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hey, welcome to my year 10 gyg!

Ik people mostly start one in year 11, but I think it's cute, and might stop me from procrastinating (to be honest I think I’m going to end up procrastinating to post here loll).

my gcse subjects + how I feel about them as of now
edexcel maths higher (sob)
aqa physics higher (good!)
aqa chemistry higher (bleh)
aqa biology higher (yaa)
aqa english language (alrr)
aqa english literature (shakespeare is my greatest nemesis)
aqa spanish higher (no me comprendo)
edexcel a gegraphy (boringg)
edexcel business (no opinion)
aqa design & technology (I’m scared.)

my plan
to put it shortly, the bare minimum I am expecting (on weekdays) is attempting exam questions. that’s if I’m completely confident in everything I learnt and I don’t have time to make any notes (I don’t really make notes in class + I thought my year 11 self would be thankful. over the weekends, I’m not gonna do much - maybe revisit notes from the past week, look at what’s coming up next etc.
oh, and in the mornings, I also want to do some daily maths and SPaG practice + duolingo. anyways, I could go on and on about how I’m going plan my study seshes and what tools and techniques I’m going to use, but I’m quite the yapper so I kinda have to stop myself here :smile:.

extracurriculars
to be honest all I’m really doing rn is taekwondo :frown: but I’m also learning about e-commerce (i’m opening a shopify business sometime in september maybe, we’ll see how well that goes). I’ve been looking into some other stuff, like work experience - barclays offers online work experience, which I’m starting as soon as I get time - and ALSO there is this young entrepreneurship summer programme called leangap which I REALLY want to do (I’m just gonna ignore the fact that it’s just over £5000). you can probably tell that I’m interested in the finance/ entrepreneurship sector :smile:.

anyways, that’s it for now. as I said, I could literally write a BOOK about stuff like my future goals, my hobbies etc. but I’ll spare you the details loll. once school starts, I’ll try to update you guys as much as possible + I would absolutely LOVE to hear about your journeys too :smile:

take care xx

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hey, welcome to my year 10 gyg!
Ik people mostly start one in year 11, but I think it's cute, and might stop me from procrastinating (to be honest I think I’m going to end up procrastinating to post here loll).
my gcse subjects + how I feel about them as of now
edexcel maths higher (sob)
aqa physics higher (good!)
aqa chemistry higher (bleh)
aqa biology higher (yaa)
aqa english language (alrr)
aqa english literature (shakespeare is my greatest nemesis)
aqa spanish higher (no me comprendo)
edexcel a gegraphy (boringg)
edexcel business (no opinion)
aqa design & technology (I’m scared.)
my plan
to put it shortly, the bare minimum I am expecting (on weekdays) is attempting exam questions. that’s if I’m completely confident in everything I learnt and I don’t have time to make any notes (I don’t really make notes in class + I thought my year 11 self would be thankful. over the weekends, I’m not gonna do much - maybe revisit notes from the past week, look at what’s coming up next etc.
oh, and in the mornings, I also want to do some daily maths and SPaG practice + duolingo. anyways, I could go on and on about how I’m going plan my study seshes and what tools and techniques I’m going to use, but I’m quite the yapper so I kinda have to stop myself here :smile:.
extracurriculars
to be honest all I’m really doing rn is taekwondo :frown: but I’m also learning about e-commerce (i’m opening a shopify business sometime in september maybe, we’ll see how well that goes). I’ve been looking into some other stuff, like work experience - barclays offers online work experience, which I’m starting as soon as I get time - and ALSO there is this young entrepreneurship summer programme called leangap which I REALLY want to do (I’m just gonna ignore the fact that it’s just over £5000). you can probably tell that I’m interested in the finance/ entrepreneurship sector :smile:.
anyways, that’s it for now. as I said, I could literally write a BOOK about stuff like my future goals, my hobbies etc. but I’ll spare you the details loll. once school starts, I’ll try to update you guys as much as possible + I would absolutely LOVE to hear about your journeys too :smile:
take care xx

