GCSE Route to A*

ohhhh okay that made a bit more sense aha yeah there will definitely be videos of walkthroughs, try OMAths or something like that, they have prediction papers and walk you through how to answer them

Thank you so much

ALRIGHTY! well basically every single thread i have seen for gcses has all these people aiming for like 10000 A*s and im sitting here like loool I'm just trying to stay at my school and not get kicked out because of grades. I'm aiming for:
Bio (OCR Gateway B) A/A*
Chem (OCR Gateway B) A/A*
Phy (AQA)- A/B
Geog (AQA A)- A
Drama (AQA) B
Spanish (AQA) A
RS (Edexcel) A*
English Lang(AQA) A/B
English Lit (AQA) A/B
Maths (Edexcel) A*

Yeah so lets give each other motivation and help with the 5/6 weeks we have left leading up to our exams

P.S- my mocks were SO bad they were like Cs, Bs and like 2 As but i didn't revise (BUT NO EXCUSES FOR ME) so i'm aiming to do as well as possible to stay at school.
Basically at my school to come back you need a B in eng lang and maths and As or above in the a-level subject you wannna do : Bio, chem, maths, geog (or psychology) for me

So down below list:
What your subjects are, exam board and target grades
Proposed A-level options
What you struggle with etc
yeah....whatever else you want really....

BTW the way i revise is the following:
Bio, Chem: Flashcards and past papers
Physics: GetRevising same as above really
Geog: haven't done much yet but notes, midmaps
Drama: Learning how to answer Q and make notes on my performances
Spanish: I still need to do my oral but vocab, past papers
RS: Quizlet summarise stuff
Eng Lit: OMAM and AIC haven't done anything but mindmap for poetry
Eng Lang: Just learn ways to answer Q and what to look out for
Maths: PAST PAPERS and learn equations on flash cards

thats all folks, i'll update in a few on how much I've done today and wise words from the HSM students

WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

Honestly, I want
English Lit-A/A*
English Language-A/B
Maths-A
Science core-A/A*
Science additional-A/A*
Re-A*
Computing-A/A*
History-A/B
Business-A/A*

oh wow, those are really good! Good luck and i hope you get what you want

Thanks and you too!

ALRIGHTY! well basically every single thread i have seen for gcses has all these people aiming for like 10000 A*s and im sitting here like loool I'm just trying to stay at my school and not get kicked out because of grades. I'm aiming for:
Bio (OCR Gateway B) A/A*
Chem (OCR Gateway B) A/A*
Phy (AQA)- A/B
Geog (AQA A)- A
Drama (AQA) B
Spanish (AQA) A
RS (Edexcel) A*
English Lang(AQA) A/B
English Lit (AQA) A/B
Maths (Edexcel) A*

Yeah so lets give each other motivation and help with the 5/6 weeks we have left leading up to our exams

P.S- my mocks were SO bad they were like Cs, Bs and like 2 As but i didn't revise (BUT NO EXCUSES FOR ME) so i'm aiming to do as well as possible to stay at school.
Basically at my school to come back you need a B in eng lang and maths and As or above in the a-level subject you wannna do : Bio, chem, maths, geog (or psychology) for me

So down below list:
What your subjects are, exam board and target grades
Proposed A-level options
What you struggle with etc
yeah....whatever else you want really....

BTW the way i revise is the following:
Bio, Chem: Flashcards and past papers
Physics: GetRevising same as above really
Geog: haven't done much yet but notes, midmaps
Drama: Learning how to answer Q and make notes on my performances
Spanish: I still need to do my oral but vocab, past papers
RS: Quizlet summarise stuff
Eng Lit: OMAM and AIC haven't done anything but mindmap for poetry
Eng Lang: Just learn ways to answer Q and what to look out for
Maths: PAST PAPERS and learn equations on flash cards

thats all folks, i'll update in a few on how much I've done today and wise words from the HSM students

WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

All right! I like your motivation. And don't worry about the mocks! Now you know what to do in order to improve. My goals are
English Language(WJEC): A
English Literature(WJEC) A/A* maybe!
Maths(EDEXCEL): A
Additional Science(OCR Gateway B): A*
History(EDEXCEL): A*
French(WJEC): A/A*
Health and Social care(EDEXCEL): A*
Use of Maths(AQA FSMQ): A*
RE(OCR A): A*
ICT(EDEXCEL): A*

GCSE's already achieved:
Chemistry(OCR Gateway B): A*
Science Core(OCR Gateway B): A*

A-Levels next year( I have to only do 3 due to my college rules. Something to do with being on the safe side due to the new A-levels)
Maths
Chemistry
Biology

Struggle with:
English. I just can't seem to understand it! It is the only object I struggle so much with including RE. I guess I'm not good at exams that require you to apply your knowledge.

