Any tips for GCSE german?

Im taking GCSE German and I want to do it at sixth form, but I’m not quite there yet. I need a grade 5 and im at a 4 at the moment. Id like to get a 6 just to be absolutley safe though. I would really appreciate any tips anyone may have for it?

Im taking GCSE German and I want to do it at sixth form, but I’m not quite there yet. I need a grade 5 and im at a 4 at the moment. Id like to get a 6 just to be absolutley safe though. I would really appreciate any tips anyone may have for it?

Hi, I did gcse German last year. Honestly, German was probably one of my hardest subjects but I ended up getting an 8. My biggest tip would probably be focus on speaking and writing . What I did was my teacher gave us 50 speaking questions and I wrote answers for each of them according to what the mark scheme said- the mark scheme tells you what kind of vocab and tenses to use etc. i then familiarized my self with them and practiced a lot particularly near my speaking exam with friends and teachers ( this helps with pronunciation and stuff) . I also used the same answers that I wrote for my speaking in my writing as the questions for my speaking and writing were somewhat similar and I obviously did paraphrase and change some parts but for me the questions for my speaking and writing were really similar. I also wrote out model answers for the writing which really helped and I also got this marked by my teacher. For reading it’s mainly just practice. I used Quizlet to practice my vocab ( my teacher already made the sets for us) and I practiced this daily- remember to start this early as there is a LOT of vocab to learn do 5 or 10 a day until ur actual gcse and trust me it’ll go a long way. I also did a bunch of exam papers which really helped. For listening I also mainly practiced with exam questions and past papers but a lot of my friends watched German tv shows and movies which helped them. Make sure your grammar and tenses are moderately good as well- I recommend making model sentences with specific/ complex tenses to impress the examiner in the writing. I hope this helps! ( sorry about how long this is)