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im currently in a crisis. Im not sure wether im gona do my gcse exams early next year or touch on a level content this summer

Reply 1

Hiya, I'm a year 11 student also but am thinking about starting to look at A level content {mainly cause I don't know what I'm doing}.

My advice would be to consider what grades you want (write each subject and the grade you want on a piece of paper) and consider whether from your mocks and schoolwork if you'd realistically get them. What I'm trying to say is, only revise for the GCSE exams you are considering taking as you believe you won't get the grades you know that you can achieve if you really work for them. If you know what A-levels you're doing then I'd recommend looking through the spec and possibly catching up with GCSE knowledge you may need for some of the subjects. (e.g. if you're doing a language then revise the tenses etc...).

Hope this helps :smile:

Reply 2

Original post by carxlinefxrbes_
Hiya, I'm a year 11 student also but am thinking about starting to look at A level content {mainly cause I don't know what I'm doing}.

My advice would be to consider what grades you want (write each subject and the grade you want on a piece of paper) and consider whether from your mocks and schoolwork if you'd realistically get them. What I'm trying to say is, only revise for the GCSE exams you are considering taking as you believe you won't get the grades you know that you can achieve if you really work for them. If you know what A-levels you're doing then I'd recommend looking through the spec and possibly catching up with GCSE knowledge you may need for some of the subjects. (e.g. if you're doing a language then revise the tenses etc...).

Hope this helps :smile:

You see, i made a plan at the start of this year to get no less than a grade 7 in all my subjects and up until February it was looking very likely. And then last weeks news struck and demotivated me a lot because my grades will be based on previous work. Furthermore, starting A level content now is quite devastating and intimidating

Reply 3

Original post by losteenager15
You see, i made a plan at the start of this year to get no less than a grade 7 in all my subjects and up until February it was looking very likely. And then last weeks news struck and demotivated me a lot because my grades will be based on previous work. Furthermore, starting A level content now is quite devastating and intimidating

If you have been getting close to the grade 7's and above (e.g. grade 6's close-ish to 7's) then teachers {I'm guessing, and from what I've heard} will expect you to go up a grade from your mocks to the real exams. But, if you know that you haven't got close to the grades you desire in your mocks for specific subjects then I'd recommend revising them so you can take the exams either in 2021 or the next academic year (September onwards). I'd recommend watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk2CAU2px9c&t=611s as it is really helpful in explaining what to do if you don't get the grades you'd hoped for. As for A-level content, I wouldn't look too deeply into it yet as realistically we're technically not in what would be the official "summer holidays" when students would begin prepping. However, I do recommend what I said before regarding keeping your GCSE knowledge and solidifying it if you are wanting to study the course for A-levels {If A-levels are what you want to do}. Hopefully, your classwork and mocks will reflect your efforts to achieve grade 7's and above and the teachers will realise this if it's the case. :smile:

Reply 4

Original post by carxlinefxrbes_
If you have been getting close to the grade 7's and above (e.g. grade 6's close-ish to 7's) then teachers {I'm guessing, and from what I've heard} will expect you to go up a grade from your mocks to the real exams. But, if you know that you haven't got close to the grades you desire in your mocks for specific subjects then I'd recommend revising them so you can take the exams either in 2021 or the next academic year (September onwards). I'd recommend watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk2CAU2px9c&t=611s as it is really helpful in explaining what to do if you don't get the grades you'd hoped for. As for A-level content, I wouldn't look too deeply into it yet as realistically we're technically not in what would be the official "summer holidays" when students would begin prepping. However, I do recommend what I said before regarding keeping your GCSE knowledge and solidifying it if you are wanting to study the course for A-levels {If A-levels are what you want to do}. Hopefully, your classwork and mocks will reflect your efforts to achieve grade 7's and above and the teachers will realise this if it's the case. :smile:

hey idk if ur still around but I hope you're doing well; I never appreciated your response at the time and I'm reading back and just thought wow :smile:

Reply 5

Original post by losteenager15
hey idk if ur still around but I hope you're doing well; I never appreciated your response at the time and I'm reading back and just thought wow :smile:

Hello!

Yes, I'm still around on TSR although nowhere near as much as I used to be!

I'm doing good and I hope everything went well for you! Giving you a response back then was no problem as we were all in a very confusing and stressful time with very little information available. I sometimes feel as though things are still only just starting to 'normalise' once again...whatever that means.

Best of luck for your future!

carxlinefxrbes_ 🙂

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