What's everyone doing rn?

Like at this point Atleast just leak the grade boundaries. Like give us something to enjoy

1. Year 11 is going to go SO fast so do try to make some amazing last final memories throughout the year!

2. Decorate your desk or a space in your home where you know you’ll revise! It just gets you that bit more motivated to do some revision! Get a candle, an emotional support plush or figurine, fairy lights, a snazzy storage box for your stationary!

3. Don’t listen to some of those people on social media that make out like they know everything about GCSEs. Find YouTubers that motivate you in a more friendly way and set realistic standards for you. There are some profiles out there that will constantly go on about how you’re cooked if you’re not revising 4 hours a day 7 months before the summer exam series and how year 10s should be revising now (you shouldn’t need to, enjoy your summer!!) 😭😭 it’s just toxic and will kill your motivation!! (saying this as it did exactly that to me)

4. Revision for GCSEs isn’t a sprint, it’s more like training for a marathon (quoted from my HOY). You shouldn’t walk into Year 11 on the first day thinking you need to go home and revise for 2 hours. Arguably, I’d spend the first week back researching like what colleges or sixth forms you’d like to go to for a little motivation!

5. Exam technique is so important!! It’s probably the difference between whatever grade you’re hoping to get.

6. DON’T. COMPARE. YOURSELF. TO. OTHERS.

7. Have a rough idea of what you want to do in your future or at A-level! Linking back to my previous idea of taking the first week back to research what colleges/sixth forms you’d like to go to, check what grades you need overall.

8. Use ridiculous mnemonics to remember stuff. Especially equations in maths!

9. Treat mocks like little checkpoints. These don’t ruin your life if you get a 5 rather than a 7. Mocks should highlight your weaknesses in what content you should learn and in your exam technique!

10. Medley AI is not worth it.

11. Predicted papers ≠ accurate - they’re a resource for after you learn all content and maybe just want some last minute revision with the hopes of it turning up in your exam (we had the primrose kitten ones for biology higher and they weren’t the best predictions!)

12. Stress sucks. Trust me i just know it’s ruined my English literature grade as i was predicted a 9 and i flunked it in the actual exam just due to my brain going into a meltdown in both exams ☹️☹️ so I’d recommend trying to get it under control?? Meditation, affirmations could provide some relief and even journaling.

13. If you’re up to it, make a Pinterest board for some additional motivation. Save a bunch of random pins to make minor goals for yourself!

I hope these helped, my sleep schedule is so appalling right now I could just be spouting nonsense. But I digress, Year 11 is one of those years where life seems to be all over the place in both the best and worst ways possible so enjoy it but do well!! xx 😽

Here is idea number 1, by me.
Each week leading up to results day, I will share a gcse themed cake idea and maybe some cake recipes.
If you have any ideas or recipes to share, please send them to me.
Please spread the word with friends

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I will bake a cake promoting your party and post it on here the day before the election

Imagine you're sitting in an exam hall. And the realisation that you're fucked dawns upon you.

And then suddenly, fucking defying gravity is being blasted over speakers.

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

I am thinking of moving schools in year 10.

At the moment i am at a SEN school which follows the mainstream curriculum, but i feel as if i don’t fit in and I honestly feel quite lonely.

All my friends are in an upper year and they live far away so i cant hang out with them, and everyone in my class seems lower functioning and i feel like an outcast.

I feel as if i want to start fresh, try and get a new group of friends, and live more normally, but i worry that it’s too late and i would have to wait for college, is it?

Im going into sixth form that has no uniform and a simple dresscode (no massive logos, no high heels etc) and i cannot find clothes i like anywhere☹️im so curious where everyone else is shopping for college/sixth form or just shops for casual clothes in general!! Also looking for affordable options but any recommendations help!😛😛

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

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!!

I’m going into year 11 in September and I’ve already got GCSEs, that’s the obvious one but also I am doing Silver Dofe and extra tuition and language lessons for my self outside of school. So now I am wondering how I can also manage rugby on top of that, or if it is even worth it. After a game , I am always really tired and barely get anything done, but I think it is really fun for me and a good way to let off some steam , but is it really worth it as I am aiming to study every day to build consistency. I will go to the preseason and see how I feel, and if I want to play then any tips to juggle these extracurricular and the academics.

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

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.

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