year 11 struggling, need advice asap

for context theres a few times where ive missed out on school, ive missed almost the entirety of year 8 because of parental issues. i recently missed out on half of year 10 due to business plans ive started attending school just 3 weeks before the summer holiday and now im in year 11. considering how much ive missed school a few times my grades continued to drop due to the absence of school and my mental health. in about 3 days or so i have my gcse mocks and ive been trying to revise what i did learn in the remaining year 10 i attended. the current school i am in doesnt have teachers that are great at teaching so its been hard to catch up with the current class. for my gcse options i picked art, business and history. considering those options, art and history, the topics have changed for me by a lot. you could say that im starting all over again. at the worst time possible.
before i moved halfway in year 10 my gcse grade was predicted to be around 6 for most of my subjects but right now i dont know if that would be the case. school and just everything has been stressing me out and i just had a moment where i really realised that my time is very limited. i am sometimes the type of person to leave things the last minute, i hate to admit but its true. i always find it hard to start something and continue it for a long time. starting anything has been difficult for me and i get stressed very easily. there are so many issues in my life i just cant keep it together. im falling behind on so much work including art. i may or may not want to persue in art but i atleast want to get a good grade for art. im considered very talented at art and i think im pretty alright at art. my art teacher said that i have a potential in getting a grade 8 or above with the skill i have but quantity is what matters in art which is an issue for me. i mostly have no time to draw because of the catching up i need to do for pretty much all of my subjects and i also never have motivation to do art. art has been very stressful to me. for history, ive never been good at it but my parents wanted me to take it. i think it was guaranteed im going to fail for history so i dont think massively about history. my main priorities are the core subjects, english, maths, science, religious and citizenship, along with business perhaps and art being last.
if im really feeling it then i can push myself to catch up but just thinking about it makes my chest heavy and i start stressing already. i feel like this is the lowest ive been but thinking about it from another perspective i look pathetic and selfish so ive been staying silent. my mental health isnt at a very good state but i understand thats how life is and we all had to push ourselves at some point in life. thats why im looking for advice. ill have to endure this pain for a while longer but whatever gets the work done, ill be relieved at the very least. studying tips will be very useful but currently im still catching up on the class work so its all independant work which im not that great at. idk what im woffling about but im just so fixated about the future, sometimes its all i worry about that my heart is always racing. i also need tips to be organised and be motivated for sure. to be honest i feel like i have no purpose in life but i dont think anybody wants to be out on the streets so i still have to find a way to stay finacially stable but i just dont have anything that is really giving me a reason to live. if i could at any point i feel like i wouldnt mind if my life was taken away, besides the point. i just need something to motivate me.

Also for art, i would try and hone your writing skills, this can be an easier fix than producing masses of work.
Quantity is important in art but not as important as people think. I was told throughout gcse my technical ability could get me a grade 9 (and i’ve recently been told A* at a level), i could never move my grade above a 6 and when i tried to remedy this by producing loads of work ( i had about 4 sketchbooks and many out of book pieces), my grade went up 2 marks to a 7.
i was really upset at my art grade because i didn’t understand what more they wanted from me (and tbh i still don’t know now) but i would look at my friends books and spoke to the teacher and they said my issue was the writing- i didn’t annotate thoroughly enough or document all of my ideas( i have adhd and was unmedicated so i had abt 50 ideas a second and jumped around a lot and never showed that in my book as it was all in my head and my mind moved too fast for me to write down)
What im saying is maybe talk to any friends that do art or sit down with your teacher and work out your next steps
I was really behind before gcses as i really struggled with revision and procrastination aswell.
I wrote lists for each subject of what i needed to achieve so it meant that rather than seeing everything i had to do and immediately get overwhelmed it meant that when i sat down to do revision i had somewhere to start. I would write these lists down on paper and stick it on the wall above my desk
But i would only stick the list of the subject you are revising on the wall and keep the others in a drawer or something and swap them out otherwise that can get overwhelming aswell if your looking at 8 mega lists.
But yeah then just make the lists rly detailed so you can tick something off every 15 minutes or so and feel like you’re getting somewhere
this also helped with my procrastination as i could see exactly how much i had to get done in the time period and it kinda worked as a scare tactic icl
good luck with your mocks and your gcses im sure you will smash them!!
(i was doing the lists during the easter holidays so dw ur already ahead of me!!)

