Opentuition notes

Short answer … YES

As soon as a student has a sufficient grasp of the principles of each of the topic areas (which are covered by our notes), they should be doing as much question practice as possible – as I describe here https://opentuition.com/topic/exam-preparation-18 … and learning from the answers. If something is not clear from the answers they should check out their understanding by reference to a text (or browsing a suitable resource online) or asking me – that’s what I’m here for.

It is understanding and application to the given scenario that scores highly in AA – compare the approaches of these two first attempt candidates: https://opentuition.com/topic/my-approach-towards-clearing-aa-with-85 and https://opentuition.com/topic/how-i-pass-the-aa-for-50-marks-at-my-first-attempt – the latter’s rote learning approach is not the way to pass well.

No that’s not true.
Revision kits are a valuable resource for additional revision question practice and mock exams but because they are paper-based they can’t provide the same “exam experience”. So students should be sure to use all the CBE resources that are available to them. A student who relies too heavily on a kit and doesn’t practice sufficiently in the CBE platform will be relatively disadvantaged. (I have had students “complain” after an exam that they couldn’t size the left/right hand sides of the screen – or get text to wrap in cells – or use formula – all things that they should have sorted before sitting the exam.)