I can vaguely remember questions, but I cant remember what I wrote for the answers and its making me go insane

Sorry if this isn’t a particularly helpful post, I’m just curious.

Ive seen a lot of people asking about how much revision they need to do this summer or worrying about year 11 but honestly use this summer to relax!! Unless you NEED grade 9s for EVERY SINGLE SUBJECT you don’t need to be stressing about revision. Ofcourse it’s okay to be revising but don’t speedrun burnout. This summer is the final break you will have to ACTUALLY rest until GCSE summer, yes you have half term breaks but trust me it will be hard to relax because you will probably be worrying about revising and will feel guilt from not revising which only stresses you out. Just remember you haven’t even learnt all the content yet, once you start year 11, keep ontop of revision but you don’t need to revise everyday. Start properly revising (like 2-4 hrs a day) about 6-3 months before GCSES start but obviously as you get closer alter your revision based off the grades you want.

I hope this is useful to somebody and also if anybody thinks my advice is dogshit please let me know i don’t want to misinform anybody!!

Dear y10s, you've still got almost a year ahead of you. You do not need to be doing 4 hours a day rn. However, you do need to know yourself and know what's better for you. And here I'm going to demonstrate this because I'm sure each y11 will tell you something different about when they started revising and when they wish they started. And that's simply because everyone is different. There is no "one size fits all" here because everyone learns differently and remembers things differently. Someone might benefit from getting ahead now and then not needing to revise later cause it sticks to their mind. Whilst another person might be able to learn things awfully quickly so they'd need to revise it later to make sure that it's fresh in their minds.

I think that while it's helpful hearing from someone who's gotten thru GCSEs, you need to acknowledge that you definitely know urself and ur revision habits better than anyone else. So if u burn out quickly, consistently revising early might not be for u and if it takes u a while to comprehend things then u should start earlier. Honestly, it rarely has anything to do with how smart you are or the grades u want but rather what works for you.

so i had a mathematics tutour at like the start of y10 and he did NOT even teach gcse, he taught some other random curriculum, but maths is kinda universal and he was an old friend of my aunt’s so i studied from him for about 6 months.

i think i must have stopped classes in around june, but last night, my mother was on the phone with him cause she wanted to hear about my maths clas, since i got a grade 6 in my last mock (bruh i js finished y10 btw)

apparently, this teacher told her that i have been super uninterested, and unmotivated in the maths classes?! which is not true

then my mum asked him to help me w my maths grades again, and he says he saw my maths test paper, and he’s apparently taught me everything in that paper, but i ‘didn’t revise’ so i got a grade 6.. fyi i DID revise.. the average for my class was a grade 4/5, i’m in set 2 so getting a grade 6 is above average (my maths teacher gives us a level papers idk why instead of gcse??)

anywho, this teacher also told mum that i’ve never given him anything relevant to gcse syllabus🥹🥹like bruh where are we y’all, he’s js making things up atp.

he ALSO then asked for maths past papers from mum, which i sent him last night after their phone call.

oh yeah and he said i would constantly ask him to end the classes early, and that id love cancelling on him 24/7🫩🫩🙏🏼🙏🏼🤣🤣 — btw i cancelled a few for being sick WHICH MY MUM KNEW ABT.

and mr dude also said i never did any homework and blamed it on not having enough time to..

sorry mum!! but i showed my mum all the hw papers and there’s like a gazillion of them but she doesnt care or believe me for some reason bro.

FURTHERMORE, it’s not my fault ive had less time, i do science classes 5 days a week, 3h on those 5 days, and when i had the maths teacher, i did 4h horse riding per week, 2h swimming per week, violin, music theory, tennis, painting classes?? and a bunch of other stupid things

anywho now my mums forcing me to take 6 or 7 (no genuinely) more classes with this horrible teacher who just lied to my mother who already doesn’t like me. i’m so done, this guy cant even teach gcse curriculum, he uses weird methods for maths that don’t match the syllabus.

mum said we could stop after the 7 classes with him, but i’m just so done. now i’m GROUNDED for like an eternity, becuase of this lying teacher, and the worst part is that i actually liked him cz he was sweet and nice.

tl:dr the maths tutour (who isn’t even qualified with gcses) i had lied to my mum saying i didn’t properly attend his classes or do any homework, and now my mums believed him and is cross with me.

update: i’m having a lesson with him this week and he ASKED my mum to be present #cooked #holycookedchat #yallihavenodefense

also it’s an online class

would love some feedback on it, or any of your thoughts. constructive criticism is welcomed too, its my first track.

anyway js so the mods dont take this down (i have faith they wouldnt) what kinda music do ym listen to while studying

Mods just replied to my comment

The BSP leader main account has been banned from the sub, mods are banning all of the posts to prevent spam

Expect a mod post soon I hope.

Another one that unites the sub!

Upon request I've decided that we'll keep adding things to the bucket list til the end of the month and then in August we will start carrying out the tasks. So top comment wins!