Damn ok. I dont know about you but I’ve started year 10 last week and i will tell you - Bro its A MASSIVE JUMP i came home exhausted and so i have not revised/studied coming home.
Im doing practically the same subjects as you lol
Aqa Maths(Yay no edexel)
Further maths(looked at spec and tell me why we gonna have to learn differentiation, CALCULUS, and whatever matrix transformations is lol - also i have to go extra hour every Wednesday for a lesson plus 2 in our normal timetable every fortnight )
Eng lang and eng lit ( we started inspector calls and i have mixed feelings🙃)
Ethics
Edexel spanish ( to revise so far im making flash cards based on the content and am also doing duo in mornings 😉 )
Edexcel business ( just had 1 lesson so far so just was like intro and stuff )
Triple science( SO GOOD)
Aqa geo ( just started paper 2 urbanisation topic)
Phew that was alot
Also is it just me but ur kinda scaring me. Youve already prepared sooooooo much which is great for you👍👍.
My hobby is playing football as well as watching it
I want to study acturial science in lse or aerobic engineering at imperial 🙏 HOPEFULLY
Anyways ill hear from u later i gtg watchimg liverpool v Manchester United rn so yh
Bye wish u the best in year 10 hopefully it is not as hard as mine first week was lol
Reply 2
hey, welcome to my year 10 gyg!
Ik people mostly start one in year 11, but I think it's cute, and might stop me from procrastinating (to be honest I think I’m going to end up procrastinating to post here loll).
my gcse subjects + how I feel about them as of now
edexcel maths higher (sob)
aqa physics higher (good!)
aqa chemistry higher (bleh)
aqa biology higher (yaa)
aqa english language (alrr)
aqa english literature (shakespeare is my greatest nemesis)
aqa spanish higher (no me comprendo)
edexcel a gegraphy (boringg)
edexcel business (no opinion)
aqa design & technology (I’m scared.)
my plan
to put it shortly, the bare minimum I am expecting (on weekdays) is attempting exam questions. that’s if I’m completely confident in everything I learnt and I don’t have time to make any notes (I don’t really make notes in class + I thought my year 11 self would be thankful. over the weekends, I’m not gonna do much - maybe revisit notes from the past week, look at what’s coming up next etc.
oh, and in the mornings, I also want to do some daily maths and SPaG practice + duolingo. anyways, I could go on and on about how I’m going plan my study seshes and what tools and techniques I’m going to use, but I’m quite the yapper so I kinda have to stop myself here :smile:.
extracurriculars
to be honest all I’m really doing rn is taekwondo :frown: but I’m also learning about e-commerce (i’m opening a shopify business sometime in september maybe, we’ll see how well that goes). I’ve been looking into some other stuff, like work experience - barclays offers online work experience, which I’m starting as soon as I get time - and ALSO there is this young entrepreneurship summer programme called leangap which I REALLY want to do (I’m just gonna ignore the fact that it’s just over £5000). you can probably tell that I’m interested in the finance/ entrepreneurship sector :smile:.
anyways, that’s it for now. as I said, I could literally write a BOOK about stuff like my future goals, my hobbies etc. but I’ll spare you the details loll. once school starts, I’ll try to update you guys as much as possible + I would absolutely LOVE to hear about your journeys too :smile:
take care xx

