GCSE's coming up, any tips??

[icysniper]

Tips? Cherish every moment. A levels next year and their just like the GCSE's you really don't care about x 1000 but you have to do them to do the thing you like in Uni...

Yeah.


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Don't forget, RE is useless and always will be! NO sweat

Keep your mind on Science, English and Maths. Music is just horrid and narrated by an Asian woman who cannot pronounce the English language very well (atleast that's what it was like when I was there!)

My GCSE's? abysmal, I didn't even revise the night before. It did make me feel bad though, in my arrogance I let down quite a few teachers who were rooting for me to get top marks. That was the worst bit imo.

will cherish it all and yep RS = WASTE of time, and omg music that woman is so annoying!!

I did my GCSEs year before last. My advice :

- Keep cool throughout, don't panic
- Stop playing games completely/browsing net as much as normal during them, just be revising and doing papers throughout, its only for a few weeks at most then you can do w/e you like all summer
- Read every question very carefully
- Do all past papers you can get your hands on before you go in, once you've done them look up anything problematic and read through the mark schemes, get to know what they want from you (this is very much the way with A levels)
- Arrive to every exam with the correct kit and in plenty of time
- Know where you're sitting
- Make sure you're comfortable (food/toilet ) before exams, much easier that way

Sorry is some of those were obvious ... my GCSEs were my first proper exam situations is all, now I'm nearing the end of A levels I'm getting quite good if I may say so myself

thanks , will go see where i'm sitting as I won't get stressed out looking where I'm meant to sit

Um, no At least AQA doesn't, they employ teachers to write the exams and then they have a lot of meetings to make sure they are standardized and marked fairly. I work for AQA, I should know.

(In my office right now are the exam papers for this summers GCSE and A-levels. Very very secure obviously so don't any of you get any ideas!!)

damn!!! Most of mine are AQA lol

Just remembered that the invigilators are so annoying, they are a complete distraction, I don't see why they don't just put up CCTV cameras and then look through afterwards surely that would be less stressful for everyone

 

[icysniper]

Focus 101% on Maths, English and Science. IMHO its useless to get 10 grade Cs, when you could get 3 grade A* in the most important subjects.

Revise, Revise, Revise. Get off the forum and revise. It'll pay off. Keep the feeling of when you open an exam paper and don't know what to do as your motivator.

No time to waste, structure yourself and get revising!

kk thankks for the heads up, I'm good at the cores so, I will revise but not as much as music for example. I can't get off the forum or facebook for that matter lol, as i go bored quickly, however, just having it open next to me seems to keep me happy

Revise, revise and revise some more! Good luck!

thanks

 

[icysniper]

Yep I vote suspension! Just for the mean time.

lol a suspension wouldn't do much as I could still log in and anyway why would i Need to log in, in the first place??

 

[icysniper]

Get up around 2-3 hours before the exam and go over the things your not sure of and then drink a red bull before you go thats what im doing at its suited me well only 3 more to go

hmm like it lol, though will probs forget to get up before hand, and already have plenty of relentless for energy

 

[icysniper]

sorry to hijack

Does anyone have any tips on how to revise poems for the four way comparison essay? I'm really struggling. Thanks

um, I was doiing this earlier, tbh I just used the past paper questions, and then drew a mind map for the question and found the links between the poems, i also noticed the differences, once I had these, I answered the question. Hope this helps

 

[icysniper]

For the case studies use different colour flashcards for each type (blue = EU, red= MEDC and yellow = LEDC)

Bullet point key information, like dates, death tolls etc then you can think I'm going to revise this type of case study tonight and go over the corresponding set of cards.

hmm sounds very useful, gonna buy some cards when I've got the time

No there easier,compared to when i was supposed to sit my GCSE's (1990),its even been said on the TV that there easier today.
What was required in GCSE pass Years ago is not required today,i paseed most of my mocks with flying colours then got my ass out to work and never sat my real exams as i left school few months early,things worked out ok for me though.

oh well even better

Good luck with the GCSE's - I have a final year Uni paper in Computer Cryptography to look forward to tomorrow afternoon - argh !

good luck tomorrow bet u will ace it!

 

[icysniper]

Just wondering how do you politely tell your parents to **** off?? as all they do is pester, moan and distract me from my revision??

edit: 500TH post wooo!!!

 

[icysniper]

Well ive got a RE GCSE tomorrow... so will be revising for bout 1h 30m then thats me done and hope i do well tomorrow......I shouldnt say it but tbh who really looks at an RE gcse? I mean i want to be an electrician when i finish school so surely good English,Maths,Science will get me through?......Got a D in english mock :/, D in Maths :/ and B in Science and same for ICT

yeh same 2 hours of my life for half a GCSE, when I'm athiest!! Well, I know 14 bible quotes with references, and now know more than most christians about their own religion cba with it

 

[icysniper]

New government should get rid of RE and maybe PSHE

YES!!!! that definately needs to happen, or you should only do RE if you are religious and it should be renamed, 'bible studies' because that is all we ever do -_- lol!!. PSHE = common sense, only dumb people should do that

 

[icysniper]

Well that was ****ing boring....

Towards the end the questions got stupider and stupider....

omg yeh which questions did u answer??

 

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oops wrong thread :/