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Am I the only one thinks gcses haven't been great everyone around me has been saying how good it's been but idkk I'm worried and I feel like the grade boundaries will be so high now

Reply 1

No same, its so stressful coming out and everyones saying that was so good etc, atp im relying of wrong predictions to lower the grade boundaries

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by i-like-mangoes
No same, its so stressful coming out and everyones saying that was so good etc, atp im relying of wrong predictions to lower the grade boundaries


Omg it's so frustrating and same i hope everything works out well for the both of use tho

Reply 3

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by Nothing.special
Am I the only one thinks gcses haven't been great everyone around me has been saying how good it's been but idkk I'm worried and I feel like the grade boundaries will be so high now

Hey @Nothing.special,

Coming out of an exam and hearing other people's opinions on how it went can sometimes be misleading; it's unfortunately not uncommon for students to think an exam has gone well only to later realise they misread/misinterpreted one of the questions. For example, when I sat one of my GCSE Biology papers in 2019, one of my friends mentioned that they thought it had gone really well. When I asked them about a question I struggled with, it turns out they'd accidentally skipped a page of the exam and missed that particular question entirely.

Although it's understandably very challenging to do so, I'd recommend trying not to focus too much on possible grade boundaries as they're extremely difficult to predict. Remember, thousands of students enter each GCSE exam - even if everyone in your school found a paper particularly easy, it doesn't accurately reflect how students in other schools might have found it.

Wishing you all the best with any remaining GCSE exams,
Eve (Kingston Rep).

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by Kingston Eve
Hey @Nothing.special,
Coming out of an exam and hearing other people's opinions on how it went can sometimes be misleading; it's unfortunately not uncommon for students to think an exam has gone well only to later realise they misread/misinterpreted one of the questions. For example, when I sat one of my GCSE Biology papers in 2019, one of my friends mentioned that they thought it had gone really well. When I asked them about a question I struggled with, it turns out they'd accidentally skipped a page of the exam and missed that particular question entirely.
Although it's understandably very challenging to do so, I'd recommend trying not to focus too much on possible grade boundaries as they're extremely difficult to predict. Remember, thousands of students enter each GCSE exam - even if everyone in your school found a paper particularly easy, it doesn't accurately reflect how students in other schools might have found it.
Wishing you all the best with any remaining GCSE exams,
Eve (Kingston Rep).


Hi thank you so much for this I know you're right and at the end of the day it's about my grades and not theirs I'll try block them out

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