hi
im going to yr 11
but i wanted to tell u that go for it
and good luck
it really tiring as someone has already mentioned
and start ur revision early especially science
good luck to u
hey, welcome to my year 10 gyg!
Ik people mostly start one in year 11, but I think it's cute, and might stop me from procrastinating (to be honest I think I’m going to end up procrastinating to post here loll).
my gcse subjects + how I feel about them as of now
edexcel maths higher (sob)
aqa physics higher (good!)
aqa chemistry higher (bleh)
aqa biology higher (yaa)
aqa english language (alrr)
aqa english literature (shakespeare is my greatest nemesis)
aqa spanish higher (no me comprendo)
edexcel a gegraphy (boringg)
edexcel business (no opinion)
aqa design & technology (I’m scared.)
my plan
to put it shortly, the bare minimum I am expecting (on weekdays) is attempting exam questions. that’s if I’m completely confident in everything I learnt and I don’t have time to make any notes (I don’t really make notes in class + I thought my year 11 self would be thankful. over the weekends, I’m not gonna do much - maybe revisit notes from the past week, look at what’s coming up next etc.
oh, and in the mornings, I also want to do some daily maths and SPaG practice + duolingo. anyways, I could go on and on about how I’m going plan my study seshes and what tools and techniques I’m going to use, but I’m quite the yapper so I kinda have to stop myself here :smile:.
extracurriculars
to be honest all I’m really doing rn is taekwondo :frown: but I’m also learning about e-commerce (i’m opening a shopify business sometime in september maybe, we’ll see how well that goes). I’ve been looking into some other stuff, like work experience - barclays offers online work experience, which I’m starting as soon as I get time - and ALSO there is this young entrepreneurship summer programme called leangap which I REALLY want to do (I’m just gonna ignore the fact that it’s just over £5000). you can probably tell that I’m interested in the finance/ entrepreneurship sector :smile:.
anyways, that’s it for now. as I said, I could literally write a BOOK about stuff like my future goals, my hobbies etc. but I’ll spare you the details loll. once school starts, I’ll try to update you guys as much as possible + I would absolutely LOVE to hear about your journeys too :smile:
take care xx

Oooh wow this is so detailed ... !!! By the way where do you find all the summer programmes and work experience, they seem really interesting. I wanted to go to medicfest because I saw it advertised then realised that it was up to 12 years old -such a shame 😢. Bye for now x
Ps : possibly will post my journey id I have time lol 😆
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Reply 4
Original post by cowmelios
Oooh wow this is so detailed ... !!! By the way where do you find all the summer programmes and work experience, they seem really interesting. I wanted to go to medicfest because I saw it advertised then realised that it was up to 12 years old -such a shame 😢. Bye for now x
Ps : possibly will post my journey id I have time lol 😆

cool
some shls dont do work experience like mine
so i have to do it in yr11
maybe go to ur local pharmacy
Reply 5
hey, welcome to my year 10 gyg!
Ik people mostly start one in year 11, but I think it's cute, and might stop me from procrastinating (to be honest I think I’m going to end up procrastinating to post here loll).
my gcse subjects + how I feel about them as of now
edexcel maths higher (sob)
aqa physics higher (good!)
aqa chemistry higher (bleh)
aqa biology higher (yaa)
aqa english language (alrr)
aqa english literature (shakespeare is my greatest nemesis)
aqa spanish higher (no me comprendo)
edexcel a gegraphy (boringg)
edexcel business (no opinion)
aqa design & technology (I’m scared.)
my plan
to put it shortly, the bare minimum I am expecting (on weekdays) is attempting exam questions. that’s if I’m completely confident in everything I learnt and I don’t have time to make any notes (I don’t really make notes in class + I thought my year 11 self would be thankful. over the weekends, I’m not gonna do much - maybe revisit notes from the past week, look at what’s coming up next etc.
oh, and in the mornings, I also want to do some daily maths and SPaG practice + duolingo. anyways, I could go on and on about how I’m going plan my study seshes and what tools and techniques I’m going to use, but I’m quite the yapper so I kinda have to stop myself here :smile:.
extracurriculars
to be honest all I’m really doing rn is taekwondo :frown: but I’m also learning about e-commerce (i’m opening a shopify business sometime in september maybe, we’ll see how well that goes). I’ve been looking into some other stuff, like work experience - barclays offers online work experience, which I’m starting as soon as I get time - and ALSO there is this young entrepreneurship summer programme called leangap which I REALLY want to do (I’m just gonna ignore the fact that it’s just over £5000). you can probably tell that I’m interested in the finance/ entrepreneurship sector :smile:.
anyways, that’s it for now. as I said, I could literally write a BOOK about stuff like my future goals, my hobbies etc. but I’ll spare you the details loll. once school starts, I’ll try to update you guys as much as possible + I would absolutely LOVE to hear about your journeys too :smile:
take care xx

