My GCSE Journey: So it begins

Why did this make me laugh so much?? S

I hope its not because i was being funny because that would be dangerous for all of us!

03/02/16 Week 1, Day 1 08.30 pm
And so it begins: revision! Oh God I hate it, but I suppose it’s a necessary evil. Ah well! Anyway, I’m a year 11 student from Northern Ireland (I think that’s year 10 in England?) and I started my GCSE courses in September last (2015). I’m doing 10 GCSEs (the most my school offers) and they are as follows (with my exam board and teacher-set target grade): I’ll be starting the Further Maths and English language courses next year. I have started revision, particularly in science, but it hasn’t been that fruitful really; so I thought I’d give this a go to see if it would motivate me to revise more effectively!
I would be extremely grateful if any of you wise, omniscient peoples out there would share any useful tips with me and maybe point me in the right direction when I might be going astray.
So here’s to several nights of frustration, exhaustion and overall stress! (I joke– hopefully ) I wish the very best of luck to every other student revising, be it for internal exams, GCSEs, A-levels or even further ahead! Let the revision begin!
P.S. Everyone doing the Maths Challenge tomorrow, good luck!

Good luck! Once it's all over you'll look back and be proud!
My only tip would be to not work too much, stay hydrated and sleep more than 8 hours a night!

Good luck! Once it's all over you'll look back and be proud!
My only tip would be to not work too much, stay hydrated and sleep more than 8 hours a night!

I done my GCSE's last your with CCEA (now studying AS level). My tips would be if you are studying double award science/ triple award buy the revision books as they offer some helpful tips. Maths do as many past papers as possible and for English be aware of every multi modal technique and practice personal writing. Good luck with your GCSE's

Why are you revising in year 10

So far I have been following those tips pretty religiously! I absolutely adore the revision books for science and i have a stack of T6 papers to get through over Easter too! My English revision is now for functional writing and whatever the over one is in unit 2, so any tips pls?

For the functional writing (personal writing as well) I know it sounds stupid but write up a list of possible questions that could come up and do a detailed essay plan on all of them. I remember in 4th year (May 2014 pp) the question was write about something you have done that is worthwhile and I used an essay I had already wrote on running a 1/4 of a marathon. I thought the quality was not that great but I had all the techniques in it such as rhetorical questions and I ended up doing really well in it. When doing the functional writing try to make a great opening paragraph and ending. It doesn't matter about the quantity just the quality so try to get as many techniques into the essay as possible and make your argument very clear (you can also do a counter argument). They also award marks for spelling and puctiation so remember to read over it. Also do really good in your english coursework as if you are sitting on the A/A* band in exam and got a A* in coursework this would bring you up a grade. If you are struggling with any sciences like physics practice past papers. I am doing this at the minute for AS physics and maths which I hate but I know has to be done. As for t4 and t6 the same applies and do past papers.

wow, you get a lot of homework and revision stuff to do! Are yo in private school or something? Seems like they are really really pushing you! My school was state comprehensive and they annoyed us quite a bit with boosters and revision.. but this is a whole new level.
It's awe- inspiring to see you being young, yet motivated to l.
As an AS student(English Y12 so that's NI 13) I should be doing the amount of revision you are! But I'll probably end up doing less haha.
Either way GCSE's are easier than you think (or maybe I had easier tests the year I took mine!) so don't worry too much. Looks like you'll be getting all A*'s and A's for sure!

I don't go to a private school, a normal academy! I am in the top stream though for all classes which means our teachers like challenging us to do better.
I guess what they're trying to do is put a lot of questions on us at once so we're ready for exams in June.
I sincerely hope i do well in my GCSEs, well who doesn't, but it can all be a but overwhelming at times with the workload!
Good luck with your As-es!

At the end of all the revision, it all comes down to if you remember information (For knowledge testing questions) and if you understand the question (know the correct method to tackle it)!
Once you have both you have no chance of not doing well!
Your practice test scores are really impressive too! I remember in all my mocks I did pretty good, but 90%+ was a fantasy haha. I always made mistakes stupidly! Luckily grade boundaries at GCSE are too kind lol.