GCSE urgent help
GCSE urgent help
I did my February mocks and I feel like I didn’t do the best in all my subjects. This is what I think I got:
• Biology – 7
• Chemistry – 7
• English Language – 7/8
• Maths – 5
• Physics – 4/5
• PE – 6
• History – 7
• Further Maths – 6
• Computer Science Paper – 2-3
• Business – 9
I have 67 days left until my first exam, and I’m worried. I want to make my parents proud and get majority 8s and 9s, with 7s in History and PE (due to the practical not being great). Usually, Maths is my best subject, but I don’t know what’s happened.
I really need these grades. I’ve spent all my time until now procrastinating, and now I don’t know what to do. Is it too late to make notes on my subjects and make flashcards? What do I do for each subject to get these grades? I’m willing to put it all on the line, I just need help and guidance.
Please, can someone give me some detailed help for each subject on how I should revise from now to achieve the grades I want? I get my results Thursday, and I’ll say what I got. I also do English Literature, but they didn’t do a mock for that.
I did my February mocks and I feel like I didn’t do the best in all my subjects. This is what I think I got:
• Biology – 7
• Chemistry – 7
• English Language – 7/8
• Maths – 5
• Physics – 4/5
• PE – 6
• History – 7
• Further Maths – 6
• Computer Science Paper – 2-3
• Business – 9
I have 67 days left until my first exam, and I’m worried. I want to make my parents proud and get majority 8s and 9s, with 7s in History and PE (due to the practical not being great). Usually, Maths is my best subject, but I don’t know what’s happened.
I really need these grades. I’ve spent all my time until now procrastinating, and now I don’t know what to do. Is it too late to make notes on my subjects and make flashcards? What do I do for each subject to get these grades? I’m willing to put it all on the line, I just need help and guidance.
Please, can someone give me some detailed help for each subject on how I should revise from now to achieve the grades I want? I get my results Thursday, and I’ll say what I got. I also do English Literature, but they didn’t do a mock for that.
Original post by Mjn_0808
GCSE urgent help
I did my February mocks and I feel like I didn’t do the best in all my subjects. This is what I think I got:
• Biology – 7
• Chemistry – 7
• English Language – 7/8
• Maths – 5
• Physics – 4/5
• PE – 6
• History – 7
• Further Maths – 6
• Computer Science Paper – 2-3
• Business – 9
I have 67 days left until my first exam, and I’m worried. I want to make my parents proud and get majority 8s and 9s, with 7s in History and PE (due to the practical not being great). Usually, Maths is my best subject, but I don’t know what’s happened.
I really need these grades. I’ve spent all my time until now procrastinating, and now I don’t know what to do. Is it too late to make notes on my subjects and make flashcards? What do I do for each subject to get these grades? I’m willing to put it all on the line, I just need help and guidance.
Please, can someone give me some detailed help for each subject on how I should revise from now to achieve the grades I want? I get my results Thursday, and I’ll say what I got. I also do English Literature, but they didn’t do a mock for that.
I did my February mocks and I feel like I didn’t do the best in all my subjects. This is what I think I got:
• Biology – 7
• Chemistry – 7
• English Language – 7/8
• Maths – 5
• Physics – 4/5
• PE – 6
• History – 7
• Further Maths – 6
• Computer Science Paper – 2-3
• Business – 9
I have 67 days left until my first exam, and I’m worried. I want to make my parents proud and get majority 8s and 9s, with 7s in History and PE (due to the practical not being great). Usually, Maths is my best subject, but I don’t know what’s happened.
I really need these grades. I’ve spent all my time until now procrastinating, and now I don’t know what to do. Is it too late to make notes on my subjects and make flashcards? What do I do for each subject to get these grades? I’m willing to put it all on the line, I just need help and guidance.
Please, can someone give me some detailed help for each subject on how I should revise from now to achieve the grades I want? I get my results Thursday, and I’ll say what I got. I also do English Literature, but they didn’t do a mock for that.
Firstly, they're really good mock grades, if you got those grades in the real thing you should be really proud of yourself.
