Tips/Advice for GCSE’s

I may be a little late in the year, but i got majority 8s & 9s in my GCSE’s. I’ll be happy to offer any tips or advice to current Y10s & Y11s studying for them!

Reply 1

WatermelonYum

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by Tee-amorr

I may be a little late in the year, but i got majority 8s & 9s in my GCSE’s. I’ll be happy to offer any tips or advice to current Y10s & Y11s studying for them!

what are your science (bio, chem, physics) tips?

Reply 2

hijabireads

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by Tee-amorr

I may be a little late in the year, but i got majority 8s & 9s in my GCSE’s. I’ll be happy to offer any tips or advice to current Y10s & Y11s studying for them!

How to study and revise for gcse english literature and language in depth and if you watched youtube videos how did you use them?

Reply 3

meek-acorn

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by hijabireads

How to study and revise for gcse english literature and language in depth and if you watched youtube videos how did you use them?

I got a 9 in lit and 8 in lang (aqa)

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YouTube videos: to recap topics when I was too tired to make essay plans or didn't understand a topic

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I made notes as if it were a lecture or I tried to use what I learnt from it in practice to write an exam q answer especially for lang

lang:
mr salles for how to write the essays
do practice exam qs and papers (its all unseen there's not much else you can do)
get your teacher to mark, then rewrite sections to improve based on feedback
for creative writing practice makes perfect and the more you do the faster you get (time is of the essence and I finished neither paper hence the 8)
lit:
poetry: pick 7 poems, learn like the back of your hand through analysing quotes and practicing planning exam qs, practice writing exams to get the essay structure (every teacher explains it their own way) flashcards for context and quotes
shakespeare: know the plot and key scenes through watching videos and sparknotes, analyse quotes, talk about it with your friends, plan essays, mind maps and blurting
novels: pretty much the same except its chapters and events, and characters.
websites and YouTube channels:
sparknotes, seneca, mr salles, mr Bruff, mr everythingEnglish

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blurting

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flashcards

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pomodoro method

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apps that lock down your phone while you study (study bunny, flora, forest etc)

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get your teacher to mark essays and respond to the feedback you get

Reply 4

Tee-amorr

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by WatermelonYum

what are your science (bio, chem, physics) tips?

science is a memorisation game. Even if you don’t fully understand the content, which i would recommend to make things easier, memorising it is fine.

i’d recommend using free science lessons and cognito on youtube to understand the content quickly. don’t watch 10 videos in a row, focus on one at a time. blurt the content after each video to ensure you’ve memorised and understood the content. you don’t need to know it word for word but make sure you have a brief understanding of what it is your expected to know for the exam.

My school made us all use tassomai which is basically spaced repetition flashcards. i’d strongly recommend this as things i didn’t understand i just memorised and would’ve never gained marks if i didnt. If you don’t have flashcards of your own, use pre-made ones from PMT and quizlet.

The last thing you need to do is grind past papers. I’m telling you if you do one thing from what i’ve said it’s the past paper questions. you’ll get a lot wrong at first, but will soon realise every year it’s the same questions and there’s a limited way in which they can ask you them. whether it’s changing the numbers or changing from explain to describe it’s all the same stuff.

if you don’t understand the videos, markscheme or even ai, ask your teacher for help.

trust me when i say this method works. i was averaging 7s the whole of gcses but got 9s in all of my sciences from this method