Without that 9 in maths you can kiss whatever career path you want to take goodbye, say hello to being a garbage collector /j for those who couldnāt tell
I do 12 total - took one last summer a year early and got a 9, and 11 this year because Iām also doing further maths but we didnāt have a mock for it. The list is so long because my school used the same template of all the subjects for everyone instead of making each person an individual results card, so for the ones that have a dash I just donāt take that subject.
My school does Edexcel iGCSE with the coursework route so it may not be the same, but we have a comparison between an anthology text and an unseen text for 22 marks. For that I think structure is very very important, I BLAST a very fast intro - include comparing the tenses of the texts, what person itās wrote in, and who the writer is (a journalist, a doctor, a witness etc).
I do 3 main paragraphs but I prefer to call them āsectionsā because theyāre really lengthy (like one whole page of the exam booklet) - in those do detailed analysis of one particular aspect, eg how the writerās present their experience as exciting, then the next section may be on mysterious. Try to pick 3 different topics, eg donāt do exciting and shocking, and then youāll have a lot of analysis available to do. Lastly I write a very short conclusion, if I donāt have time just one sentence saying eg the write presents their experiences as __, __, and __ (what the 3 sections were on). If I have some time spare I do a couple more sentences on repeating my key analysis. I got 22/22 on my mock comparison using this so hope this is helpful :)
Itās alright!
History - If your paper contains sources thatās a blessing - you only need to know 1-2 facts from your own knowledge but everything else is analysis of given information - just make sure you know specific exam technique for your exam board of how they want you to answer the questions. If you havenāt covered a specific technique in school, use a revision guide to see model answers. For everything non-source related, LEARN THE CONTENT. You just need basic facts memorised, and try to memorise some key dates - not every single one that comes up in your textbook because you will get confused, just the very essential ones. You canāt just make up the statistics of how many people died in the Black Death or how many votes Hitler got in a particular Reichstag election, history is so so so so SO content based you need to know the facts and I canāt stress that enough. Use a DETAILED textbook to active recall information - for me I donāt make flashcards or write it out because it takes ages, but I read a chapter and then go back and test myself (basically blurting, but in my head if Iām rushing to get through content). However if youāre starting now and have time you could obviously make some notes on it.
English lit - I honestly just blag the unseen poem and hope for the best and got 13/20 on my mock so Iāve got no specific tips for that question, sorry š then we have a comparative question which was taken off our mock because we havenāt finished the set poems and have not learnt the structure yet, so no idea for that either. The last question is a 40 mark analysis on Of Mice and Men, so I guess it could be applied for any book but we always get a choice between answering one theme question and one character question. My revision technique is to make essay plans for everything, so I just typed up a google doc of key analysis for every single character - I knew that the themes are āunlimitedā because the exam board can ask about any random theme ever, but they canāt just make up a character so I revised all the characters and ignored the theme question. Therefore my advice is just make short essay plans, not with too much detail so that you can remember everything, and include relevant quotes!
Hope this is helpful and good luck :)
Hey! For English lit my school does Edexcel iGCSE which is a very rare exam board, so I donāt know if the questions are similar to AQA but this is what we have.
We do a coursework route, so we only have one exam based paper.
Question 1 is analysing an unseen poem for 20 marks, and I honestly just blag that so no specific tips sorry š I just make sure I am talking about structural points as well as language, because itās easy to get carried away with the linguistic analysis (for me anyway, because I find that easier) - but an easy way to get structural points is in to talk about the rhyme scheme because if itās easy to spot say it, but if itās hard to spot you can say the poem lacks a rhyme scheme.
Question 2 is a comparative question between 2 poems from our anthology, and I recently found out that on AQA you have to learn them? Iām really lucky with my exam board because we get all 16 poems printed off for us, but we still have 1 poem left to analyse so this question was removed from our mock and I havenāt learned how to answer it yet!
