What Shall I Revise?

Student K asked us:

I just want to ask that if you can give us some hints or some directions for revision, like which topic is more important and what sort of theoretical stuff you need us to know, etc.
the thing is during my revision I found found there are too much to look at and every part is written in very detail (it seems that we have to rememmber everything)

That's just about it. The exam covers the whole syllabus, in line with the APM's own exam for its own professional qualification. As we are accredited to the same level, we follow the same principle.

This isn't the type of exam where some topics are examined or are more important by tradition and others aren't. We can ask anything from the syllabus - although not every topic will necessarily come up every year - but we can't tell you what is and what isn't on the paper.

If you are an under-graduate, don't forget that you have multiple choice where we don't use negative marking. If you are a post-graduate, your section A has a choice of 4 from 6 questions. So there is some flexibility.

Look at past exam papers - this will give you a good indication of how we address the range of topics in the exam paper.