Things you wish you knew before year 11
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Things you wish you knew before year 11Got this from the 'Things you wish you knew before A - Level' thread, and I thought I'd do the same for year 11, since it is the most important year of secondary education.
So I thought this would be helpful to me and others going into year 11. So yeah
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Re: Things you wish you knew before year 11GCSE Geography is less maps and capital cities - more stupid case studies to revise.
GCSE History is like burning your hand in every exam you do cos of the insane writing you need to do in a short space of time.Last edited by Frankster; 19-06-2012 at 18:29. -
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Re: Things you wish you knew before year 11That GCSEs are nothing like as scary as people make them out to be. And also, after about a month after results day, nobody cares what you got anyway. Unless you're on TSR where anything less than an A* (and of course 100% in each paper) constitutes complete failure in life.
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Re: Things you wish you knew before year 11Not to take extra subjects because when applying to Oxford for Medicine, they look at the & rather than the number of A*s so doing more subjects actually puts you at a disadvantage!
Also, that I didn't need to do as much work for Art :O I took it way too seriously. -
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Re: Things you wish you knew before year 11They aren't as hard or as scary as your teachers will say they're going to be. If you panic, it'll affect your grades negatively. You can cram the night before and still walk out with at least a C
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Re: Things you wish you knew before year 11It is a big fat lie that you get to "chose" your subjects - there are a limited number of subject choices (especially if you opt for Triple Science, then you only get three other options) and even less choice if really popular subjects clash.(Original post by LovePeaceAwesome)
Got this from the 'Things you wish you knew before A - Level' thread, and I thought I'd do the same for year 11, since it is the most important year of secondary education.
So I thought this would be helpful to me and others going into year 11. So yeah
Teachers are generally really unsupportive if you're in top set, and they use all the school's budget and resources on trying to get the bottom sets up to standards, they never push you if you're predicted good grades (from my experiences anyway).
GCSEs are completely over-rated, A-Levels are what count. -
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Re: Things you wish you knew before year 11Don't take Business Studies - worst decision of my life.
Choose subjects you actually like, especially as the choice of subjects don't matter all that much other than the standard ones.
Don't stress yourself out about GCSE's. They're a walk in a park compared to A-Levels. -
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Re: Things you wish you knew before year 11Well this was quite helpful, since im starting year 11 in september, but i guess i've got slightly less stress as just today i finshed my final unit of maths gcse today!!!!!! That's on whole exam over.
Now i've just got the other 2 units for each science, history, spanish, drama, RE and enlish exam next year -_-
And a my physics P1 AQA exam tomorrow, great.
