Exams and Exhale

If you live in the UK then the exams have just started and if you are a GCSE student or As/A level student or even a university student you will probably be under a lot of stress, and you will be freaking out about passing the marks to get the grade you truly deserve. In this post I will share to you my past experiences revision techniques and peri-exam breathers you should do.

Okay well first of all lets start off with Monday, I had a resit psychology exam and I was prepared for it. I revised for it, I felt ready, I was bossing the past exam papers and I felt I was going to do great. However, I missed two questions out that equalled to 6 marks because I ran out of time. I felt so stressed and upset I wanted to cry so much but in the end its in the past and I might as well focus on the present exams, speaking of which I have a business resit on Monday, not looking forward to it at all, I just feel completely useless and shit so now I am writing this post whilst listening to the indie radio station on Spotify, safe to say I am on track for a U - yay great #winningatlife - Anyway my past experiences, well in my written drama exam I wrote three maybe four pages all together when we were ment to write probably 5 pages maybe 6 for each question? So that was great, I just didn't understand the questions they asked me so that's why I got an E in that exam. But one of my proudest moments was when I turned my D grade to an A grade in my PHYSICS exam, I am so proud of my self that I knew I worked for that grade I revised extensively, which leads me to revision techniques :)

1. Write posters with the main info for each topic; calculations, definitions, cases/studys etc
2. Write note cards; questions and answers on the other side, summary of each topic etc
3. Write tiny cues on post it notes and stick them round your room and mirror
4. Record yourself taking through that topic and listen to it throughout the day/before you sleep
5. Watch videos online of the topic and make notes (WARNING:IT DOES TAKE ALOT OF MENTAL STRENGTH TO NOT TYPE IN 'THATCHERJOE' INTO THE SEARCH BAR)
6. Read over a couple of pages and re-write the info onto lines paper and highlight
7.Use different colours when writing out information
8. Plan and write out essay plans, model answers to questions
9. Do practice papers and then mark them
10. Create a booklet on the whole subject then print it out and read over it - Be careful with this technique it took me hours to copy up 6 booklets and when I went back on to carry it on, I found out it hadn't have saved, so be sure to save it before you exit it
11. Create a powerpoint of the info
12. Create questions and answers and put them on different papers, then get someone to read the question out for you too answer then for them to check the answer
13. Create pictures that relate to the topic that help you remember; Evolution in Biology, draw a monkey and write all your information in that
14. Print out worksheets and go through them
15. Attend revision sessions

And finally breathers to do peri and post exam. I strongly recommended that you get lunch half an hour before your exam, you need food to focus, you don't want to be in the flow of writing then worrying about a massive grumble gurgling in your stomach, also I know its simply but  BREATHE, just relax for a bit and do the best you can :) Also have some chocolate as it releases serotonin which makes you happy and relaxed which will make you more likely to feel ready for the exam, and lastly take a bottle of water in with you, just to make sure that you aren't dehydrated, just be sure not to drink lots of it as you may need the loo.

GOOD LUCK IN YOUR EXAMS !!!! YOU WILL DO FABULOUSLY AND GRACIOUSLY :)

Grab the exam by the balls and own it's ass :)

Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo

Apologies .... and Revision Help :D

I AM SORRY!! I haven't posted in a while and I am not making excuses. simply on the Fridays I have been busy. I have been busy with college work, I have been trying to revise as I have 9 exams to do this summer, and three of them are resists and two of them exams are the first full year of business so basically I am doing two years worth of business in this year, and I am not looking forward to it its just so stressful and not the most amazing thing in the whole entire world so I have trying to go over everything but I am just in that student phase of "cant be arsed, I will do it later".

College is stressful as I am sure every student will agree with me. There is just so much to do and its hard to juggle it all! There is study, revision, food, sleep, parties, friends, family, days out, relaxation. Sometimes I want to go to the highest mountain and scream! But don't fear if any of you need tips for revision here are is KatyNells Spectacular Study Tips;

1. Make sure you have a cup of you favourite beverage.
2. Make sure you have snacks, especially chocolate as it releases serotonin, the 'happy' neurone transmitter.
3. Have pens, notebooks, notecards and highlighters at the ready.
4. If you wish to feel relaxed massage your feet, or have a bubble bath.
5. Return to your desk and stretch all of your phalanges (fingers) make sure they are ready to write loads of words, lots of pointless words.
6. Clear your throat, as its always good to have clear air way passages.
7. Go on your laptop and open a tab to a page that has the topic you are studying, examples are; law, business, chemistry, biology, maths, english etc.
8. Get your notebook and write the title of the topic then underline, with a few cheeky bullet points underneath, and make very few notes after looking at the page.
9. Open another tab, Netflix maybe or that website where you stream the latest movies maybe, or get the boxset of your favourite tv show and stick it in the dvd player.
10. Grab your beverage, snacks and sit back and enjoy whatever you are watching.

So there you go, this technique I have been doing for a while now and I can safely say it has 0% success rate in getting that grade you dream for, BUT it does allow you swoon over you favourite characters, which c'mon lets be honest will take us further in life.

Hope you enjoyed this weeks post :) I will do one on revision and organisation of work and time but that will be when I actually know what the best technique is or how to actually organise everything as I am not a very organised person, yeah so hope you are having a fantastic Friday, and I will be putting up two more posts after this one to make up for the two I didn't post two weeks ago! I hope you amazing, beautiful, loving people have an fantabulous weekend!!

Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo