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in general do you do better than you think in your GCSEs? (i'm a GCSE student right now in year 11)

Ye GCSE's are nothing compared to A-levels :/ though ofc at the time your doing your GCSE's you are freaking out because you know if you fail you have to waste a year retaking :O on results day i was ****ting my pants lol

Reply 61

ColdKant

I guess looking at these are kind of encouraging...
but how did you get through the summer knowing
you are going to be getting your results soon?
I don't think I'll be at rest at all, till I get my results :frown:

Reply 62

kimsiclez

I did a lot better than I expected - 7 A*s, 3 As and a B. But I'm not so confident for AS, having all my year 12 exams out of the way! Overall I think most people I know did better than they thought they would at GCSE so really, don't fluster yourself about it. Once the exam's over, it's over. I know that's not very helpful advice for if you're in year 11 but trust me, if you really think you've given your best shot then you honestly should have nothing to worry about :smile:

Good Luck to everyone taking exams in the near future!

Reply 63

codle

When I sat my RS paper, I realised about 5 minutes before the end that I'd answered too many of the optional questions (I think 4 when we were only meant to do 3) because our rubbish teacher had never explained the exam to us properly and I completely mis-read the instructions.

I panicked a bit, realising I'd rushed all my answers, but there was nothing I could do, so I left the exam and didn't tell my friends what I'd done.

Fast forward a few months to results day... Somehow, I'd managed to get an A anyway! I was completely shocked :P
So - advice for you all - read the instructions carefully! But if you do mess up, don't worry about it all summer, there's nothing you can do to change your grades.

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Reply 64

JustCharley

I was very pleasantly surprised with my results - 6As, 2A*s and 1B. The B was in eng lit where we had to write 3 essays in the exam, and one of them I wrote about completely the wrong wedding in much ado about nothing, so the essay was completely on a different topic to what it actually asked. So even then, I still managed a B!

I know it's your first proper set of public exams so you're all super nervous, but seriously, GCSEs are pleasantly surprising :smile:

Reply 65

senz72

Kinda, I left it too late but that didn't stop me from doing it again. Damn I'm stupid! :frown:

Reply 66

JustCharley

Original post by ColdKant

Have ALOT of fun. My GCSE summer was the best summer of my life. I got a job, so suddenly had wayyy more money than I was used to, and literally spent the entire time with my friends mainly getting pleasantly intoxicated in the sunshine and having BBQs and stuff :smile:

My parents went on holiday for a week and I had a massive house party at my house which they still know NOTHING about it. But it was one of the highlights of my summer. You meet sooo many new people if you just cease the chance to socialise like craaaazy. You forget about results day until about 7 days before, but even then like I said in another post, not a single person in my year was disappointed with what they got, and most people do better than they think they did.

Results night is also fun as well :biggrin:

So yeah. Get a job so you earn lots of money and work overtime in the summer to keep you doing productive things. Keep the job when term starts again but just as a little Saturday thing. And go out loads.

Reply 67

MissMuffin95

Looking at other people's grades on TSR makes my predicted ones look rubbish! Glad to see some of the stories here make me feel better about mine :smile:

Reply 68

Kylewalker346234

I think I roughly got in my December Mocks AAAAABBBBBD

In my actual GCSE's I got A*A*A*AAAAABBC

Don't worry about GCSE's A-levels is a whole new ball game!

Reply 69

jess16437

My target grades are straight A*s which I really don't think I will get, as I know I could have worked harder. I know I m going to be disappointed on results day :frown:

I just really hopethat it is mostly A*s and no Bs!

Reply 70

Namige

Well, I never read the novel I was supposed to read serveral times over the course of my gcse years for my gcse literature exam. So in the end I didn't know what to write so all I wrote was two pages in half an hour? spent the rest of my time on the poems section which I was thankfully very good at, and ended up with an A overall. The exam was 70% of my gcse.

For my maths(did it in November 10), completely failed my second paper. To put this in context, I couldn't do the 2nd and 3rd questions among many others. Which was something to do with averaging and percentages. Got an A... just.

Reply 71

Kalliope

I was very surprised with Latin! I didn't get given an official prediction but the teacher said unofficially that from the class of the 3 of us she would expect Cs and be happy with Bs. Of course, we were high achievers and hoped for As, but I didn't really think I had it in me to get much more than a B. Then along comes results day... A*: full UMS!! :grin:

Otherwise I got my predicted grades, but was surprised and happy with my UMS.

Reply 72

SofiaSalento

I cried so much after my GCSE's cos I thought I'd done so badly.....I still had an incredible summer of travelling and festivals but then on results day I was so surprised as my grades were A*A*AAAABBBB and I thought they were like DDDDDDDDD haha! Have confidence, you'll surprise yourself!

Reply 73

Pheno_N

I was actually very surprised.. I thought i had done really badly during my GCSE exams but when i started opening the envelope with the results i saw a row of A*... i started jumping around all excited because it was the last thing i expected thought i would get a bunch of A's but instead got 11A* :eek:

... However i saw that i had 2 A's in English lang and literature.. which i did not expect.. thought i was going to get an A*. Overall i got brilliant grades and even if you don't feel hopeful right now it can be different on results day you may think you have done badly but there's a chance you did brilliantly :smile:

Reply 74

xoxlovelifexox

Original post by Pheno_N

that must've been the best feeling in the world - it's stories like this that gave me some form of optimism

Reply 75

Pheno_N

Original post by xoxlovelifexox

that must've been the best feeling in the world - it's stories like this that gave me some form of optimism

What i did was try not thinking of results day till the night before when facebook is filled with posts about it HAHAA~ try to relax after your examss :smile:

cos ur thick

I was so shocked to get an A* in ICT. In all seriousness, it was such a hard exam. It was probably because I had a six day gap between that exam and the previous one, and I'd spent the majority of it lying in bed playing Tomb Raider. It was just such an odd exam. I dossed around for nigh on two years, got an A* on my mock, and then when I sat the exam...phut. Could barely answer anything. Coursework must have brought me up :smile:

I wouldn't worry too much about it :smile:

The vast majority of people get what they deserve! And of course, there's always some surprises :biggrin:

Reply 78

FrankieG95

Trust me, don't worry too much over GCSEs.

I was the typical kind of worrier who worked hard but felt the exams were really unfair compared to the past papers I'd done. I thought I'd had D's in my results and didn't have many hopes of going to 6th form.

In the end, I got:

A*A*A*A*,AA,BBBB,CC, PASS

I suppose if you don't worry so hard and you just stay safe in the knowledge that you've worked hard all year, then you'll be okay on results day. I'm very proud of myself, and I hope you lot will be two.

Best of luck guys! x

Reply 79

Holby_fanatic

I was predicted Ds in Home Economics and Religious Studies and I came out with Bs in both of them! Otherwise, all my grades were as expected of me. :smile:

I hated Home Economics and Religious Studies with a passion and used all of these lessons to just chat with my friends. I hated my year 10 teacher for Home Ec and she hated me so I never really tried in the lessons, but a new teacher in year 11 made me try just a tiny bit harder.
I honestly couldn't take my RS teacher seriously! She's often worn clothes inside out to school, she once left a class because they were stressing out and so went to Starbucks to get a coffee and calm down, and she let her own car run her over. Once the car had hit her, she didn't think to ring her husband or even an ambulance, but one of my other teachers!
Apparently, she even threw a bible at someone once and often told the students about how she saw Jesus when she was in bed with her husband!