Former GCSE students.......

Had a really hard paper for Maths and was convinced I'd failed it - came out with an A and still don't know how I managed it cos I made so many mistakes lol. Rest were As and A*s so seriously don't stress too much

What were you expecting?

I was expecting a C to be honest

I just want to pass my Maths. Really worried about that. 😭

Honestly, I did way better than I expected on some papers that I considered hard. For example, in my physics paper 1, I thought I messed it up but I got a high A* and the paper I found easiest ( physics paper 3), I got less on. I panicked that I may have done worse in some papers after thinking about it a lot. However, that is a natural psychological instinct by your body.
I did well in my maths high A*'s which I was expecting because maths is something I am so passionate about.
For History and English, I was sceptical. History was my best subject but I dropped a lot of marks in the end because I didn't prepare as well for paper 2 ( nevertheless managed an A*)
For computing, I thought I wouldn't have done as well because the exams have been up and down for me. My coursework was an A* and a B so I thought I might get a B but scraped an A.
French listening was a disaster but I recovered on reading and the rest so got an A.

In conclusion, I wouldn't worry about your results. I am sure you will do a lot better than you think. Stress is a natural thing after exams and you may surprise yourself quite a bit! Just a chill till results day. Sometimes you may get disappointing results but it's important to never let that demotivate you. Sometimes remarking is successful if you're 1 or 2 marks off ( in my case this happened in French!)
If you have any more questions ( scores and anything else), just ask here!
Good luck for results day!

As you can see,i'm going to get my results soon and I am overwhelmed with a lot of stress.Former gcse students, tell me about your thoughts when you came out of the exam vs what you actually got.

in terms of business i was exactly in your boat, i thought i was going to get a c, b if i was lucky. I ended up with an a. I don't want to trick you into thinking that you'll get marvelous grades when you feel like it went badly, but more times than not (at least in my experience) the exam goes a bit better than anticipated.

As long as you worked your hardest for it, there's no reason why you shouldn't get your desired grade or higher.

And just remember that the grade boundaries are going to be significantly low, which just means the odds are even more in your favour, supposing you did, of course, put the necessary amount of work in.

As long as you worked your hardest for it, there's no reason why you shouldn't get your desired grade or higher.

And just remember that the grade boundaries are going to be significantly low, which just means the odds are even more in your favour, supposing you did, of course, put the necessary amount of work in.

It was by far the most horrific maths test I have ever taken.

Well if this is your first set of external exams, that should come as no surprise. And if you're doing A levels, this still isn't surprising since A levels are supposed to be much more difficult than GCSEs.

Luckily am not doing it for a-levels, I done the new grades 9-1, where in year 10 we didn't learn anything since our teacher wasn't experienced, plus there wasn't enough samples.

I just hope I get my A* in maths as I'm really dubious of the exam and have made many silly mistakes.

Exactly.