Starting now, here's a few tips.
- Make flashcards with barebones points
- Memorise those points, get people to test you
- In the exam, answer question, bullshit points and relate effects/links to question
- If you have a few good effect statements but the rest are just like "and thus the individual's sense of belonging is strengthened..." or some similar bullshit, rote-learn the good effect statements
- If you have time, try to write out practice essays using your cards in 40 minutes
- Get a good night's sleep, don't go all night - you WILL fuck up in the test and forget everything. Go to bed at like 9 and get up at 4 if you want to do even more
- Have fish for dinner and browse over your cards in the morning
My general procedure. Did it for the AOS paper and both my English trials, doing it tonight.
Good luck, all.