I’m looking for a job lowkey

I feel almost consumed by this results day coming up, I don't know why because I know I revised and have probably done fine. I keep tryna calculate my French grade on the aqa tests like the teacher said I got 50/50 on the speaking for listening and reading I probs got between 46-48 and for the writing between 40-45 and I keep trying to figure out if I probably or probably didn't get the 9. Does anyone else get this as it's getting closer, constantly reflecting on their answers and potential sores?

Like I get you guys want to get 7-9s (Especially 9. I can't stress how many times I seen post asking about 'Will I get a 9' and proceed to say 231/240 was their score.) but it's like maths is the only subject where people actually care about the grade boundaries 😭. Like I haven't seen a single post about predicting English grade boundaries. (Maybe it is because everyone here is stem based.) But GUYS WE NEED VARIETY

Ive been applying EVERYWHERE since GCSEs ended and literally nothing. I'm just curious if anyones managed to land a job and if they could give any tips 🙏🏾🙏🏾

I saw someone put a post up about asking 'what advice would you have given to your year 9 self' and it was a whole lot of negatives, which is unsurprising. But, I wanted yo ask and see what things people have done throughout when they did their GCSES that they enjoyed or what theyre doing or what they chose that theyre enjoying now? This could be maybe being happy with the options you chose and having no regrets, or even just being happy about how its all going etc.

(We also do not condone what's been happening to BSP and are glad to see that they r back in the running as we view them as worthy competition!)

Been kinda boring for me

guys what happened to the ao3 party? as a member of this party, i lowkey don't know where our leader, u/JaguarSweaty1414, dipped to

I havent given it much thought since i left but i just realised that i never have to experience gcse art again 🥳

Doing gcse art just killed any passion i actually had for creating art (i still appreciate it as a whole but not for me to personally make stuff)

Also the massive folder that i had to carry was annoying although it did serve as an umbrella a couple of times

In the end I got 168/200 which im very happy with, and i will miss the people i sat with but you wouldnt pay me to experience it from the beginning again

DO NOT TAKE GCSE ART

So I take spanish, history, triple science and health and social. For this rant/issue im having right now we're focusing on health and social.

Ive tried extremely hard in health and social care, I think its due to the fact when I genuinely love a subject and what it includes doing or what content is in it - i try harder. So, we do component 1 and we get some time before the deadline to go back and finish any tasks we didnt do. My task 1 was csap and rushed since it was from when we were just starting out. So, I redid rhe whole thing. Went from like 7 pages to 28. I put effort in. All my tasks for component 1 totalled to 60/60. Mind you, everyone is proud of me including myself.

Then a couple weeks ago Im pulled out to talk to our like lady who's like the one who deals with and sorts exams etc. Im being put under investigation for 'malpractice', well rhats what the term is. Search up online what it actually is if you're bothered because I can't remember. Basically, Pearson are suspicious how ive done 28 pages in the space of time i had, and that I got full marks and that its like 'rare' to and this that and the other. I have to write a literal statement for this investigation!!

The worst bit is the terminology used in the thing I was given. 'investigation', 'guilty'. Just basically words that were like you would use in a court or jury or something.

My teacher for health and social has had to submit a statement too about me, and apparently my teachers im other subjects have had to submit works of mine to show that this is just my standard of work and how I consistsnly work, and that I havent cheated or used AI to type it all out for me etc etc.

Im obviously stressed iut after this whole situation, I go home the Wednesday this happened and on the way home I immediately text my mum. She doesnt understand what going on and rings he school, I get home and shes on the phone talked to said same lady who runs everything to do with exams, gcses etc. My mum is fuming. So am I, im confused, upset eyc. I still am now, and its been like 2 weeks or so.

They think they have a strong case for me however, but we can only be hopeful. I cant explain how enraging it feels to be in this situation.

Wanna know the worst part?

I come home on Wednesday fine, wake up Thursday and im thinking oh its a sore throat and take some paracetamol. Ive left by period 2 cause it hurts to swallow, talk etc.

I dont go in the Friday either. Go to the pharmacist and my tonsils have swollen. The whole situation has given me stress-induced tonsillitis/swollen tonsils atleast. My body basically wrnt into fight or flight and like had that happen to me. Im fine now but it was awful.

My mum has rang in and asked about getting the final decision pushed, but hasn't heard anything and hasn't heard anything about talking to the head teacher because we're having to wait a couple weekd to actually hear anything. The stress is eating me every day. Basically, its either im found 'not guilty' and nothing happens, I get a chance to rewrite, or they take away all my marks (basically found guilty). I need to know if anyone else knows anyone or is someone who has had domething like this happen to them. This whole thing is crushing. It's given me swollen tonsils from it, like how ridiculous is that.

I’m looking to get good real flashcards (not online) so i can make them and use them

I don’t wanna spend a lot of money because i’m kinda poor but i want them to actually be good

I also can’t use amazon bc delivery is too much for me

Any tips?

Should show who’s expected to win the vote!

i would personally say DO NOT listen to ur parents forcing u to pick cs, instead do what you actually like (don’t do physics either)

tbf for physics i missed months of school due to depression but still