I hate my physics teacher

Hi everyone,
I’m a Year 13 student studying physics, and I’ve been having serious issues with my teacher lately. I’m not the type of person who complains easily, but this has been bothering me for months and it’s really starting to affect my motivation and mental state.
At the end of last year, before our Physics Paper 3 exam, I asked my teacher how many marks I needed for an A*. They told me 67%, and I even double-checked to be sure. Later, during an end-of-year event, the teacher told me it was actually 77%, which I found really unfair and inconsistent.
At the beginning of this academic year, I asked for an A* predicted grade, and they kindly gave it to me. But since then, whenever I asked questions in class — even jokingly — they would threaten to lower my prediction. It made me so anxious that I stopped asking questions altogether, because I didn’t want to make them angry or risk losing my grade.
Over the past few weeks, things have only gotten worse. The teacher seems constantly irritated in lessons, and I find it almost impossible to focus or enjoy the subject anymore. A couple of weeks ago, we were given a 40-question worksheet to complete in one day. When a few of us didn’t manage to finish, we were told to complete it by the next class. I did half of it (20 questions), which I thought was still reasonable, but the teacher reacted very harshly and again mentioned lowering predictions.
During a practical experiment the same week, I was the only student who drew the required graph — it was written clearly on the instruction sheet — but instead of acknowledging that, the teacher said I shouldn’t have drawn it and even accused me of copying my data from someone else, without checking my notebook.
The following week, we had a test that the teacher said would determine our predicted grades. The test didn’t include a single calculation question, even though the topic was Electric Field, which obviously involves a lot of calculations. When we got our results back, almost everyone received A*s, while I got a C. I checked my paper and noticed several correct answers hadn’t been given any marks. When I pointed this out, the teacher reluctantly added only two points — still nowhere near what was fair.
I’ve also noticed that this teacher treats me differently from others, though I’m not sure why. It might not be intentional, but it definitely feels personal sometimes.
I actually spoke with a few members of staff about this before, but nothing has really changed — if anything, things have gotten worse. Some of my classmates agree that this teacher can be unreasonable, but most of them either don’t care enough to say anything or are afraid to get involved.
To be honest, this situation has completely drained me. I’ve lost motivation for physics, my confidence has dropped, and I’m genuinely stressed about my predicted grade. I want to handle this properly, but I’m scared that if I speak up more directly, it’ll just make things worse.
What should I do? Should I go higher up and talk to someone else? Or just try to survive until the end of the year?

Hi everyone,
I’m a Year 13 student studying physics, and I’ve been having serious issues with my teacher lately. I’m not the type of person who complains easily, but this has been bothering me for months and it’s really starting to affect my motivation and mental state.
At the end of last year, before our Physics Paper 3 exam, I asked my teacher how many marks I needed for an A*. They told me 67%, and I even double-checked to be sure. Later, during an end-of-year event, the teacher told me it was actually 77%, which I found really unfair and inconsistent.
At the beginning of this academic year, I asked for an A* predicted grade, and they kindly gave it to me. But since then, whenever I asked questions in class — even jokingly — they would threaten to lower my prediction. It made me so anxious that I stopped asking questions altogether, because I didn’t want to make them angry or risk losing my grade.
Over the past few weeks, things have only gotten worse. The teacher seems constantly irritated in lessons, and I find it almost impossible to focus or enjoy the subject anymore. A couple of weeks ago, we were given a 40-question worksheet to complete in one day. When a few of us didn’t manage to finish, we were told to complete it by the next class. I did half of it (20 questions), which I thought was still reasonable, but the teacher reacted very harshly and again mentioned lowering predictions.
During a practical experiment the same week, I was the only student who drew the required graph — it was written clearly on the instruction sheet — but instead of acknowledging that, the teacher said I shouldn’t have drawn it and even accused me of copying my data from someone else, without checking my notebook.
The following week, we had a test that the teacher said would determine our predicted grades. The test didn’t include a single calculation question, even though the topic was Electric Field, which obviously involves a lot of calculations. When we got our results back, almost everyone received A*s, while I got a C. I checked my paper and noticed several correct answers hadn’t been given any marks. When I pointed this out, the teacher reluctantly added only two points — still nowhere near what was fair.
I’ve also noticed that this teacher treats me differently from others, though I’m not sure why. It might not be intentional, but it definitely feels personal sometimes.
I actually spoke with a few members of staff about this before, but nothing has really changed — if anything, things have gotten worse. Some of my classmates agree that this teacher can be unreasonable, but most of them either don’t care enough to say anything or are afraid to get involved.
To be honest, this situation has completely drained me. I’ve lost motivation for physics, my confidence has dropped, and I’m genuinely stressed about my predicted grade. I want to handle this properly, but I’m scared that if I speak up more directly, it’ll just make things worse.
What should I do? Should I go higher up and talk to someone else? Or just try to survive until the end of the year?

Ur so tuff ngl

No. Tuff = cool, I said that because it was a very well articulated point.