Hey, i just finished my gcses and took edexcel maths higher, aqa sciences, and aqa DT. You are right to be scared about DT lol, you need to keep on top of the NEA and not leave stuff to the last minute to figure out. I got a mediocre grade that could have been solved if i put more effort into the project from the start and did not leave gaps in my work. It's good that you're doing exam questions because that was the most important reason i got a 9 in maths. Use online resources like Cognito for sciences if you're unsure of what is happening (Electrolysis is a complete mess of a topic imo). Shakespeare WILL be your greatest nemesis, i hated studying Romeo and Juliet but websites like myshakespeare.com can really help you with annotations. Good luck on your GCSE journey!
I’m doing AQA English lit lang triple science and Spanish and we started a transition unit at the end of year 9
have you started poems or the books we’ve finished inspec calls and I actually like it
also scared for triple science I want to go into law but honestly aiming for 8s and 9s in everything ( fingers crossed for mostly 9s)
full list of what I do
AQA maths higher
AQA English lit
AQA English language
AQA Spanish
AQA as Level in sociology
AQA physics chem and bio
AQA pe
AQA history was
Reply 7
Heyy!! Bro we are acc so similar😭😭I’m going into yr 10 and I do taekwondo!!! Ur study thing is alr… but I rlly recommend learning the content first before starting exam questions as u will be confused. I’d u don’t want. To revise that way at home I suggest rlly paying attention in ur class and ask ur teacher questions if ur confused!! However ur Flashcards thing is rlly good!!! Active recall is honestly the best thing. Make sure to go through them everyday and if u have siblings ask them to test u!! I would love to be friends if u want Ofc🫶
Reply 8
Original post by AnonymousTaken
Damn ok. I dont know about you but I’ve started year 10 last week and i will tell you - Bro its A MASSIVE JUMP i came home exhausted and so i have not revised/studied coming home.
Im doing practically the same subjects as you lol
Aqa Maths(Yay no edexel)
Further maths(looked at spec and tell me why we gonna have to learn differentiation, CALCULUS, and whatever matrix transformations is lol - also i have to go extra hour every Wednesday for a lesson plus 2 in our normal timetable every fortnight )
Eng lang and eng lit ( we started inspector calls and i have mixed feelings🙃)
Ethics
Edexel spanish ( to revise so far im making flash cards based on the content and am also doing duo in mornings 😉 )
Edexcel business ( just had 1 lesson so far so just was like intro and stuff )
Triple science( SO GOOD)
Aqa geo ( just started paper 2 urbanisation topic)
Phew that was alot
Also is it just me but ur kinda scaring me. Youve already prepared sooooooo much which is great for you👍👍.
My hobby is playing football as well as watching it
I want to study acturial science in lse or aerobic engineering at imperial 🙏 HOPEFULLY
Anyways ill hear from u later i gtg watchimg liverpool v Manchester United rn so yh
Bye wish u the best in year 10 hopefully it is not as hard as mine first week was lol
im starting on thursday AHHH so scaredd
further maths is interesting because my school doesnt offer it till a levels - i mean im already failing gcse maths loll
also my ‘preparation’ consists of over-thinking and not actually doing anything so you’re fine loll
omg career in science is literally so cooll!! lowkey rethinking my future plans jkjk haha
anyways tysmm for ur reply <33
Reply 9
Original post by JF ZAK
hi
im going to yr 11
but i wanted to tell u that go for it
and good luck
it really tiring as someone has already mentioned
and start ur revision early especially science
good luck to u

