The Current Year 10 Thread Mark I (2015-2016)

how did you do in your grade 5?
i should be getting my results soon

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Its good they give homework but I wanted to actually do a lot of the revision my self independently and there is a lot of it, so ganna finish of homework on the weekend so its out of the way.Posted from TSR Mobile

I got a Merit 125/150. I was really happy with it Teory I got 82/100- also Merit, which was a miracle because I slaved over that thing and hadn't a clue what I was doing.


Yeah, I kinda thought the same. Until I reached the holidays and don't want to do independant revision at all!

I wouldn't worry about practising singing at this point. I had 30 minutes a week for grade 5 and I probably didn't practise outside of my lesson until 2 weeks before the exam. I wouldn't advise that but 3 months is just going to leave you bored with your pieces and you actually grow blind to any mistakes, and how you can improve etc. Obviously keep singing but don't particularly concentrate on your exam pieces.

Woooo end of year 10! It's crazy how fast this year has flown by and now we only have one year left of school. Going to spend my summer sleeping and socialising before the hard work kicks in. I want to try and get some work experience but have absolutely no idea where to start since my school hasn't even discussed the idea of it. Any advice?

I'll be starting my first work experience placement tomorrow morning. I'm really excited but also a bit nervous - wish me luck!

hey there im in yr 11 transferring to 12, in September , basically i kinda flopped my gcses because it was a really bad year for me so i want to spend one more yr retaking gcses but as you know my spec has changed can someone please thouroughly explain the changes for me, apart from the fact that your graded 1-9 what subjects have changed ? and what will the exams be like? what subjects are still the same? what subjects are offered? how does science work can i still do extension sci? thanks alot xx

You will still be able to retake everything except Maths and English, on the old spec. English and Maths have changed their specs to 9-1, as kind of a test by Ofqual, I guess.

MathsEnglishNot sure if anything else has changed with English, wasn't too familiar with the old spec.

hey there im in yr 11 transferring to 12, in September , basically i kinda flopped my gcses because it was a really bad year for me so i want to spend one more yr retaking gcses but as you know my spec has changed can someone please thouroughly explain the changes for me, apart from the fact that your graded 1-9 what subjects have changed ? and what will the exams be like? what subjects are still the same? what subjects are offered? how does science work can i still do extension sci? thanks alot xx

For our year, all the subjects are the same except Maths and English.

Basically, Maths is much harder than it used to be. However, it's not really the content that gets harder, it's how the exam questions ask you to "think mathematically" rather than just "doing maths" - much more like A-Level. Also, they don't give you formulae at the front of the exam papers - you have to memorise them all yourself. There's also no more coursework.

English has also got harder but I don't find it too bad. There's no coursework for a start (which I know many people hated with GCSE English before). The main difference is that the english lit exams are all closed book - you cannot have a copy of the book, play and poetry anthology in the exams with you.

Hm I wish I was able to see the good side of the 'bad habit' we all have with practice schedules. My flute teacher made me practice my exam pieces only for an entire year cause it was my last grade, was awful. Neglect assumed its course. Still, I could play them in my sleep at the end... so for some, it might be good? Btw it's good to see you here (from intros), left this thread for almost a year... wow the time ^^

I'll be starting my first work experience placement tomorrow morning. I'm really excited but also a bit nervous - wish me luck!

Where are you doing work experience?

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If you're around, we're having an important discussion on Skype which you'd probably like to join in with

Lool, very important and another reason to procrastinate :P

The good side is...you have more time to um study play games Actually once I can play my pieces ok I enjoy practising them. But scales is another story....and don't even start on sight reading!
I worked out for grade 5 I had in the range of 110-130 (can't remember exactly now) different scales
I've been practising my pieces since January 2015 now but that's because my teacher thought I'd do my theory a lot quicker but because of other commitments I couldn't make the date and she thought more practise would be useful so I only passed it in March (and then I couldn't do the exam this term because of the risk of it falling over exams which hadn't been dated at that point) so I'm doing it next term.

Which grade are you taking? And what was your practise schedule? I mean, I have Grade 6 piano practical in November and haven't learnt even one of my pieces to a good standard yet, should I be worried? And yeah there are so many scales!!!