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i got 170/180 my teachers saw my marks and are suggesting me to recheck saying that i will get 2-3 marks minimum but lets say i spend the money and get 2-3 more marks is that enough for any title or should i just save my money

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Original post by Ionic compound
i got 170/180 my teachers saw my marks and are suggesting me to recheck saying that i will get 2-3 marks minimum but lets say i spend the money and get 2-3 more marks is that enough for any title or should i just save my money

There’s honestly no point.

You have already convincingly got yourself a grade 9 and so you’d just be throwing away perfectly good money for no reason.

Congrats on the amazing result.
Original post by TypicalNerd
There’s honestly no point.
You have already convincingly got yourself a grade 9 and so you’d just be throwing away perfectly good money for no reason.
Congrats on the amazing result.

Aight thanks bro was really hoping to get some award
Original post by Ionic compound
Aight thanks bro was really hoping to get some award

I don’t believe there are any awards given by the exam board to the candidate with the highest overall mark.

Unless you mean to say your school gives awards to the highest scorers. If so, it is very unlikely that there will be anyone who beat 170/180 in your school.
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Original post by TypicalNerd
I don’t believe there are any awards given by the exam board to the candidate with the highest overall mark.
Unless you mean to say your school gives awards to the highest scorers. If so, it is very unlikely that there will be anyone who beat 170/180 in your school.

no no they the board does give i think they are called opla awards there is highest in the world which is 180/180 then highest in region and then highest in country
Original post by Ionic compound
no no they the board does give i think they are called opla awards there is highest in the world which is 180/180 then highest in region and then highest in country

So they do. It seems to be an IAL/IGCSE thing only (hence I had never heard of it - I’m a UK student).

Not sure if 172/180 would get such an award or if 170/180 would already meet the threshold for one, but if you insist on getting re-marked, then fair enough.
Original post by Ionic compound
i got 170/180 my teachers saw my marks and are suggesting me to recheck saying that i will get 2-3 marks minimum but lets say i spend the money and get 2-3 more marks is that enough for any title or should i just save my money

wait im in uae and im doing my GCSE's this year do you have any tips to get grades like you and I do the same exam board but I do get good grades but im kinda stressed about the final exam
Original post by Hellopeople!
wait im in uae and im doing my GCSE's this year do you have any tips to get grades like you and I do the same exam board but I do get good grades but im kinda stressed about the final exam

Yea so I’ll tell u what’s the best thing to do, I knew I was gonna get a 9 since grade 10 start as I always did my hw and was on top of the class but I wanted highest in Middle East so I started studying very hard I I started from September and first I read the whole text book then I did past papers but I did the past papers over and over because after a while u will forget them mainly because I did the papers in my mind without writing anything then also I would re read the textbook constantly to get my info perfect then near the exam season I would do a lot more paper also do old spec it’s the same thing just without the diff qs the day before exam I would read the whole book and since December any q I would get stuck on I would save it and write a explanation so I would redo all those qs before the exam and plus like 3-4 papers well this is only for like world distinction
Original post by Ionic compound
Yea so I’ll tell u what’s the best thing to do, I knew I was gonna get a 9 since grade 10 start as I always did my hw and was on top of the class but I wanted highest in Middle East so I started studying very hard I I started from September and first I read the whole text book then I did past papers but I did the past papers over and over because after a while u will forget them mainly because I did the papers in my mind without writing anything then also I would re read the textbook constantly to get my info perfect then near the exam season I would do a lot more paper also do old spec it’s the same thing just without the diff qs the day before exam I would read the whole book and since December any q I would get stuck on I would save it and write a explanation so I would redo all those qs before the exam and plus like 3-4 papers well this is only for like world distinction

I literally do the same thing for studying do you have any other tips
Original post by Ionic compound
Yea so I’ll tell u what’s the best thing to do, I knew I was gonna get a 9 since grade 10 start as I always did my hw and was on top of the class but I wanted highest in Middle East so I started studying very hard I I started from September and first I read the whole text book then I did past papers but I did the past papers over and over because after a while u will forget them mainly because I did the papers in my mind without writing anything then also I would re read the textbook constantly to get my info perfect then near the exam season I would do a lot more paper also do old spec it’s the same thing just without the diff qs the day before exam I would read the whole book and since December any q I would get stuck on I would save it and write a explanation so I would redo all those qs before the exam and plus like 3-4 papers well this is only for like world distinction

did you find that the questions on the gcse were the same or similar to past papers specifically from the the old specs because I was thinking they would use questions from the old spec to make new gcse papers
Original post by Hellopeople!
I literally do the same thing for studying do you have any other tips

