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GCSE Revison Year 11

I'm starting year 11 soon and my goal is to achieve 9s in all subjects. I do Triple Science, Geography, Spanish, PE, Long Course RS, Maths, English Lit and Lang. Anyone who got all 9s how did u revise and structure ur timetable every day aftter school? I want mine to focus on active reacal and a lot of pastpapers.

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by genz14
I'm starting year 11 soon and my goal is to achieve 9s in all subjects. I do Triple Science, Geography, Spanish, PE, Long Course RS, Maths, English Lit and Lang. Anyone who got all 9s how did u revise and structure ur timetable every day aftter school? I want mine to focus on active reacal and a lot of pastpapers.

not quite all nines, (8 in english unfortunately) but GCSEs weren't really that hard (apart from english which was impossible). It wasn't quite revision everyday after school (you would just burn yourself out). I would advise saving past papers closer to your exams otherwise you would run out and have nothing to use closer to the time. Our school did topic tests every other week for sciences so there was some revision going continuously, but really GCSE isn't that deep neither do you need to revise every day after school.
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by WHO????
not all quite nines, (8 in english unfortunately) but GCSEs weren't really that hard (apart from english which was impossible). It wasn't quite revision everyday after school (you would just burn yourself out). I would advise saving past papers closer to your exams otherwise you would run out and have nothing to use closer to the time. Our school did topic tests every other week for sciences so there was some revision going continuously, but really GCSE isn't that deep neither do you need to revise every day after school.

thank you!! i get that gcses arent as deep as a levels but i need solid grades if im targetting a top uni, tysm tho and ur results are amazing and i get that english is impossible im more of a science person myself

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by genz14
thank you!! i get that gcses arent as deep as a levels but i need solid grades if im targetting a top uni, tysm tho and ur results are amazing and i get that english is impossible im more of a science person myself

Good luck anyway, you should have plenty of time for good revision during easter break or half terms.

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by genz14
I'm starting year 11 soon and my goal is to achieve 9s in all subjects. I do Triple Science, Geography, Spanish, PE, Long Course RS, Maths, English Lit and Lang. Anyone who got all 9s how did u revise and structure ur timetable every day aftter school? I want mine to focus on active reacal and a lot of pastpapers.


Hii I got 12 9s, 2 8s!
Personally I did around 2h each weekday (including homework) except for Fridays where I’d have the day off, and 3-4h each weekend? That did vary a bit though, more around mocks/after March and less before December :smile: lmk if you want any individual subject help!

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by Anonymous
Hii I got 12 9s, 2 8s!
Personally I did around 2h each weekday (including homework) except for Fridays where I’d have the day off, and 3-4h each weekend? That did vary a bit though, more around mocks/after March and less before December :smile: lmk if you want any individual subject help!

hiii dude thats awesome results and 14 gcses is crazy im struggling with 10. for scienes what was ur revison strategy bc idk what works for me i mind map for all subjects and for rs and geo asw how do u revise? tyyy xx

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Thank you! personally I hate science (always have) so revising it was reallyy boring, but I watched lots of videos, made summaries of each topic on a whiteboard, and did lots of practice questions from around Jan. I'd say try learn most of the content before starting practice papers as you'll run out! my worst science was chem (my 8s were in that & eng lang), make sure you know moles and electrolysis really well :smile:
geo was one of my favs! just started y12 and taking it for A level. I made case study flashcards to learn the stats and then just summarised each couple of pages onto a post it note so I wouldn't have to read all the waffle lol
rs was alright, I got a 9 but I didn't think i would. I just found & learnt around.. 150 quotes? at least, I tried to! I found rs a lot of common sense but I often lost marks on the long mark questions so I did lots of them as practice.
don't get too stressed about y11, it's ok! lmk if you'd like any other advice :smile:

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