Secondly, 67 days is plenty of time to revise so please don't stress about it. I did my gcses last year and I started revising in april/ easter holidays (which was late I know but I'm an awful procrastinator) and I got one 9, two 8s, two 7s, and five 6s. Not my best results but they got me onto my alevel courses and that's all that matters. Don't feel like you should've started revising ages ago and you've got no time because you have loads of time!!
Ok here's what I recommend for your revision:
Science: Do a past paper with real time constraints and mark it to find out your weak areas. Then watch youtube videos on each weak area and make notes (revision cards, mind maps ect... whatever works for you) (I'd recommend science shorts on youtube- they have really easy to understand videos on every topic in science. They have in depth videos on specific areas of topics and more general videos on whole topics and papers) You should also revise all the practicals. For this I'd recommend watching freesciencelessons. His videos are really good because he explains the instructions and analysis very well. Other than that I'd just say more past paper questions
Maths: maths is my strongest subject so I actually didn't do a lot of revision for it 😭 I'd say just do past papers. maths is one of those subjects that to revise it you just have to do it. Again I'd say watch videos for areas you don't understand or ask a friend or teacher to explain it to you. For papers 2 and 3 I'd recommend using predicted papers rather than past papers (especially for paper 3)
English Language: Work on your question 5s because they're the most marks. Make lots of storyboards and plans of what to write. Make sure you know how to answer the other questions though. (I'd recommend Mr Everything English and Mr Salles Teaches English on youtube- they're really good)
English Lit: This was my weakest subject. I liked to make mind maps filled with analysis and quotes and link them to eachother by different characters, themes ect... then I'd use a whiteboard and the blurting method to memorise it. My strongest section was poetry. My school did love and relationships and all the poems were about either family or romantic relationships. I memorised one family and one romance poem and learnt how to link them to every other poem. Whenever I was stuck I just talked about the punctuation (I did this in english language too) because it represents so much (like i could talk about how hyphens represent distance for days)
History: My teachers put on after school revision sessions for this and they helped so much. I just memorised the stories and did mind maps, flashcards and blurting.
Further maths: This is not a priority. Don't bother. I only revised this when it was my last exam and I just did a predicted paper. In my school they just took the people who were good at maths and put them all in the further maths exam without actually teaching us any of it and just told us to try our best. I was expecting to get a 2 max but I got a 6. So don't worry about it because your basic maths knowledge is enough. (although if you really want to revise for it learn differentiation cuz its easy)
That's all I can help you with because I didn't do your other subjects
Final note would just be don't stress because gcses really don't matter. Like I know schools like to frame it like you're gonna end up homeless if you don't pass maths but in reality no one cares. Like just as long as you pass english lang and maths so you don't have to retake them (even if you do have to resit it's not that big of a deal) and you get the grades you need to do you alevels/ btech/ apprenticeship/ whatever you're all good. So don't stress and just enjoy year 11!
Good luck!!
Original post by Mjn_0808
GCSE urgent help
I did my February mocks and I feel like I didn’t do the best in all my subjects. This is what I think I got:
• Biology – 7
• Chemistry – 7
• English Language – 7/8
• Maths – 5
• Physics – 4/5
• PE – 6
• History – 7
• Further Maths – 6
• Computer Science Paper – 2-3
• Business – 9
I have 67 days left until my first exam, and I’m worried. I want to make my parents proud and get majority 8s and 9s, with 7s in History and PE (due to the practical not being great). Usually, Maths is my best subject, but I don’t know what’s happened.
I really need these grades. I’ve spent all my time until now procrastinating, and now I don’t know what to do. Is it too late to make notes on my subjects and make flashcards? What do I do for each subject to get these grades? I’m willing to put it all on the line, I just need help and guidance.
Please, can someone give me some detailed help for each subject on how I should revise from now to achieve the grades I want? I get my results Thursday, and I’ll say what I got. I also do English Literature, but they didn’t do a mock for that.
