Y11 - The Last Leg

I did GCSE music several years ago now and I really enjoyed it. I play the clarinet and I really enjoy it. Best of luck with your mocks and remember to look after yourself!

Update 1: 14/10/25

Well I'm making some progress, I've begun mindmaps for quite few subjects but really I'm just trying to make revision a habit. It's weird, I'd always imagined this would be a super acedemically busy and stressful year, which in some ways it is but mostly it's a good time. Have loads of fun things lined up for the next few weeks, which also means I need to be more focused as mocks will soon be right in front of me eek.
Also exam boards I'm doing:
Maths (Higher) - Edexcel
English - AQA
Sciences (Higher seperate) - OCR gateway
French (Higher) - Edexcel
RS - Edexcel
Geography - Eduquas WJEC (B)
History - Edexcel
Media - OCR


P.s It's my birthday in a week which is super exciting

How are you getting on? I hope you're still having a good time (and had a good birthday! What did you get up to?)

Wow. I took OCR GCSE Music and I was predicted an 8 and got a 3 because there was something wrong with the moderation process. Sucks that when I opened the envelope, I got a bad grade but oh well.

But good luck!! It seems you’re doing great oh my gosh!! Don’t stress about it too much and just know that the work you’re doing is great, all you can do is improve upon that. Maybe it’s not great advice but to keep myself from worrying in my GCSEs I told myself I was just doing mocks XD

omg i know this was ages ago, but things are pretty good. I've had an amazing few weeks, I had my birthday party and also have been to some concerts and overall have had a great autumn. However I'm lowkey cooked for mocks but I'm so tired atp I'm just gonna roll with whatever comes

Hi, I’m Nadia and I need to lock in lol, here’s what I’m studying and my grades from the end of Y10:
Maths 8
English Lit 7
English Language 7
Bio 8
Chemistry 8
Physics 8
French 8
RS 9
Geography 8
History 9
Media 9
Oh and last year I took my Music GCSE early and got a 9!!!
I was pretty happy with those but I think I can defo push it for upcoming mocks and ofc the real thing.
I enjoy English (even though it’s one of my weaker subjects), Biology, Physics, Media and Geography. Maths is the most evil thing ever but hey I persevere. Everything else I find ok or a little boring but yk that’s the nature of school.
Other things about me: I LOVE music, it’s 70% of my life, listening, playing and composing music. I play piano ( working to Grade 8), viola(working to Grade 7) and guitar(self taught) but would love to learn more. I also play netball and I am a massive reader. I just finished Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson and currently working through Little Women (does anyone use fable on here?). I have other hobbies, mostly knitting and watercolour but sometimes I game.
So not only do I wanna be on top of things academically I also want to be spending more time practicing and doing things I love (while spending less time online).
Suppose I’ll update this every so often (maybe twice a week minimum idk) and hope you follow along and chat w me. Thanks for reading

Heyy girl, tips for history bc ur sooo cool how a 9!!!

UPDATE 12/12/25:
It’s been a while. I’ve been very busy and quite frankly forgot abt this but I may as well give some updates.
I’m in the midst of mocks, the greater bulk of it is over and I only have 4 exams left (Woop woop!).
It’s been pretty ok so far, the only exams that I’ve struggled with are maths non calc (I already knew I would lol) and chem (surprisingly), I just hope I’ve not done awfully. The other exams have been quite solid (English language & lit, History, Bio, Geography and RS).
I’ve definitely not been very concentrated the past few week but managed to scrape together enough revision. Soon it’ll all be over then it will be Christmas, I cannot wait 🤩.
Until next time,
Nadia

Your starting grades are amazing and by results day with the effort you’re putting in you’ll definitely get the grades you want . I did my GCSEs this year and my real grades were anywhere from 1-2 grades higher than my mocks, so idk if you’re aiming for all 9s ( you have the potential to get them ) but you will probably get them if you continue with what you’re doing.

Thanks sm, I hooe for mostly 9s but idk we will see what happens. What are u studying at A level?

Maths geography politics and EPQ what are you thinking of picking