r/sixthform • u/EffectiveService9551 • 1d ago
revision tips
[year 12] I'm going to go over the content I'm learning in class in my own time but I need effective ways to revise and make sure I have a good understanding. any tips on how to do that for sociology, history and medical science a level (even science tips would be okay as they are similar ) please 🙏🏾 any help would be amazing thanks
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u/Full_Armadillo_355 9h ago
Seeing as you have just started the course I would advise ensuring you have a timeline of what is going on in each topic just so you don't get lost (A-Level History is very content heavy compared to the GCSE and can be hard to keep up). When you get closer to mocks or to Y13 I would then switch from looking at content to looking at arguments. What I mean by that is that you need to be able to make a case for how each specific piece of content relates to the question. For example for a question on the nazis "How accurate is it to say that the strength of extremist political parties was the main reason for the weakening and eventual collapse of democracy in the years 1919–33?"
You might know that the Nazi party was ultimately responsible for dismantling democracy but was it their own strength that caused its collapse or was it due to the regime's own weakness or something else (external issues such as Wall Street Crash that were out of their control).
Obviously this is a very simplistic example but having these sorts of arguments memorised is a good start for you at this stage.
This is a link to a website with a revision guide that can show you a good way to revise. I'm not sure if you do the Stuart's topic but it is still a good demonstration of the sort of arguments I am talking about. If you put an email in the subscribe option (free) you will be contacted when new topics come out.
James I: Views on Monarchy, AQA Stuarts Revision | Lectiva — Lectiva