The road to level 8/9’s

good luck and work hard! 💪🏼

Year 11?

Do you do OCR 21st century science?

No, I take OCR Gateway Science

Oh okay, what resources do you use for it?
Also do you do AQA French?

- I have revision guides for Bioogy, Chemistry & Physics that I bought from the school
- There is also a YouTube channel called “MyGCSEScience” that has some useful videos

Yes, I do take AQA French, do you?

Hello There,

Today I said I would do some Maths & Economics Revision, in which I did complete. I also did some French revision on Memrise, and did 6 sessions keeping me on track with my target.

For Maths Revision, I begun using the Pixl Maths app, and did ok. I Then went onto MathsGenie.Com and did some practice Questions there on Proofs, quadratic inequalities. Today has opened my eyes and sort of worried me, as I realise there’s a lot to remember for Maths, and I have forgotten quite a few things. Hopefully some more revision will help me, but I am getting nervous about Maths, as I really want a Level 9.

For Economics, I revised Unit 11, completing the 3 Sections of Practice Questions I created, and scored pretty well. I then looked at past papers, and answered the questions pretty well. However I do feel I forgot important and obvious things in my answers, and this is someh in Give Done in my previous economics papers. This is again getting me quite nervous for my exams

Overall today has been productive, but has probably made more panicked & anxious about Maths & Economics. These 2 subjects I really enjoy and want to take at A-Level so I want a 9 (for Maths) & A* (for economics as it’s part of the old specification). Hopefully with more revision and studying of these subjects, I’ll be more comfortable and ready to ace the exams.

Days until exams: 82 Days

Awesome. I'm watching this! I am in Year 10 and spending about 2 hrs per day writing notes and 30 minutes per day on Memrise going through my Italian course. I am making sure my whole two year course notes are done for year 11 so in year 11 I can simply revise the notes like mad and learn them off by heart, achieving a grade 7/8/9 by knowing the specification inside out. What do you think?

These are my grades, what I am working at now in red and my personal target in green: (I'm in year 10 btw.)

English Lit:7/ 8
English Lang: 7/ 8
RS: 7/ 9
Maths: 5/ 7
Science 1: 6/ 7
Science 2: 6/ 7
Italian: 5/ 8
Sociology: 7/ 8
History: 8/ 9
Business: 8/ 9

Yeah, Maths and Italian are my weak subjects...

Yeah i take AQA French, so you're just using Duolingo and Memrise to learn vocab? I've looked at all the vocab they want you to know on the AQA spec but haven't really revised it much. You said you had 1200 words, where did you get the from?

From the Memrise app. I have 8 modules and it says how many more words you need to learn, so I added them all together.

Those are great grades and your work ethic is very good. Most people in my Year never revised in year 10, so you should be well prepared for year 11.

8 modules? What do you mean by that?

Thanks. I think for GCSE's as well as knowing the spec you can get away with memorisation. Basically, for a subject like business, if you know the textbook inside out and know how to structure answers, you've got yourself a grade 9. Any tips on how to revise for maths? That's my weakest subject!

Thanks!