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Hello, does anyone have any tips for me to ace my GCSE's? I'm trying to get in a sixth form which prefers most A's and A*'s
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(Original post by undercxver)
Sure, can you tell me what subjects you do? That way I can give the best tips.
Sure, can you tell me what subjects you do? That way I can give the best tips.
English Language (CIE)
Maths (AQA, I struggle with this)
Science core (OCR 21st Century)
Science additional (OCR 21st century)
Re (edexcel, don't really need help with this usually get A*)
Business (OCR)
Computing (OCR)
History (edexcel, need help with this)
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- Practise your writing skills by writing different types of texts
- Read books to build your vocabulary
- Read the newspaper daily and analyse them
- Watch Mr Bruff's videos on YouTube
- Make sure you are confident with the books you are studying
- Summarise the books you know in bullet points and check if you have covered each important section
- Analyse every single thing in every poem, each little bit has a meaning
- Try to compare different poems
Maths (AQA, I struggle with this)
All I can say is past paper questions. Only start doing the past paper questions once you are sure you have covered every topic.
- Work through the ExamSolutions videos if you ever feel you feel like you are stuck on any section
- Feel free to post in the TSR GCSE Maths Forum if you are unsure about something (make sure provide the question and what you have already done)
- Do every single past paper
- Mark your papers and see where you have gone wrong
- Look to do IGCSE papers once you have done all of the GCSE ones
Science core (OCR 21st Century)
Science additional (OCR 21st century)
Science additional (OCR 21st century)
- Record yourself talking and listen to yourself when you commute
- Makes notes on every topic
- Try summarising your content
- Talk through all content with someone willing to listen
- Revision cards are good for summarising
- Make sure you know all the content before attempting any past paper questions
- Do a good amount of past papers, if you complete them all attempt the IGCSE ones
- Definitely mark every paper you do, if you are struggling to mark it ask your teacher to do it for you
- See where you have gone wrong and look to improve on the section for the next paper you do
- Take your time to read the question carefully
- Underline keywords to emphasise to yourself what you are looking to answer
- If ever in an exam situation you don't have enough time to answer a question then bullet point the key points of the essay you could have written
- Be sure to use keywords as that's what gets you the marks
Re (edexcel, don't really need help with this usually get A*)
Business (OCR)
Computing (OCR)
I guess past papers are key, so keep at them.
History (edexcel, need help with this)
- Summarise the content of each module on one sheet of paper and memorise this
- Condense events into 3 bullet points [Linking with the point above]
- Make a list of significant events and their dates and highlight each one you manage to remember
- Do every single past paper question
- Plan your essays with bullet points within a minute
- Time yourself when doing essays
- Practice writing really fast
Check out these awesome revision tips by a fellow TSR user.
Use the Forest application on your phone to focus.
If you need any help TSR is a great platform to ask on.
Hope this helps.
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(Original post by undercxver)
English Language: (these are my tips for the AQA exam board, possibly similar to CIE AND Edexcel?)
Maths:
All I can say is past paper questions. Only start doing the past paper questions once you are sure you have covered every topic.
Science:
I'll leave that out.
No idea for these two, I'm sorry.
I guess past papers are key, so keep at them.
History:
Check out these awesome revision tips by a fellow TSR user.
Use the Forest application on your phone to focus.
If you need any help TSR is a great platform to ask on.
Hope this helps.![Image]()
English Language: (these are my tips for the AQA exam board, possibly similar to CIE AND Edexcel?)
- Practise your writing skills by writing different types of texts
- Read books to build your vocabulary
- Read the newspaper daily and analyse them
- Watch Mr Bruff's videos on YouTube
- Make sure you are confident with the books you are studying
- Summarise the books you know in bullet points and check if you have covered each important section
- Analyse every single thing in every poem, each little bit has a meaning
- Try to compare different poems
Maths:
All I can say is past paper questions. Only start doing the past paper questions once you are sure you have covered every topic.
- Work through the ExamSolutions videos if you ever feel you feel like you are stuck on any section
- Feel free to post in the TSR GCSE Maths Forum if you are unsure about something (make sure provide the question and what you have already done)
- Do every single past paper
- Mark your papers and see where you have gone wrong
- Look to do IGCSE papers once you have done all of the GCSE ones
Science:
- Record yourself talking and listen to yourself when you commute
- Makes notes on every topic
- Try summarising your content
- Talk through all content with someone willing to listen
- Revision cards are good for summarising
- Make sure you know all the content before attempting any past paper questions
- Do a good amount of past papers, if you complete them all attempt the IGCSE ones
- Definitely mark every paper you do, if you are struggling to mark it ask your teacher to do it for you
- See where you have gone wrong and look to improve on the section for the next paper you do
- Take your time to read the question carefully
- Underline keywords to emphasise to yourself what you are looking to answer
- If ever in an exam situation you don't have enough time to answer a question then bullet point the key points of the essay you could have written
- Be sure to use keywords as that's what gets you the marks
I'll leave that out.
No idea for these two, I'm sorry.
I guess past papers are key, so keep at them.
History:
- Summarise the content of each module on one sheet of paper and memorise this
- Condense events into 3 bullet points [Linking with the point above]
- Make a list of significant events and their dates and highlight each one you manage to remember
- Do every single past paper question
- Plan your essays with bullet points within a minute
- Time yourself when doing essays
- Practice writing really fast
Check out these awesome revision tips by a fellow TSR user.
Use the Forest application on your phone to focus.
If you need any help TSR is a great platform to ask on.
Hope this helps.
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