I got all A* in my GCSEs - Ask me anything

Ok, so look above for some of the advice. So CGP revision guide is absolutely amazing and practically gave me a 9 in physics and bio. If that’s possible to buy, then I’d recommend it greatly. I’d also say, make sure you understand how to nail those discuss and evaluate questions. They’re difficult to master at first but once you get there, your grade just shoots up. My bio teacher made it seem quite simple to tackle those questions: Write an argument and counter argument. Consider reliability, validity and accuracy. Write one more point than the number of marks available. Gives you straight 5/5 every single time, but you do need to know the biology. That’s where you can gain a lot of marks over other students. Also, for the ‘CORMS’ experimental design question, not much knowledge is required, but you do need to be able to apply the structure to the situation in that question. Practicing those questions in particular will help greatly. Also, knowing your key experiments is crucial - the CGP guide helps organise this quite nicely for you. But there’s 20% of the paper on experiments so focus a lot of revision there. Also, practicing the comprehension questions at the start of paper 2 (assuming you are doing biology and not double science) is important - but again, knowing the biology is still needed. Hope this helps.

Thanks very much. I was super surprised to open the letter to see 9s in English. I thought they would both be solid 8s, with maybe a 9 in language. Scraped it with language and performed quite well in literature. I did kind of slack off around March of my GCSE year as I think I ran out of steam. So I’d say as my first piece of advice given, don’t work too hard too early, work consistently. If I did that, all 9s could’ve been very possible.

Thanks, ill check it out.
I already gave my physics exam and got an 8, 2 marks off a 9(might get it rechecked))
And what about math and chemistry?? Because i particularly find math a bit difficult and i hate itt sm

Hi everyone, this is by no means me bragging about my results. I received them yesterday and got:
English lit: 9
English lang: 9
French: 9
Maths: 9
Chemistry: 9
Biology: 9
Physics: 9
History: 8 (getting remarked as I was 1 mark off and convinced I should’ve got a 9)
Spanish: 8
Classical Greek: 8
Additional maths: A (top grade)
I am very happy with my GCSE results and thought this might be a way to help other users to get similar grades to mine. This is mostly targeted as those moving into Y9-11 but anyone is welcome to post.

Yeah I can definitely relate to the slacking off around March, after my February mocks I was so tired😭

I’ll be staying at the same school and do A-Levels in:
Maths (possibly FM but I’ll decide by the start of term)
Chemistry
Economics
History
I’ll try and do 4 subjects but if it’s too much work or my grades are affected, I’ll willingly drop down to 3. Any advice from anyone for those A-Level subjects or A-Levels in general will be greatly appreciated by me.

did you do triple science ?

Well done, how did you keep on top of so much revision and what did you do to revise??

I got 96% in my maths Edexcel iGCSE exam so I do think I can help out there. I really struggled in iGCSE maths cos the school taught it in a year. We did add maths for the next year. Making sure you have pinpoint accuracy in maths - it allows you to be safe even if you struggle with the harder questions. I would also suggest going through older papers (I could go back to 2006) and doing questions topic by topic. That way, I managed to master practically every single topic that the iGCSE course has in not a long time. You will need to spend longer on vectors and sequences and topics like that. I jumped from 48% in the mock to 96% so I’m sure you can do it too. I have to go now so I will give you tips for chem later. Good luck with your physics remark.

Yes, I did do triple science.

Did u do aqa ? I need to get my science grades up and would appreciate any advice you have so far I have 655 in bio chemistry n physics-in that order

Yep its edexcel igcse

I’m happy but not at all bragging. There’s a lot of people on TSR here with like 12 9s which is frankly incredible. I’m just trying to help those who need it more.

Good luck with your application 🍀

Love this thread - and congrats on the grades! I have three questions:

Thanks

Planning to go to one of the London unis hopefully. Thinking along the lines of history or law, but maybe economics if I enjoy it. That’s a way away for me though.

class!

Lads i got full 9s, basically the strat is to use anki (prolly wont work for everyone but i did it everyday and it worked so)