Nervous?

Yepp and I wanted to do history for AS.. not so sure now.. with paper 1 I find it easier because it's more about facts so if you learn them all then its easier and quicker to just write them all down (like in section B the first question is usually four marks and something like 'what limits did the treaty of versailles place on Germany's armed forces?' or 'what did ... hope to achieve at the treaty of versailles?') I find it better because with the second exam there's 4 topics (i think, could be less/more) that COULD be the subject of the sources.. so we have to get our contextual knowledge straight for all of them

im all for taking exam tim off ICT, my ICT exam was 3 hours :|:| (to be fair half an hour was for 'printing time' - that is applied ICT double award |

edit: luckily our teachers produced this major 100 page 'revision handbook' thing with all past papers etc so IF I STUDY THAT I should be fine.. :|


& Yeah I could go to gigs etc but tbh as you said you'd only get Cs.. and some people might be pleased with them but I'd feel like I hadn't tried hard, and some of my friends are targetted (and getting) all A*s or A*s and few As so even if I wanted to I don't think anyone I know would go.. yeah I reckon they are all going to enhance their inner geek during study leave, unfortunately most of their birthdays are during that time! (haha..)

Yeah I agree Paper 1 is easier because if you revise you'll generally do really well, because it's mainly recalling facts and applying knowledge. I have a feeling that the source paper will be on Liberal Reforms this year though, so it's that I'm revising mainly, but it could also be The Home Front, Votes for Women (that was last year's paper), or a combination of 2 of them.

Yeah our mock was on the reforms (which also adds to the worry that I did pants in it).. but im still worried that I'll revise for the reforms and this year they've decided to try and catch us out by doing votes for women .. what other exams are you worried about?

Edit: Unlucky about your birthday :[ I guess you'll have to do what my friends are doing and have it three weeks late or early :/ are you doing the french speaking?

Nimbus, you have no need to worry, you'll do just fine
Just out of interest, what do you want to study in the future (if you even know)?

god if your like that over GCSE then wait for to your at UNI lol!!!

Don't take those tablets too often, they can have bad effects on you, after, you are taking in chemicals, litearlly like taking in pesticides/herbicides - can be dangerous when you are stressed!
Try and relax a bit if you can, listen to calm music and sing if it helps!

And regarding GCSEs...I am not stressed about them at all...EXCEPT FOR ENGLISH AND ENGLISH LITERATURE!!!!
They are driving me crazy!!! *shock horror* Okay, may be not crazy but I am super stressed about them. Very funny though as this contrasts a lot with my other exams as I am not stressed about others at all - extremely calm about them (okay, may be a little with RS and Geography but not as much as before).

I don't understand anything about English.XD I wonder what I will be like when I am doing the Englsih exams for REAL, probably panicking so much that I would probably delay the whole exam.

You all seem worried about Paper 2 but I think as long as you understand what went on in each period that you have to learn then you'd be fine as our teacher says you can get most of the marks without contextual knowledge, but obviously if your aiming for an A/A* then the contextual knowledge knowledge is important otherwise you'd be fine without it to be honest.

If you have a look at the mark scheme of the last paper you can see how many marks there are for context.

I know Votes for Women is possible, but I really think that the other two topics are much more likely...pity because Votes For Women is my favourite topic out of them all and I the one I find the sources the easiest to analyse... I'm also worried about Business Studies, Language Orals and the English/English Lit exams- you?

Lol yeah I find that in Science exams- you sit there thinking "That can't have been on the syllabus!" Still, I've done 2/3rds of my separate science GCSEs (papers in January and coursework), so that's took the pressure off a little.

When you get stressed about the oral, just think that it's only 25%, if you get a C in it you can still get an A overall, plus on AQA it's marked as 8 marks for roleplay, 12 marks for presentation and discussion and 20 marks for the general conversation. My teacher told us that if you muck up the roleplay you're generally not going to get less than 4/8, and as long as you learn your presentation you should get 12/12, and then even if you really screw up the conversation you should apparently get 10/20, which gives you 26/40, an A.

These thoughts are stopping me from completely freaking out about orals...I was in a right state for the mocks so god knows what I'll be like for the real thing!

When is your oral? Mine are 29th April and 7th May.....

I'm nervous because i have my parents going on and on about it, and them basically wanting me to revise 24/7, I just can't wait for these to be over with and my parents to leave me alone.

Lol..your sounding way too stressed.
What I done to avoid the stress was start early very early.
I think I started late March and its going brilliantly!
However I've still not got down to doing any french which I crapping myself about!
Just English, seperate sciences, maths and History.

I think I wont sleep this month and go into hibernation mid june!

The day before your exam get 15 hours sleep.

Seriously, sleep is underrated.

lol good plan!

my problem is not that i'm lazy but I don't have the ability to structure myself.. and I don't have good awareness of time..

No way!
I barely get 5 during exam days, and when I do fall asleep I wake every hour thinking I should be revising..rest is not a neccessity.
Its my dumb brain it conflicts everything my body wants

Sacrificing sleep for revision is amazingly stupid at GCSE level Many of the questions are not revision based, but common sense and intelligence. Even if you actually memorise every single iota in your textbook and exercise book, you will not be able to answer all questions, you will still have to use common sense, e.g. for questions which ask you to use and interpret sources.