What are GCSE's like?

Hi I'm in year 10 and will do GCSE's in about 10 months. I wanted to know what they are like. I'm predicted 7 for French and 8's and 9's for every other subject. Our school seems to make mocks and practice exams difficult so it is a step up from acc GCSE. Are the GCSE exams easier than I acc think? I view them as pretty difficult because of the content I'm going through. Some people have told me it is easier thank I think. If so, which subjects do you think in particular? Thanks :wink:

Reply 1

absolutelysprout

difficulty is relative and down to the individual, so there's not really a straight answer here. some of my mocks were easier than the actual gcse, some were harder. i didn't find gcses that horrible, had some difficult exams obviously but it was mostly alright for me.

Reply 2

CelinaBrown

Original post by absolutelysprout

Random question, if I may, how well do you think you did/ what grades do u predict? :smile:

Reply 3

absolutelysprout

Original post by CelinaBrown

Random question, if I may, how well do you think you did/ what grades do u predict? :smile:

i've already done them! i got 2 9s, 3 8s, a 7, an A, 3 6s and a 5 so very varied :lol:

i do remember my biology gcse being harder than my mock.

Reply 4

CelinaBrown

Original post by absolutelysprout

i've already done them! i got 2 9s, 3 8s, a 7, an A, 3 6s and a 5 so very varied :lol:

i do remember my biology gcse being harder than my mock.

That's such good grades! Was it similar to your predicted grades. I find biology and maths my favorite subjects so I tend to find biology one of the easy ones! :wink:

French tho I have no idea how I'm gonna pass! The vocab never sticks with me!?

Reply 5

username5279298

Original post by CelinaBrown

That's such good grades! Was it similar to your predicted grades. I find biology and maths my favorite subjects so I tend to find biology one of the easy ones! :wink:

French tho I have no idea how I'm gonna pass! The vocab never sticks with me!?

I'm in Year 10 too, for French do you use Memrise or Quizlet? I find both really useful for learning vocab, a little a day and it tends to stick :yep:

Reply 6

absolutelysprout

Original post by CelinaBrown

That's such good grades! Was it similar to your predicted grades. I find biology and maths my favorite subjects so I tend to find biology one of the easy ones! :wink:

French tho I have no idea how I'm gonna pass! The vocab never sticks with me!?

no, i was predicted all 8s but i knew they were unrealistic :rofl:

thanks though!! that's good, you should find those 2 subjects okay then provided you revise smart :yep:

french you just need to be revising vocab a lot (duolingo, quizlet, memrise etc) and doing lots of practice questions. the subject's a bit of a slog, but you get what you put in, i guess.

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Reply 7

CelinaBrown

Original post by Roses_Dreams

I'm in Year 10 too, for French do you use Memrise or Quizlet? I find both really useful for learning vocab, a little a day and it tends to stick :yep:

I use quizlet and vocab express! Still the vocab never freakin sticks!

Reply 8

username5279298

Original post by CelinaBrown

I use quizlet and vocab express! Still the vocab never freakin sticks!

Have you tried sticking difficult vocabulary on places that you always look (e.g: the fridge)? That way you see it often and it might stick better, but I've never tried :dontknow:

Reply 9

Nevi

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Hated them. School made them out to be such a biggie and they weren’t. Could have done better but decided to sweat it at Skyrim instead. Was a top student until school would get angry when I didn’t get a 7 and I would get a detention for getting a 6 because it was below my target grade. So I did minimum effort so they’d have my “underachieving grades” permanently on their record.

Suckers. I’m predicted A*A*A at my new college. GCSEs didn’t mean anything

No. Not a joke

Reply 10

CelinaBrown

Original post by Roses_Dreams

Have you tried sticking difficult vocabulary on places that you always look (e.g: the fridge)? That way you see it often and it might stick better, but I've never tried :dontknow:

ok i'll try this :biggrin:

Reply 11

CelinaBrown

Original post by Nevi

That school is nonsense. When I get below my grade, I ask for support and I get extra special one to one session with my teacher for free on how I got answers wrong in an exam. It is very helpful!

p1ss eaasy

Original post by hanna10291

p1ss eaasy

u means physics 1?

Reply 14

Nevi

Original post by CelinaBrown

That school is nonsense. When I get below my grade, I ask for support and I get extra special one to one session with my teacher for free on how I got answers wrong in an exam. It is very helpful!