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Year 12 mocks went badly

I finished my mocks this week and they went horribly. I do maths, further maths and physics. In maths my average (in class tests) is 92% but in my mock I got at most 65%. I’m worried that my teachers won’t predict me well because of this and I’m not sure if they’ll take into account my usual scores. Same with further maths. I usually get 70-80% and I think I got 40-60% (I added up marks for questions I know for a fact I got wrong) and yeah I’m just super worried 😭😭 I want to talk to my teachers about this but I don’t know how they’ll respond and if they’re going to be pessimistic about my grades because I know I didn’t do well but every other test I’ve had leading up to this has gone well.
My school does offer resits in September. if it turns out they predict me low it’s just gonna be really disheartening

Reply 1

one thing my teachers have tried to make clear to us with exams and predicted grades is they'll always give us the best possible prediction!! not in a like, impossible to achieve way, but if you've been doing consistently well in lessons and you have a couple bad days on mock exams they should still base your prediction on how you've been doing overall. i know it can be stressful but i would recommend talking to your teachers, so that they know you're worried about it. your average results are really good, particularly in maths! i'd say between now and a levels make sure you're finding revision tactics that work best for you, but your teachers should take your work over the year into account.

Reply 2

Original post by cabaret
one thing my teachers have tried to make clear to us with exams and predicted grades is they'll always give us the best possible prediction!! not in a like, impossible to achieve way, but if you've been doing consistently well in lessons and you have a couple bad days on mock exams they should still base your prediction on how you've been doing overall. i know it can be stressful but i would recommend talking to your teachers, so that they know you're worried about it. your average results are really good, particularly in maths! i'd say between now and a levels make sure you're finding revision tactics that work best for you, but your teachers should take your work over the year into account.


Yeah I think I’ll try and track down one of my teachers tomorrow and ask about it. It’s concerning me a bit how I’ve started blanking in tests again since it hasn’t happened in 10+ months but i think it’s just a bad test week

Reply 3

So it doesn’t matter, although you’ve clearly taken it as a ‘wake up’. 👍

Talk to the teacher, it suggest going in with:

That result didn’t meet what I was aiming for therefore:
What went wrong?
What should I personally be doing to get on?
Is there any extra assistance that you/the school runs?
I intend to get grade ‘X’ come what may..

Think of it from the teachers perspective, that’s absolute manna from heaven to hear from a student and I’m sure he/she will spend some time to get a well motivated student onwards.

Without knowing the circumstances as a starter perhaps just reflect on what exam preparation you did. What material did you review and crucially how much did you do in the line of practise exams.

Generally, even if you’re doing well, practise exams will help protect you from those unexpected and therefore difficult on the day problems. Without significant exam practise you can be vulnerable there to the variations in real world exams.

In no way worry though, you’ve got a full year and fundamentally you’re clearly in a great place. Obviously some changes to be identified with the teacher just. They’ll be very receptive.
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Reply 4

Original post by AnonOxE
So it doesn’t matter, although you’ve clearly taken it as a ‘wake up’. 👍
Talk to the teacher, it suggest going in with:
That result didn’t meet what I was aiming for therefore:
What went wrong?
What should I personally be doing to get on?
Is there any extra assistance that you/the school runs?
I intend to get grade ‘X’ come what may..
Think of it from the teachers perspective, that’s absolute manna from heaven to hear from a student and I’m sure he/she will spend some time to get a well motivated student onwards.
Without knowing the circumstances as a starter perhaps just reflect on what exam preparation you did. What material did you review and crucially how much did you do in the line of practise exams.
Generally, even if you’re doing well, practise exams will help protect you from those unexpected and therefore difficult on the day problems. Without significant exam practise you can be vulnerable there to the variations in real world exams.
In no way worry though, you’ve got a full year and fundamentally you’re clearly in a great place. Obviously some changes to be identified with the teacher just. They’ll be very receptive.

Thanks sm for the advice ^^
I’ll try this when I manage to find my teacher

Reply 5

Okay so I got as actual results ABB (my teachers aren’t handing out a*’s) and I’m told that my projected grades will be around A* A/B B which I can work with since I’ll be resitting

Reply 6

Just stick with it and see what pops up.

Exam prep and understanding the papers and question structure is a really valuable way of scraping valuable marks together. Sweat the small stuff and see where the easy mark improvements lie and you’ll keep moving forward. You can definitely do this.

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