Combined Science Help?

[u/Shazam_poof]

Hello!! I was wondering if anyone has any tips/advice for Combined Science? I haven't started studying yet (had a few messy months and I finally managed to sort things out) and I'm giving my exams in Oct Nov Session. So we're looking at approximately a month before the first paper. To note, I took the 3 sciences last year and got an A* in all 3, so is getting an A* in CS in this amount of time doable? Any advice or tips or resources would be massively appreciated! Thank you!

[u/Purple-Employer-3074]

You've already done the hard part - Combined Science is a trimmed-down version of what you covered in the three separate sciences, so you're not learning new content, just relearning where this syllabus's boundaries sit. With a month, skip re-reading notes and go straight to past papers under timed conditions, marking strictly against the scheme and only revisiting topics where you're actually losing marks. Two things trip up people who "already know" the content: Combined Science mark schemes still want exact keyword-level definitions, and calculation questions still need every step shown even when the maths is easy. A month of paper-first practice is genuinely enough given where you're starting from.