Hi everyone,
I recently got my Year 12 mock results back and ended up with a DDD, which has been really disheartening and honestly really disappointing. For GCSEs, I attended a state school - and although my grades weren't perfect, I didn't think that I was underperforming. However, now I am studying A-Level English Literature, Maths and Computer Science at a Grammar School and everything is so much different!
I just wanted to provide some context for this, for my Maths paper we only did one paper but it had Pure Maths, Mechanics and Statistics. For English Literature, we did a paper which was split into Hamlet and Poetry (which we had only really just started as a class). For computing, we did both papers but I have yet to receive Paper 2 which might push my grade up but looking unlikely.
My school has been quite harsh with the boundaries for the tests, I know in my English Literature exams they were raised up a grade. However, even if they are raised I'm still dissatisfied with the result and wanted to ask you how to revise. I feel like the way that I am revising, I feel confident about what I am doing but as soon as I go into the exam, everything disappears out of my brain and I can't interpret questions correctly.
For Maths, I am studying the Edexcel course. Same with English Literature, and my set texts are Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, NLMG, Frankenstein and the two sets of poetry (and the coursework). For my computer science, I am studying the AQA course, and I particularly struggling with Paper 2.
I am open to any kinds of revision.
Thanks in advance for any help! 🙂
Lily