Advice for upcoming Year 10's and 11's

Organise your notes. I found flash cards to be the best thing, you're going over things and learning the information again and then writing it down. It's very good active revision. You're also condensing down the notes to what's relevant. I never found timetable's helpful at all but you might. I must also add that the Get Revising site is very useful for revision guidance and notes and to make a timetable.

Oh, well, I was on Edexcel however, we also (clearly) had coursework.

You would find it harder to get the A without a decent enough coursework grade but it isn't impossible. What did you get?

I haven't gotten the results yet but I'm pretty sure I failed since I basically winged it as I didn't exactly know what to do during the coursework.


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I was talking about the coursework result? That's wrong, you should know exactly what you're doing.

Oh, sorry, I just finished it last week so I haven't gotten my result yet.

He did try to explain it to us but most of the class didn't get it. I tried to get his opinion by showing him some of my drafts but he keeps saying "You can do it", "This is great work" and other praises without telling me why it's great or how I can improve it.

Whenever I ask him for help, he keeps saying that I'm gonna ace it. He didn't even tell us how to do the intro or the conclusion, since he says that it doesn't matter but then another teacher said that it counts for maybe 2-3 marks.

The whole thing was a mess and it will most likely cause my grades to go down and that's gonna disappoint a lot of people since the English department gave me a high target, my tutor gave me a high target and my classmates believe that I'll get great grades. It's just a mess.


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Thanks

But..... we were told that due to some reforms, we can't do resits and I was hoping to do it in A-levels too *sigh*.


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You can't resit EXAMS due to reforms, that's not the same for coursework.

Really? Thanks, I'm gonna ask my teacher or my tutor as soon as possible about that. Hopefully, they'll allow me to resit since I just messed up a 15% CA


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How hard is the Maths GCSE? we had the pre-public exams i didn't turn up for the non-calculator loool but for the calc exam i got a B but i found it really hard Revision tips?