My Chance to Prove My Teachers Wrong

Don't worry about what other people think (including parents and teachers sometimes), if you want something then get your head down and work for it.

Today I have started on my half term homework for biology, added another set for new German vocab onto Quizlet (I LOVE Quizlet, it's so good for learning language words, and trust me, when you do double language there's a lot of vocab eek!) and later I think I'll make a start on the maths papers we've been given to do over half term.

Is anyone else here doing World Challenge? I'm doing mine in 2019 to Nicaragua and I'm so excited, so I suppose this might also become a WC2019 tracker? And I do ballroom and latin dancing, I have the option to take my next exam in May/June/July, but I don't know whether or not to because of GCSEs, but I think I will because I already know most of the steps (I'm doing UKA and am on Silver Latin- did the ballroom in November- and have to do Samba, Jive and Rumba) *insert dancer emoji here*

Also I don't know how often I'll update this, definitely not twice a day because I'm too busy with school and extra-curricular stuff, but at least once a week I hope

Yayyyy another double languager (is that a thing?!) aaahhh quizlet is so great for vocab, I’ve been using it since year eight and it hasn’t let me down yet
woah well done on getting your half term homework done...I’m too scared to look at mine (homework?...no thanks)
Also that is amazing that you can dance! I’m like this uncoordinated octopus on the dance floor...trust me...it’s bad
finally, someone gets the pain of having a younger sibling who is gifted in the writing department tbh I think the only reason I do well in maths is because I know my sister won’t do the same thing but better than me
Anyway, good luck with GCSEs...we can make it whoooop whoooop

Thanks Double languagers (making it a word) are quite rare now- only 6 in our whole year! what languages do you do? and do you think you'll do either of them for A-level? I was thinking about doing German as a 4th but I want to do EPQ and I have lots of other commitments and I want to try and learn some basic Spanish before next summer, so I'm going to be dropping both ;(

Hello stranger and welcome to my GYG blog! It might seem strange when I tell you that I'm not happy about my grades at the moment because they're 'good' but really I'm annoyed at myself for not working hard enough last year
But before we begin, let me introduce myself...
I'm in year 11 and this summer I'm taking Maths (Edexcel) Further Maths (AQA) Geography B (Edexcel) Short Course RS (WJEC) French (AQA) German (AQA) (double languages, yeah I know I'm an idiot), English language and literature (AQA) Biology (AQA) Chemistry (AQA) and Physics (AQA) (so I'm doing triple/separate sciences).
For A-Levels I want to take biology, chemistry and maths (I know, sciencey, by somehow I've fallen head over heels for science in the past year or so and now I want to do medical research when I'm older- I could never be a doctor though, I can't stand other people 😂)
I also love chocolate, dance, spicy food, badgers and cacti.
And I'm a redhead (wooh!)

On Friday I got my mock results back and my predicted grades. I didn't revise well AT ALL never the less, I was very happy about languages because I've never got so high before and I was quite pleased with English lit because I hadn't revised Macbeth and P&P (my paper 1 texts) enough, but I wasn't so pleased with some of the others...

As you can see, I met my EOY target in half of my subject, but the other half well...
And I know that target grades don't actually mean anything, but I know I can get my targets and I'm so annoyed that I didn't, but even more so, I'm annoyed that only 3 of my teachers think I can improve my grade and even more, only half of them think I'll get my targets! And my English Language teacher thinks I'll do worse in the real exam than I did in the mock! (About the mock, we did last year's papers and I got a 9 in both using last year's grade boundaries, but they (guess)timated this year's boundaries and now I have an 8, even though I got a 9 )
Finally, I don't know how good my GYG blog will be, but I really do enjoy writing. My little sister is the writing protégé, she's the one who gets emails home from her English teacher about her progress, who actually runs a real (anonymous) blog and she's the one who is always told she has a gift for writing. I on the other hand am the one who's gift is in science I think this is probably, secretly, why I'm so annoyed about the English language thing, in English Lit you analyse texts, but in English language you also do creative writing and I wanted to have got a 9, so my mission for English language is a 9 in August. Yes this is crazily high, but if I've done it once, I can do it again if I put in the work. To be honest this sounds a little ranty (is that a word) and I know that it's really good that my sister is good at writing and that I am better at science than her, but I'd still like to do well 😂

So ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, cats and dogs and badgers, welcome to my GYG blog on proving my teachers (and everyone else) wrong

Also ps, should anyone think that they may know me in real life, please don't bring this blog up because I will pretend it's not me

hey! following this GYG, can't wait to see how it turns out!
oh my...please help me with english. i still don't know how to write an essay (my teachers aren't much help either) and can never get past a level 6.

good luck with your studies!

I think it's about making a point, providing evidence, explaining your evidence and how it proved your point and then linking it back to the question
Also creative writing and informative writing is worth half the mark, so try and practise a little each week, there's this thing called 100 word challenge, it's meant for younger children but every week they post a creative writing idea and some ideas of what to write about, maybe ypu could try that? I'm going to start doing it, for nf practise arguing for and against something like homework, pets etc_ the examiners will always chose something relatable for the exam
Hope that helped

Time to do some maths...