HEY GUYS I WAS WONDERING WHAT YOU THOUGHT (ESP MODERATORS) WHAT WAS THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE FOR TRIALS (OTHER THAN THAT BRILLIANT NEW TOPIC TEST FOR EXT 2 
WHICH IVE ORDERED). So what is it? Textbook Qs all day or trial questions all the way? I personally did a tonne of trials before half yearlies and just didn't find them challenging in a good way... It's just a tonne of easy-ish questions with some half hard ones or ridiculously hard - I felt like I didn't cover much of the course either. And half of my study I spent quite uninterested/unmotivated (I realise trials will change that ahahahha and I need to revise- so they are a really good option). So yea what do you legends think. What's the way to go? Smash out textbooks for each topic or focus on trial papers? Or maybe something completely different hahaha just take notes?
By the time it was trials for 4U I honestly gave up textbooks. Only past papers can emulate what you're going to get on the day.
Yes, doing questions from here on is the way to go. But textbooks really don't reflect what you're going to get these days. The closest to the exam style questions would be the Syd Grammar questions, which I gather that you have but presumably you have covered quite a load of them already. You can probably still do some more in the meantime if your trials are far away, especially since motivation levels do spike up in preparation for trials, but once you get to that period where you have to study for trials it won't matter too much.
You might not need to worry too much about easy questions for now, but you're going to have to practice them seriously. Because if you don't practice the easy ones, you'll find you make an embarrassing amount of silly mistakes. On the contrary, seeing as though you look as though you have all the easy content covered, (provided you can juggle your other subjects) it's time to aim high. Those really hard questions aren't meant to be things you just look at and say "oh yep duh", even though every now and then you might. Unlike scraping, training yourself enough to score well into the 90s is going to require those questions be knocked down. You should be able to develop enough skills to be able to at least give it a shot, even if you don't get the final answer out. Remember, questions won't be worth only 1 mark unless they're trivial at the end of the paper.
Now, I need to make a comment on this:
I felt like I didn't cover much of the course either.
If you do a LOT of past papers, yes you will. No guarantee that you're going to cover every cornerstone of the course, but you're going to have covered quite a fair load.
Key word is a LOT though. Extension 2 is huge; it's not as restricted as Extension 1 in what they can ask. You're gonna have to go all over the place with them papers.
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