Woah, sorry to hear you're going through unfortunate circumstances. Hopefully, your situation gets better.
As for tips I can provide for you to help with your organisation:

Also for art, i would try and hone your writing skills, this can be an easier fix than producing masses of work.
Quantity is important in art but not as important as people think. I was told throughout gcse my technical ability could get me a grade 9 (and i’ve recently been told A* at a level), i could never move my grade above a 6 and when i tried to remedy this by producing loads of work ( i had about 4 sketchbooks and many out of book pieces), my grade went up 2 marks to a 7.
i was really upset at my art grade because i didn’t understand what more they wanted from me (and tbh i still don’t know now) but i would look at my friends books and spoke to the teacher and they said my issue was the writing- i didn’t annotate thoroughly enough or document all of my ideas( i have adhd and was unmedicated so i had abt 50 ideas a second and jumped around a lot and never showed that in my book as it was all in my head and my mind moved too fast for me to write down)
What im saying is maybe talk to any friends that do art or sit down with your teacher and work out your next steps
I was really behind before gcses as i really struggled with revision and procrastination aswell.
I wrote lists for each subject of what i needed to achieve so it meant that rather than seeing everything i had to do and immediately get overwhelmed it meant that when i sat down to do revision i had somewhere to start. I would write these lists down on paper and stick it on the wall above my desk
But i would only stick the list of the subject you are revising on the wall and keep the others in a drawer or something and swap them out otherwise that can get overwhelming aswell if your looking at 8 mega lists.
But yeah then just make the lists rly detailed so you can tick something off every 15 minutes or so and feel like you’re getting somewhere
this also helped with my procrastination as i could see exactly how much i had to get done in the time period and it kinda worked as a scare tactic icl
good luck with your mocks and your gcses im sure you will smash them!!
(i was doing the lists during the easter holidays so dw ur already ahead of me!!)

also i forgot to mention, the teacher wants us to do a specific amount of work done so i cant avoid the issue of falling behind on that. ive done a few artworks but the teacher expected 3 times more than what ive produced. drawing large amounts of work is a new experience for me so it feels like ive been dumped with a whole box that needs to be dealt with. i also need to complete my first final piece for the upcoming autumn mock. im completely clueless as to what the teacher wants from me, are art teachers always this unclear? maybe its just how gcse art is.
i want to atleast get a grade 8 considering how people have said my skills could get me a grade 8 or above even. for me idk anymore, maybe id be fine if i even got a high 6 atleast. sorry my mind has just been so blank its been hard for me to think, this is probably one of the reasons why im falling behind on art.
thank you again

for context theres a few times where ive missed out on school, ive missed almost the entirety of year 8 because of parental issues. i recently missed out on half of year 10 due to business plans ive started attending school just 3 weeks before the summer holiday and now im in year 11. considering how much ive missed school a few times my grades continued to drop due to the absence of school and my mental health. in about 3 days or so i have my gcse mocks and ive been trying to revise what i did learn in the remaining year 10 i attended. the current school i am in doesnt have teachers that are great at teaching so its been hard to catch up with the current class. for my gcse options i picked art, business and history. considering those options, art and history, the topics have changed for me by a lot. you could say that im starting all over again. at the worst time possible.
before i moved halfway in year 10 my gcse grade was predicted to be around 6 for most of my subjects but right now i dont know if that would be the case. school and just everything has been stressing me out and i just had a moment where i really realised that my time is very limited. i am sometimes the type of person to leave things the last minute, i hate to admit but its true. i always find it hard to start something and continue it for a long time. starting anything has been difficult for me and i get stressed very easily. there are so many issues in my life i just cant keep it together. im falling behind on so much work including art. i may or may not want to persue in art but i atleast want to get a good grade for art. im considered very talented at art and i think im pretty alright at art. my art teacher said that i have a potential in getting a grade 8 or above with the skill i have but quantity is what matters in art which is an issue for me. i mostly have no time to draw because of the catching up i need to do for pretty much all of my subjects and i also never have motivation to do art. art has been very stressful to me. for history, ive never been good at it but my parents wanted me to take it. i think it was guaranteed im going to fail for history so i dont think massively about history. my main priorities are the core subjects, english, maths, science, religious and citizenship, along with business perhaps and art being last.
if im really feeling it then i can push myself to catch up but just thinking about it makes my chest heavy and i start stressing already. i feel like this is the lowest ive been but thinking about it from another perspective i look pathetic and selfish so ive been staying silent. my mental health isnt at a very good state but i understand thats how life is and we all had to push ourselves at some point in life. thats why im looking for advice. ill have to endure this pain for a while longer but whatever gets the work done, ill be relieved at the very least. studying tips will be very useful but currently im still catching up on the class work so its all independant work which im not that great at. idk what im woffling about but im just so fixated about the future, sometimes its all i worry about that my heart is always racing. i also need tips to be organised and be motivated for sure. to be honest i feel like i have no purpose in life but i dont think anybody wants to be out on the streets so i still have to find a way to stay finacially stable but i just dont have anything that is really giving me a reason to live. if i could at any point i feel like i wouldnt mind if my life was taken away, besides the point. i just need something to motivate me.

