ULTIMATE A Level Study Planner!

hey guys and welcome back so today I was going through a little tutorial for this AEV maths progress spreadsheet that I created and of course there's going to be a link to it in the description so the first thing you want to do is open that link go to file and then make a copy so of course this copy will not be editable by you because otherwise everyone's going to see all your edits so say if you make a copy you'll then be able to edit it and change it as you want okay so that's the first thing I want to get through because a lot when I did this for gcsc last year there's quite a few comments saying you know I can't edit it give me permission please Etc so again you have to make a copy and this will give you your own customizable copy let's quickly discuss all the different ways that I'm going to help you in your GCC or a level maths careers first of all I wanted to talk to you about the YouTube members this is a really cost- effective way of getting tutoring so I'm going to do weekly live streams for GCSE and AEV maths and that all comes for £18 a month and you get at minimum an hour of tutoring per week in these live streams at the moment they're quite small so you basically get tuition for about £4 50 an hour which is really really cheap the second thing is the patreon for those of you doing a level maths I have already completed as stats on my patreon is a full class with worksheets mark schemes videos I answer all the questions we're going to do exam papers and everything that needs doing we're halfway through mechanics as of yet and lastly there's tuition I still have places in my group classes for a-level maths and GCSE Maths for GCC it's £30 an hour and for a level it's £40 per hour so if you want to let me know if you're interested did just email me or join the Discord where I'm very very active all the time anyways back to the video so this is what the progress spreadsheet looks like it says here how to use uh that's going to be the link to this video which of course I can't put yet because I haven't recorded the video yet because I'm doing it right now and at the moment I've got the as pure and the uh as stats and mechanic stuff first okay that's all I've done so far again I'm going to add the A2 stuff in the coming uh weeks but I wanted to get this out now cuz I know we're approaching towards the end of the first big term we're just under halfway through it so I want to make sure to get it out so if you have a look you have all of the different topics broken down into subtopics so it's not just algebraic expressions it's index laws expanding brackets factorizing Etc and it goes through all of them there is a hell of a lot and I've also put what paper they're in now for as this is actually a bit boring anything that isn't stats of mechanics is in as paper 1 anything that is in stats of mechanics is in paper two but for the A2 content you have three papers and paper one and two have their own special kind of um syllabus okay so this will be much more interesting for the A2 stuff so I've kept it in the as just to make sure everything's nice and uniform I've also put what chapter in the book it appears in now if you don't have the book you can't afford it whatever please please please message me on Discord or email me I can sort you out but again you have to message me or email me okay and then I can maybe help you out I've also put in the relevant exercises in the books so 1 a and what page number they're on right pretty useful hopefully so the idea of this is to really lower the barriers to starting your or Vision so now you know exactly what you need to do right okay uh let me go through S okay it's this page open the page you're done there's no thought process you don't have to look at the contents page you have to look at anything and obviously for the overall chapters I've also put the mixed exercises and the review exercises that they're in so this is where can find every single question in the book on it so that is that for all of these then I have the YouTube video now the YouTube video is of course my YouTube videos of course so as you can see there's quite a few gaps that's because I haven't gone through absolutely everything just yet so this will fill up over time so I do recommend you come back to this link every now and then but as you can see we've already done a decent chunk of it now of course this because of the way schools work they can do this in any order so as um maths is quite separate in the sense of that you can kind of do it in whatever order you want so again maybe you started at the top or maybe I know some schools actually start with logarithms which is technically the last chapter it doesn't make a difference um CH saw you didn't start differentiation of integration though it also has the worksheet now the worksheet again is my worksheet that I've created for it it does say patreon but I want to point out that it's completely free if you it's just that's what I used to host the um posts themselves so you click on that you get the worksh you can download it boom all done and again this is just in case you don't need to look at the video you just want to do some practice questions in addition to the uh chapter questions that I put here totally fine this isn't an exhaustive list you can find more questions online and again we do have those resources in the Discord if you want to join that and have a look at what we have then I put the confidence red Amber green so green is this stuff's pretty easy now I will point out that quite a bit of as maths is just building on gcsc so for example index laws expanding bra brackets factorizing a lot of the quadratic stuff you've done that already so that might be green for you after just one try maybe possibly um Amber so green is you're 100% fine with it you can do any exam question it's completely okay Amber is you know you can work through the questions but it's not immediately obvious so maybe you're getting the right answer most of the time but maybe 10% of the time 20% of the time you're not and you're not too sure about the exam questions that are be an Amber and then red is having even touched it maybe you haven't done it in school maybe it's just a really difficult topic and that will help you prioritize what topics to go over because the green topics you don't really want to touch realistically because you know them whereas the red topics that's what urgently what you urgently need to pay attention to and of course only do this after you've revised it yourself one thing I will say with this though is again with uh a levels it's very independent so schools may not always finish everything or you may have for example inset days bank holidays could could be anything right you might be sick which means you're going to have to do it yourself in some cases then we come on to probably my favorite section which is the date completed now this is a model of learning so essentially the idea is if you