How's everyone feeling about GCSEs being in just over a month?

Thoughts, revision tips...

WTF?!

No! You're ****ing smart though... If I got that I would drink 3 bottles of Vodka and throw a ****ing house party. haha

Seriously though 3A*s! That's great

Yep, I'm doing Level 2 AQA further maths, for which I haven't started revision, and i've genuinely forgotten my BASIC GCSE MATHS STUFF

For matrices, I guess, write out the different matrices, what translations they represent. There should be 7 in total, and make flashcards with that. So one side has the matrix, and the other side has the transformation.

For the matrix calculations, literally just practice questions..

I really wish you the best! You'll ace it.... I'm not sure if this is a misconception, but doesn't the course just seem like 80% GCSE basics, and 20% AS level?

I'm preaching how to revise, when I only picked up a book yesterday to start revision. I'm gonna fail.. Goodbye 12 A*s... I WANT TO CRY
I don't even know how to revise. When I DO revise, in a week or something, i'm gonna end up just reading my book, nothing else

Gosh i'm one of those typical, TSR, moaning, anxious procrastinators? If only someone gave me a realistic assurance and something to pull me up
I seem to reject everyone that says ' YOU CAN DO IT. JUST REVISE'... Its as if Im waiting for some special reply. LOL

Anyway...
Back to life

BYE, and I wish you all the best, again.

Awwww you youngsters, I remember the month before my GCSE's about 7 years ago now. It was stressful, however I personally think the stress of it is over rated, but it depends on the person. Once I finished mine, I thought I didnt really need to stress over them. Do you guys still have the 2 months off for 'study leave' ?

I'm going to a college because my school doesnt have a sixth form and im so glad because I can't wait to get out and have a new start! I'm taking government and politics, philosophy, history and english literature, what are you doing?

Hi, thanks so much for this, that flashcard tip is brilliant. Haha don't worry if you haven't started revision but now might be a good time to start! 12 A*s is overrated anyway. As long as you get your head down for the next few months I'm sure you'll be fine.

As for the 80% GCSE 20% AS I'm not sure about that. I'm doing Maths for A-Level next sure and my teacher said we will be relearning a lot of what we've done for Level 2, but we will be taking in one step further. I don't know how people doing GCSE Maths this year and A-Level next year will find A-Level, especially since we've had this head start. In my school Set 1 and 2 take GCSE Maths one year early then in Y11 Set 1 do FMSQ and Set 2 do Level 2, while 3, 4 and 5 are still studying for GCSE.

I hope you do well, don't stress too much- you have have to make some sacrifices right now but they will be worth it. Good luck!

Well I have 21 exams, so I'm bricking it.
Yeah, I revise a lot, but not as much as I originally thought...

I'm jealous of you!! You can do history and English lit!!! Smart girl but isn't your hand going to well fall off?? I'm doing Maths Biology Economics and Spanish. Good Luck in your new six form

So do I, but when I think of my drama performance i feel that but 10 times worse

did my GCSEs last year and they went really well. for those of you doing them this year here are a few things i learnt

1) things aren't as bad as they seem, i genuinely thought i hadn't got cs in most of my subjects but results day ended up being fine

2) when the exam is over don't stress over it if you think it went badly, just move onto the next one, you can't change anything that's in the past. the same goes for over the summer, forget about it all until results day

3) one revision method i used was repeating writing out notes. i wrote out my notes onto plain pieces of a4 in a landscape way so i didn't have too many pages and i could try and visualize it in the exam.

4) sleep is so hugely important, i always found it more productive to go to bed at 9 and wake up at 5 to get a few hours revision in before the exam than going to bed at midnight.

5) if you have good controlled assessment grades you can chill out slightly. obviously still work your hardest but with so many of my exams the CA pulled my grade up a boundary

6) give yourself breaks and days off so you can sort yourself out.

7) get your parents on your side - i had a good amount of study leave but it started on the day of my first exam so in the week before i had a few days off to revise which really helped.

8) check out the mark schemes and know that there are certain questions practically guaranteed to come up or phrases you have to say for the mark

9) with the sciences one thing i've realised will always get you full marks is with graphs, say the relationship between the variables and then manipulate the data

10) breathe and thank god you're not on a levels yet

10) breathe and thank god you're not on a levels yet