does anyone here do international gcses..? like edexcel not cambridge?

Hi, I do Edexcel IGCSE for Eng Lang & Lit, and Maths (Spec A) anything I can help with?

My main advice for all of the essay style questions (and the transactional!) would probably be to plan. One of the teachers at my school marks the language paper, and she's said that if you don't manage to finish in the time allowed then they can look at the plan to potentially give you a bit of credit.
For Question 5 on the Language Paper and Question 2/3 (Section B/Anthology Poetry) on the Literature Paper, which are both comparison questions, I would suggest planning using a Venn diagram (or similar - I tend to forget about the circles for speed, but same format) which allows you to clearly see similarities and differences between the poems/texts.
Another thing that's important is answering in the right way for each question. Are you aware of how to do this (especially on the Language paper where each question is slightly different!), or would you like me to go through that?

So for the Language Paper, questions 1, 2 and 3 should be relatively straightforward:
Question 1 - just select 2 relevant words or phrases from the given line numbers
Question 2 - describe 4 things that happen in the given lines, doesn't need to be long - just a sentence or two
Question 3 - Essentially 5 mini PEE's - although you can get 5 marks with fewer and a bit more detail, better to be on the safe side. Doesn't need to be long, just a bit of evidence and a little bit of explanation
Question 4 - No need for an introduction or conclusion, it's a waste of time. I generally start from the start of the text, and work my way through it. Aim to cover all of the text, and you might find you can talk about different bits of the text at once due to similarities etc.
Question 5 - Compare both texts in the same paragraphs. One thing that often works quite well is to do a similarity and a difference - so the texts are similar in one way, but then have a bit of a difference in the way that similarity works. So for example (though possibility not suitable for an essay but gives you the idea) both texts set in foreign countries, but one is USA and one is Canada.
I don't really have any advice for Q6/7 - generally not very good at them.
For the Literature paper will write up some advice when I have time!

It’s so hard finding people who sit IGCSES and mostly of the posts are ab gcses, I want some advice as y11 student
I take English Math Chem Physics Art Spanish Computer Science !!

It tends to be Private schools that sit iGCSEs as these can't be used in DfE performance tables.

whats DfE performance tables? yeah since i’m not in the UK it’s either this or American curriculum

The way schools results are judged - as this is used by Ofsted state schools really have to sit GCSEs.
A iGCSE grade counts as zero!

what do you mean it sxores a zero? IGs are just international versions of gcses no? i’m not sure what you mean ahaha

There quite a difference with iGCSE English regarded as easier than GCSE

It’s so hard finding people who sit IGCSES and mostly of the posts are ab gcses, I want some advice as y11 student
I take English Math Chem Physics Art Spanish Computer Science !!

IGCSEs are regarded as the same difficulty as GCSEs.

Not by the vast majority of teachers. Maths using a calculator for two papers but GCSE has three papers which tests more and one of those paper doesn't allow a calculator. [I'm familiar with both].

But IGCSE Maths has things like calculus, which GCSE doesn't. In fact calculus is in A Level material.
That's just one example, there are others.
IGCSEs are accepted by colleges and universities (yes even top universities like Oxbridge) in lieu of GCSEs, which they wouldn't if they weren't of equal value.
Teachers are biased towards the GCSE curriculum, but it isn't correct to state that IGCSE is easier than GCSE.

We're not biased just honest. There may be calculus but not much and of course unis accept them because students don't usually have a choice of what they sit. Non-calculator papers are harder for most students.
Examiners admit privately that iGCSEs are easier.

As long as a student can do long division and long multiplication on paper, which let's face it isn't the most challenging thing in the world, then the fact that you're not using a calculator isn't really an issue on non-calculator GCSE papers.
In terms of IGCSE calculator papers, for a great many questions calculators aren't used anyway, even if they're allowed to be used, as there's no need for them. Venn diagrams, graphs, factorising, expanding out brackets, constructing triangles, fractions, and so on and so forth. The types of questions which would require a calculator (for example trigonometry) are the types of questions that you would find on the GCSE calculator paper in any case.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree.