If you're a GCSE student - what is your average day like! :)

wait, sorry, didn't see the last bit.

Any sports/hobbies/clubs you attend
I attended Twilight Latin lessons, if that counts. I also did indoor rock climbing, though not in school. I spent a while teaching people how to weave bracelets with cartoon characters and stuff on with a bead loom, and selling the bracelets I made, but I didn't have time in the last term of y11.

Hi everyone, I'm writing an article for The Student Room on a GCSE student's typical day.

If you'd like to be involved and published on TSR's homepage then please write about your own typical day studying GCSE's at school. Around 150-200 words on the subject would be perfect

You can write about

-Your morning routine
-Who you talked to
-Your daily difficulties
-Your friends
-Your teachers. How much you like or dislike them.
-How you find the work
-Projects you're working on at the moment
-Favourite/least favourite classes

Please reply here if you're interested!
-Any sports/hobbies/clubs you attend

Sounds like you managed to fit in a great deal of stuff. Would you like to write a few hundred words on your experiences?

I normally wake up at around 7:00am, shower and leave for school by 8:10am. Once I'm in school, I normally just relax in my form room with friends; we were the only Year 11's with a form in the Sixth Form areas. Normally then my teacher would come in and ask us how we are and so on. I never did work early in the morning (before lessons).

I generally got on with my teachers but there were teachers that just didn't like me for whatever reason, probably because when someone was doing something wrong I wouldn't just let it go and so it basically was like a GCSE student telling a Uni graduate they're not doing their job properly. Quite humorous.

I had a diverse group of friends until Year 11 where I stayed away from a lot of people who I didn't see eye-to-eye with. Most of my friends would help each other out and were very academic, my best friend was a straight A* student. It was handy to have a friend like her around because whenever you didn't get something she'd explain it to you and practically reteach it to you.

I found the work pretty easy and only struggled with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. I found that a lot of teachers put pressure on us to revise in like January when we hadn't finished topics. It was pretty stupid.

I never attended any clubs exactly during school because nothing was really properly organised at my school. I'm happy to have left and be going on to a better school that's more suited to me.

This is exactly what I was hoping for! Great to read

Specifically with regards to hobbies and clubs?

-Your morning routine
Wake up at 6:30, have some cereal, teeth, shower, get dressed etc. Pack bag, grab a sandwich, walk halfway to school with my brother and the rest on my own (we go to different schools) and get to school at 7:50.
-Who you talked to
There's a lot of hanging around between and during lessons, so I talk to all of my classmates a lot, including the ones I don't particularly like. We also have to coursework and stuff so we tend to talk about that a fair bit because people often forget to do it.
-Your daily difficulties
The toilets are miniature and filthy and disgusting but they always seem to have crowds of year eights in them, so they're always full but never in use. They cancelled some of our exams in November a few days before we were meant to be doing them, and the day before we were meant to be doing them in some cases.
-Your friends
I'm in completely different classes to most of them, because we're in sets and we've all chosen different options, but we hang out at break and lunch. People tend to be a bit less bitchy about one another in years ten and eleven, I've found, but you tend to get more outright violence.
-Your teachers. How much you like or dislike them.
Most of them are ok, but it's really annoying if you get an awful teacher because it is often reflected in exam results. There are a few who will just bend over backwards to help you and that's great, but they are very rare and tend to be the ones who get really angry with you if you miss the tiniest bit of homework as well.
-How you find the work
On the whole, it's not much more difficult than in ks3, but there is more of it. The good thing is, you can drop loads of subjects (so I didn't do Dance, Drama, Music, etc), so while it's a pain, there is always a bit of 'well at least it's not that', whereas in ks3 you have to do pretty much everything really.
-Projects you're working on at the moment
Well, I've just finished my GCSEs, but I did an extra Latin GCSE on my own. I don't know if that counts as a project. Some people did Duke of Edinburgh, but I didn't.
-Favourite/least favourite classes
I liked History, mainly because we did stupid things like throwing eggs at maps to represent nuclear bombs. English was OK. RS was a nightmare. The teacher was bat**** crazy and islamophobic, she kept on going on about Muslims decapitating people and blowing stuff up. Surprisingly enough, that didn't really help us get past our GCSE. Loads of people complained about her, and I think she got kicked out.

i wake up at about 7am, 7:30 if i'm tired or my alarm doesn't go off. I have a cup of tea and occasionally breakfast, but usually i can't be bothered with food! Then i get ready, put on my uniform and my house captain badge with pride and get my stuff together. I tend to be still half asleep when i get to school, but i tend to get a bit more lively after talking to my friends outside class for a while. We all get to school at about 8:20, which gives us a good 25 minutes to talk before class starts.

without meaning to sound conceited, as a gcse student i am an incredibly hard worker and a fairly high achiever, predicted all as and a*s in my subjects. However, this did come with a lot of stress. Particularly towards the end of this year (year 10) i was getting angry with everyone, i had a short temper, i was always annoyed etc. I had mock week, english coursework, the school production, my new role as house captain, and work experience week, and all of this just got really stressful. Luckily, my head of house had a meeting with me and my mum, like he does with every student, to discuss my progress. He had picked up on my stress and told me to drop all my work for the last 2 weeks of term, and to spend some time catching up after the summer holidays. He was really understanding and i felt so grateful to have someone who could appreciate how hard i had been working and to allow me a good break!


i struggled with stress and friendship disagreements a fair bit (although i know the stress is going to get even worse as i go into year 11!) and also just the whole school thing- getting up early and working hard all day! On the whole though my experience so far has been pretty good, i'm quite lucky!

my friends are quite cool. We argue sometimes but all friends do, that's okay. I love them to pieces.


i love all but one of my teachers. The only teacher i dislike is the teacher that wasted my entire year of learning because the only way she could control the class was to not give us proper work and to put films on. Which i got really upset about and tried telling someone but no one did anything. My favourite teacher is my languages teacher. I see her a lot because i study 2 languages, 5 periods a fortnight each, so 10 all together, and she teaches me both. She is really helpful and lovely! Languages is my favourite subject and she's really helped me to excel this year. Over the summer, she even sent me the first book she ever read in french to read over the holidays! I really love it when teachers give that little bit extra in their work!


the work can sometimes be tricky. It depends on the subject, and what you enjoy. In my opinion, if you look on the positive side of all subjects, the work is easier! If you force yourself to enjoy it, you will! The workload can be heavy but you have to make sure not to let it get on top of you. Work hard, but not too hard.


i am currently working on my english literature coursework, which is incredibly stressful! I'm writing a comparative essay exploring how animal farm and 1984 prove that evil can triumph if good men do nothing. It's difficult, but my teacher has been great and really supportive.


my favourite class by far is french! I just love it, i want to study it in university. For some reason i just love learning different languages and about other cultures! It also helps that i have a great teacher

my least favourite class is science. I just don't get it, it's confusing and so boring!


outside of school i make sure to do a lot to balance out the workload. I'm in the wiltshire youth marching band, i play instruments (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, piano and guitar), i sing, i'm involved in theatre, and i also write and read. It's important to allow yourself time to relax and to take up hobbies that you enjoy! As much as studying is vital to succeed, you also have to have something to do that's fun; whatever makes you happy!