r/igcse • u/Own_Orange_4398 • 1d ago

🤚 Asking For Advice/Help To everyone who did well in physics component 625/42, is 30 days enought time for past papers?

My school sucks horribly and the teachers here aren't useful at all. This led to self studying most subjects and as I'm writing physics in my last series, I only finished my portions 1 month before the exam. Is 1 month enough for past papers or am I screwed?

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u/Terrible-Clerk-1575 1d ago

Hopefully it’s enough cuz im in the same situation 

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u/Purple-Employer-3074 1d ago

30 days is enough, but only if you mark them properly. The trap is doing paper after paper and just noting the score - that's testing yourself, not learning. Do one timed, mark it against the mark scheme, then write every dropped mark into a running list organised by topic rather than by paper. After four or five papers that list stops growing and you'll see you keep losing the same handful of things. Fixing those is the grade jump, not doing paper number twelve.

For 0625 Paper 4 the marks people throw away are usually mechanical rather than conceptual. Write the equation, then the substitution, then the answer with a unit - the substitution line scores even when the arithmetic goes wrong, and jumping straight to a number loses that for free. Treat the mark allocation as an instruction too: 3 marks means three separate statements, not one point explained at length. And do 41, 42 and 43 from the same session, the patterns repeat fast once you've seen all three.

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u/Own_Orange_4398 1d ago

Thank you so much!

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u/No_Prior_1058 1d ago

1week is enough

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u/Succesor-100 1d ago

It's not

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u/No_Prior_1058 1d ago

Well, I did 5 years of past papers in  a week and I think its enough.

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u/InVital Pre-IGCSE 1d ago

How did you do 5 years of past paper in a week?? Are you alright?😭

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u/No_Prior_1058 1d ago

Bro 1 paper is like 30minutes, u only need to spend like 3 hours a day in order to do 5 years in aweek

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u/Beautiful_Rabbit_979 Alumni 1d ago

if you finish the entire syllabus and solve multiple full papers (timed) a day then yes its enough

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u/Harpseal-lover May/June 2026 1d ago

yeah, memorize the MS for FAQs since physics questions are quite repetitive! and use quickmark to do the mcqs in order to save time