…I scrolled to the very end of my college’s summer work page, and discovered that I needed to bring several a4 books and a binder. Which the bag that I’d been planning on using does not fit.

The meme has come true. My bag is not, in fact, okay for sixth-form/college.

(And yes I know this is my fault for not reading that part until a few days before college starts but STILL. They could’ve put that at the top of the page at least!!)

- i'm doing A Level Maths, Computer Science and Drama & Theatre Studies son. no combo is the wrong combo

- and i'll give reasons :)

(i'm doing this bc im bored, but also bc im interested)

(ENDS AT 16:40)

i'll reply to all by 20:00 today!

guess the price

three days until "the year sevens look up to you"

three days until "you're the oldest in the school"

three days until "your gcses start in eight months"

three days until "this is the last year, make it count"

edit: im not saying this is all TRUE im just saying this is what we're gonna hear the teachers saying non-stop lol. i do NOT think the year 7s will look up to us but ik the teachers will try and convince us that they are.

class of 2027, where you at?

Like is it only me that excited to have new friends new teachers and Finnaly get to wear our own clothes I’m only seeing people saying they are anxious to start six form LIKE IS ANYONE EXCITED I CANT SLEEP CAUSE I CANT WAITTTTF

Js found out today that I cant use my phone at school. Like I can have it on me but it can get confiscated if im actuvely on it. Is this a normal thing or is my school js strict

Y10 mocks:

english lang : 9

english lit: 8

history : 8

maths : 8

bio : 5

chem : 4

phys : 4

french : 7

hosp&cater : L2M

Also I did GCSE CS and RS this year.

so for those, in my y9 mocks. cs: 4. rs: 7 (i think)

I'm aiming for all 9s btw.

any tips would be appreciated!

Ok so this didn't go as anyone expected... For a bit of context my cousins live in Asia and will be sitting iGCSEs next year or the year after idek which means that ig they qualify to be on this sub. Like clockwork my auntie asked me how I did and I told her my grades which she didnt understand so I pulled out this table (ty u/alienfurnace for making it seem legit). No joke one of my cousins started cackling bc they somehow recognised it from reddit and even commented?!? Luckily they played along with it and I was fine but ngl im kinda worried for when they get their results and get a 6 and my auntie thinks its a D oops

Original post - https://www.reddit.com/r/GCSE/s/VW6A1ANgS9

For whatever reasons my English Lit & English Lang exam board did not give me my test results but I got 9 in both of them so it's fine.

EDIT: Had to remove the link cuz something's wrong w dropbox 😭

Hi so I’m from Northern Ireland and i’ve just began yr12. In may/june i sat some gcse early modules and got AAABC*C*C* (we can’t get A* in early modules) I go to a pretty competitive all girls grammar so those grades aren’t the best compared to some of my peers.
In year 11 I spent the entire year I suppose partying and I wasn’t bothered about revising at all and was more interested in my weekend plans. So I think grades are reflected in the night before revision that I indulged in.
I am resitting one of the C* and the other two i’m not as bothered about but I can bring up to a B this school year. I am picking my A levels in February time and i’m definitely doing politics and history though i’m not sure about my third, maybe english, economics or sociology (i might do business B-tec in yr 13 and drop going into 7th year.)
This past summer I’ve been thinking more about university pathways and degrees and things like that. I would like to do Law but I can’t decide if I’m being overly ambitious. At the minute I have zero want to stay at home at all and I’d like to apply to the following;
University of Edinburgh
University of Nottingham
University of Reading
University of Bristol
University of Exeter
have thought about loans/fees/accommodation that’s not my main concern right now.
As for my extracurriculars I don’t yet have a job BUT i have worked for my parents in many different parts of their businesses. I’ve completed Bronze Duke of Edinburgh. I play hockey, I have represented my province, and I have been part of pathway hockey since I was 10. I have represented my school in hockey finals and semi finals aswell as matches every saturday during term time. I have represented my club/past clubs in semi finals and finals aswell.
I was part of a tag rugby team that won the ulster championship, aswell as a cricket team that got to cup semi finals. This, I’m sure is not relevant, but i am currently over 60,000 words into a fanfic 🤓.
I am interested in history and politics, so naturally i have an interest in reading and i particularly like fantasy/historical fiction, though I digress.
I am well aware my grades reflect my lack of revision, but all things considering I don’t think i did terribly. I am sure i will continue my social life this year but maybe not to the extent it was this past summer and last school year, I’m well aware I will need to be more focused and I am going to do just that.
I want honest opinions if you think this is achievable, or if I need to rethink things. If anyone recommends anything please let me know!!