I did my February mocks and I feel like I didn’t do the best in all my subjects. This is what I think I got:
• Biology – 7
• Chemistry – 7
• English Language – 7/8
• Maths – 5
• Physics – 4/5
• PE – 6
• History – 7
• Further Maths – 6
• Computer Science Paper – 2-3
• Business – 9
I have 67 days left until my first exam, and I’m worried. I want to make my parents proud and get majority 8s and 9s, with 7s in History and PE (due to the practical not being great). Usually, Maths is my best subject, but I don’t know what’s happened.
I really need these grades. I’ve spent all my time until now procrastinating, and now I don’t know what to do. Is it too late to make notes on my subjects and make flashcards? What do I do for each subject to get these grades? I’m willing to put it all on the line, I just need help and guidance.
Please, can someone give me some detailed help for each subject on how I should revise from now to achieve the grades I want? I get my results Thursday, and I’ll say what I got. I also do English Literature, but they didn’t do a mock for that.
Hey,
First of all, it is definitely not too late. And while your mock results weren't what you wanted, they are still really good and you'll be able to improve them in the time you have.
I would focus on revision strategies that are the most effective - they are things that get to you think and recall information and practice exam technique. Writing notes can take a lot of time, and is not as helpful as answering questions. Even if you feel like you don't know a subject, try answering questions on it and then just go over what you don't know - it will make the work more manageable and the information will go in better.
You can turn your work into flashcards of questions and answers on apps like brainscape, and then test yourself on things you need to memorise. For other subjects, try to do as many past papers as you can and really look at the mark scheme and what gives you marks. For anything you don't understand you can use Chatgpt or Youtube videos to explain it, and then you'll remember it more.
Try not to worry too much about it, do a little bit of work every day and you will get there. Try not to overload yourself with work, things will improve if you keep doing it little and often.
Let me know if you want any more specific advice about revision,
Evie (final year medic at UoS)
Original post by millie813
Firstly, they're really good mock grades, if you got those grades in the real thing you should be really proud of yourself.
Secondly, 67 days is plenty of time to revise so please don't stress about it. I did my gcses last year and I started revising in april/ easter holidays (which was late I know but I'm an awful procrastinator) and I got one 9, two 8s, two 7s, and five 6s. Not my best results but they got me onto my alevel courses and that's all that matters. Don't feel like you should've started revising ages ago and you've got no time because you have loads of time!!
Ok here's what I recommend for your revision:
Science: Do a past paper with real time constraints and mark it to find out your weak areas. Then watch youtube videos on each weak area and make notes (revision cards, mind maps ect... whatever works for you) (I'd recommend science shorts on youtube- they have really easy to understand videos on every topic in science. They have in depth videos on specific areas of topics and more general videos on whole topics and papers) You should also revise all the practicals. For this I'd recommend watching freesciencelessons. His videos are really good because he explains the instructions and analysis very well. Other than that I'd just say more past paper questions
Maths: maths is my strongest subject so I actually didn't do a lot of revision for it 😭 I'd say just do past papers. maths is one of those subjects that to revise it you just have to do it. Again I'd say watch videos for areas you don't understand or ask a friend or teacher to explain it to you. For papers 2 and 3 I'd recommend using predicted papers rather than past papers (especially for paper 3)
English Language: Work on your question 5s because they're the most marks. Make lots of storyboards and plans of what to write. Make sure you know how to answer the other questions though. (I'd recommend Mr Everything English and Mr Salles Teaches English on youtube- they're really good)
English Lit: This was my weakest subject. I liked to make mind maps filled with analysis and quotes and link them to eachother by different characters, themes ect... then I'd use a whiteboard and the blurting method to memorise it. My strongest section was poetry. My school did love and relationships and all the poems were about either family or romantic relationships. I memorised one family and one romance poem and learnt how to link them to every other poem. Whenever I was stuck I just talked about the punctuation (I did this in english language too) because it represents so much (like i could talk about how hyphens represent distance for days)
History: My teachers put on after school revision sessions for this and they helped so much. I just memorised the stories and did mind maps, flashcards and blurting.
