level, it is often your responsibility to catch up with the work you missed. Email your teachers and ask them what topic you're covering in the lesson. They may send you the lesson Powerpoint, which you could make notes from to keep up with the content. In my opinion, additional revision may be...

Hello my beautiful friends! Today's post is how I revise as a step-by-step guide. I know many of you are in the process of doing GCSE/A-Level mocks and are starting to revise for summer exams. I hope this post gives you some revision method ideas. Everyone revises differently, so do not be disheartened if these methods do not work for you. I advise trying a range of revision methods to find what suits you! 1. Revision Cards As you may have seen on my Studygram, I make revision cards for each subject. This is useful for my content-based subjects (economics and physics) to ensure I learn all of the content. I work best through repetition and revision cards allow this. I also use revision cards for maths and further maths to ensure I know the processes and formulas I need to learn. 2. 'Blurting' From my revision cards, I make 'prompts'. These are words and phrases I can use to trigger certain content from a topic. Using these prompts and without any...

Hello my beautiful friends! A quick disclaimer before I begin this post... Obviously, I am not a trained doctor/psychologist/nurse/etc. I am not qualified to give proper advice about mental health and I am simply writing from my own experiences. Everyone experiences mental health issues in different ways, so how I am feeling may not reflect how other people feel. Today I have decided to write my first post about mental health. This post aims to fill you in about my mental health journey so far. I have decided to write this post primarily to inform all of you and maybe help someone experiencing similar symptoms. Recently, there has been a new update to my mental health journey, which has also stimulated me to write this post. I was about ten years old when I first remember experiencing symptoms of anxiety. During Year 5, I experienced bullying and I think this triggered it. I remember vomiting everyday before school for a period of time. After this time, I experienced vomiting a...