My GCSE study blog 2024!!😼🎀

Hi!
I’ve browsed the student room for a while now but I’ve never actually had an account, im quite new to this if you can’t tell so I apologise if I make any mistakes LMAO!
Anyways back to the topic at hand, I’ve started revision since mid November of last year and it’s just recently hit me that the GCSEs are actually so close 🥲. I’ve never really been great at buckling down and grinding but for some reason ever since I started year 11 I’ve been a study freak?? I’m not sure, although I do have trouble staying motivated sometimes and I also have slight issues with procrastination so I thought I would post daily updates here to keep myself on track.
Anyway enough of that here’s the subjects I do and the grades I got this week from my February Mocks, they were really harsh with marking this time for some reason so😭
Mathematics(edexcel): 9
English literature (AQA): 9
English language (AQA): 9
Business (edexcel): 9
History (edexcel): 9
RS (edexcel): 9
French (edexcel): 5
Combined Science(AQA): 8-8
I was honestly kinda upset with science cuz I got a 9-9 last time, of course it’s still good and I don’t mean to be obnoxious. French…💀💀 don’t even ask, the average grade was a 4/5 because a lot of people (ngl me too😭) flopped their speaking exam & we did listening in the hall (I COULDN’T EVEN HEAR IT🙁🙁), I know im capable of getting higher in French so any tips are welcome!
I really hope I can maintain these grades and do even better in the real exam, and without further ado, let the grind begin‼️

what a levels are u doing? those results are amazing i wish u the best in the future!!!

Hey, I’m going yr11 this September and I’m really struggling like I just got into doing higher for science so I really need to know how to do higher and Yh most of the other subjects we don’t do the same exam board so Yh but for RE do you do edexcel B ? But could you help me out with how to get a 8-8 I’m really wanna be a neurosurgeon as it’s my dream but I’m not very smart atm to get into that so I need to work so hard to get the good grades for science and maths!!! Please could you help me out

Ofcourse I’ll try my best to help you out, first of all yes I do edexcel B for RS, I’ll be honest don’t stress too much when it comes to year 11, I know there’s a lot of people out there that make it out to be this big thing but trust me as long as your dedicated (which I’m sure you are) you’ll see your grades soaring in no tim. When I was in year 10 I’ll be honest I rarely listened in class, my grades were mediocre/decent so for me I had to make up for that in year 11, me personally I tried to learn the content for two years in one year which is not a great approach if you struggle with memory but it works, make sure you study even a little bit every day because that’s way less stressful than cramming it all into a short period. Science is mainly facts you learn so flash cards and active recall can help loads with that, I remember watching this guy called science shorts on YouTube and he condenses all the information to make it easier to digest. RS is literally just quotes, and common sense, all I did was memorise quotes a week before the exam and look over some content, again don’t take my word for it but it worked for me however you should know basic main knowledge in RS so you know what the questions are asking so make sure you are confident in your background knowledge.
Trust me when I say your year 10 grades will not reflect how you do in the actual exam, in my end of year 10 exams I got a 6 and 6-6 in bit maths and science respectively but that increased to a 9 and 9-9 in my actual results.
Maths I genuinely believe that your teacher has a massive impact on your learning, I remember thinking math just wasn’t for me but in year 11 we got a different teacher and his teaching style finally made maths click in my head, but overall for maths to do well you need to practice, practice grade 9 questions and get used to needing to take a creative route and thinking how to solve the problems because bigger questions at the end of the paper usually are not straightforward. Practice weak topics first and work upwards from there, I personally think note taking for maths is useless (unless your modelling how a question should be done ) so do as many practice paper and practice questions as you can. It sounds shallow but that is simply the best way to get better in maths, though reader h alternative approaches and see what works for you.
Science I hate to say that I should’ve concentrated more in class even looking back now but overall to do well aim for 50/70 in each paper to get a 9 and for an 8 aim for around 45, it could sound hard but do active recall and it’ll slowly look much more doable, learn each topic as until you know it like the back of your hand, get friends to quiz you using flash cards, and make sure you know main knowledge on each topic, for me note taking in science helps but others before visual learning or listening etc, unlike maths science you cannot practice it in tests unless you know knowledge
Best of luck in your exams you’ll ace it.

I do the same for RE edexcel B do you wanna do it together I’m not very good at it

Ahh I would love to but unfortunately I did my GCSEs this year so most of the content I completely forgot about by now I’m sorryy