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Studying everything over the past few years is just going to feel overwhelming, so go through the topics you’ve covered throughout Year 9, 10 and 11 (teachers should be able to provide these) and highlight the ones you’re really not confident with, those you’re OK with and those you know well. * Now add HOW you’re going to revise it or what sort of revision technique you’re going to use. I’m going to go through some techniques at the end of this post but basically, if you use lots of different techniques revision isn’t going to feel like an endless chore of doing the same thing every day over and over and over and over and over (that’s how it felt to me! ) It is going to depend on the subject and on you, but essentially you need to engage in active revision not passive revision (which is essentially my old fashioned way of note taking or reading over notes).

I mean GCSEs. It’s all getting rather important now

You can even make a day of it while you’re there and hire bikes or go off on a walking adventure (if you’ve got any energy left after! ) You will use muscles you never knew you had, find great wells of bravery, give yourself a good talking to and find yourself swinging through the branches as you descend to the ground once again on a huge zip wire. We were walked through a strict briefing on how to use the equipment and the harnesses by one of the lovely assistants and she ‘held our hand’ for the first couple of platforms (actually she was a guardian angle for most of it, something we only discovered when a couple of times a ghostly voice from below shouted up ‘are you sure you want to clip that there Tara? ‘! ) The minimum age for the Tree Top Adventure is 10 and the minimum height is 1.4 metres.

I have the latter and spend all my time moaning about wet towels being left on the floor, so don’t go assuming I’ve got the winning end of the stick here. Did you run a race against Usain Bolt because if you haven’t there’s no way you’ve sweated enough to warrant it going in the wash again. I’ve pulled a freshly balled up pair of socks out of the wash before now because it seems to be easier to dump them in the wash basket than back in the drawer. I cannot believe how much money I spend on fresh food only to have the ‘there’s no food in the house’ whine.