8 simple things i did to go from ABC to A*A*A* in one year of A Levels 

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1. Do extra research beyond the spec content 2. Use your frees and work smart ! 3. Make the revision notes as early as you can, as you go along 4. Analyse content to make sure you understand fully 5. Make essay and question answer plans 6. Immerse yourself in the subject when revising 7. Contribute in class and share your ideas 8. Condense information and then condense it again Great video Jack !! Good luck to everyone going back

"you can't revise if you didn't vise in the first place" thanks, i feel attacked

I went from CCC to A*AA - how did I do it? I didn't sit my exams.

Please do this for uni. How to prep for lectures take notes during lectures as I can’t keep up and never know what to write so I write everything in case I miss something and revise for essays/ essay preps xx love your videos

Somehow last summer I walked out of my school on results day with A*A*A* without having revised literally AT ALL (mental health kinda took over) and upon reflection I’ve realised that it all came down to the fact that I (unknowingly and accidentally) studied really hard and smart. I drifted apart from all but two of my friends which meant that socialising in frees wasn’t really an option, so I spent every free moment in the library researching, doing homework, notes, essay plans etc., I did literally about 10 years worth of past and specimen papers and learnt the questions and mark schemes by heart, listened very intently in class to discussions (didn’t contribute unless prompted bc anxiety 🥺👉🏼👈🏼) and was constantly making pretty revision notes to fill time lol. It just takes time, practice and patience but it’s definitely attainable!

Me, a 27-year-old woman who left school a decade ago, watching a video about how to get A*A*A* in my A-levels.

I'm actually so so afraid of getting incredibly high offers and not reaching them!!

I searched the word "inspirational" in the dictionary, and "Jack Edwards" came up

i just realized that the curriculum and standards of a high school diploma in different countries are soo different in difficulty and type

One tip I'd say which I had to get out of the habit of myself, is don't put off any topic/section of a course. It's so easy to, because you might not understand it, put off an entire chapter/page of a textbook and then just spend your time revisiting something you already know quite well. Even if you spend 5 or 10 minutes reading through something you don't understand, it will start to make sense once you keep revising it and noticing links to other relevant content! Please don't neglect parts of your syllabus, especially for GCSEs and A-Levels where you could get questioned on any of it :)

Here’s one. Did you start A Levels thinking how cool it would be to go back to GCSE and see how easy they seem? Make that happen while doing A level! Go above and beyond, so A level seems like the bare minimum and easy! I’m working towards doing that now. Good luck everyone and nice video Jack!

Jack literally made my A Levels

Jack:ANALYASE STEM A-Level Students: does no analysis whatsoever

"so the new academic year is about to start, and I'm not sure how because we haven't had Easter yet" omg THIS is how I feel about 2020

This is literally what I needed, I thought increasing my grades from BBC - AAB/AAA

Now THIS is what I needed!!! I’m on A*AC and STRUGGLING because I want A*A*A to get onto the course I want

Good luck to anyone starting school tomorrow you got this 💖

I'm not going to lie my brain read the thumbnail as ACAB and I was like Jack's changing things up nice.

I rly loved how Jack mentioned instead of how to get A*A*A* he said how to get ‘the grades ur aspiring to’ as everyone has diff goals they wanna achieve and feel proud of :))

Got DDD for predicted. Working for Triple A. I am on the right track😎

Thank you so so so so so much Jack! I've always been high achieving student but a-levels has really hit me hard and I ended up failing one of my subjects in our mocks this year. You've motivated me to change my attitude to be more productive rather than feeling sorry for myself.

Already making revision notes/flashcards from the content I've learnt so far

Who is already missing the opening line that Jack used to say *Hello everyone. My name is Jack Edwards and I am a 3rd year Eng Lit degree student at Durham University* ?

Thank you so much! These were literally my y12 mock grades and I would love to get these end of next year !!! Good luck with the gap year plans love you so muc thank you for everything

i swear by all of these methods!! they just work so well for me. it's all well and good for some people to say 'put this on a flashcard' but Jack's tips are the best because he isn't saying there's only one method but these tips can be adapted for everyone's revision methods

This is exactly what I needed as I have my A Level exams in a few weeks ❤️

Jack i cant explain how much you've helped me with my GCSEs and now that im starting A levels, this video was perfect! your study with mes motivate me and videos like these are genuinely helpful. plus, ive taken English Lit too so your channel overall is just a massive help! so this is just a thankyou i guess! love ya

This is actually so useful for my AP classes and exams this year. Thank youuu, Jack!