Further maths: This is not a priority. Don't bother. I only revised this when it was my last exam and I just did a predicted paper. In my school they just took the people who were good at maths and put them all in the further maths exam without actually teaching us any of it and just told us to try our best. I was expecting to get a 2 max but I got a 6. So don't worry about it because your basic maths knowledge is enough. (although if you really want to revise for it learn differentiation cuz its easy)
That's all I can help you with because I didn't do your other subjects
Final note would just be don't stress because gcses really don't matter. Like I know schools like to frame it like you're gonna end up homeless if you don't pass maths but in reality no one cares. Like just as long as you pass english lang and maths so you don't have to retake them (even if you do have to resit it's not that big of a deal) and you get the grades you need to do you alevels/ btech/ apprenticeship/ whatever you're all good. So don't stress and just enjoy year 11!
Good luck!!
Secondly, 67 days is plenty of time to revise so please don't stress about it. I did my gcses last year and I started revising in april/ easter holidays (which was late I know but I'm an awful procrastinator) and I got one 9, two 8s, two 7s, and five 6s. Not my best results but they got me onto my alevel courses and that's all that matters. Don't feel like you should've started revising ages ago and you've got no time because you have loads of time!!
Ok here's what I recommend for your revision:
Science: Do a past paper with real time constraints and mark it to find out your weak areas. Then watch youtube videos on each weak area and make notes (revision cards, mind maps ect... whatever works for you) (I'd recommend science shorts on youtube- they have really easy to understand videos on every topic in science. They have in depth videos on specific areas of topics and more general videos on whole topics and papers) You should also revise all the practicals. For this I'd recommend watching freesciencelessons. His videos are really good because he explains the instructions and analysis very well. Other than that I'd just say more past paper questions
Maths: maths is my strongest subject so I actually didn't do a lot of revision for it 😭 I'd say just do past papers. maths is one of those subjects that to revise it you just have to do it. Again I'd say watch videos for areas you don't understand or ask a friend or teacher to explain it to you. For papers 2 and 3 I'd recommend using predicted papers rather than past papers (especially for paper 3)
English Language: Work on your question 5s because they're the most marks. Make lots of storyboards and plans of what to write. Make sure you know how to answer the other questions though. (I'd recommend Mr Everything English and Mr Salles Teaches English on youtube- they're really good)
English Lit: This was my weakest subject. I liked to make mind maps filled with analysis and quotes and link them to eachother by different characters, themes ect... then I'd use a whiteboard and the blurting method to memorise it. My strongest section was poetry. My school did love and relationships and all the poems were about either family or romantic relationships. I memorised one family and one romance poem and learnt how to link them to every other poem. Whenever I was stuck I just talked about the punctuation (I did this in english language too) because it represents so much (like i could talk about how hyphens represent distance for days)
History: My teachers put on after school revision sessions for this and they helped so much. I just memorised the stories and did mind maps, flashcards and blurting.
Further maths: This is not a priority. Don't bother. I only revised this when it was my last exam and I just did a predicted paper. In my school they just took the people who were good at maths and put them all in the further maths exam without actually teaching us any of it and just told us to try our best. I was expecting to get a 2 max but I got a 6. So don't worry about it because your basic maths knowledge is enough. (although if you really want to revise for it learn differentiation cuz its easy)
That's all I can help you with because I didn't do your other subjects
Final note would just be don't stress because gcses really don't matter. Like I know schools like to frame it like you're gonna end up homeless if you don't pass maths but in reality no one cares. Like just as long as you pass english lang and maths so you don't have to retake them (even if you do have to resit it's not that big of a deal) and you get the grades you need to do you alevels/ btech/ apprenticeship/ whatever you're all good. So don't stress and just enjoy year 11!
Good luck!!
Thank you Millie
Original post by Mjn_0808
GCSE urgent help
I did my February mocks and I feel like I didn’t do the best in all my subjects. This is what I think I got:
• Biology – 7
• Chemistry – 7
• English Language – 7/8
• Maths – 5
• Physics – 4/5
• PE – 6
• History – 7
• Further Maths – 6
• Computer Science Paper – 2-3
• Business – 9
I have 67 days left until my first exam, and I’m worried. I want to make my parents proud and get majority 8s and 9s, with 7s in History and PE (due to the practical not being great). Usually, Maths is my best subject, but I don’t know what’s happened.
