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Why It’s Easier Than Ever To Achieve Your Target Grade In GCSE Maths

I recently wrote a report called: Why it’s Easier Than Ever To Achieve Your Target Grade In GCSE Maths…

If you haven’t read it yet, you can download it from here >>

The great news is, it’s got even easier, particularly for Edexcel students.

The gap between paper 1 and paper 2 this year is almost 2 weeks!

Unlike previous years, when there were only 3/4 days between both papers.

Not only that, but you have a week-off in between.

This means you have a greater chance of maximising your score in each paper.

You should stop all revision for paper 2 as from today and focus solely on paper 1 until you’ve taken it on the 26th May 2016.

Then immediately after, focus on paper 2.

I have advised my tuition students to do the same.

Don’t revise any topics that feature in paper 2 until you’ve completed paper 1.

If you’re unsure on what kind of topics will feature in each paper, take a look at the lists below:

GCSE Maths Higher Non Calculator Topics

GCSE Maths Higher Calculator Topics

Focus on your areas of weakness too. These are questions you got wrong consistently in your practice papers.

Use my past papers by topic to target specific areas.

Save one or two practice papers (ideally the 2015 papers) for the penultimate day i.e. the day before the actual exam.

This is what I like to call the ‘the acid test’. Whatever you get in these papers is what you’ll get in the real thing.

If you’ve already gone over them, don’t worry. You can always go over them a second time around.

If you’re a Edexcel student, I highly recommend that you download my ‘GCSE Maths Tricks of the Trade’ guide too.

What I’ve noticed over the last few years (as a result of face to face tuition) is there are a number of key areas that a typical student would drop marks on.

It is difficult to go through all of them in this blog post. That’s why I documented them into a guide.

Going through this guide alone will boost your final result by one whole letter grade >>

I have given you everything you need to achieve your target grade in GCSE Maths this year.

You really don’t have any excuses.

Go out there and smash it! 🙂

If you have any questions about revision, leave a comment below.

Good luck.

Jeevan S.