Future....
I want to study medicine and if that doesn't work then biological science.

That's it from me!

You can deffo get an A*, if i still didn't enjoy maths now then probs get a C, but if you need help with any topics tell me. And yeah i understand what you mean with the exam papers, the question is so obvious but the way they word it screws you over

And thank you for the offer I deffo need help, although I aim high, I don't know if I will get high. English has always been a weakness, the question is obvious but no matter how hard i try to answer it correctly, I never do it right. I do OMAM and AIC and the way I revise for poetry is mindmaps and analyse the poems, as for OMAM and AIC i dont know, for mocks I didn't revise for them but i got an A so meh. But for lang, i might just learn how to answer the question and what to look out for and practice the techniques on articles wbu??

oh wow thats great! how did you get A* in chem cos im doing the same as you and I really want that A*, how did you revise for chem???

Thanks so much for your great advice and ooo, I really need helps on surds,vectors and functional maths. And do you have a method of remembering and understanding circle theorems? I'd really appreciate the help.

Also, for English Lit, I like to look at past exam questions and plan my answers(detailed)to them and compare my actual plan of the exam question to the mark scheme because I feel when examiners mark English it would be very subjective? Anyways, the mark schemes and examiner reports are extremely useful for English lit. Making character profiles for each character is helpful and doing the same thing thing for themes in a book/novel I feel is great. At the moment, I'm reading through of mice and men for 5th time and putting tags on pages I feel could be extracts that could come up in this year's exam and after I'm done, I'll annotate each page and the relationships evident and what the author was trying to present about society through doing something and just stuff like that I feel is helpful. Mr Bruff is brilliant, especially if you are doing the relationships cluster for poetry, I'm sure you've heard of him! Same, For English Lan, I just practise and practise and practice I hope I helped as much as you helped me!

Geog: haven't done much yet but notes, midmaps

I did my GCSEs last year guys and got well above what I was expecting. I know we've all heard it before but when you get to a levels, you really have to understand a subject. At GCSEs it's all about memorising, getting it all in your brain and then spilling it out on the page. The most improtant piece of advice I could give EVER is that for those of you doing AQA Chemistry, Phyiscs and Biology. READ THE SPECIFICATION, print it out read it highlight it and get tested on it. Each topic subcategory will have a list of points and each of those points will translate into a mark on a paper I PROMISE YOU. Literally it's funny reading through the mark scheme and reading the specification points for that topic, they're identical. Anyway, the other most important thing to do is PRACTICE PAPERS and it's ok if you get things wrong because you'll remember them next time around, if you're feeling particularly unprepared then do a paper with your notes and then do one without. Those of you doing history make sure you've got facts on post it notes all around the house (if you're allowed) ESPECIALLY in the kitchen/dining area where you can see the facts whilst you eat or get tested on them during dinner. I really wish you all the best of luck, just fancied giving some advice bc I know how much I needed it this time last year!

This is acccc rrly good advice, lots have told me about it and I'm actually gonna print it out the spec now.

Thank you

Geography is all about the case studies. Make sure you have flash cards for each case study with specific statistics. IIRC the way it works is you can't get more than 3 marks on an 8 mark question if you don't include specific detail.

What worked for me was to basically just learn the statistics then the rest you can fill in as common sense.

Worst comes to worse, you can make up some statistics on the spot - make them obscure though. They don't tend to check, but will see other papers so make sure it is obscure and not something other people will use. Don't rely on this though, I have no idea what they do if they catch you out but you would probably lose some marks...

Oh thats cool! Hope you get there one day