I'm confused to why my school is always telling us that everyone's grade increases from mocks. A lot of our teachers are way to easy on us with the mocks, the tests are so simple, and would mainly focus on the bigger topics, would have a lot of simple understanding questions and are marked kindly.
This isn't saying GCSEs are easy, I find them hard, but our Technology teacher put together the paper for the three technology classes, and he tried to include something from every topic, and told us every topic for each question and what we'll have to do (Like Pneumatics: Name simple symbols + complete pneumatic diagram, Materials: Two main types of plastic, alloy and properties of wood, Joints: Making a wood joint). The test was made so easy, and I looked at past papers, they aren't like this.
English Language is confusing, I did crappy across mine, but got a few decent marks (and then did horrible in the multi modal section) to end up getting a good grade, but the marking seemed way to high for me, as I'm awful at writing anything. Maybe, not much is actually epected of you in English Language?
I am likely to fail English Lit. as in the mock, we didn't do Poetry, and were given the simplest questions possible (How is Johnny show to be fragile and Insecure + How does Aunt Alexandria change). I am likely to fail this, as there's no way I'm going to be able to memorize the book as well as revising.