Exam survival countdown

You have 4 weeks before your exams. This is what to do week by week right up until the morning of the exam. So you're moving from panic to calm. This week is all about auditing and organizing your knowledge. I want you to list all your topics and I want you to check against past papers. [music] See which topics have come up loads and which haven't come up for a while. Those are your red topics. Then look at all the other topics and be like red, amber, green in relation [music] to your level of knowledge. And you start with your red but no passive rereading. I want active [music] recall only. Test yourself, find your gaps, retest, repeat. Your motivation might be dipping slightly. That is totally normal but this is what to do. Start the week with a full time paper, mark it and then amend your skill and knowledge gap. But importantly, I want you to be really realistic with your timetable. [music] Build in breaks, change up your environment and please don't expect yourself to be like a machine, completely consistent every single second of the day. You won't be. I want you to do another past paper and amend your skills and knowledge gaps. I also really want you to focus on exam techniques, reading [music] mark schemes, highlighting key command words, using AI to put examiners reports into language [music] that you actually understand. Then you're going to spend your week reviewing your greens and interlacing the amber and reds from last week. [music] Consistency is far more important than perfection and I would say schedule less than try and aim for more and be disappointed. [music] And for motivation, imagine proving that teacher wrong. T minus [music] 1 week, you are nearly there. Start the week like the others with a complete time past paper. I know it's boring but I really promise you it will pay off. Then 50% of your week is going to be spent on those hardest gnarly topics that you know you do not know. And then the other 50% of the time, speed planning, speed bullet point answering as many questions as you can. You might think you can't do anything today. You are wrong. Sorry, that was a bit harsh. I want to sandwich today summarizing [music] the things that you know and then really attacking those hard topics. Repeat the mantra you can't learn [music] everything so strategically abandon the less important topics. You are moments away. Set a time limit and stop working 1 hour before bedtime. Please [music] prioritize your sleep. It works just as well as cramming, and I want you to picture yourself sailing through the exam. Recap the time, location, and resources you need for the exam, and get it all organized. Allow yourself plenty of time to get to the exam, [music] but also make sure you're not arriving ridiculously early as that is way too stressful. Then, when you're in the exam, skim the paper, decide the order that you're going to approach the questions, keep an eye on the time, keep your [music] writing simple and clear, and answer the question. Try and enjoy, and if not enjoy, good luck.