learn something once let's say in a lesson you will forget it very very quickly so if I taught you right now how to add two fractions together for the first time you could do some questions in that lesson the next week you would have forgotten 90% of it that's what that's genuine actual Studies have shown that so what I've done for you is I've created this formula and I have to give shout out to Hadi as well to give me the idea which it spaces out your repetition so let's say we completed this what's the date today the date today is the 202nd let say today we completed algebraic expressions completely so if you notice this is the overall chapter but you can do this for each individual subtopic okay which I do recommend doing there you go all of these repetitions are automatically filled in with the ideal spacings as well automatically it's all filled in for you so now I know that since I've done it today the first repetition is tomorrow and then two days after that and then so on and just to address some questions first of all is this first repetition it doesn't mean let's say it took me 2 hours to do algebraic expressions it doesn't mean I need to spend 2 hours every further time this is the really really important thing thing you only need to remind yourself of the method realistically it could take 30 minutes so let's say in the next day I wanted to do quadratics okay so let's fill in that and that's the day I did it on the day I want to do quadratics I will do a couple of questions for algebraic expressions maybe three and then I'll start quadratics and then the next day I'll do some quadratics but then the day after that I'm doing the second repetition of ADB expression again just two or three questions so you're doing this kind of Step by Step so any time you're revising maths you're not really covering one chapter you're revising previous chapters too if you've ever wondered why Math teachers sometimes give you starter activities which are based on stuff you've done months ago this is why it's to kind of bring that knowledge to the Forefront of your mind you need to repeat it so again even though I'm meant to be doing quadratics I'm going to do a couple of questions again it could take 10 15 minutes could take up to half an hour of what I've already done and again that that's why that can get a bit complicated right and it can it can get a bit complicated to keep track of so I've made a little spreadsheet for you to make it all nice and neat now if you notice there's these colorings so these dark green it means that the date is in the future so you don't have to worry about it now but let's say I did index laws yesterday so 21 of 22 10 23 Amber means I have to do that today so this is how easy it is for you after you've studied the chapter for the first time you enter in the dates and you do anything that's yellow that's it it does it for you now what if I done it a few days ago let's say I did it on the 19th of the 10th 23rd if it's red it means that the date has passed and you urgently need to do this okay and it also means I should be doing the second repetition by now so I'm I'm very much behind so what can I do to fix this so what happens once you're actually done with the first repetition well let's say today I need to do index laws I needs to repeat that and I've done it I tick it and now it's locked to Green it's actually a different shade of green to the top one and that's by Design over time you're going to find that the whole spreadsheet should be green eventually and that shows that you've covered everything so again okay I've done the 20 okay done and then what I might do is leave it a day so leave it till tomorrow to do the second repetition TI It Off and look it's locked green and can you see it's a different shade that's the idea behind it now I have had questions about okay um can I change these formulas and the answer is absolutely so I'll show you the formula it just says it up here the first repetition is one day afterwards if you change this number it will change what rep how many days it is so that would be one day after if I change that to a three it' be 3 days after so second repetition is oops the second repetition is 3 days after third repetition is 7 days after after and as you can see it'll go up and there's in total seven repetitions if you don't want to do then that's 45 days after right so it's a really long uh time scale the seventh repetition is 2 months is after you've learned it and what by that point it will be cemented in your memory you won't forget it because you repeated it throughout two months so your brain thinks okay I've done this for two months now it must be useful information the problem with a lot of you guys when you study is you're not very efficient and with a levels is all about efficiency you might do the whole of chapter one in a day like 8 hours of studying okay but next week you for gotten 90% of it because you need to repeat it so I'd recommend when you do index laws let's say do half the chapter right let's say it's 10 questions do five questions that' be your date completed then do another question here another question here another question here so space out so you have extra questions available now with a level maths you can find a million questions online I'm going to be real so again you can change it if you notice by the way if I do that it gives me a warning so I could have locked so you couldn't change it at all I haven't done that because I want you to be able to customize it if you want you can customize this however you want so I've just put it as like a little bit of warning so then you don't accidentally do it and then for the applied content of course we have the same thing but it's for stats and mechanics okay it's very clearly laid out nice and neatly and it's the exact same thing the confidence the date of the first repetition it all works in the exact same way okay so hopefully that will um help you in your revision of course now with the stats and mechanics I will point out that there probably won't be very many if any YouTube videos the reason is because I actually do it on my patreon and we're actually all the way up to this is the last patreon thing that we've done so we've actually done all the previous Parts already I may release some parts for free but again it's not really fair on people that paid for the patreon if I release the whole thing so I hope that makes sense with regards to this again the most important thing realistically is do file and then make a copy don't if you try and edit this one it's going to give you a warning don't ask for permission because again this is my copy which everyone's going to be taking off of if I let you all edit it then you're going to have it's going to be very very messy but again if you have any suggestions for this then do let me know maybe we can add it to add to it may change it up a bit but I hope that this is useful to you and again the link to it is in the description