All year round, I’ve been achieving As and A*s in biology. (I’m going into yr13 in September).
I’ve never gotten anything lower than an A, and I do truly work very hard.
I had mocks in June/July and I revised my ass off for these exams. I did every single biology past paper available. I printed them all out, answered them all and marked them all and drove myself mad from revising.
When I sat the exam, I felt so great having done so much revision and so many of the questions that I did for revision coming up. This happened in both paper 1 and paper 2. As a result of this, I got the highest in the year group, achieving 90% on both papers put together.
The teacher did make the grade boundaries higher than usual, because he knew that many students revise off websites such as physics and maths tutor and so the students who did, would have found the paper easier as they have come across the questions before
I recall the grade boundaries for an A* was something like 86%, which is ridiculously high, and I think I was the only one in my class to have achieved an A*. Everyone else got As and Bs.
Unfortunately, for some reason, I feel guilty because so many of the questions that I used for revision had came up in the test. I do not memorise the markscheme - well, for some 6 markers I do because the mark scheme is picky as hell - but for the other questions I ensure that I understand it, hence why I remember the answer when the question comes up in the exam. I may also have a bit of photographic memory idk.
I didn’t cheat in any way shape or form, but idk why this keeps lingering inside of me. It’s not an anomaly that I achieved an A* in this mock, or this test. But I just feel weird about it.
Like, what if in the real alevel exam in June, my performances isn’t like that at all?? I’m just scared for some unknown reason