One of the most crucial parts of my A-level revision was to make sure I practised as many past papers as possible and attempted these under exam conditions. Even if my teachers had set a past-paper question as a homework activity, I strived to complete it under the timed conditions that I would face in the exam hall. Not completing them to time would have lulled me into a false sense of security and made me think that my practice grades were better than they were.
In the run-up to the exam my teachers made us complete responses under strict exam conditions, which was really valuable. A general rule of thumb is to allow yourself a mark a minute for any question that you face and this is something that I aimed to stick to throughout all of my exams. However, my attempts at practice questions soon showed me that this did not mean that I needed to write non-stop.
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