YOU’RE NOT STUPID: How to AVOID making SILLY MISTAKES in EXAMS that ruin your RESULTS

You're not stupid! You just need to perfect your exam technique! If you find that you're constantly losing marks due to silly mistakes, this is the perfect video for you! Find out my Grade 9/A* foolproof method for avoiding these mistakes in the exam and getting the grades you deserve.

⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:13 The Power of Double Checking
5:48 Educated Guessing
6:46 Maintaining Composure
9:30 Grade 9 / A* Preparation
11:37 Outro
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👩🏾‍💻 Get to know me: I'm Sola and I'm a third-year dental student studying at Barts & the London (QMUL)! This channel is for all things productivity, lifestyle and technology! I will hopefully be providing you with motivation as well as tips and tricks to improve your day-to-day life! Follow me on this journey through dental school! 💕

FAQ ✨:

How do I find the specification? Search it on Google e.g. AQA GCSE Biology Specification

How do I edit your timetable template? File → create a new copy → edit that copy

What extra subjects did you do for GCSE? Triple science, Computer Science, History, RS (I can’t make videos on anything else unfortunately!)

What did you do for A Levels? Bio, Chem, RS

What were your results? GCSE - 99999998, A Levels - A*A*A*
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[auroraa]

Damn the fact this came out just after I was reprimanding myself for silly mistakes in literally every test I have ever done and then scrolling through your vids is crazy. And YES changing answers last minute is almost always a bad idea. Thank you so much for making this.

[shelan]

my silly mistakes:
- changing my first instinct answers
- overcomplicating the question
- not giving myself enough time to think and saying anything just for the sake of saying something
- giving up in the middle of solving problems (physics, maths) thinking it's too hard
- being insecure and stressed about the time so jumping to the next question before finishing the first one and so on
- not giving my brain the time to figure out a clear structure to solve the problem and just starting to calculate whatever comes to my mind...not knowing where it's all going.
- not focusing on what the examiner may want to hear / what he's aiming at
- forgetting that I am in an exam situation, which leads to forgetting about the time limit and taking it easy until there's no time left and no more chance to show all the things that I've learned and the capacity of my thinking
- not revising just before the exam
- letting myself get out of the exam mode by distractions

[mikeyt]

Can't wait for this!! I make the dumbest mistakes in some of my exams but especially maths

[chris-sqtm]

maintaining your composure is the MOST IMPORTANT thing (at least for me)!

i had a physics test, there was this BIG problem and i got overwhelmed so quickly. what i did was to answer the other small problems first and come back to the big problem. luckily i still had time to calm myself down, taking deep breaths and slowly analyse where my mistake is. i took my time CALMLY until a SUDDEN SNAP and realization hits!!! you don't know how happy i was that day.

[Anathimsindo]

You are god sent❤️❤️❤️i have been procrastinating because this

[abzthegeneral]

I also feel like highlighting key words while reading the question is important to ensure you have read the question fully

[sanjlakhanpal]

The best video i have seen so far on this subject really good advice, thank you. Im trying to stop my 10 yr old making silly mistakes all the time

[studytab]

My dumb mistakes:
Not changing my answer when i know that i might be wrong
Not trusting myself fully (i get overwhelmed when i hear everyone goth everything right and i dont know what i did)
Not reading the question properly and only skimming through it
Not following my practice and changing my mind last minute

[mehzgirl]

I remember I was so close today, to changing one of my answers in my Bio mock! Glad I went with my gut!

[JaiMadhusuthan]

SOLA SAMEEE it always happens in maths I’ll miss 2 pages and it’s so annoying because I love maths

[amiemariec]

I really like your channel, thankyou for doing what you’re doing - a y11 student

[Nathaniel]

thank you so much for your tips i will definetly use them

[carmengomez]

This was so helpful! Thank you so much!!

[BossMbingado]

I actually got a low mark today and had to refer to this to gain some composure

[saip]

if there are 3 months left till exams and you start revision now, do you think its too late to get all 9s? i love your channel thank you ❤

[juventusfan]

I was also wondering a lot of people have said they went from 4s to 5s to 7-9 do you think thats possible since i got 4s and 5s in my mocks with little revision, can i achive those?

[juventusfan]

people are telling me to work hard but how hard would i need to work for those grades(7-9) for subjetcs such as math and combined sciene?

[kamertonaudiophileplayer]

Do you have something like a check card? I can pull the card from a pocket for every question and then do check, check, check for every item I have to check. It will help tremendously.

[AderinnolaPopoola-fs]

Hi sola have been finding it difficult to start from a subject to read and also don't know where or how to start my studying from. I am having my gcse exams in a year and 2 months .

[juventusfan]

how do i revise for combined science since i only have 3 months left to get those top grades?