I am doing my GSCEs at the mo and I was hopin for some help. I know many people in these formus have done exams at some pouint and therefore will have revised. Are there any exam technique tips or revision tips that anyone has to make it easier. I always go to my room, stare at the wall for a few minutes and then start dcoidng my game. CAn anyone help?
Don't do any revision and see how naturally clever you are :P
use Gitesize if you are addicted to the PC :P
I use SAMlearning, but not all schools have access.
My advice is don't. I never so much as opened a book for my GCSEs, and I passed them all with no problems, even got a few Bs and As...
I did my standard grades (Scottish equivalent of GCSEs) about a month ago, & in the weeks leading up to it I found this site quite helpful:
BBC Bitesize (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/)
I know it seems kinda nerdy, but I believe it helped me a lot. But then again, I am just naturally gifted. :P
Hi there!
At the moment I'm doing my "Matura". That's imho similar to your GCE"A" and one of the
topics for my oral exams in english is "british schoolsystem"... so I'm just learning all about that "GCSE" stuff ;)
i'm one of these "matura"-guys too.
if you don't want to fail do the absolute opposit of what i did for my written exams:
learn more than a (10 hour, no brakes) day and some toilet/bus-sessions for them.
surprinsingly my marks were good, but i had to improvise a lot...
hmmm...serious tip: learn on the toilet! :D no kidding, that's great, because
1) you can't escape
2) nothing distracts you
3) if you lock the door no one can disturb you
and learning in busses is also cool! if no one disturbs you...of course...
Hey Ryam, I already passed my written exams, but I guess your hints will help me a lot with my oral exams ;)
GCSEs are pretty easy, like AGA I didn't do revision, or most of the coursework (except for IT and graphics where it was most of the grade) and I got good grades (all C or above, 5 As). As long as you expect to get C or above for most things, based on your mocks I wouldn't bother revising, work on your game is more important. I don't think anyone looks at your GCSEs anyway.
im doing GCSEs and i have a resistant materials exam in about 10mins, eep 1hr 30mins and i have done no revision, but advise relax and do revision when you feel it nessesary works for me (i hope)
-Daz
Hey, how did you guys find that French this morning?
I found it really easy :/ FOundation of course.
:D
i did the hiogher and it was no probs.my mate did the foundati0on and breezed it. how did you find maths yesterday?! :P :-[ :-\ solid as a rock!
I don't really know what a GSCE is (final exams, right?) but you really, like others have said, have to put yourself in a position where you can't be disturbed. I mean, really, study skills are something you should already have before you get to exams :P but that's ideally.
Secondly, and very importantly, don't get caught up in thinking about how to make a great study environment. You just have to do it, and you have to tell yourself honestly not to make excuses, which is the hardest thing if you're like me.
Thirdly, whatever the subject is, make good notes. Read the material, bit by bit if you have to, learn it briefly in your head (just get a feel for it) and then from your thoughts, write it out again (unless it's maths, in which case LEARN IT EXACTLY! :P). Make -neat-, and -brief- notes. (Though not shorthand, don't go TOO brief, just get down what you need)
Lastly, take roughly a 45 minute break every couple of hours. A teacher told me that once and I swear, it worked wonders. It's just enough to clear your head and stop you from overthinking or going insane.
All this is coming from someone who did VERY little study for her highschool exams and passed them all, but my exams weren't too hard and I was pretty darn good at faking it by that stage. I recommend learning whatever the hell you can just to get as many marks as you can so all the stuff you forget doesn't fail you ^_^
i whizzed though the maths exam i totally pwn'd itÃ, :P i finished them both in like half an hour, but then again i was doing intermediate ;D
argh nooooo English tomorrow
I did maths int, found that rather easy.
French is odd; I'm awesome at translation, but rubbish at production (ie: writing and oral). Oh well. Didn't find writing too easy. Wrote 80 words for the 40 words one and only about 90 for the 90-100 words one. However, I think I put some neat stuff in there... maybe I'll lift to a B (outside chance of an A if I do the usual standard on Reading and Listening and get lucky on Writing and Oral).
DT was fine. English Lit was nasty - I hate English exams, because I know for a fact I'm one of the best in the school, but damned if I can write what they WANT me to write. *Sigh*. I hope I did good.
English paper tomorrow too...
i wish i was doing intermediate.english tomoz yay! might make up for my shitty maths grade with agood english one.BTW a GCSE is only a final exam if you finish school at 16. if not you still have AS, A2,and univesrsity before finishing.
This (http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachinginengland/detail.cfm?id=8) sort of explains the English and Welsh education systems...
does anyone know what we are doing in that English exam tomorrow? i don't know is it poems or an article i don't know what to revise?