I really need these grades. I’ve spent all my time until now procrastinating, and now I don’t know what to do. Is it too late to make notes on my subjects and make flashcards? What do I do for each subject to get these grades? I’m willing to put it all on the line, I just need help and guidance.
Please, can someone give me some detailed help for each subject on how I should revise from now to achieve the grades I want? I get my results Thursday, and I’ll say what I got. I also do English Literature, but they didn’t do a mock for that.
I did my February mocks and I feel like I didn’t do the best in all my subjects. This is what I think I got:
• Biology – 7
• Chemistry – 7
• English Language – 7/8
• Maths – 5
• Physics – 4/5
• PE – 6
• History – 7
• Further Maths – 6
• Computer Science Paper – 2-3
• Business – 9
I have 67 days left until my first exam, and I’m worried. I want to make my parents proud and get majority 8s and 9s, with 7s in History and PE (due to the practical not being great). Usually, Maths is my best subject, but I don’t know what’s happened.
I really need these grades. I’ve spent all my time until now procrastinating, and now I don’t know what to do. Is it too late to make notes on my subjects and make flashcards? What do I do for each subject to get these grades? I’m willing to put it all on the line, I just need help and guidance.
Please, can someone give me some detailed help for each subject on how I should revise from now to achieve the grades I want? I get my results Thursday, and I’ll say what I got. I also do English Literature, but they didn’t do a mock for that.
Withdraw from Further Maths and spend the time on other subjects.
Original post by Mjn_0808
Thanks Evie do you reckon I used pre-made flashcards or my own and do I stop trying to make notes on things
Stop making flashcards/notes - focus on past paers and then traffic lighting to fill gaps,
Reply 7
Original post by millie813
Firstly, they're really good mock grades, if you got those grades in the real thing you should be really proud of yourself.
Secondly, 67 days is plenty of time to revise so please don't stress about it. I did my gcses last year and I started revising in april/ easter holidays (which was late I know but I'm an awful procrastinator) and I got one 9, two 8s, two 7s, and five 6s. Not my best results but they got me onto my alevel courses and that's all that matters. Don't feel like you should've started revising ages ago and you've got no time because you have loads of time!!
Ok here's what I recommend for your revision:
Science: Do a past paper with real time constraints and mark it to find out your weak areas. Then watch youtube videos on each weak area and make notes (revision cards, mind maps ect... whatever works for you) (I'd recommend science shorts on youtube- they have really easy to understand videos on every topic in science. They have in depth videos on specific areas of topics and more general videos on whole topics and papers) You should also revise all the practicals. For this I'd recommend watching freesciencelessons. His videos are really good because he explains the instructions and analysis very well. Other than that I'd just say more past paper questions
Maths: maths is my strongest subject so I actually didn't do a lot of revision for it 😭 I'd say just do past papers. maths is one of those subjects that to revise it you just have to do it. Again I'd say watch videos for areas you don't understand or ask a friend or teacher to explain it to you. For papers 2 and 3 I'd recommend using predicted papers rather than past papers (especially for paper 3)
English Language: Work on your question 5s because they're the most marks. Make lots of storyboards and plans of what to write. Make sure you know how to answer the other questions though. (I'd recommend Mr Everything English and Mr Salles Teaches English on youtube- they're really good)
English Lit: This was my weakest subject. I liked to make mind maps filled with analysis and quotes and link them to eachother by different characters, themes ect... then I'd use a whiteboard and the blurting method to memorise it. My strongest section was poetry. My school did love and relationships and all the poems were about either family or romantic relationships. I memorised one family and one romance poem and learnt how to link them to every other poem. Whenever I was stuck I just talked about the punctuation (I did this in english language too) because it represents so much (like i could talk about how hyphens represent distance for days)
History: My teachers put on after school revision sessions for this and they helped so much. I just memorised the stories and did mind maps, flashcards and blurting.
