Ooooo, if I had a time machine how hard would I have to hit yr8 me for choosing history and geography at GCSE.
Big little issue with some context. History GCSE, my school is the only school to take WJEC exam board in the whole of the south maybe all of England; to make things worse it covers 10 years of USA, 90 years of Germany, 500 bc- present day medicine and 50 years of Elizabethan Powers. GCSE Geography with AQA is nicer, only 3 papers and I know partially what to do.
The little big issue I have with this is the amount of work I get set on a weekly basis to achieve, In both I’ve been predicted 7s but if I work harder 8s. History is demanding just generally and every week I have to write and plan and exam question because failing to plan is planning to fail, and extra revision on top of that. Now I’ve bred good and done all the revision material that I need for history and geography but my school is sucky. They say it doesn’t count as revision if you don’t produce something out of it, now you should start to see an issue. So in history I start doing questions and last month I finished all the questions I could do this also coming from papers, all timed no doubt. And I’m still being asked to do more.
Geography is demanding knowledge wise, I can do all the exam technique but there is so much core content to learn and memorise besides the extra details I need to know. I ah e all the revision materials but every week I’m being asked for more materials to prove I’ve been revising and like history I don’t have anything else to do because I’ve don’t all the papers I can get ahold of, the flash cards, writing in blocks to summaries it. But more is still needed.
I’ve brought this up with my mentor and she says I just have to power through it, not to complain and take advantage of the resources provided but I don’t know how to if I have nothing more to do, and no more can be provided.
I don’t know how many kiddos this helps to decided whether or not to take history or geography, or both but honestly good look. Enjoy the little stress rant. And to conclude I’ve never been so confused.