year 11 post-mocks 2021 - what we thinking?

finished my mocks a week ago and they went okay. i’m pretty confident in all my subjects except english language tbh. i think i’m getting my results next week so i’ll see how i did🥲

Went pretty well overall! History was the exception, but I feel that it was that way for everyone, I can't say my history teacher is the best... He literally told my class that he doesn't care if we fail, and that mocks aren't important anyway. Needless to say, not many people tried in that exam. My philosophy was that I can only do my best, and if I fail, I fail.

R.E. was definitely better this time (compared to year 10 mocks). I actually tried during it! My motivation was the fact that sets are changing in the new year, and I currently hate my class and miss my old teacher. R.E. is compulsory in my school, and a lot of people really do not like it at all. The majority of people just end up sleeping during the exam. Literally. You look over and see 200 people all with their head down and finding every excuse to go to the toilet

The art exam was really tiring (especially with all the spray paint fumes), and I think I aced the English lit paper! I'm getting my results this week, and honestly can't wait to find out how I've done!

hey guys, so i thought because most of us have finished mocks (or are spending Christmas preparing for January mocks), we could do a debrief of our experiences, how we think we did etc. feel free to comment along to this thread your thoughts!

Went pretty well overall! History was the exception, but I feel that it was that way for everyone, I can't say my history teacher is the best... He literally told my class that he doesn't care if we fail, and that mocks aren't important anyway. Needless to say, not many people tried in that exam. My philosophy was that I can only do my best, and if I fail, I fail.

R.E. was definitely better this time (compared to year 10 mocks). I actually tried during it! My motivation was the fact that sets are changing in the new year, and I currently hate my class and miss my old teacher. R.E. is compulsory in my school, and a lot of people really do not like it at all. The majority of people just end up sleeping during the exam. Literally. You look over and see 200 people all with their head down and finding every excuse to go to the toilet

The art exam was really tiring (especially with all the spray paint fumes), and I think I aced the English lit paper! I'm getting my results this week, and honestly can't wait to find out how I've done!

Finished my mocks a month ago, got most of my results and they are okay! Well, they are not as well as my Y10 mock results but I still did well I have learnt a lot about what I should improve on and what the exams might be like

glad they went well for you do you think we're getting teacher assessed?

sorry if you weren’t asking me, but i really don’t know what’s going to happen this year. part of me feels like we’re getting TAGs but a small part of me feels like we’re going to actually sit our exams in the summer. it’s all very confusing because the last year 11s were told that they’ll do their exams but they didn’t end up doing them

i get my results back on thursday! I did really well on some subjects, but I feel like I botched a few others, MAINLY HISTORY... i ran out of time

I’m a Geography student but I’ve heard a lot about the difficulty of History, I loved History in Year 8 but I hear it gets a lot more complicated
Most people told me that grade boundaries will be lowered as a result of how hard the exam was so you’ll be absolutely fine <3

aah thank you!! i hope so <3

History's grade boundaries are really low anyway (speaking for AQA but I assume others are the same):
Usually 75%+ will be a 9, which gives you an idea of how hard they think the course is if you can not do an entire section of a paper and still get a 9 (obviously with there only being 3 topics this time... you need to have a go at all of them)

let us know how it goes 😁, how did your others go?