March exam

That depends entirely upon you, your other commitments, your work, your demands from friends and family, how many hours you hope to commit to studying ….. all manner of unknowns. Yes, it’s possible, of course it is!

Get up every day at 06.30

Have breakfast

Start studying

Send out for a pizza around 21.00

Stop studying whilst you eat your pizza

Start again at 21.15

Stop studying at 01.00

Sleep until 06.00

Repeat until exam day

How can I possibly even begin to give you a sensible answer? I’ve just explained in my previous response that there are too many unknowns!

Personally, I would spend from today until mid February just reading the revision kit / exam kit from a reputable publisher. Repeat. Then repeat again. And again

Immerse yourself in the language and style of exam answers.

Pay attention to the verbs within the question requirements and not the subtle difference in direction that the answers take, dependent upon the verb used.

Around mid February, select a question at random from within the revision kit, divide the number of marks by 2, and spend that number of minutes READING and PLANNING an answer

At the end of that reading and planning time, STOP. Check your answer against the printed solution. Did you have sufficient one-word points in your plan to be able to fill them out into proper sentences thus enabling you to score more than 50% were you to have been faced with that question in an exam

And were there enough points for EVERY part of the question for you to score the required 50%?

I doubt it, very much! Be honest! Did you have sufficient to be able to score 75% of the available marks? I really doubt that, too But that’s the minimum you should be aiming for in your preparation

And, incidentally, this reading and planning time allocation is something that you should be doing in the real exam.

Of course, that means that you’re spending 50 minutes reading and planning and that’s out of the 180 minutes for the exam.

That, in turn, means that the time available for writing ONE sentence containing ONE relevant, correct, markable point is now just 1.3 minutes or 1 minute 18 seconds

Now, get a piece of paper and copy from a book or from even this reply of mine, just copy. And stop after 1 minute 18 seconds. Get someone to time you and get them to shout STOP when you’ve had your 1.3 minutes.

How much did you write?

Tell me in your response

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