If your exam is about a month away, this plan turns past paper questions into a steady routine. Adjust the days to your own timetable.
List every topic in your syllabus and mark each one green (confident), amber (shaky) or red (weak). Be honest. The plan below spends most of its time on amber and red.
Work through your red topics, one a day. For each, spend a short time on notes, then attempt every question untimed, mark it against the mark scheme, and write your errors in a log. Finish with one amber topic.
Do your amber topics. At the end of the week, redo the questions you got wrong in week 1. Anything you still cannot do goes on a short list to ask your teacher about.
Do questions for all topics against time, at about a minute a mark. Mix topics within a session so you have to recognise what each question is asking. Sit one full paper at the end of the week, in exam conditions.
Sit full past papers, one every two days, and mark each strictly. In between, read your error log and redo only the questions you lost marks on. In the last two days do no new material. Sleep, and read the log once more.
The method is explained in more detail in how to use topical past papers. ExamYard’s printed question books are arranged by topic with the mark scheme separate from each question, which suits weeks 1 and 2 of this plan.