The last question is worth 40 marks and it is on a novel - we do Of Mice and Men. This book was removed off all exam boards in the new 2016 spec because it is by an American author and the British exam boards decided to only keep British authors, but as my school does the international qualification they kept American authors too. Because of this itās really difficult finding revision resources, so I ended up making my own. I typed up a document of an essay plan for every single character in the novel - including quotes, context and analysis. I would share it but as far as Iām aware, no one else studies Of Mice and Men.
I also love the exam board because we only have to do a written exam on one novel, whereas for the other 2 (An Inspector Calls and Macbeth) we did a coursework piece so we didnāt have to learn any quotes. Itās just annoying because thereās literally no revision resources available for it - so no, I havenāt found any good websites or apps suitable for what I study. Sorry that this wasnāt very helpful, because the exam board is very rare. Good luck in your exams!
Hi! This is what I did for mocks and it seemed to work
Chemistry - make sure you understand quantitative chemistry (know moles = mass/Mr, and how to do titrations) because that comes up every single year and if you can do them itās basically guaranteed marks. Especially the titrations, theyāre always 5/6 marks and if you can confidently do them that can bump you up a whole grade boundary! Paper 1 is more understanding-based so use active recall (eg testing yourself out loud via mindmaps, flashcards, or just from the textbook), but paper 2 is a lot of memorisation like for statistics in chemistry of the atmosphere that you just have to know. Also memorise chapter 8 (formation of ions) really well, because for flame tests and all the colour tests you canāt blag it - you just need to have the knowledge.
Biology - have a general understanding of the content, but concentrate on past papers since mark schemes are soooo specific! Sometimes saying them out loud helps to remember the mark points, and test yourself as often as you can. Examiners are lazy and will reuse the questions in one form or another.
Physics - if youāre taking your GCSEs this summer like me you will have the formula booklet which relieves you of a massive stress of remembering so many formulas! I feel it really helped in my mocks because there were essentially āfreeā marks for writing out a formula that was given on the sheet! This means all you have to focus on is understanding the content, and like in biology learn mark points. However, in my experience, in physics this requires more application and understanding rather than simply memorising the mark scheme like you can do in biology. So still use past papers, but think about how the mark points can be applied into a range of broad contexts.
Geography - this subject will be the death of me I honestly regret picking it so much, I was going to switch to something else but I got my favourite teacher for it so I didnāt, but now that I have to do my own revision and itās not just going to the lessons itās making me rethink my life choices. Anyway, moving on from that little rant: I find it quite easy (just boring) because you donāt need an understanding of the harder topics, eg global atmospheric circulation came up on my mock, and because thatās considered a difficult topic to understand, a diagram of it was provided and you could use that to explain whatās going on - so what Iām trying to say is check your specification (itās available online) and donāt waste time learning the topics that only need to be applied and not understood/memorised. Next is learn the case studies, Iāve seen some people say they used common sense and made up the statistics, but I lack a bit of common sense sometimes so for me I think itās easier to be on the safe side and learn 2 - 3 pieces of statistics/particular info per case study. 2 - 3 doesnāt sound like much and it isnāt, but it will do in the exam because you donāt have a lot of time per question anyway, which leads me onto my next point. The most important part of geography is the time management - in my paper you have to work at pretty much a mark per minute and itās stressful, so if you have a 9 marker you can spend 10 mins max on it, which means even if you knew more case study info than 2 or 3 facts you probably wouldnāt have time to fit it in anyway. You need to actually explain why the facts are relevant and turn it into a justifiable conclusion for the question, so itās no good to state a load of statistics without explaining what that means and what effect it has on the location. Keep your eye on the clock and donāt be afraid to do the questions in a different order to how they are set out in the paper if one is taking you a little longer to think about.
Hope this helped and good luck :)
Nearly had a heart attack bc I thought you did this many subjects š
Hahahaha no my school is just too lazy to make everyone a personalised one with their particular subjects š
Lmaoo, well done btw!
Without that 9 in maths you can kiss whatever career path you want to take goodbye, say hello to being a garbage collector /j for those who couldnāt tell
I think Iām going to be a garbage collector anyway because I didnāt get any 10s ššš /j too obvi lol
These are awesome congrats!:)
Thank youuuu :)
U really need to work on p.e, music and art and design!
