GCSE subject help

Hi, I'm a student in Year 11 studying the following subjects:
• Biology (Higher AQA)
• Chemistry (Higher AQA)
• Physics (Higher AQA)
• Geography (AQA)
• Spanish (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• French (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• English language & literature Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• Latin (Eduqas)
Does anyone have any subject specific tips?

Reply 1

larsss

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As annoying as it is, the best way with sciences is practise questions. First, the CGP guides and free science lesson on YouTube are great to learn the subject specific content, and then you need to apply that with practise questions, particularly with biology as the mark scheme is super specific!
I didn’t take French or Spanish, but I took German and I found the best way to learn vocab was Quizlet flashcards, and if you want to practise your listening skills, find a language learning podcast and consistently listen to it (this helped me go from a five to an eight in listening over a month).
I got nines in English literature and language, although I had been predicted lower for the whole of GCSEs. What was a game changer was physics and maths tutor! They have amazing ideas for poetry and the texts studied. I did well just by memorising those annotations, especially for Romeo and Juliet. Remember quotations is a matter of repetition. And you should remember analysis as well as the quotation. One of the best ways I found was to put the first letter of each word and learn like that, or flashcards work well too. You need to make sure you have a good understanding of the whole texts as well for evaluation questions, as that’s what marker are really looking for.
Hope some of this helped!

Reply 2

KKarsai

OP

3

Original post by larsss

As annoying as it is, the best way with sciences is practise questions. First, the CGP guides and free science lesson on YouTube are great to learn the subject specific content, and then you need to apply that with practise questions, particularly with biology as the mark scheme is super specific!
I didn’t take French or Spanish, but I took German and I found the best way to learn vocab was Quizlet flashcards, and if you want to practise your listening skills, find a language learning podcast and consistently listen to it (this helped me go from a five to an eight in listening over a month).
I got nines in English literature and language, although I had been predicted lower for the whole of GCSEs. What was a game changer was physics and maths tutor! They have amazing ideas for poetry and the texts studied. I did well just by memorising those annotations, especially for Romeo and Juliet. Remember quotations is a matter of repetition. And you should remember analysis as well as the quotation. One of the best ways I found was to put the first letter of each word and learn like that, or flashcards work well too. You need to make sure you have a good understanding of the whole texts as well for evaluation questions, as that’s what marker are really looking for.
Hope some of this helped!

Thank you so much!!

Reply 3

KKarsai

OP

3

I forgot to mention that we study Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck for English. Does anyone else do it as well?

Reply 4

Muttley79

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Original post by KKarsai

Hi, I'm a student in Year 11 studying the following subjects:
• Biology (Higher AQA)
• Chemistry (Higher AQA)
• Physics (Higher AQA)
• Geography (AQA)
• Spanish (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• French (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• English language & literature Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• Latin (Eduqas)
Does anyone have any subject specific tips?

No Maths?

Reply 5

Emma:-)

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Original post by KKarsai

Hi, I'm a student in Year 11 studying the following subjects:
• Biology (Higher AQA)
• Chemistry (Higher AQA)
• Physics (Higher AQA)
• Geography (AQA)
• Spanish (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• French (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• English language & literature Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• Latin (Eduqas)
Does anyone have any subject specific tips?

I found past papers to be really useful in general, but especially for subjects like geography.

Reply 6

Anotherrr

3

Original post by KKarsai

Hi, I'm a student in Year 11 studying the following subjects:
• Biology (Higher AQA)
• Chemistry (Higher AQA)
• Physics (Higher AQA)
• Geography (AQA)
• Spanish (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• French (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• English language & literature Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• Latin (Eduqas)
Does anyone have any subject specific tips?

Hello i did the french GCSE last year and i got a 9 the tips that i can give you is to know your tenses by heart. Also practice 150 marks questions because some are really similar to others. Hope it helped

Reply 7

KKarsai

OP

3

Original post by Muttley79

No Maths?

Oh yeah oops I forgot, too many subjects to count. We do IGCSE higher as well for maths

Reply 8

Muttley79

20

Original post by KKarsai

Oh yeah oops I forgot, too many subjects to count. We do IGCSE higher as well for maths

Try https://www.drfrost.org/courses.php?coid=12922 if its Higher A

Reply 9

e2009

11

Original post by KKarsai

I forgot to mention that we study Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck for English. Does anyone else do it as well?

yesss, i do igcse edexcel english too x

Reply 10

KKarsai

OP

3

Original post by e2009

yesss, i do igcse edexcel english too x

How are u finding revising for it? x

Reply 11

e2009

11

Original post by KKarsai

How are u finding revising for it? x

my teacher gave us a 'quote bank'. theres sections to fill in 10 quotations for each chapter. So i now have a total of 60 quotes that can be interpreted in multiple ways. I took 52 of the ones i thought were best, wrote them down and stuck them on the wall in front of my desk. she also gave us sample answers that got the highest grades last year to look throughhhh

Reply 12

SAA007

10

Original post by KKarsai

Hi, I'm a student in Year 11 studying the following subjects:
• Biology (Higher AQA)
• Chemistry (Higher AQA)
• Physics (Higher AQA)
• Geography (AQA)
• Spanish (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• French (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• English language & literature Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
• Latin (Eduqas)
Does anyone have any subject specific tips?

I did the same sciences and Latin.

Science was just understand the content (cognito/ freesciencelessons vids), memorise the PMT flashcards then just do as many questions as you can and you're fine.
For Latin, make sure to know all of the vocab from the DVL to put you in a great position for the langauge paper (which is the easy one and worth 50%). For the two other literature papers, work through the documents on the CLC website and answer all the questions there (both on comprehension and style) to the best of your ability. Then memorise these answers using Anki or Remnote, and then you'll be fine in the exam no matter what question they ask (they can only ask a finite no. of questions, so you'll know enough).

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