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Do your grades vary from your mock and your actual exam

Hi I'm taking my igcses in 2 weeks, is there any advices on how to keep your grades during mock (since i think i did pretty well back then but after covering all the topics from the specification I doubt ill be able to get the same grades as i did during mocks)

ive been doing a lot of past paper but to be fair its not going in.
heres my grades from mock
bio 7
physics 8
chem 8
math 7
business A
eng lan B
eng lit A
geo b
mandarin A

Reply 1

Lordyy

Hiya, been a while since I did my GCSEs but when I did them I was doing quite well in the mocks, but I did better in the actual exam in the end. Mocks are a good assessment of where you are right now but don't necessarily rely on them. I always wanted to do better than I did in the mocks. It depends on the day and the exam but if you are doing well now, then that is an excellent sign. I wish you the best!

Reply 2

PinkMobilePhone

Volunteer Team

If you do a lot of revision between your mocks and your real exams, as most people do, then it's quite common to go up a grade, sometimes even two grades.

That being said I've seen some people crumble under the pressure and go down, but that's rarer.