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how are you meant to understand the specification

to me the specification doesn't seem clear like for example biology i do edexel and for some topics like cells its nice and clear but for other subject im confused on what i actually need to know it doesn't feel like the spec actually covers everything is there a place where i can get the exact answers for the spec according to my exam board or is there any other way which i can understand it
Maybe ask your teacher- they should be well versed in the spec 🙂

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by DerDracologe
Maybe ask your teacher- they should be well versed in the spec 🙂


My teachers literally don’t care man like they’ll say it’s not that difficult we’ll prob cuz they studied it many times I’ve tried asking them soo many times thanks anyways but any other tips
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by amuskan
My teachers literally don’t care man like they’ll say it’s not that difficult we’ll prob cuz they studied it many times I’ve tried asking them soo many times thanks anyways but any other tips

You could create a thread on here and put the subject, exam board and subtopic and then ask do i need to know about x, y and z or what do i need to know about this and see if anyone knows. That might work 🙂

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by DerDracologe
You could create a thread on here and put the subject, exam board and subtopic and then ask do i need to know about x, y and z or what do i need to know about this and see if anyone knows. That might work 🙂


That’s rlly smart I’ll try doing that thank you so much are u also a gcse student ?
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by amuskan
That’s rlly smart I’ll try doing that thank you so much are u also a gcse student ?

Np! Nope I finished my GCSEs this last year so im in year 12 now doing a levels 🙂
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by DerDracologe
Np! Nope I finished my GCSEs this last year so im in year 12 now doing a levels 🙂


Oh nice how’s it going
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by amuskan
Oh nice how’s it going

Alright, i do 2 a levels atm to space them out (cos i struggle for personal reasons). My subjects are maths and biology and I’ll start physics next year (already started it but dropped it a few weeks ago so i could switch to 2). Its a lot more work than GCSEs but im determined to do well so im putting in a lot of effort! How are your GCSEs going?

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by DerDracologe
Alright, i do 2 a levels atm to space them out (cos i struggle for personal reasons). My subjects are maths and biology and I’ll start physics next year (already started it but dropped it a few weeks ago so i could switch to 2). Its a lot more work than GCSEs but im determined to do well so im putting in a lot of effort! How are your GCSEs going?


Not that good tbh I’ve always been more of a stem person so struggling with English and religion and I’ve always thought I was good at science but after choosing to do triple it feels like a whole new subject and the amount of things I need to do but don’t know how to do but anyways it’s going fine I guess we gotta work hard to get the results innit
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by amuskan
Not that good tbh I’ve always been more of a stem person so struggling with English and religion and I’ve always thought I was good at science but after choosing to do triple it feels like a whole new subject and the amount of things I need to do but don’t know how to do but anyways it’s going fine I guess we gotta work hard to get the results innit

Yeah- im sure you’ll do great as long as you work at it! Let me know if you need any tips on any of your subjects cos i got 9999998886A at gcse so would be happy to answer questions on how to revise any stuff 🙂

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I defo will thanks again <3

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