Protostar's journey to amazing grades! (GCSE)

14/04/2016 - Evening update

Thankfully, because I didn't have to go into school for the first time this week, I managed to get some proper work done

I decided to focus purely on science today, as I was waaay behind the point I wanted to be at with my notes, but I managed to do loads!

Today I have:
-Finished full notes on B3 for biology
-Finished full notes on C4 for chemistry
-Finished full notes on P4, P5 and P6 for physics
-Started notes on B4 and B5 for biology, and C5 for chemistry

Although the list is quite short today - it's been a hell of a lot of work! I'm exhausted to be quite honest and it's only 8pm!

Tomorrow I'm hoping to focus on geography, RS and English - completely different from today! So we'll have to see how that turns out

WOW well done Do you still have half term? You've done a lot! Keep up the hard work Are you ready for your exams? When's your 1st exam?

Haha thank you! And yep I'm still on my Easter holiday
I'm quite prepared for most of my exams, mainly the the subjects I like though, oops . My first exam's on May 16th - Religious Studies. I'm quite behind on revision for this though, so it's one of my priorities for tomorrow

Wow! You get so much done on a daily basis, your motivation and effort is crazy good
I hope you do amazing in your exams because you definitely deserve it!

16/04/2016 - Morning update

THERES EXACTLY ONE MONTH UNTIL MY FIRST EXAM

Sorry I didn't update last night, I didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted to as I just couldn't stop procrastinating (I spent about 2 hours cycling through uno and temple run )

Between yesterday and this morning I have managed to:
-annotate one poem from my anthology (it's very incomplete and it worries me)
-finish notes on unit 1.2 (matters of life and death) for RS
-finish the uk reservoir case study for geography, and consequently finish the whole of water on the land 🎉
-physics p456 (Jan 2013) - 46/60 grade A* (bloody hard paper this - only needed 33 for an A*). Weaknesses: resistance in relation to voltage and current in a circuit, electromagnetic induction electricity vs power station electricity, transformers, current and voltage changes in series and parallel circuits, effects of radiation protection measures on different groups of people (so mainly P5 - makes sense as we've only just started learning it)
-started notes on unit 1.3 (marriage and the family) for RS, which I finished this morning
-started notes on the Lake District as a uk tourist destination (case study) for geography (finishing off the tourism unit - I've made notes on everything but the case studies as I put them off because I hate them )

Today I plan to continue with the geog case studies, annotate another poem and then move on to PE as I still haven't started revising for it...oops!

17/04/2016 - Evening update

Barely done anything today, as I spent most of the day in town looking for prom shoes (I found some )

However, I managed to:
-geography past paper question (water on the land only, June 2012) - 23/25 weaknesses: factors affecting a rivers discharge
-finished b4 notes for biology

I still need to:
-do an English exam question as possible homework (literally no one knows so better to be safe than sorry)

22/04/2016 - Evening update

Sorry for not updating for a few days

I've been so unproductive this week it's ridiculous, I just haven't managed to drag myself to my desk to get started unfortunately. Scary as exams are so so close now.

This week I got back the June 2015 paper 1 for further maths, and I got 62/70 - actually my worst score yet but it's still an A^ so I'm still very happy with it.

I've also been to the gym twice as I kind of stopped going for a month...oops.

And my PE teacher made honestly the greatest decision of all time about our moderation - she's done it in a way where we pick the 10 stations from the list that we're best at (so we don't have to do the ones we hate and are awful at), because as long as we justify how they will benefit us in our sports we'll get good scores! I'm so happy about it as it means I don't have to do burpees, push ups, tricep dips or straddle jumps so I actually have a chance of doing well haha!

But I've literally done no revision barring Monday's efforts, which is disappointing but I've just been exhausted from school as I haven't been sleeping very well at all and I've been doing quite a bit of exercise on top of it. Tonight I hope to sleep well so I can focus tomorrow and just get on.

Aw well done on the A* and hopefully you could get a lot done for the weekends and yes exams are soooooooo close it scares me. Every night i tick off the days and it frightens me that i have 3 weeks left GAH!! Do get some sleep, maybe have an earlier night why do you not get a good sleep?

Haha thank you
I wouldn't dare tick off the days it'd scare me too much! All the teachers at school keep telling us how many days there are until exams but they say it in school days which is even worse as there are less of them!
I'm definitely getting an early night tonight, and I'm looking forward to a bit of a lie in, it's been a hard week!
And I'm not sure why I don't sleep well, sometimes I do, others I don't. I just kind of roll with it tbh. Sometimes stress does keep me awake but I don't think that's the case as I'm weirdly calm - it worries me how un-stressed (if that's a word) I am
I'm definitely going to really work hard this weekend as they seem to be the only times I can actually focus!

Haha i guess for me if I tick off the days, i can see the amount of time i have which scares me and i can plan my time Oh, yes teachers are probably the worst people on Earth ATM
You really should get a good sleep and that's true weekends are when you can revise effectively hopefully you get a lot done I'm also planning to do loads exams are getting closer and closer

Yeah, I guess fear never worked for me it just puts me off because I'm just like 'what's the point?'. And I agree that teachers aren't handling it well! Good luck with your revision this weekend!