GCSE's coming up, any tips??
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I thought GCSE's were meant too be easy these days?
So my tip will be: Don't fall asleep in the exam room
Yeh some are nice and easy, like physic's
, however, Music is a bloody pain!! 
, and yeh I got enough Relentless in my room to stay awake ( |-| |2 ][ $;16520938 said:
unfortunately, that is impossible
yeh same mate, 18th is the day im dredding
two hours of something pointless and i'm atheist 
Not really, post your Router/Modem to somebody them have them send it back once the exams are over.
yeh need to chill out reading about computer stuff, and speccing up dream comps on overclockers
yeh, goin in to the exam with already 75% of the gcse done, not to bad tbh
kk thanks
, parents are going nuts about me and my revision, i say to them that they are stressing me out (which they are), but they don't seem to get it 
, so i've nicked the laptop and am upstairs doing a french listening paper lol I'm doing GCSES too. My first is in 8 days too, I think
Got core science and maths out of the way last year
I don't feel prepared.
What subjects are you doing? Which book are you doing for english? What grades are you aiming for?
Me personally, I'm only revising for subjects that are before half term at the moment.
cool, um i'm doing Maths (AQA), RS short course (OCR), Triple Science (AQA, with 9 papers in total
), English (AQA) and the book I'm doing is 'Of Mice and Men', French (Ed-excel), Music (AQA), Geography (OCR C) and ICT full course (OCR)yeh im good in geog, and yeh B is pretty easy without any knowledge, just common sense, however, for our spec we need to know casestudies as this is where most marks are :/, i know a few but thats what i find i really need to revise. With the poems yeh we are :/, thats probs the most boring part of english and hardest as i find it hard to find more than one thing the 4 poems have in common
Just revise and give yourself plenty of time and you'll be fine
Also take short breaks after every hour of revision so your mind has a chance to absorb what it is you've told it, any longer and generally most people find it harder to remember information they've learnt. I guess doing a Psychology degree helps sometimes
yeh cool thanks for the heads up
, yeh i tend to do a past paper (or upto an hour's worth if its more) in each go, or if revising i tend to revise for 45 minutes.yeh i like Of Mice and Men, good book
yeh I'm revising
, done a french reading, now gonna start a listening paper , and in school every lesson we're doing past papers so that helps yeh read it
, yeh will try that espically like yeast respiring anaerobically to make ethanol and water In the Mock i wrote a load of crap lol
Why do people believe in religion: "They believe in everything they are told or they are mad.
Waste of 1h 45mins!
yeh i know!! you should be able to say 'I'm atheist, i do not believe in God' then get full marks
How does geog mark scheme work for your board? I'm doing iGCSE geog, and in the mark scheme you can get up to 6/7 even without naming a specific place!
Also, most of the time, if you don't know a case study, then you can easily make one up in the exam.
Off the top of my head
eg: low population density: Sahara, Amazon rainforest, north america.
Food shortage: Zimbabwe
Birth control: China
Ageing population: any medc, eg France
Don't worry mate, case studies are easy
Unfortunately, its opposite with our mark scheme, we need to be specific to get any marks at all!
, but yeh in the mocks I made one up about Kenya, got full marks and my teacher asked me for a copy of the case study to give to the rest of the class :/ lolThey would go, jesus
lol, If jesus was the son of God, and I do not believe in God, why would there be Jesus
I'm also really dreading the IT exam, because they have nothing to do with IT. For example, in the last mock, the question asked me to describe how someone would store data for supermarket groceries using a database. I created a long, detailed answer on how to go about creating and entering data into a database, when the actual answer was "draw a table on some paper". Seriously? And that's about 10% of the overall marks? Ugh. Also, due to the way the "uniform marks" are calculated (i.e. the more marks you get, the greater the number your mark is multiplied by to get the uniform mark), those last 5 marks can actually equate to 8-10 uniform marks lost, which is more than an entire grade.
Plus the fact that the IT exams are all about making sure you interpret the question correctly, and not the actual IT knowledge, means you can't even revise for them
The ICT exam is ridiculous, and yeh all you need to do is interpret the question, although in my spec, you do need to know what things are i.e. 'What is a peripheral driver?' unless you know what it is, there is no way to get teh marks, + that would be a 4 mark question
lol, luckily, i'm a techy kinda person haha, i dont know
IT exams are annoying
Luckely for me i have done my business exam (end of year 10) and my other subject is called COPE. 2 B grades and ALL coursework
cool, yeh don't do business wish i did though
, and heard of COPE, but not doing it.Past papers are all good and well, but they shouldn't be used as the main resource for revision. If an exam has been written properly it should be testing your understanding in a subject and not your ability to rote learn. You sometimes get those belters that no one has ever seen before.
I remember once a proof for something came up and it was worth 14% of the paper, heard some very creative cusses from people after the exam
Anyways best of luck with your GCSE's, it gets much harder from there.
yeh, past papers are helpful, and are a good indication to topics you cannot do
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yeh thats wat i was thinking
, may plan out a series of stories and answers before handed and just edit them slightly to the question. I think this would become very useful when describing something etc I'm only doing Of Mice and Men
lol why you doing two?? and yeh seen the Of Mice and Men film, though there are some differences between it and the book Can't even remember all of my courseworks lol. Umm Sherlock Holmes (loved it), can't remember others haha.
I still think exams are dum - how much you can write in 'x minutes'.
I can't write quick so =/ But what i do write is generally good. Well top of my class at least
I hate the thought of sitting down outside of school hours revision and writing things.. i get distracted...
Totally Off topic but what has everyone been told for 'study leave'?
Apparently there hasn't been one legally for like 8 years. For our mocks they were like 'we wont register you so..' (cough cough, go home)
This time they are stricter and its like lessons will be on etc. But i still think a lot of people won't turn up
hahah cool, yeh can't remmeber wat coursework i had
, and we are not getting study leave , we only go in for our exams after the first one, and the classes we would have been in are still on for anyone who needs help, which is quite useful For our lessons, we have to go in until all the exams for that subject are over, then we don't have to. I have thursdays pretty much free now, since my engineering course is completely finished and 4/5 lessons are engineering on that day
hmm that would kinda suck for me, as I have the easier exam's towards the end of the period, luckily I get 'leave' after the first exam