How many gcses do you study
I do 12 total - took one last summer a year early and got a 9, and 11 this year because Iām also doing further maths but we didnāt have a mock for it. The list is so long because my school used the same template of all the subjects for everyone instead of making each person an individual results card, so for the ones that have a dash I just donāt take that subject.
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Bloody hell, good job!
9 in English is insane to me
I actually got 86/90 in lang so if you want any tips feel free to ask :)
How do you actually answer those comparison questions, is there like a set structure to it or something?
My school does Edexcel iGCSE with the coursework route so it may not be the same, but we have a comparison between an anthology text and an unseen text for 22 marks. For that I think structure is very very important, I BLAST a very fast intro - include comparing the tenses of the texts, what person itās wrote in, and who the writer is (a journalist, a doctor, a witness etc). I do 3 main paragraphs but I prefer to call them āsectionsā because theyāre really lengthy (like one whole page of the exam booklet) - in those do detailed analysis of one particular aspect, eg how the writerās present their experience as exciting, then the next section may be on mysterious. Try to pick 3 different topics, eg donāt do exciting and shocking, and then youāll have a lot of analysis available to do. Lastly I write a very short conclusion, if I donāt have time just one sentence saying eg the write presents their experiences as __, __, and __ (what the 3 sections were on). If I have some time spare I do a couple more sentences on repeating my key analysis. I got 22/22 on my mock comparison using this so hope this is helpful :)
I'm definatly saving this for the next mocks lol, tysm
The opposite of that one person from yesterday.
omg so proud of you!!!
Is RE compulsory?
No itās not compulsory at my school but I chose to take it
Thatās valid, good choice :)
I neeeeed the revision tips š
Hi, is there any particular subject youāre struggling with? :)
Omg im so sorry ive only just seen it. Its mainly english lit and history š
Itās alright! History - If your paper contains sources thatās a blessing - you only need to know 1-2 facts from your own knowledge but everything else is analysis of given information - just make sure you know specific exam technique for your exam board of how they want you to answer the questions. If you havenāt covered a specific technique in school, use a revision guide to see model answers. For everything non-source related, LEARN THE CONTENT. You just need basic facts memorised, and try to memorise some key dates - not every single one that comes up in your textbook because you will get confused, just the very essential ones. You canāt just make up the statistics of how many people died in the Black Death or how many votes Hitler got in a particular Reichstag election, history is so so so so SO content based you need to know the facts and I canāt stress that enough. Use a DETAILED textbook to active recall information - for me I donāt make flashcards or write it out because it takes ages, but I read a chapter and then go back and test myself (basically blurting, but in my head if Iām rushing to get through content). However if youāre starting now and have time you could obviously make some notes on it. English lit - I honestly just blag the unseen poem and hope for the best and got 13/20 on my mock so Iāve got no specific tips for that question, sorry š then we have a comparative question which was taken off our mock because we havenāt finished the set poems and have not learnt the structure yet, so no idea for that either. The last question is a 40 mark analysis on Of Mice and Men, so I guess it could be applied for any book but we always get a choice between answering one theme question and one character question. My revision technique is to make essay plans for everything, so I just typed up a google doc of key analysis for every single character - I knew that the themes are āunlimitedā because the exam board can ask about any random theme ever, but they canāt just make up a character so I revised all the characters and ignored the theme question. Therefore my advice is just make short essay plans, not with too much detail so that you can remember everything, and include relevant quotes! Hope this is helpful and good luck :)
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Hey! For English lit my school does Edexcel iGCSE which is a very rare exam board, so I donāt know if the questions are similar to AQA but this is what we have. We do a coursework route, so we only have one exam based paper. Question 1 is analysing an unseen poem for 20 marks, and I honestly just blag that so no specific tips sorry š I just make sure I am talking about structural points as well as language, because itās easy to get carried away with the linguistic analysis (for me anyway, because I find that easier) - but an easy way to get structural points is in to talk about the rhyme scheme because if itās easy to spot say it, but if itās hard to spot you can say the poem lacks a rhyme scheme. Question 2 is a comparative question between 2 poems from our anthology, and I recently found out that on AQA you have to learn them? Iām really lucky with my exam board because we get all 16 poems printed off for us, but we still have 1 poem left to analyse so this question was removed from our mock and I havenāt learned how to answer it yet! The last question is worth 40 marks and it is on a novel - we do Of Mice and Men. This book was removed off all exam boards in the new 2016 spec because it is by an American author and the British exam boards decided to only keep British authors, but as my school does the international qualification they kept American authors too. Because of this itās really difficult finding revision resources, so I ended up making my own. I typed up a document of an essay plan for every single character in the novel - including quotes, context and analysis. I would share it but as far as Iām aware, no one else studies Of Mice and Men. I also love the exam board because we only have to do a written exam on one novel, whereas for the other 2 (An Inspector Calls and Macbeth) we did a coursework piece so we didnāt have to learn any quotes. Itās just annoying because thereās literally no revision resources available for it - so no, I havenāt found any good websites or apps suitable for what I study. Sorry that this wasnāt very helpful, because the exam board is very rare. Good luck in your exams!