Didn't the school suggest starting Year 10 again?

apparently not, my parents did talk about it but they didnt want me repeating a year

I think it would have helped - it does happen when peole have missed a lot. Do your parents know how difficult it is to get good grades when you've missed so much?

my parents think i can get good grades if i work hard enough but they havent really done anything to make up for the work ive missed

for context theres a few times where ive missed out on school, ive missed almost the entirety of year 8 because of parental issues. i recently missed out on half of year 10 due to business plans ive started attending school just 3 weeks before the summer holiday and now im in year 11. considering how much ive missed school a few times my grades continued to drop due to the absence of school and my mental health. in about 3 days or so i have my gcse mocks and ive been trying to revise what i did learn in the remaining year 10 i attended. the current school i am in doesnt have teachers that are great at teaching so its been hard to catch up with the current class. for my gcse options i picked art, business and history. considering those options, art and history, the topics have changed for me by a lot. you could say that im starting all over again. at the worst time possible.
before i moved halfway in year 10 my gcse grade was predicted to be around 6 for most of my subjects but right now i dont know if that would be the case. school and just everything has been stressing me out and i just had a moment where i really realised that my time is very limited. i am sometimes the type of person to leave things the last minute, i hate to admit but its true. i always find it hard to start something and continue it for a long time. starting anything has been difficult for me and i get stressed very easily. there are so many issues in my life i just cant keep it together. im falling behind on so much work including art. i may or may not want to persue in art but i atleast want to get a good grade for art. im considered very talented at art and i think im pretty alright at art. my art teacher said that i have a potential in getting a grade 8 or above with the skill i have but quantity is what matters in art which is an issue for me. i mostly have no time to draw because of the catching up i need to do for pretty much all of my subjects and i also never have motivation to do art. art has been very stressful to me. for history, ive never been good at it but my parents wanted me to take it. i think it was guaranteed im going to fail for history so i dont think massively about history. my main priorities are the core subjects, english, maths, science, religious and citizenship, along with business perhaps and art being last.
if im really feeling it then i can push myself to catch up but just thinking about it makes my chest heavy and i start stressing already. i feel like this is the lowest ive been but thinking about it from another perspective i look pathetic and selfish so ive been staying silent. my mental health isnt at a very good state but i understand thats how life is and we all had to push ourselves at some point in life. thats why im looking for advice. ill have to endure this pain for a while longer but whatever gets the work done, ill be relieved at the very least. studying tips will be very useful but currently im still catching up on the class work so its all independant work which im not that great at. idk what im woffling about but im just so fixated about the future, sometimes its all i worry about that my heart is always racing. i also need tips to be organised and be motivated for sure. to be honest i feel like i have no purpose in life but i dont think anybody wants to be out on the streets so i still have to find a way to stay finacially stable but i just dont have anything that is really giving me a reason to live. if i could at any point i feel like i wouldnt mind if my life was taken away, besides the point. i just need something to motivate me.

