Why can't I Revise

[Your Captain 2.0]

I'm back! To those who might remember me (I jevernpostednon he category) but I used to have 1000 posts etc. But I deleted my account but now I've come back seeking important advice.

I cannot revise!
I am in year 12 and I am approaching mocks. I know I need to revise but I can't. To me, I was not happy with my GCSE results; I revised 4 hours a day on non school days and 2 hours after school, when I say revise I mean sit down at the table, in reality I only did 30 mins of revision a day while the other time I just went on my phone etc.
I was not happy wit my results, yet I still did not revise in my September assents so I got kicked out of 3 subjects!
I have mocks next wee and I still haven't revised. It's not that I don't get reminded to revise... See, this is the biggest problem; my parents, sister, friends, teachers all tell me to revise but each time they said it: I get more annoyed, frustrated and repelled from doing it.
I know if I revise I will get good grades which will hopefully take me to a good career but I really don't want to revise.

Can someone help me and give me advise to motivate me to revise and to help me actually revise.
P.s. I don't see putting my phone in the other room much help as I am shit so I need my phone to google many things.

Please help

[Microcosm]

You could listen to some Classical music for an extra boost(See: The Mozart Effect (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281386/)).

There are certain OTC meds you can take to temporarily improve energy and brain performance such as genseng.

[northy]

You could listen to some Classical music for an extra boost(See: The Mozart Effect (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281386/)).

There are certain OTC meds you can take to temporarily improve energy and brain performance such as genseng.
I think those medicines count as cheating. But they don't check for them, so it's your morals basically.

As my head of sixth form says, "You can only revise in an empty room". Move away from all distractions and just go through your notes. Make sure you understand everything and are confident with it. Do past papers, rewrite your notes, go through the spec. Look at the examiners report for 2014 to see what common mistakes people make.
Good luck.

Fellow Year 12.

[amgb]

It sounds like despite results and distractions you have been trying to work hard and that's something that counts. Sorry to hear you didn't make it for those 3 subjects :/ I've had similar issues with motivation, concentration and commitment in regards to studying and revising. So I understand how much of a pain it is to not only have to revise and know your stuff, but also having to deal with pressures from people in your life. Try and tell them that you need a break from those pressures, especially when you've got year 12 exams coming up and it's stressing you out.

Have a study plan, but take short breaks like every hour. Maybe do your notes in coloured pens so it's more visually mind-activating, but don't worry if your notes are messy, it's about revising the content of what you need to know. Like the person above said; doing past practise papers are a good idea. Make sure you get enough sleep and eat properly to keep your energy level up. If you need to, have your favourite snack sitting next to your desk. I totally get the phone distraction, my phone distracts me so much. What I try and do is put some music on and keep the phone in my pocket. So I only get it out when I need to research or look something up. But everybody's different, not sure if that would work for you and its all good if it doesn't. Perhaps do you get less distracted using a computer/laptop instead?

I'm in year 11, but I'm happy to help you with the subjects that you're revising. Feel free to send me a VM anytime. Wait, do let me know beforehand which subjects you're doing~~~

[Desuetude]

I barely revised for GCSEs either but I'm telling you now, AS/A-levels are a massive step up from them. Even if you got A*s at GCSE you wouldn't pass A-levels without revising.

Being a first year I assume you have free periods at college. First thing to do would be to use them to study. I get that you want to sit with mates and do nothing but these 2 years are important, go sit in the library with a friend or just get on a computer somewhere and make yourself do it. Saying that, the library can be a godsend, usually theyre open after college too so staying there a couple nights a week can be a great, distraction free set up.

All I'll say is past papers, past papers, past papers. Your teachers will go on and on at you and please listen to them. If you havent done every single past papers for evrry year for each subject twice then damn, you're slacking (my maths teacher told me 3 times but there was about 48 papers so nahh) but really, past papers saved my AS grades. Revision cards are great for small details you need to remember but the same shit comes up in every year so its definitely worth doing papers (start open book and when you get more confident do them closed book) and then marking them afterwards making note of the topics you need to go over.

If you want to do well you have to your yourself in a position that allows you to. Its all well and good saying you need good grades and that you'll work hard but its implementing it that will get you somewhere.

[Fiction]

I barely revised for GCSEs either but I'm telling you now, AS/A-levels are a massive step up from them. Even if you got A*s at GCSE you wouldn't pass A-levels without revising.

Being a first year I assume you have free periods at college. First thing to do would be to use them to study. I get that you want to sit with mates and do nothing but these 2 years are important, go sit in the library with a friend or just get on a computer somewhere and make yourself do it. Saying that, the library can be a godsend, usually theyre open after college too so staying there a couple nights a week can be a great, distraction free set up.

All I'll say is past papers, past papers, past papers. Your teachers will go on and on at you and please listen to them. If you havent done every single past papers for evrry year for each subject twice then damn, you're slacking (my maths teacher told me 3 times but there was about 48 papers so nahh) but really, past papers saved my AS grades. Revision cards are great for small details you need to remember but the same shit comes up in every year so its definitely worth doing papers (start open book and when you get more confident do them closed book) and then marking them afterwards making note of the topics you need to go over.

If you want to do well you have to your yourself in a position that allows you to. Its all well and good saying you need good grades and that you'll work hard but its implementing it that will get you somewhere.

Past papers is the best advice. Unfortunately you can know the answer to an A-level question, get it right, but not get any marks for it because you have to answer it in a very particular way.

I used to go through past papers and then mark it, being really stringent on the mark schemes, not just marking it right because it was about there. Then I'd go back and do all the questions I didn't get full marks for. Literally repeat that for all the past papers more than once and you'll be fine. But you do have to be stringent when marking yourself.