Jack has had such a glow up during quarantine

literally needed this!! thanks jack :)

I NEEDED THIS THANK YOU JACK!!

OMG, this video is awesome !! thanks for the 8 simple tips which make me have a great start of Year 13. I used to watch your videos on study tips before the sixth form, your tips always make me stay productive and keeping things on the right track. "Work harder and work smarter" is absolutely true

watching this to procrastinate studying but it actually ended up motivating me so thanks jack!!

ahhh jack this will be so helpful!

Bought the uni-verse last week, so worth it it's amazing 😍😍

This is knowledge packed. Thank you, especially for the last two tips, really helpful.

We don't have A levels in australia, but we have something similar. I will say I got one free period on wednesday afternoon. We have lessons from 9-3 all week. And we didn't have exams. We had 40% essays. So there was barely any time for breaks and socialising. As out of school hours you'd be researching for a really large essay. I got two B- and two C+ despite getting straight As (and a few Bs) in every subject up until then. So I wish I had seen this video then (4-5 years ago now)

Starting my A Levels tomorrow I’m binging all your A Level videos so I feel prepared 😂😂

thankyou so much!! i start college tomorrow and this really helped calm my nerves 😬 i’m so determined to do well for a level

loved this perfect timing for me to go back to sixth form!!

I start my A Level subjects this Wednesday so thank you for these tips!

holy, i legit needed this!

Thanks Jack! Just started year 13 so definitely need the help, I was quite good at using my independent studies last year as I only went home if I had a free last (once a week) so used my other 3 but now with covid we aren't allowed on site if we have a free period 1st or last (unless we have a workshop lesson after school) so that cuts me back down again. But I will start revising from this week especially as the school has no clue when our mocks are going to be. Good luck to everyone this year!

Had my first week of sixth form last week. These tips are definitely going to help me out. Thanks Jack

Thank you so much ! I just started sixth form last week and was thinking about the best way to start and this helped a lot !

Thank you for this video Jack!!

Thanks, great video! Would love to see more of these!

Starting sixth form tomorrow, doing history, english language and french and i’m absolutely bricking it. Thank you for these tips though, i think they’ll be really useful :D

I've just gone into year 13.... i'm so anxious about doing well and finishing everything considering how much time we've had off... thanks for the video!!

needed this, beginning to freak out

this is so perfect eek i’m about to start y13 thank u jack !!!!

God, I have my IB final exams this year and I'm so so stressed. So thank you Jack for posting this video!! :)

I worked so hard for my English A-Level but got an E , back in 2000! We were allowed to bring our texts in, thank goodness! I did past papers, extra essays, started my essays as soon as we were given them, made quote/character/theme cards and essay plans... A couple of weeks before my English lit exam, one of my teachers told me I really didn’t know how to/couldn’t write essays. Some of my classmates did their essays the night before they were due in, messy presentation and they got As, while I got B-, having spent the last couple of weeks working on it! Most people doing English Lit also did History, so I think they must have a similar mind ( analytic, able to structure a coherent argument...).

Bish! I need to get from a D average to A's 😭😭

I live in the U.S. so there is a little difficulty with the dialect for me. However I just wanted to hop in the comments and say thank you so much. These tips are amazing! This is the first video I have watched where the tips are not redundant. Thank you so much! Glad I subscribed a while back when you came up in the suggestions.

thank you so much jack! I'm about to start sixth form doing history, sociology and law and this was so helpful!

Thank you so much for sharing this video. It helped my studies

THANK YOU ! this helps soooo much

Jack Edwards just makes me think I’m gonna get three A*s now what a guy

Literally the perfect timing for me before starting my freshman college

me, having already finished my A-levels and about to go to uni like 👀👀👀 time to watch

needed this! thanks u legend 😎

I agree with everything you said! However one point I would like to say is it's quite tricky within the sciences (from my experience with bio) to read beyond the course content and include it in questions because the mark schemes were so tight, and honestly harsh that it didn't cater for extra knowledge. At least with OCR. That being said I definitely agree with humanities and English etc! Xx

Thanks for the advice!

