Agent Duck’s GCSE journey - GYG

Finally the half term but also exactly one month till mocks
We got the timetable for mocks today and it’s not the best but it could be worse. I only have back to back exams once out of two weeks which isn’t as bad as end of years have been in previous years.
I plan on doing as much as revision as possible this holidays so hopefully I’ll be able to be productive 🤞.
Things to revise
- Language Paper 1
- Love and Relationships Poetry
- Mathswatch
- Biology, Chemsitry and Physics required practicals
- Spanish vocabulary and tenses for modules 1-7
- Geography case studies
- Food everything
- RS quotes
Obviously I need to revise everything we’ve done since year 9 but these are the areas I hope to focus my revision on. Will try and update at the end of each day with the revision for that day.

Tags - @Evil Homer @brainzistheword

Our academic aims are very similar. Do you mind tagging me to your posts too?

how are you revising food theory?
I found these really good flashcards on Quizlet, I can send you a link if you want.

Heyyy
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Today I finally got my Pride and Prejudice assessment back (25/30) which is my average for essays so hopefully I can improve before mocks
Had a chemistry test today but it was open book so it will be really embarrassing if I do badly. I have my second NEA1 experiment first period tomorrow but I'm a bit ill so I really don't feel like doing it but oh well.
I didn't get any homework today so after I finish this I'm going to be making mind maps for characters and themes for MAAN and P&P as I haven't got many yet.

Also now that the holidays are over my posts will be less frequent like they used to be sorryyy. I have mocks in less than three weeks and am petrified!!!! So I'm going to try and focus my revision but it'll probably get left till the week before

Tags - @Evil Homer, @brainzistheword, @curly_fries

Heyyy
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Today I finally got my Pride and Prejudice assessment back (25/30) which is my average for essays so hopefully I can improve before mocks
Had a chemistry test today but it was open book so it will be really embarrassing if I do badly. I have my second NEA1 experiment first period tomorrow but I'm a bit ill so I really don't feel like doing it but oh well.
I didn't get any homework today so after I finish this I'm going to be making mind maps for characters and themes for MAAN and P&P as I haven't got many yet.

Also now that the holidays are over my posts will be less frequent like they used to be sorryyy. I have mocks in less than three weeks and am petrified!!!! So I'm going to try and focus my revision but it'll probably get left till the week before

Tags - @Evil Homer, @brainzistheword, @curly_fries

Good luck for mocks! You’ve got this! 😁

You got these mocks, do let us know how they go!

Holaaa

Mocks revision
-. still procrastinating with language paper 1 revision
-. am in the process of creating summaries for all the poems in the love and relationships anthology
-. I have almost memorised my 1 min speech for Spanish speaking exams (week beginning 4th December)
-. I'm going to try and revise the kidneys for biology, FDE cycles for computing and resources topic for geography this weekend but it's Diwali so I'll probably get busy

School stuff
-. got my maths test back 51/60 which isn't great but there was an A Level question and no one got full marks so I'm not too upset with the score
-. I got the chemistry test back which was better but still a few silly mistakes
-. we're starting revision in all subjects next week so no new learning for now
-. geography fieldwork is a bit confusing to write up but we're leaving it for now to pick up after mocks
-. my teacher said one of my practice 9 markers in geography was 'A Level standard' which made me so happy

Other
-. went to the final open evening and I have finally decided which sixth form I want to go to but my schools sixth form is a back up option
-. this weekend I need to apply to one of the sixth forms as the deadline is soon but the other ones I'm applying to have a deadline of Jan/Feb so I'll apply later with my mock grades
-. I'm struggling to think of a secret santa gift for my friend 😶 but I've got until the end of the term so I'll probably think about it after mocks
-. although it's Diwali 🪔I'm probably not gonna do much because of revision but I think we might meet with my aunt and uncle on Sunday

Tags - @curly_fries , @brainzistheword, @Evil Homer (yayyy the tags are back)

Hiya hope the rest goes smoothly!

I did quite well for my lang mock. Here is what I would suggest. I'm pretty sure you do AQA? Sorry if I'm wrong and just ignore it😭

Just keep doing past paper and questions and get it marked by your English teacher and get feedback and be open to asking them what you could do better next time.

Also split the paper up do one question then do smth else if its too much. But it u can try sit the paper in one go. Time management is important!

Hope this helps babes xx
Any questions just asked I tried simplifying this 😭
(these techniques helped me go from like a 5 to I think 8?)

For question 2, have a topic sentence then explode the quote. Give atleast 3 explanations for it before moving on and always link back to the question. Do atleast 3 paragraphs bc of time preferably 4.

For 3 focus on 4 different parts. Usually the extract for q1 is the beginning. Do this beginning, middle and end. And link to the question. Learn structural devices e.g analepsis (flashbacks). Sometimes vocab like this puts you in the higher band.

Q4 weave in and out. The statement can be spilt into 2. So basically start with the extract and embedd relevant quotes that either make you agree or disagree with either statement or both.

Q5 descriptive or narrative doesn't matter. However my teacher stresses on descriptive lol. But range sentence forms practice experimenting on sentence forms to make it interesting. It isn't all about language or the techniques you use. Yes in a way but not completely. Read books. That helped me pick up new vocab or see what writers did to make the book appealing etc.