Protostar's journey to amazing grades! (GCSE)

16/03/2016 - Evening/night update

Sorry I didn't update yesterday, honestly had the day from hell because of one teacher causing me to almost cry in my German lesson

But today's been better, thankfully.

I went to a geography revision session after school today, and recapped the Boscastle 2004 flood as a case study for our rivers unit,got some pretty detailed notes on it now, so it was successful really

Other than that, my main priority today has been my PE CA and sorting out things ready to start revising them, rather than just throwing myself straight in. Got my PE finished and emailed to my teacher so that's out of the way, we'll probably start the write up tomorrow.

Made some typed up notes on my anthology poems for English, as I need to get that sorted out and get my notes learnt for that. Although I did best in the class in my poetry comparison mock, so I can't be that bad

I also typed up the list of ALL geography case studies and which units they're from, so I can print it off and highlight them when I've learnt them again. (I'm trying to use typed up stuff more because I'm a very slow writer and I have a lot to get through!)

All in all I think that I'll be prepared for my exams when they come around, I just need to make sure I stick to what I've planned. But I've kind of built up a habit of revising now so it should be easier to keep up.

2 months today until my first exam, bring it on!

What is your first exam

My first exam is RS Unit 1, on the 16th of May

What's yours?

Mines 17th May French and Biology
How much do you revise per day sorry just asking this to everyone in order to get a rough idea Thank s

I try to get at least 2 hours on a school night, but it has happened where I've done about 4 and a half hours one day, so it varies

On Saturdays I normally try and do between 4 and 6 hours currently, but I want to up this nearer the time

On Sundays I do the least, usually just homework and maybe an hour if I'm good. I'm definitely going to change this soon

During the Easter holidays I want to do at least 5 hours a day.

That is great i am sure you will a good grade
I do 3 hours on school days
Saturday - 6-7 hours
Sunday- Nearly the whole time ( only day where i can revise so i might as well make the most out of it )

Wow that's really good! I'm sure you'll do well with that much revision

I'll get back on track on Monday

HAHAHAHAHAHA

22/03/2016 - Evening update

Why can I never stick to what I plan to do? Yesterday I did absolutely no revision whatsoever, so I really wanted to do some today to get back on track, but my mum came back from Spain so nothing got done, surprise surprise

I popped into wilkos after badminton today and bought some plastic wallets (I was in desperate need) and a REALLY COOL index card holder and 50 index cards, which I'm sure will be super useful especially for subjects like science

Tomorrow I'm DEFINITELY going to do some revision as this is getting ridiculous now, I need to crack on. I also have a maths exam tomorrow which I haven't prepared for, so I'll probably get between 85 and 95% for that, depending on the difficulty of it so that's no problem.

Also today my chemistry teacher decided to drop the fact that next weeks her last week on us??? The most annoying thing is we still have an entire unit left to cover, and loads of revision to do, and it'll have to be with a different teacher. I don't cope well with change at the best of times, so god knows how I'm going to handle this WHY DO TEACHERS HIDE THINGS FOR SO LONG????

So now I'm very scared about chemistry, as its not one of my strongest subjects anyway and considering my teachers given up on teaching, I'm dreading my chemistry exams.

AND IVE HAD A STUPID GERMAN SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD ALL DAY, THANKS MISS

Aww Bless you.. I am literally just like you i can never get motivated but sometimes i look at the long-term and those flashing grades.

I mean if your teacher isn't teaching you anymore you can still have friends and other teachers at school to help you Don't worry I am sure you will be fine
Just crack on with your revision

Aw thank you, I've managed to get some motivation today so I'm actually revising right now - and it's chemistry!
I know I'll do ok, as the last unit isn't long or hard so I'll easily be able to self-teach it (what I'm doing right now), and I can follow up any weak points on my own so I should be sorted - I guess I was just shocked yesterday so I was panicking!
I'll be fine

I'm sure you will be fine You better get on with your revision for chemistry before you get distracted and i am as well english Literature
Is this Unit 3 Chemistry AQA ? If so, Yup that is easy

No it's actually C2 for OCR 21st Century
My teacher said it's easy, that's why she saved it til last and made us do the hard ones (C6 and C7) while we still had plenty of time haha

Oh ok most people do OCR wow So how much are you planning to revise during easter?

Really? I thought most people did AQA
And during Easter I'm never going to stop!
Seriously though, probably around 7-8 hours a day should be enough for me I think. Also because it's 2 weeks, by the end of the holidays I'll be used to it so it should be easier and I'll be less likely to get distracted/lose motivation, hopefully.
What about you?

I want to do a lot 8-9 hours a day so i can get loads done

Yeah I want to do loads too, along with quite a few past papers (started printing off some science ones today (3 biology, 1 physics) so I need to make sure I've got 3 for each science, an RS one (or maybe two), a PE one, a German one (but I don't really need one of these), a geography one (although that'll take loads off my printing allowance ) and maybe some others all by the end of next week