New gcses (year 9)

English in general you can improve. With English Literature make sure you get the relevant revision guides for the texts you're studying and listen in class when reading and annotating the text.

Have you tried any other revision guides except CGP?

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I kind of just skipped into this forum and I happened to see your comment... I'm in year 9 too and I have to choose my options quite soon for GCSEs, and I was having quite a fiery internal debate over media or history. The school has given us only two optional choices, and I've already made up my mind on art being one of them, and either media or history as the other. So since you take both, could you please tell me what they're like , the workload and which one you'd prefer. My exam board for media is AQA- not sure about history.

Please get back to me soon! Thanks!

And to the student who started this thread: yes, I feel you, I'm gonna be doing the new GCSEs as well (duh) and I'm 100% kind of maybe a little freaked. It's gonna be a lot harder, for sure.

I have tried Letts back in KS2/3 which was quite good. I personally would recommend CGP as they make the best revision guides but other ones should be equally as good.

Hi Everybody,
I'm currently in Year 9, which means I will be doing the new, harder GCSE'S with the grading system 9-1, for all my subjects except Geography.
My Exam Boards
English- AQA
Spanish- AQA
Maths- Edexcel
Science- OCR (our triple science exams are in a month to see who will do it)
History- AQA
Geography- Edexcel
Religious Studies- AQA
BTEC Sport- Not sure on the Exam Board but doing a GCSE/BTEC P.E is compulsory in my school
Targets- All 8's which is like an A*

Does anybody have the same exam board and is in the same year as me? Any revision tips? I chose Psychology for Year 10 and the exam board is AQA I think.

Lol, this reminds me, for my SATS, I bought a lot of LETTS revision guides and hardly used them. They look really good though, however back then I thought revising was just reading the guide.

Do you do a foreign language>

Yes indeed, AQA GCSE French.

What do you think of it?

Have you tried any other revision guides except CGP?

It's a good exam board to do a MFL in. In terms of French, I enjoy it as I have a great teacher teaching me.

I do Spanish and I love the language, but then again my class isn't exactly that well behaved, do they get better in Year 10?

Oh ok, yeah I don't know if the new GCSE would include Of Mice and Men but I think I might read it anyway because there's so many videos of analysis on it and it seems quite interesting. I really like A Christmas Carol but I wish we do Jane Eyre next year. Do you think English Literature is something people have to be naturally good at (mostly) or is it something that can be significantly improved? Like my Maths teacher says I can practice and improve in Maths much more than other subjects, but to be honest and I have no idea, as people say different things.