11x 9s at gcse AMA

hi guys, i got 9s in all my gcses and wanted to create a forum for people to ask questions about revision / anything i did! my subjects were
- maths (igcse edexcel)
- further maths (gcse aqa)
- biology (gcse aqa)
- chem (gcse aqa)
- physics (gcse aqa)
- eng lang (igcse edexcel)
- eng lit (igcse edexcel)
- geography (igcse edexcel)
- economics (igcse edexcel)
- computer science (igcse cambridge)
- arabic (gcse edexcel)

hi! currently in year 10 and i was wondering what you did to study and revise effectively? i know that some studying methods are better for some subjects over others, but if you could give me any advice, that would be great!

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hi guys, i got 9s in all my gcses and wanted to create a forum for people to ask questions about revision / anything else! my subjects were
- maths (igcse edexcel)
- further maths (gcse aqa)
- biology (gcse aqa)
- chem (gcse aqa)
- physics (gcse aqa)
- eng lang (igcse edexcel)
- eng lit (igcse edexcel)
- geography (igcse edexcel)
- economics (igcse edexcel)
- computer science (igcse cambridge)
- arabic (gcse edexcel)

hi guys, i got 9s in all my gcses and wanted to create a forum for people to ask questions about revision / anything else! my subjects were
- maths (igcse edexcel)
- further maths (gcse aqa)
- biology (gcse aqa)
- chem (gcse aqa)
- physics (gcse aqa)
- eng lang (igcse edexcel)
- eng lit (igcse edexcel)
- geography (igcse edexcel)
- economics (igcse edexcel)
- computer science (igcse cambridge)
- arabic (gcse edexcel)

What are you wanting to do after school at uni?
And how much studying daily were you doing to get these grades?

Hi! Firstly, congratulations!! Secondly, I having a feeling this thread is going to get popular very quickly!!
How did you get nines in triple science, computer science and in Arabic? What was your motivation like and how often did you revise?
Sorry for the bombardment of questions!!

Hi, well done!! Do you mind telling me how you revised for your gcses during the final months (march, april, may and june) and how you revised during your actual gcses? Pls helpp bc i'm so scared about how I'm going to revise in the last months, especially during gcses and I need to find effective ways to revise! Also do u have any tips for physics and chem especially paper 2🙏!!!
Please respond, I'll deeply appreciate it 🙏!!

thank you so much!! and no worries at all haha happy to help
for arabic, im a native speaker so i honestly didnt have to revise at all for listening and reading, and for writing i remember doing one practice paper a day the few days leading up to the exam. speaking was a challenge though because i struggled not to revert to my dialect!! so for my exam board the speaking section was split into 3 segments. for roleplay and picture-based task, i just practiced the format and did examples with my friends who were also doing the exam, but u could also do this with parents if they speak arabic too. for the conversation, i made flashcards for every single question and prepared answers - if you can think on the spot you might not need to do this but i struggled coming up with complex and creative structures under pressure. i practiced these flashcards for like 2 weeks and i would also highly recommend recording yourself saying them outloud on voice memos and listening to it whenever youre on a walk or on the way somewhere! if youd like i can share the document i used for speaking which had my prepared answers and then also the format for roleplay and the photocard
compsci was honestly my hardest subject but i made flashcards for all the theory topics and took answers straight from mark schemes. esp for the cambridge exam board they are so so specific with mark schemes so when youre making resources take EVERYTHING from mark schemes - my teacher made these booklets for each topic with every question there had been on that topic which i can also share if youre doing cambridge! then in the month before the exam i did every single past paper out there which id defo recommend for compsci
for science in y10 i wrote out notes for every topic, which ended up not really being that useful and was wayyy too time consuming, so in y11 i would just quickly make a google doc of notes summarising the textbook for each topic (you can just use someone elses' condensed notes), and then starting from mid-march i did past paper questions (from pmt and savemyexams) using the notes if i didnt know a question, kind of like an open book test. i would also keep every long-answer question's markscheme that i got wrong in a flashcard deck that i was always looking over. then leading up to the exams i just did past papers and marked them! hope that helps but lmk if you want any more advice on anything!! i replied to someone else about how often i revised so check out my reply above^^

