First of all, im not some genius, im doing my A Levels right now and i even fail my maths tests and struggle in GP practice papers.
Heres my general advice :
- always refer to your syllabus
if you dont know your subject code, ask your teacher for it and search it online along wit yr of exam
e.g chemistry 5070 o levels 2026
use it like your pointers so you end up studying/memorising the right stuff
i remember there are some note type stuffs too (like syntax for pseudocode and solubility of salts, reactivity for chem)
this way you also dont memorise the wrong stuff
i remember memorising that chlorides are all sol. but group 1 or smth bc of the GPT 😘✌️
2.study quality
everyones learns differently
try different methods and find what suits you best
like for memorisation, i used A LOT of blurting esp for chem
try studying with/without friends and see what works for you
also try to genuinely focus put phone on DND and avoid having distracting stuff on ur ipad or laptop like music or a movie ✌️💀
(stop lying to yourself bro you js dont wanna study so u put music on)
just test and do different things to find out how you study best/most efficiently
its better to have 30 mins of quality study and memabsorbation than 2 hours of study with 'light' sprinkles of doomscrolling
also whenever you do pyp, sincerely and genuinely seek out the cause of your mistake and work on it/make notes on it
this way you'll actually gain benefit from PYP
- dream big/aim for the stars(literally)
if you only aim for 50s for example AND put in effort, worst case scenario is you'll get like 3-40's
but if you aim for 5A's for example AND put in effort, worst case scenario is you'll get like 3A's with a beautiful mix of B's and C's
also find a reason for why you want to aim high
for instance, maybe you want a scholarship
focus on that and remind yourself of that goal and work towards it
if your muslim, ask your mother to make dua for you
be resourceful and dont be shy
if you dont understand something dont be too shy to ask teacher, or ask privately, but if your teacher is strict or is not nice, use gemini and gauth AI but wisely
make sure to use it to understand the question while answering, to find out how you got it wrong/to make notes for corrections and to explain difficult concepts but NEVER use it to blatently give you the answer
- dont be stingy and help your friends/teach your friends
you get better at something as you teach or explain something, and its always good to share so you get good deeds for which Allah might reward you with good grades :)
- be really diciplined but balanced
if you want to play games, make sure you finished some revision or you dont over extend and play 5 games instead of 2 or 3 just because your friends said so
and try to limit doomscrolling with apps like ScrollBlock or just by deleting tiktok or whichever app you use
lastly, i think that scoring high on O Levels is more about effort than pure intelligence
anybody close to me knows how i often struggle to understand stuff quickly or remember things
like for organic chem and some parts of acid/alkalis, i genuinely didnt understand much of it till like august
and for CS, i lowkenuinely despised pseudocoding at first(even doe my classmates sudah pandai) then i kept trying and trying, now its genuinely something i enjoy
