GCSE's coming up, any tips??

Gangster said:
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! :p
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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 :D

King85 said:
Revise, revise and revise some more! Good luck!
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thanks :)
 
Best way i thought when i was revisin, right everything down what you need to revise (notes, exam hints off teachers, past papers)... then again, and again, and again.... You get the point

Basically anything i wrote down over and over and over was just etchin into my brains.

Then few days before, get past papers and just do them until your hearts content, it gives you some experiance of what question types they are going to give you.

Many exams previously to yours are just re-written but the style kept the same.

Goodluck kidda!
 
Davola said:
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!!)
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Please tell me why after two appeals a question where I wrote word for word what the markscheme said was still marked as 2/4. :/
 
It annoys me when people say, "URRR EASY EASY, USED TO BE HARDER". Incredibly useful input really. It's not as if people are going to complain that their GCSE exams are easier and I doubt that they actually are easier. The teaching methods are just different which makes them easier IMO.
 
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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 :D only 3 more to go :D
 
stiv121 said:
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 :D only 3 more to go :D
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hmm like it lol, though will probs forget to get up before hand, and already have plenty of relentless for energy :cool:
 
icysniper said:
what did grades did everyone get for their GCSE's, and which are the most important to revise??
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I got 6A* 3A 1B. I'd advise you don't even bother revising for exams you're confident on until a few days before, but ones you don't know revise as much as possible. Also, make sure you do some questions on the subjects - find past papers, do them, look at mark scheme, then revise what you get wrong. In terms of revision material, most of the revision guides I got were fairly useless - don't have enough detail, far better to just read a proper textbook imo. Also, some subjects have to be treated differently - my B was in German, which all year I had been awful at and not made any special effort to improve - when it came to exam time, there was only so much I could do in the limited time available, while other courses such as IT could be completely covered in about a day of solid learning (excl. coursework). English is another one that needs effort throughout the year.
 
anant_shah94 said:
sorry to hijack

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

Mind maps! When you can link everything and remember the general layout of that page with summarised information, it covers a lot of the struggle for you. i.e what was at the bottom left of my page? Transition metals, got it!

P.E.E or S.E.A (State, example, analyse, they think it's a tad more grown up in A levels...)

Take your time when reading the question, take 5 minutes at the beginning to go through the paper, deep breath then begin. With large walls of text required (English) DO a layout. If you're not good at winging it and coming up with a linked cohesive analysis, then jot down all you can think of on the side and link them together.

More useless tips coming soon.
 
icysniper said:
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 :/
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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.
 
Macky said:
It annoys me when people say, "URRR EASY EASY, USED TO BE HARDER". Incredibly useful input really. It's not as if people are going to complain that their GCSE exams are easier and I doubt that they actually are easier. The teaching methods are just different which makes them easier IMO.
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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.
 
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