thank you!! my heavy revision started in march, by that time i had already made all my resources like flashcards (except for english lit which i ended up cramming) so i started doing past paper questions from pmt and savemyexams. then around mid-april i started actually doing past papers, usually 1 each for 3 different subjects a day (although i started way earlier for econ and english bc theyre essay subjects). during my actual exams, if i had multiple exams a week i would do a bit of each subject each day with a bigger focus on a specific subject the day before that subject's exam. by this point all my revision was past papers so it wasnt all that time-consuming
as for specifically chem paper 2, a lot of it is memorisation so if ur doing aqa make sure you know the flame test colours, tests for ions, the haber process + wastewater treatment 6 markers, and reactions of alkenes / alcohols super super well!! for physics paper 2 my biggest issue was forces and electromagnetism so i watched cognito's videos on those and did their questions and it just clicked for me. for the space topic, id say just memorise the 6 marker mark schemes for questions about star life cycles and stuff. but never try to memorise something without actually understanding it! but see my reply to ⓁⒶⒾⒷⒶ as well

What grades did you get in the feb mocks?? and i am asking because i hav been stuck on 7s on quite a while and now i am essetially freaked out cause i really want higher grades than tht lik at least 8s, and i am not sure what to do with the remaining time, like i am doing topic questions from pmt for all of them, but i am not clearly sure on how to do it, lik do i revisit the ones i did wrong, and what to do with the ones i got right?

Thank you!! For eng lit and essay based subjects would u suggest doing past papers or would u suggest looking at questions and making plans for the questions - so eg. a question abt Mr Birling - plan out the quotes and analysis. What did u do on days u didn't have exams and how did u not burn out! Did u wake up early every day?

i got all 9s in my feb mocks too, for ppq's definitely go over the ones you get wrong and make flashcards where u write down the markschemes of ones u get wrong and constantly test urself on those. if youre getting ones right now and its not just questions youve memorised then chances are youll get them right in 2 months' time so i think dont bother going over those. does that make sense?

thank you so much!! and no worries at all haha happy to help
for arabic, im a native speaker so i honestly didnt have to revise at all for listening and reading, and for writing i remember doing one practice paper a day the few days leading up to the exam. speaking was a challenge though because i struggled not to revert to my dialect!! so for my exam board the speaking section was split into 3 segments. for roleplay and picture-based task, i just practiced the format and did examples with my friends who were also doing the exam, but u could also do this with parents if they speak arabic too. for the conversation, i made flashcards for every single question and prepared answers - if you can think on the spot you might not need to do this but i struggled coming up with complex and creative structures under pressure. i practiced these flashcards for like 2 weeks and i would also highly recommend recording yourself saying them outloud on voice memos and listening to it whenever youre on a walk or on the way somewhere! if youd like i can share the document i used for speaking which had my prepared answers and then also the format for roleplay and the photocard
compsci was honestly my hardest subject but i made flashcards for all the theory topics and took answers straight from mark schemes. esp for the cambridge exam board they are so so specific with mark schemes so when youre making resources take EVERYTHING from mark schemes - my teacher made these booklets for each topic with every question there had been on that topic which i can also share if youre doing cambridge! then in the month before the exam i did every single past paper out there which id defo recommend for compsci
for science in y10 i wrote out notes for every topic, which ended up not really being that useful and was wayyy too time consuming, so in y11 i would just quickly make a google doc of notes summarising the textbook for each topic (you can just use someone elses' condensed notes), and then starting from mid-march i did past paper questions (from pmt and savemyexams) using the notes if i didnt know a question, kind of like an open book test. i would also keep every long-answer question's markscheme that i got wrong in a flashcard deck that i was always looking over. then leading up to the exams i just did past papers and marked them! hope that helps but lmk if you want any more advice on anything!! i replied to someone else about how often i revised so check out my reply above^^

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! THIS IS SO HELPFUL!!
Based on your other post about how often you revise, I don't know why but I always thought doing as much revision as possible is the only way to get all 9s. Maybe it's just my school but we have exams every three months so by the time I am gradually recovering from my burn-out, exam season rolls around again! Was your school like that too? I am not in Year 11 but the Year 11s at my school get their topic lists in the winter holidays and then have mocks in January or February when they return so they kind of have to revise; did this happen with you? Anyways, for proving me wrong.
Also, about those Computer Science Notes, I was wondering if you would be happy to share them! I don't mind if you change your mind about it though.
Well done once again; I am sure whatever you do in the future you will be immensely successful!!

Yes thank you, i get what you mean, but is it possible to make the change too the 7s to lik 8s and 9s? in such a short time? , because for physics paper 2 i had done all the pmt topic queastions and geniually thought i was going to at least get a 8 but i came out with a 7. so i am very sort of scared i might not even get lik the grades i really want.