Its the one with the creative writing. we've done the oem alredy
cheers, i take it that is writing a letter to pursuade or argue with some poor person
I did the higher MAth :)
I cocked up and only found the last question with 5 minutes to go :(
but other than that is was easy enough. I gotta do module 10 math in a few weeks :(
Btw, there are 2 poem papers
one for English Lit and one for English.
Im not sure what tomorrow is, Im taking the book incase, its not hard to leave it in my coat at the back of the Gym.
mwahahahaha! told you it was creative writing tommorow daz. yeh im hoping on a question of writing a letter persuading some guy to do somthing special.
infact the chances are that's one of the questions, i bet all you guys a cookie that we'll have a question on writing a letter...
yup, letter it is
hey! look who gets all the cookies. Mann was that exam easy, i totally abliterated it. Had to ask for additional paper :P was the only one
how'd everyone else do?
Asking for additional paper isn't always good, it can mean you've just talked about nothing for too long :P Quality > Quantity :)
way to go piss on my hotdogs...
yeh but i know, that was going through my mind all the way through the exam.
basicly i made sure i got solid points down first, and then continued my point through explaining how it effects other things.
I was doing the retard paper though ;)
I did the question about 'Give Advice to Students looking for jobs' - as soon as I started I switched to 19 year old blonde prep girl mode :)
i did the question on the ban of saturday jobs, i did pretty well on it i thought but like OSC i did the retard paper :P
yeey RS tomorrow 1 and 3/4 hours of writing about crap
yours should only be an hour and a half, cause mine is 2 hours cause I didnt do the coursework :/
u guys all do the AQA right? i'm on the welsh board (damn crazy school) so i wrote a crappy ressay on a dentists office and one about a murderer. really boring but easy
The Science Exam!!!
Remember all those experiments you did for the past however-many-years before the GCSE? No, me either! That's why you have to perfect the art of bluffing. If you can't remember an experiment, lie. Make one up. I had to write up an experiment on measuring the frequency of soundwaves or something. I forget. So many years ago. Or more to the point, one. Anyway, I couldn't for the life of me remember, so I invented my own method! Put metal filings on a piece of paper, and put the paper on top of a radio and turn on the radio. Measure the seconds between each time the iron filings hop.
Of course, you and I know that that makes no sense whatsoever, but I guess I must have got points for it. Because I did pretty well in science, overall.
The Geography Exam!!!!
If you can't think of case studies, make one up! They're not going to know that Mount Tibblelittle in India doesn't exist. Unless they're really, really nerdy.
And finally, a little, true story about ... The English Exam!!!
I remember my English exam so well. It was a baking hot June day, and my mother had given me a pre-exam present of a pen with vanilla-smelling ink.
"Thanks, Mom." I said, uncertainly, as she gave it to me that morning.
"It smells of Vanilla." She said helpfully. "Now you can pretend your sister ate your homework. Get it?!?? Ha ha ha!!! Because it smells of ice cream!!!" She hit me in the arm, hard.
I stared at her, and wondered if she knew I had an exam that morning.
"Besides which," she added, after she had finished laughing, "You can use it for inspiration if you get writers' block. You sniff the ink," she took the pen and inhaled from the nib deeply, "and then you get high. You'll have all sorts of wonderful ideas."
For some reason, my recollection of the English exam gets a little hazy at parts. Anyway, as it happened, one of the Comprehension exercises on the paper that year was a story about a boy eating ice cream. It was so cruel. For two and a half pages, front and back, the story described the way this boy ate ice cream. Vanilla Icecream. From a cone. As I was reading, I was aware of the burning June sun pouring through the large windows of the exam room. I could almost smell the vanilla. And then, I realized I probably could.
I don't know what happened after that. I woke up to find Breda punching me in the chest and screaming, "Wake up, nerd! Wake up, nerd!" I think I might have swallowed some of the ink at some point, because I was coughing up blood and it was inky and smelled of vanilla.
I sat the rest of the exam in mild pain. Then, I doodled some Vanilla Cones on the Answer Paper. And then I went to the hospital for about an hour until we started our Math exam.
In conclusion, it's probably a good idea just to bring ordinary pens to the English exam, because you never know what they might hit you with.
haha i didn't geography i did history (which has much less coursework and has better videos)
about the RS thing i didn't do any coursework for that either and it is 1 and 3/4 hours
geography coursework was rather easy, easier than history for me (did one piece while ill and missed the trip D: )
Just did 2 AS History exams, fun!
im doing history at AS and chemestry and biology and film studies yey esseys gallor
How was English?