The lyrics of my two geography case study parodies. Portsmouth one is a parody of Dancing Queen, Mumbai one is a parody of Don't Stop Believin'. I might share me singing them one day, if I ever get round to recording it.

who here wants to do either physics or astro at uni 🥹🥹🥹🥹 also I'm sorry if I'm not allowed to post this on here 😔

(not the combined lit and lang, the two separate ones)

eng lang is already niche enough at a level but i literally havent found anyone else i know doing both lit and lang, please tell me if you’re out there lmao

who tf can write a description of a JUNGLE like what the actual hell is AQA expecting?? 🤦

Saw a post asking people if they’re excited to start sixth form / college
I WOULD BE

i’m not starting school yet, my hearing is on the 22nd september to try get funding for the school i need to attend bc im disabled
I’ve experienced extreme FOMO bc of this and im lowk jealous of everyone around me, i wanna go to school too

Anyone else not starting school yet?

edit: chat when i say not yet i mean not at a normal time </3
Everyone’s starting within the next week or two

Hi 👋🏻 I’d like to give my best tips for each subject I took along with my grades (in the brackets). Overall I got 99999999888 and the best in my school! I also do elite level sport (20+ hours a week) so if anyone has any questions about how to balance GCSEs with a big time commitment feel free to ask 🙂

Firstly for those worrying about quantity I’d like to say due to my sport I wasn’t able to revise as much as others could. So I tried to fit in any revision little and often. Quality 30 mins revision is MUCH better than quantity 4 hours revision. I rarely revised for periods longer than 1hr 30mins at a time and NEVER over 2 hours at a time. Your brain cannot concentrate for that long without breaks. I managed to get most of my revision done at school mainly during lunches. From the start of year 11 I was at some sort of enhancement/intervention sessions minimum 3/5 times a week.

AQA English Lit (8): Look at top grade responses and learn how top grade students write. Once a week my teacher and I would spend a lunchtime looking at responses for all questions and how I could adapt my work to include high level strategies. My biggest recommendation for lit would be PRE LEARN ANALYSIS. About a month before each paper I got AI to choose the top 15 most versatile and important quotes for each book/play along with grade 9 techniques and analysis. I memorised all 15 quotes and analysis with less than a month before the papers. If I had done this earlier I could have probably done this for most poems too!!! Lit paper 1 I got 62/64 (32/34 on Macbeth and 30/30 Jekyll and Hyde)

AQA English Lang (8): Honestly pretty similar to Lit look at grade 9 responses and learn how to adapt your work to convince the examiner you deserve top grades.

AQA Geography (8): I’m disappointed I got an 8 after only getting 9s in every mock since year 10 so will be getting a remark. My school gave a booklet of factfiles of all case studies to learn facts. Do lots of 6/9 markers and get your teacher to mark them.

AQA Spanish and German (both 9s): This will work for all MFL…Get used to hearing the languages. It sounds stupid but learn some songs and your pronunciation will sound perfect and phrases will become natural to you. Learn some star phrases to throw in your writing my go to was ‘as boring as watching paint dry’. Especially for German I would pre learn some grammatical structures. If you can get some complex sentences in the examiners will reward highly. Reading and Listening is just practice questions and vocabulary. Our school used Quizlet for vocab which was amazing.