Yea just treat mocks as real exams and when I mean real I mean REAL and also even if u mess up p1 abit still try to get full p2 cause marking scheme may allow some marks from ur p1 mistakes also for Eng I went from 6 in the mock to highest in school 121/150
Original post by Hellopeople!
did you find that the questions on the gcse were the same or similar to past papers specifically from the the old specs because I was thinking they would use questions from the old spec to make new gcse papers

Yea like ideas were literally from old spec and also don’t underestimate 2024 papers thinking ideas from it won’t come in 2025 also out of any chem past paper I ever did 2024 was by far the easiest like questions were literally copy pasted from past paper there was no creativity like the catalyst 3 marker was from 2021 cause chem is just memeorisation
Original post by Ionic compound
Yea like ideas were literally from old spec and also don’t underestimate 2024 papers thinking ideas from it won’t come in 2025 also out of any chem past paper I ever did 2024 was by far the easiest like questions were literally copy pasted from past paper there was no creativity like the catalyst 3 marker was from 2021 cause chem is just memeorisation

yh my teachers and friends who did the papers this year said they were easy and I have the same papers for my mocks In jan. I was looking at the old spec and I have a feeling they just use that
Original post by Ionic compound
Yea just treat mocks as real exams and when I mean real I mean REAL and also even if u mess up p1 abit still try to get full p2 cause marking scheme may allow some marks from ur p1 mistakes also for Eng I went from 6 in the mock to highest in school 121/150

I need some tips for English especially language on like the question where you compare the authors like I think the question is 22 marks (IGCSE) any tips for English and maths
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Original post by Hellopeople!
I need some tips for English especially language on like the question where you compare the authors like I think the question is 22 marks (IGCSE) any tips for English and maths

Maths I got like 195 for maths just do practice papers that’s all and English whenever u write a evidence ur expanatiion make it very very very wild and unique then use another evidence to show that ur wild theory is right that’s it and use words like lexical field and semantic field
Original post by Hellopeople!
I need some tips for English especially language on like the question where you compare the authors like I think the question is 22 marks (IGCSE) any tips for English and maths

Nvm I got 172/180 cause I send p1 for remark looks like it worked yipee
Original post by Ionic compound
Nvm I got 172/180 cause I send p1 for remark looks like it worked yipee

omg how the hell did u get that grade lol teachers here are so bad ngl
Original post by Hellopeople!
omg how the hell did u get that grade lol teachers here are so bad ngl

Dw same here just that it’s ur own work also my in my school two years ago someone got 11 world Distinctions from which 3 were alevels so yea the old teachers are very good but the new ones are horrendous
Original post by Ionic compound
Dw same here just that it’s ur own work also my in my school two years ago someone got 11 world Distinctions from which 3 were alevels so yea the old teachers are very good but the new ones are horrendous
I got the same thing. My old teachers were amazing but half of the trs left and got new ones and no offence they suck at teaching even though my school is like 60,000 AED. Your chem marks are rlly good tho.
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Original post by ZainahK
I got the same thing. My old teachers were amazing but half of the trs left and got new ones and no offence they suck at teaching even though my school is like 60,000 AED. Your chem marks are rlly good tho.

teachers here are so bad and my school like is so expensive and they make us buy everything like whiteboard pens and they apparently dont have money to give us glue sticks and they like spent 2MILLION AED on their playground but the skl is so bad. like all the teachers do is put everything on teams and r like do it yourself and omg like what's the point in going skl then its like online skl like I can just stay home. and they like rush topics and everything and kids literally cheat in exams and the teachers.do nothing like my god and when inspectors come the teachers like warn us omg behave blah blah like wth. so many teachers leave like in the middle of the year like wth

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