I did Geography, it was easy
Ive noticed that these tests are ALOT easier than the mocks and practices they give us.
right now Im getting Peter to gimme some God facts for the RS exam XD
ohh share!
yeh, they make the mocks harder so you revise lots for the finals...
yes these are a hell of alot easier than the mocks
Quote from: Yufster on Thu 10/06/2004 16:45:37
In conclusion, it's probably a good idea just to bring ordinary pens to the English exam, because you never know what they might hit you with.
hehe, that's a great story ;)
Awww pure quality!
that exam was dead easy (get it dead... religion, life after death... err yeh :p)
Anyway, i like the way they had perferated inserts, it was great hearing all the ripping sounds xD
yeh, how'd everyone else do?
i finish it in an hour and it was an hour and 3/4 exam :P god damn my ass hurts stupid plastic chairs
same as above, I had a 2 hour exam and finished in an hour and a half.
man that was easy. rs = piece of piss. mocks just seemed harder cos we'd done less work. most of our mocks were past papers so the couldn't make them harder. they just felt like it
i have just been reading my time table and i have realised that we have science and english on the same day, that is crazy, what a day to screw up on.
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hey CJ how did you GCSEs go? go on tell us you know you want to
Quote from: Pumaman on Fri 11/06/2004 17:08:28
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quick biology question for perparation,Ã, what is bile use for in the body?
*EDIT* sorry suposed to be bile
"blie." Can you please use it in a sentence?
To vomit with.
P.S. Google is your friend.
What colour bile? :P Hippocrates knew apparently.. :)
Quote from: Zootyfruit on Fri 11/06/2004 16:19:52
mocks just seemed harder cos we'd done less work. most of our mocks were past papers so the couldn't make them harder. they just felt like it
actually, I did no more work ;)
also, the mocks werent past papers
there are no past papers for our year, they changed the entire exam thingy.
Quotequick biology question for perparation, what is bile use for in the body?
bile emulsifies fats to make the into smaller molecules so they can be broken down (fatty acids and glycerol i think)
i dont know what to revise, ive been put on foundation science *sigh* and our first exam was all the stuff we had learnt in year9... which i had forgotten...
mann im stucked
Well, its 30 minutes 'till i go down to school and get my results. I watched a program about a bunch of teens getting their GCSE results when i was about eight. I was looking forward to the procress :/
Anyway, I'm hoping for the best, and ill post up my grades (if positive) when i get back.
*edit*
i got the results, I'm pretty happy, 9 C grades, one B grade. I got an E in Religious study (pass :D)
ohh and a F ... damn those spanish :)
I want to go at 11, but I have to wait untill 12:30 'cause I need to meet someone there and he is too lazy to go earlier
English A*
English Lit A
History A
Music B
Maths B
French B
Dual award Science BB
Design Tech C
Righto.
AboveÃ, C in everything \o/
8Bs, (including 2 double awards) 1C and 1 A :D
Er, got a 'Foundation to advanced maths' which is pretty much a higher maths GCSE (i did intermediate and got a C first time around, and my college said i needed this to do A level maths) and i got a B, so party on!
A*, AAA,bbb,CC
I probably should have posted these at the time (Scottish results are earlier) but anyway:
Craft & Design, French, Graphic Communication, History, Maths, Physics: A grade '1'
Art, English: A grade '2'
Which was nice.
I would have posted mine at the time, but the web didn't exist in 1990. ;D
Anyway, I got a "1" in Maths, Physics, Chemsitry, Geography and Technical Drawing and a "2" in French and English
In my Highers I got "A" in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Technical Drawing
and in my degree I got an upper second...
Quote from: Flippy_D on Thu 26/08/2004 11:58:35
English A*
English Lit A
I hate you ^_^
I screwed up English bad; It's like one of my favourite subjects. And I don't know about the A* in physics. If memory serves, physics was my last exam, and I didn't actually wait till after that had finished to commence killing brain cells. IIRC, I was also crap at it.
Examination Board Final Grade
GCSE Biology OCR A
GCSE Chemistry EDEXCEL B
GCSE Electronics AQA B
GCSE English OCR B
GCSE English Literature OCR B
GCSE French OCR A
GCSE History OCR A*
GCSE Latin OCR B
GCSE Mathematics OCR A*
GCSE Physics OCR A*
That's 5 B's, 2A's and 3A*'s.
Also, apologies for not being around much; I love you all, but I don't have internet at home. I get it September 2nd, hopefully. I also have like a trailer for a game, or something, which I may post then, or may delete from my hard drive just to annoy people. Yeah ^_^/
come back, commander.