*sigh* I remember doing that exam many moons ago (10 years to be precise ). The cross-section and geological history (I assume those two are all together) was my favourite bit, although I had a tendancy to miss stating the odd unconformity! My best bit of advcie would be to describe everything, even if you don't know what the rock/fossil is - even down to "it's a crystalline rock", which means at least you understand it's not sedimentary! The second bit of advice is pretty obvious - practice!

The best of luck to you and let us know how it goes - that also applies to any other A-levels students here

OK, so I had my first exam yesterday. I think it went ok. We were given a Garnet-Mica Schist, Granite, Calcite and a Goniatite as our specimens. The whole observe/describe/explain thing went really well, but the cross section was fudging awful. It was incredibly difficult for all who took the exam, but my Geology lecturer(who invigilated the exam) completed the cross-section on a spare piece of paper and mine looked a little bit similar so fingers crossed.

 My next Geology exam is next thursday, and I'm pretty confident on that one too so hopefully I'll do ok.

Geo-Girl Out. 

I've been revising hard for my exams(all of them) and seem to be constantly tired, I've tried the usual go to bed early, red bull. pro-plus(even both together) but I still cant shake the yawns. I really don't want to be like this in any of my exams, so has anyone got any tips?

Thanks.

Geo-Girl Out. 

Exactly what hypocentre said - breaks are essential as is relaxing before sleep. I revised in 20 minute slots with a 5-10 minute break between each one. On my break I made sure I got up and did something else, even just go to get a drink of water, just to move about a bit.

Caffine is a wonderful drug, but your body gets used to it - too much and the effect wears off (and can make concentration and fact retention worse ). Also if your body is "soaked" with caffine, you will have trouble sleeping and no amount of caffine replaces a good nights sleep. So I suggest tonight you play your guitar or Roller Coaster Tycoon (I sneaked a look at your profile) for a couple of hours before you go to bed. Also drinking lots of water will help throughout your revision will help.

Good luck!

    Oh  my God, I can't believe it only one more Geology exam to go: Geology of the Lithosphere with The Geological Evolution of the British Isles.

 Im really sad, it's like two years of my life are over. Did any one else feel like that when their A-Levels came to an end? 

Thanks Jon.

Congratulations!!! Fingers crossed for the results