Three weeks to the exam: the revision system

Week one: compress and triage

Use concise notes for an overview and return to the textbook when an explanation is not secure. Attempt a practice paper and mark it honestly, using the errors to set priorities. Keep checking those priorities against the full current syllabus, and briefly revisit stronger topics so they stay accessible.

Week two: convert understanding into marks

Combine understanding and answer practice on the weaker topics. Recall and rearrange equations, explain the reasoning in longer answers and practise the practical skills for your entry route. Mark the work, correct the errors and try new questions to check whether you can apply what you learned.

Most students are not missing knowledge. They are missing exam conversion.

Week three: rehearse

Full papers under strict time, one per day or every other day, always with honest marking and the error log updated. Between papers, only surgical fixes on what the log shows. Sleep is a revision strategy in this week: recall consolidates overnight, and a tired brain loses careless marks that no amount of knowledge protects.

The night before the paper is for equations, your error log's greatest hits, and nothing new. If a question haunts you at 11pm, my students know they can send it to me on WhatsApp — but the system, not the midnight message, is what carries the grade.