Further maths: This is not a priority. Don't bother. I only revised this when it was my last exam and I just did a predicted paper. In my school they just took the people who were good at maths and put them all in the further maths exam without actually teaching us any of it and just told us to try our best. I was expecting to get a 2 max but I got a 6. So don't worry about it because your basic maths knowledge is enough. (although if you really want to revise for it learn differentiation cuz its easy)
That's all I can help you with because I didn't do your other subjects
Final note would just be don't stress because gcses really don't matter. Like I know schools like to frame it like you're gonna end up homeless if you don't pass maths but in reality no one cares. Like just as long as you pass english lang and maths so you don't have to retake them (even if you do have to resit it's not that big of a deal) and you get the grades you need to do you alevels/ btech/ apprenticeship/ whatever you're all good. So don't stress and just enjoy year 11!
Good luck!!
Secondly, 67 days is plenty of time to revise so please don't stress about it. I did my gcses last year and I started revising in april/ easter holidays (which was late I know but I'm an awful procrastinator) and I got one 9, two 8s, two 7s, and five 6s. Not my best results but they got me onto my alevel courses and that's all that matters. Don't feel like you should've started revising ages ago and you've got no time because you have loads of time!!
Ok here's what I recommend for your revision:
Science: Do a past paper with real time constraints and mark it to find out your weak areas. Then watch youtube videos on each weak area and make notes (revision cards, mind maps ect... whatever works for you) (I'd recommend science shorts on youtube- they have really easy to understand videos on every topic in science. They have in depth videos on specific areas of topics and more general videos on whole topics and papers) You should also revise all the practicals. For this I'd recommend watching freesciencelessons. His videos are really good because he explains the instructions and analysis very well. Other than that I'd just say more past paper questions
Maths: maths is my strongest subject so I actually didn't do a lot of revision for it 😭 I'd say just do past papers. maths is one of those subjects that to revise it you just have to do it. Again I'd say watch videos for areas you don't understand or ask a friend or teacher to explain it to you. For papers 2 and 3 I'd recommend using predicted papers rather than past papers (especially for paper 3)
English Language: Work on your question 5s because they're the most marks. Make lots of storyboards and plans of what to write. Make sure you know how to answer the other questions though. (I'd recommend Mr Everything English and Mr Salles Teaches English on youtube- they're really good)
English Lit: This was my weakest subject. I liked to make mind maps filled with analysis and quotes and link them to eachother by different characters, themes ect... then I'd use a whiteboard and the blurting method to memorise it. My strongest section was poetry. My school did love and relationships and all the poems were about either family or romantic relationships. I memorised one family and one romance poem and learnt how to link them to every other poem. Whenever I was stuck I just talked about the punctuation (I did this in english language too) because it represents so much (like i could talk about how hyphens represent distance for days)
History: My teachers put on after school revision sessions for this and they helped so much. I just memorised the stories and did mind maps, flashcards and blurting.
Further maths: This is not a priority. Don't bother. I only revised this when it was my last exam and I just did a predicted paper. In my school they just took the people who were good at maths and put them all in the further maths exam without actually teaching us any of it and just told us to try our best. I was expecting to get a 2 max but I got a 6. So don't worry about it because your basic maths knowledge is enough. (although if you really want to revise for it learn differentiation cuz its easy)
That's all I can help you with because I didn't do your other subjects
Final note would just be don't stress because gcses really don't matter. Like I know schools like to frame it like you're gonna end up homeless if you don't pass maths but in reality no one cares. Like just as long as you pass english lang and maths so you don't have to retake them (even if you do have to resit it's not that big of a deal) and you get the grades you need to do you alevels/ btech/ apprenticeship/ whatever you're all good. So don't stress and just enjoy year 11!
Good luck!!
Hi can I ask if you got higher in ur mocks? I’ve only js started revising now and I got 988887777 in my mocks (around 2/3 weeks revising). I’m so scared
Reply 8
Ill give u my gcse anki flashcards i got 8.4 aps so they work dont worry theyre about 9000 for all 10 subjects lmk
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