So sorry for the late reply i completely forgot about this
The subjects im atleast alright are english and art since ive covered what my current school is working on
however for the rest ive missed atleast more than half of the total topics and for history its a mess because its a brand new topic for me (early elizabethan england + weimar and nazi germany) but we recently started the topic on the cold war + the superpowers
subjects for like maths science and business i have few topics ive learnt and some ive missed out on and i cant tell for sure because my memory is a bit patchy from what ive previously learnt
for revision classes theres only science available which i do attend but thats pretty much it apparently

Hi. I'm in year 11 too.
I've also been moved around a lot since year 8, and I wasn't at school for basically a year. I moved schools 2 or 3 times and each time i moved my grades just kept dropping. I went from a grade average of like 8 to 4- really fast.
At the end of year 10 I moved cities and had to drop a GCSE in my current school because of how far behind I'd fallen.
It sounds pretty similar to ur situation cus i've got no motivation to work nowaday. I'm right in the middle of mocks and I'm really stressed out too cus I'm trying to apply to a sixth form with these grades.
I think rn I'm just abt getting the bottom of the requirements and I rlly want to be able to do well like i thought i was going to before all this messed up stuff moving schools happened.
Reading ur post, i get how u feel cus i feel that way as well about my life rn.
it feels like im just going thru the motions cus i have to
I have like a whole book i haven't studied for english and in science my knowledge is so patchy and i can't really tell how well i did in the mocks.
im behind everyone and it's always makes me so mad at school because i have so much stuff to catch up on but it just seems like too much to ever be able to do before the gcses start.
But yeah. idk what im getting at here but our situations basically sound the same so if u wanna talk abt it more i'm here, cus i rlly understand exactly how u feel.
not many ppl move schools close to gcses and moving schools and missing lots of school kinda neglects school life a lot and u end up getting lonely and stuff
so yeah, just lmk if u wanna talk abt it cus i genuinely thought like who has such a weird school life where they move around and miss this much school except me.
Its rlly unfortunate but i rlly know how u feel abt this

Which board is your Maths?

AQA im pretty sure

for context theres a few times where ive missed out on school, ive missed almost the entirety of year 8 because of parental issues. i recently missed out on half of year 10 due to business plans ive started attending school just 3 weeks before the summer holiday and now im in year 11. considering how much ive missed school a few times my grades continued to drop due to the absence of school and my mental health. in about 3 days or so i have my gcse mocks and ive been trying to revise what i did learn in the remaining year 10 i attended. the current school i am in doesnt have teachers that are great at teaching so its been hard to catch up with the current class. for my gcse options i picked art, business and history. considering those options, art and history, the topics have changed for me by a lot. you could say that im starting all over again. at the worst time possible.
before i moved halfway in year 10 my gcse grade was predicted to be around 6 for most of my subjects but right now i dont know if that would be the case. school and just everything has been stressing me out and i just had a moment where i really realised that my time is very limited. i am sometimes the type of person to leave things the last minute, i hate to admit but its true. i always find it hard to start something and continue it for a long time. starting anything has been difficult for me and i get stressed very easily. there are so many issues in my life i just cant keep it together. im falling behind on so much work including art. i may or may not want to persue in art but i atleast want to get a good grade for art. im considered very talented at art and i think im pretty alright at art. my art teacher said that i have a potential in getting a grade 8 or above with the skill i have but quantity is what matters in art which is an issue for me. i mostly have no time to draw because of the catching up i need to do for pretty much all of my subjects and i also never have motivation to do art. art has been very stressful to me. for history, ive never been good at it but my parents wanted me to take it. i think it was guaranteed im going to fail for history so i dont think massively about history. my main priorities are the core subjects, english, maths, science, religious and citizenship, along with business perhaps and art being last.
if im really feeling it then i can push myself to catch up but just thinking about it makes my chest heavy and i start stressing already. i feel like this is the lowest ive been but thinking about it from another perspective i look pathetic and selfish so ive been staying silent. my mental health isnt at a very good state but i understand thats how life is and we all had to push ourselves at some point in life. thats why im looking for advice. ill have to endure this pain for a while longer but whatever gets the work done, ill be relieved at the very least. studying tips will be very useful but currently im still catching up on the class work so its all independant work which im not that great at. idk what im woffling about but im just so fixated about the future, sometimes its all i worry about that my heart is always racing. i also need tips to be organised and be motivated for sure. to be honest i feel like i have no purpose in life but i dont think anybody wants to be out on the streets so i still have to find a way to stay finacially stable but i just dont have anything that is really giving me a reason to live. if i could at any point i feel like i wouldnt mind if my life was taken away, besides the point. i just need something to motivate me.