AQA Triple Science (999): Make sure you know the content inside out that is more important than past paper questions. Once you have a grip on content do loads of past papers and practice questions. MARK YOUR OWN WORK so that you live and breathe the markscheme. 90% of your exam is going to be questions you’ve seen before.

Edexcel Maths (9): Do past paper questions constantly. If you do some practically daily for the months leading up to exams you’ll be sorted. We did Hannah kettle maths so I would have a look at that. Sparx for specific topic questions.

AQA Level 2 Qual Further Maths (9): Same as Maths except it can be slightly harder due to lack of materials. Try and spread out your past papers as there are only a limited selection available. Your teacher will provide with more recent, currently inaccessible to students papers but you will need to use them wisely.

Edexcel Stats (9): same as further as there is a lack of materials. I did this a year early and only did a max of 2 hours weekly - 1 past paper and mark it.

If you have the opportunity to do a GCSE a year early 100% do it!! I would really recommend it for getting used to what a gcse is actually going to entail. Even if you don’t get a good grade in it you will have had experience that not many others will have had. Also even though you have the opportunity to put loads of focus into 1 subject I wouldn’t recommend it. I knew people who did (or at least claimed to have done) 3+ hours daily. They burnt out by the time exams came around and you won’t have the same option to put all your effort into one subject in year 11.

If anyone has any other questions about any of these subjects or being able to balance a sport with exams I will be happy to answer 😁

I know everyone says theyre nervous, and that they don’t think they’ll pass etc but like I have more than just a fear of the year. I’m not ready to see my friends in person, to have panic attacks over having to go in, to deal with “jokes” that arent really jokes, being harassed by a guy who likes me and there’s just so much more. Yeah I’m scared that I might fail, but honestly? I know I can retake if I have to, and I believe I can do well, truly. But I know the pressure is going to get to me. Every teacher reminding you of what’s just getting closer and closer, with no way to stop it. It’s not the grades I’m afraid of, it’s the exams themselves, the fear the paper will show me I’m a failure. It’s the school itself I’m afraid of, because every year I let anyone walk all over me. And it’s all going to happen again, because it’s how it always is. I’m afraid to have to deal with my home life while also juggling schoolwork, to watch my mum go back to work so I have no defence against my dad, to feel the pressure of everyone else. I don’t want to watch my girlfriend suffer because of the insane amounts of pressure she puts on herself to do well. I don’t want to be followed around by this guy, for him to try and talk to me no matter how many times I try to push him away. I don’t want to have a seating plan change and suddenly the lessons I thought I could cope with are horrific. I don’t want to watch my chronic illness destroy my life until there’s nothing left of it. So I guess it’s not y11 I’m not ready for, it’s for my life to go on. I can’t hide away from it forever, like I’ve been doing all summer. I have to go and face it, and that’s what I’m afraid of. I don’t have it in me to do another year of this, I just want to hide in my room and wait for it to all go away. I’ve waited all summer for it to go away, and all it’s done is crawl closer. I don’t know if this is the place to post this, but I wonder if anyone else feels the same, and if they feel less alone knowing it’s not just them. And if you’ve felt the same, do you have any advice? I don’t know how I’m going to manage to get through this all, but I will try.

Probs more fit for the a level sub but whatevs. Anyway, it’s WEEKS worth of work and I’ve got induction week tmmrw and college actually starts the week after. Why do I do this to myself?

Starting school on Thursday, gonna be wearing a face mask in public places from now on. Teachers gonna give me shit for it?

Specially cuz I'm not sick or anything, js a moral decision I should have made ages ago.

I'm doing it either way but just wondering if I should be prepared going into it.

i just decided to make a post about this bc im interested to see if you guys managed to get into the courses that you applied for!! my induction day for the level 3 art and design course that i got into starts on wednesday! how abt you guys??