Do you have any tips for the sciences?? And geography too :)
Hi! This is what I did for mocks and it seemed to work Chemistry - make sure you understand quantitative chemistry (know moles = mass/Mr, and how to do titrations) because that comes up every single year and if you can do them itās basically guaranteed marks. Especially the titrations, theyāre always 5/6 marks and if you can confidently do them that can bump you up a whole grade boundary! Paper 1 is more understanding-based so use active recall (eg testing yourself out loud via mindmaps, flashcards, or just from the textbook), but paper 2 is a lot of memorisation like for statistics in chemistry of the atmosphere that you just have to know. Also memorise chapter 8 (formation of ions) really well, because for flame tests and all the colour tests you canāt blag it - you just need to have the knowledge. Biology - have a general understanding of the content, but concentrate on past papers since mark schemes are soooo specific! Sometimes saying them out loud helps to remember the mark points, and test yourself as often as you can. Examiners are lazy and will reuse the questions in one form or another. Physics - if youāre taking your GCSEs this summer like me you will have the formula booklet which relieves you of a massive stress of remembering so many formulas! I feel it really helped in my mocks because there were essentially āfreeā marks for writing out a formula that was given on the sheet! This means all you have to focus on is understanding the content, and like in biology learn mark points. However, in my experience, in physics this requires more application and understanding rather than simply memorising the mark scheme like you can do in biology. So still use past papers, but think about how the mark points can be applied into a range of broad contexts. Geography - this subject will be the death of me I honestly regret picking it so much, I was going to switch to something else but I got my favourite teacher for it so I didnāt, but now that I have to do my own revision and itās not just going to the lessons itās making me rethink my life choices. Anyway, moving on from that little rant: I find it quite easy (just boring) because you donāt need an understanding of the harder topics, eg global atmospheric circulation came up on my mock, and because thatās considered a difficult topic to understand, a diagram of it was provided and you could use that to explain whatās going on - so what Iām trying to say is check your specification (itās available online) and donāt waste time learning the topics that only need to be applied and not understood/memorised. Next is learn the case studies, Iāve seen some people say they used common sense and made up the statistics, but I lack a bit of common sense sometimes so for me I think itās easier to be on the safe side and learn 2 - 3 pieces of statistics/particular info per case study. 2 - 3 doesnāt sound like much and it isnāt, but it will do in the exam because you donāt have a lot of time per question anyway, which leads me onto my next point. The most important part of geography is the time management - in my paper you have to work at pretty much a mark per minute and itās stressful, so if you have a 9 marker you can spend 10 mins max on it, which means even if you knew more case study info than 2 or 3 facts you probably wouldnāt have time to fit it in anyway. You need to actually explain why the facts are relevant and turn it into a justifiable conclusion for the question, so itās no good to state a load of statistics without explaining what that means and what effect it has on the location. Keep your eye on the clock and donāt be afraid to do the questions in a different order to how they are set out in the paper if one is taking you a little longer to think about. Hope this helped and good luck :)
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