King I'm begging you do a uni version- things you did to get a first!!

I’m starting a levels tomorrow so thank you for easing my massive worries 🥺🥺😂

Thanks chap, wish I motivated myself sooner as I've basically done no revision and mocks are in 2 weeks

I WISH I HAD THIS VIDEO DURING MY A LEVEL TIMES! MAN NOT FAIR!

In second year of uni but, I still dunno how to study so gonna use this. Even fluked a first last year, but yanno, corona and some online exams was helpful

I’m starting year 13 and this was so helpful!

Hi jack!!! I’m doing IB but I’m still going to watch this video!! Haha x

I'm was on BBB at the end of Juky and I have 1 week until our UCAS mocks Thank you Jack for this video Given me such motivation because I think I lost it a bit over the summer

Thanks Jack. 💙

Smart work takes you a long way

Thank you Jack. If possible, will you please make a video on condensing content?

I relate, I also used to teach myself everything (I had already forgotten) during revision 🥴

Good tips. Similar to what should be done in uni.

They should show these videos in the sixth form assemblies. Love them!

trying to watch the video but all i can focus on this the alocasia polly behind you, love that plant. but they are pretty fussy. good luck

Hey Jack, I’m also doing history and politics for A Levels and I just wanted to ask, how did you revise/what was the best revision technique that you used for them 2 subjects?

i was just at this very moment crying and breaking down about my ABC (math bio chem) (was crying about chem lol) and then i see this on my recommended. Thanks jack! :)

this is such a helpful video!! ik it might be kind of weirdly late considering you did your a levels a while ago at this point but would you consider making a video on how you got an a* in a level politics? i thought you’d done one already but it’s only english and history:)

I am genuinely going into Year 13 with ABC grades and I need to raise my grades considerably in order to get into my dream uni! I really hope I get those grades!!

wow these are so helpful :)

All I can say is thank you

I did my alevels two years ago and you best believe I’m still gonna watch !! 😍

I started watching Jack at the beginning of 4th year and now I'm in my final year doing the exact same A-Levels as him pure madness ahahaha

thank you

Thank you! I wish I have seen this two years ago, but the people doing A-levels during COVID do deserve your advice. I would like to add advice for people doing Art related A-levels as I boosted two numbers in a year. 1. Do all the relevant above in Jack's video! 2. Listen to your teacher's feedback but not their instructions of what you need to do practically. So I have taken on board from teachers that I need to make a good journey in my book. I have also started my coursework book from scratch at the start of y13, figuring out the best journey for myself without my teacher leading me from random task to task. 3. Do what you are genuinely interested in a specific area of your subject. I found out a few weeks before my y12 mock exam that I don't have to do dark, moody art that everyone else is doing. I can use my love for finding happiness in simple things within my exam and coursework journey. 4. Look through lots of past student coursework books - both good and bad. 5. Look through success criteria and pick out practical things to include in your book (Analysis, good quality photos or artwork, work you dislike and improvements, contact sheets etc.) I hope this helps. Please boost if you find it helpful as there aren't that many videos or advice like this for Art-related students - I'm a past Photography A-level student. Bear in mind there are so many hours of work in those subjects.

I'm so ready for this insop, predicted ABB but corona is killing me. I WANNA BE OVER THE MOON😂😂

I'm watching this video to get the gist and help out my niece who's currently in her senior high school.

Starting y13 on Wednesday so I neeeed this 😣😣

I need this since I missed 1/4 of a levels due to corona

I am going to my final year (year 13) helpppppp

Being from another country, I don't even know what A levels really are but I'll still watch every Jack's videos without exception

Thank you😊❤

Sat here having just finished my alevels and had 0 control over my grades BUT here we are! Also big load of advice if you’re doing subjects like English or essay subjects in general DO EXTRA READING! Find every possible opinion on the topic that give a different view to yours, throwing in one sentence being like on the other hand this could be seen as this... will really be helpful in your essays!!

Your tip 1 reflects me, as I am taking an undergraduate physics course for gifted students on Saturdays. As a result, I got 120/120 UMS on every Physics Unit 1 past paper I have done. I am now taking IAL exams in two batches and there are only 29 days to my first batch of exams. Wish me luck!

Please can you do a video about writing a personal statement specifically for English