I got top grades in my GCSEs - here's my top revision hack

• British influencer, Bibi, regularly shares study tips with her 123,000 followers
• She revealed her biggest ‘practice question hack’ that got her top grades
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A star pupil who got ‘all 8s and 9s’ in her GCSEs has revealed her biggest revision hack, ahead of the 2024 exam season.

British influencer, Bibi, who posts on TikTok under the handle @bibim7, regularly shares her study tips and tricks with her 123,000 followers.

The student sat her own GCSE exams last year, and shared her impressive list of results afterwards – now she wants to help other youngsters achieve the same success.

From how to prepare the night before an exam, to how to do past papers effectively, she has shared a variety of helpful videos aimed at this year’s cohort.

In one recent clip, which has already been seen by more than 239,000 people, the TikToker reveals her ‘biggest practice question hack’ that she believes helped her get a high grade in every subject.

British influencer, Bibi, who posts on TikTok under the handle @bibim7, regularly shares her study tips and tricks with her 123,000 followers

She told viewers: ‘This is my biggest practice question hack that I think helped me get all 8s and 9s in my GCSEs and I don’t think you would have heard of it before.

‘So you probably know by now that doing practice questions is the best thing for literally all of the subjects – STEM and humanities.

‘You have Physics and Maths Tutor and Maths Genie, where you can get your science ones and your maths ones, even like English and history.

‘The issues with English, poetry, history, R.E, all of those types of subjects, is that there have only been so many years of GCSEs so you can only complete so many past paper questions on those kind of websites.’

The influencer explains: ‘Which means once you’ve done seven, you haven’t covered all of the questions that could come up and obviously they’re not going to come up if they have already come up before.

‘So, this is the best thing you can do, which honestly saved me so much. I’m gonna do history as my example.’

Showing her own computer screen on the camera, she advises: ‘What you’re going to do is search up the exam and then add ‘every possible question’.

As an example, Bibi searched for ‘GCSE Edexcel History Medicine Through Time every possible question’.

Showing her own computer screen on camera, she advises: ‘What you’re going to do is search up the exam and then add ‘every possible question’

She continues: ‘There will be multiple websites that will have every single question that could come up based on the specification.

‘So this is literally every topic on medicine through time, Edexcel. Every 20-marker, every four-marker that could come up.’

Providing another example, she continued: ‘Here is the same for R.E, just by typing the same thing.

‘Like for Christian beliefs, every five-mark question, every four-mark question, every twelve-mark, and it literally goes through all of that for every single sub-topic.

‘For power and conflict poetry I’ve literally found 15 here which covers every poem. I did this for history and one of the questions that wasn’t in a past paper but was on one of these websites came up in the exam.

‘Because I had already planned it in my revision, I didn’t have to plan it in my exam and I could just write it.’

She encouraged students that this is the ‘perfect thing’ to do because ‘no past exam question for these kinds of subjects is ever gonna come up again in the future’.

Adding: ‘Also, sometimes there are not enough practice questions if you want to cover all of the poems for example.

‘This is literally the best thing you can do and it’s worked with everything I’ve tried. Every time I’ve put ‘every possible question’ in there has always been a website with every possible question.

‘So I really recommend this, you don’t have to write them all out, you just have to plan them or at least look at them and know whether you’d be able to answer them or not.’

Current GCSE students flocked to the comments to thank the study pro for her ‘useful advice’.

One joked: ‘This girl… she might just save my life’ and a second added: ‘That’s such a good idea omg’.

A third penned: ‘Thank you so much oml’ and a fourth wrote: ‘One of the best tips ever’.

Others chimed in with: ‘Ahhh this is so good’ and ‘This is such a useful tip… thank you’.

However, one student argued: ‘But there’s not enough time to plan all of them,’ to which Bibi encouragingly responded that there is.

It comes just after a study found that pupils who attend schools where mobile phones are forbidden end up attaining higher grades in exams.

The GCSE results of teenagers whose phones are stored or locked away all day are one or two grades higher than those at schools with relaxed rules on mobile phones, a report published today shows.

Schools with an ‘effective ban’ on mobile phones were also more than twice as likely to be rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.

The think-tank Policy Exchange sent 800 Freedom of Information requests to primary and secondary schools across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

407 schools responded fully or in part to questions asked about mobile phones.

Only 11 per cent of secondary schools were found to have an ‘effective ban’ on mobile phones – where they are not allowed on site or were stored away in lockers at the start of the school day.

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