class on skillshare there is so much you can learn using skillshare i want to make a skillshare class in the future as well all about how i did well in my gcses skillshare is just such an amazing platform rather than paying for one single course on photography a single course on video editing a single course on doing well in school you have it all bundled into one platform the best part about it is that you can get a free premium trial using my link in the description so if you want to learn how to use anki if you want to learn how to edit like me in final cut pro or if you just want to learn how to cook a better steak check out the link in my description for free premium trial with skillshare with an annual subscription is less than netflix and it's arguably more useful so thank you so much to skillshare for sponsoring this week's video let's get back to the video now getting back to studying smart not hard during exams i wasn't even revising a crazy amount i mean before exams just continued throughout year NUMBER_TOKEN i was arising about two to five hours daily five hours would be like during exams like peak season usually two hours three hours would be pretty much good enough to do well in all my topic tests i did this by waking up in the morning doing anki an hour then coming home and doing an hour's worth of revision i didn't do anything crazy i didn't dilly dally i just got on with it i did past papers i did practice questions i made angie cut i did active form through revision these are the revision methods that helped me the most if you're just spending an hour passively doing revision then you're probably not going to do well in exam no matter how long you do so with active recall you can actually save yourself time and do better than if you're spending more time doing passive forms of revision you may be saying what if i don't know the topic well then don't do a practice question learn the topic first use videos use booklets use your teachers there's so many resources available online and through your teachers it's actually ridiculous how easy it is to get good grades the next tip is discuss the things with you with the people around you so a simple thing to do is when you get home talk to your parents about what you learned that day talk to your brother about what you learned how to talk to anyone but talk to your teddy about what you learned that day just talk to someone about what you learned that day it's better if it's an actual person because they can ask questions but i did this during my exam season i'll always go home and talk to my mom about biology because she loves learning about that kind of stuff so whenever i came home learning about something new biology i'll talk to my mom about it and by doing this it was incredible it meant that she asked questions and it made me think deep about the topic she learned something and it also meant i'm actively recording the information from school that day and i'm actually doing revision while kind of having fun and interacting with my mom now the next tip is when should you start revising this is a question that is constantly being asked and it matters on how your school do things so my school we did mocks in november so i pretty much started revising since the beginning of year NUMBER_TOKEN because i had to do my exams in november
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN class on skillshare there is so much you can learn using skillshare i want to make a skillshare class in the future as well all about how i did well in my gcses skillshare is just such an amazing platform rather than paying for one single course on photography a single course on video editing a single course on doing well in school you have it all bundled into one platform the best part about it is that you can get a free premium trial using my link in the description so if you want to learn how to use anki if you want to learn how to edit like me in final cut pro or if you just want to learn how to cook a better steak check out the link in my description for free premium trial with skillshare with an annual subscription is less than netflix and it's arguably more useful so thank you so much to skillshare END_SPONSOR_TOKEN