tysmm good luck to you too so nervous thoo loll
Reply 10
Original post by cowmelios
Oooh wow this is so detailed ... !!! By the way where do you find all the summer programmes and work experience, they seem really interesting. I wanted to go to medicfest because I saw it advertised then realised that it was up to 12 years old -such a shame 😢. Bye for now x
Ps : possibly will post my journey id I have time lol 😆
for the summer programme i was watching a random video by annie long i think, it was sm to do with making money as a teenager and it was all good but then she mentioned leangap and i was like THINGS LIKE THAT EXIST? i will literally do anything to go loll it sounds so funn!!
for work experience i kinda had a general idea of my IDEAL work experience (in a bank), so i researched a bit about them and found like the opening and closing dates for applications BUT barclays have free online ones - if you go to springpod you can find a bunch of online courses, even in medicine if you’re interested :smile:
Reply 11
Original post by zmp903
Hey, i just finished my gcses and took edexcel maths higher, aqa sciences, and aqa DT. You are right to be scared about DT lol, you need to keep on top of the NEA and not leave stuff to the last minute to figure out. I got a mediocre grade that could have been solved if i put more effort into the project from the start and did not leave gaps in my work. It's good that you're doing exam questions because that was the most important reason i got a 9 in maths. Use online resources like Cognito for sciences if you're unsure of what is happening (Electrolysis is a complete mess of a topic imo). Shakespeare WILL be your greatest nemesis, i hated studying Romeo and Juliet but websites like myshakespeare.com can really help you with annotations. Good luck on your GCSE journey!
im genuinely so frightened about dt and i only picked it because im interested in it - for the most part im not even good at it, especially time management.
ive been tryna teach myself a bit of chem in the holidays bc lowkey i didn’t learn anything last year - struggling so hard loll
im doing macbeth and TYSM for the website recommendation really need them <3
Reply 12
Original post by chidera29
I’m doing AQA English lit lang triple science and Spanish and we started a transition unit at the end of year 9
have you started poems or the books we’ve finished inspec calls and I actually like it
also scared for triple science I want to go into law but honestly aiming for 8s and 9s in everything ( fingers crossed for mostly 9s)
full list of what I do
AQA maths higher
AQA English lit
AQA English language
AQA Spanish
AQA as Level in sociology
AQA physics chem and bio
AQA pe
AQA history was
we had a transition unit for geography so technically we did start our gcse content
ive done like 2 poems from aqa because we had a poetry module, i think london and ozymandias?? they taught us two others which arent in aqa for some reason loll
we read romeo and juliet, animal farm, a bit of mice of men in year 8 but NONE of them are our set books 😭😭
lawww oooh our school had a mock trials team idk if your school has one in year 9??
Reply 13
Original post by Whos_z01
Heyy!! Bro we are acc so similar😭😭I’m going into yr 10 and I do taekwondo!!! Ur study thing is alr… but I rlly recommend learning the content first before starting exam questions as u will be confused. I’d u don’t want. To revise that way at home I suggest rlly paying attention in ur class and ask ur teacher questions if ur confused!! However ur Flashcards thing is rlly good!!! Active recall is honestly the best thing. Make sure to go through them everyday and if u have siblings ask them to test u!! I would love to be friends if u want Ofc🫶
YESS loll
tbh thats what i try to do in class instead of writing notes but i have a feeling that its not gonna work this year bc theres gonna be so much contentt but at the end of the day what i want to be the bare minimum is like a couple of questions
yess honestly my memory is HORRIBLE - i much prefer conceptual subjects like physics - but flashcards do help a lott
yes ofc i would love to be friends <3
im genuinely so frightened about dt and i only picked it because im interested in it - for the most part im not even good at it, especially time management.
ive been tryna teach myself a bit of chem in the holidays bc lowkey i didn’t learn anything last year - struggling so hard loll
im doing macbeth and TYSM for the website recommendation really need them <3

SAME im doing macbeth as well as power and conflict poetry and like broo whenever i ask someone they are always like nah im doing romeo and juliet and love and relationships poetry . Its nice to see im not alone lol
Reply 15
Original post by AnonymousTaken
SAME im doing macbeth as well as power and conflict poetry and like broo whenever i ask someone they are always like nah im doing romeo and juliet and love and relationships poetry . Its nice to see im not alone lol
yess but ngl im kinda glad im doing macbeth and power and conflict idk i think its way more interesting for me
Reply 16
Original post by AnonymousTaken
SAME im doing macbeth as well as power and conflict poetry and like broo whenever i ask someone they are always like nah im doing romeo and juliet and love and relationships poetry . Its nice to see im not alone lol

lol
i got to do mine early for english lit
im actually happy bout that
as i got lady macbeth and kamikaze
pray u dont get power and conflict btw
they are the worse
hii good luck for year 10!!
Reply 18
Original post by scar-the-queen
hii good luck for year 10!!

tysmm!!
Original post by JF ZAK
lol
i got to do mine early for english lit
im actually happy bout that
as i got lady macbeth and kamikaze
pray u dont get power and conflict btw
they are the worse

I did… in my eoy i have to do paper 1 lang and war photographer:/

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