Not a spesh ques, just here for some advices. So my school has finished teaching all the spesh content and I started doing practice papers. I did an insight one (im assuming they're pre basic ques) but I did so badly like I can barely answer the questions... I feel so shitty and dk what to do anymore should I be doing more papers and exercises or go through all my notes first? Iv also heard ppl saying going through notes isn't a great way to revise:( can I get some advice pls im rly struggling rn TY!!
This question requires more introspection on your part. Here's a handy rule for going through papers - for every mark you lost, you should spend a
timed 2-3 minutes on that mark trying to figure out why you lost those marks, and fixing it. It seems like a small amount of time, and why bother timing it, right? However, if in a 40 mark paper, you lost 30 marks, that means you should be spending over an hour on that paper figuring out where you went wrong - how long do you think you realistically spent on this paper going through why you lost marks?
Also, I want to clarify - I'm not talking as simple as, "oh no, I lost here because I did the wrong method. Oh well." Really /think/ about why you lost those marks. Why did you choose to use that particular method? Why did you interpret that question wrongly? What should you do next time to make sure you're doing that question correctly? For example, consider the following question:
Maybe the reason you got the answer wrong is because you divided by the coefficients instead of multiplying by the coefficients. So, in those 2-3 minutes, you should have identified that you mixed up the anti-derivative with the derivative. Is that because you remembered the rules wrong? Okay then, now you know you need to spend some time revising differentiation rules vs anti-differentiation rules. Maybe it's because you read the word derivative wrong? Okay, so come up with a strategy where you don't make that mistake - maybe you should start circling the key-words in a question. Maybe you applied the quotient rule, not the product rule? Cool, spend some time revising the product rule and how to use it.
The only thing this method doesn't help with, is it will tell you where you lost marks on this paper - not on future papers. However, by doing this, you should be able to pick up on all the non-specifics you're losing in your exam marks. Things not related to specific questions, but related to bad exam technique. Once you've picked those up, then you should start to assume if you're having issues with some topics, you likely need to revise that whole topic a bit better (eg, constantly getting differentiation questions wrong, revise all of differentiation)
People who say going through notes isn't a great way to revise are people who already know all of the content. If you're struggling to recall content that you need to know, it is 100% worth going through your notes again to revise. Yes, you can bring a book with all the information in the world written on it into this exam, but you need to recall that information under timed pressure. The best students aren't the ones who bring textbooks-worth of information into the final exam, it's the students who don't need to bring textbooks-worth of information into it.