Foreign Perspectives

All being well, I will have completed my run-through of the revision notes by this afternoon so that leaves Saturday and Sunday for some last-minute stuff.

My plan at the moment is that I’ll put the books to one side and go through the short question sections of one or two past papers on Saturday with a final read-through of the revision notes over the course of Sunday. That’s if I find I can answer the first past paper from memory, of course; otherwise Saturday will be drafted in as a revision session too. One of the more important things to do is to look at the formulae and constants that are given with the exam paper and check that I know what each of them are for.

Also to be done is assembling all the bits and pieces for the day itself. As it’s a science exam that list is a little bit longer than usual with the addition of a calculator and my drawing set in case I feel the urge to run up a diagram at some point. Also in there are the gel refills for the pens though there’s not so much writing for this one as for the psychology so I’ll likely just use the ordinary refill. I’ve still to print the exam allocation page and track down the passport for id. And, of course, the Lucozade and wine gums. Despite the vast amount of revision I’ve done for this in comparison that for previous exams I suspect there’ll be a number of “wine gum moments” (ie when I’m staring at the exam paper and haven’t a clue where to start).

‘Tis odd to think that this time last year I was working on the Child Development revision. I see from the drastic increase in hits on the site that lots of people are doing that right now.