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i thought this thread would be a good idea to decuss revision and preperation and all things gcses, as quite a few people on here are taking gcses this year. and we could help each other with revision and stuff.
even if the idea of revision is totally yucky.
Im in year 10 so i have another year yet, but good luck in yours
Oh gosh i have so much coursework to do by thursday. Techniqually i should be doing it now but ermm yeah motivation doesnt bide with me :p
I've done all my coursework, which is great because i got good grades in them all, so i can chill out a bit.
Revision wise, well i've done some of it, but generally i know it all still anyway, so its just refreshing my memory. I dont have to do that much now...
I have to do my German Speaking Prep though soon. My exam is about 3 weeks away, so i need to write my prepared topic... I'll probably do about the Enviroment, because then they wont ask me any questions on it later in the exam. I hate talking about the enviroment, but at least i'll get to prepare for it this way!
I have only done 2 full pieces of course work and have some boring english to do over the hoildays
i've done all my coursework, so thats a good thing. i'm concentrating on my languages for now becuase they matter most to me then i'm going to do english maths science and concentrate on those for now, becuase you gotta have those gcses. then all my other subjects will follow, becuase subject teachers have been making me revise those
Im only in year 10 at the moment, thank god! lol but i've done my pre-mocks and ive got my real English GCSE coming up in June! And ive done all my media coursework too! lol Im quite on top of things really for me, seeing as i always leave things to the last minute! lol
wow you are doing your english a year early
I did my ICT a year early... i got an A :D Still dont know why my computers permantly broken though!!
wow well then well done , your better at ICT than me
thats what they don't teach you. i can now do formulas and create databases and write HTML very well, but i can;t actually fix computers....Quote:
Originally Posted by Abi
ive done all my coursework, im trying to prepare for my french speaking exam and its not going well at all, i cant take it in at al.
I'm only in Year 10, So I've got another year to go, but I've got end-of-year exams in a few weeks, so I'm really meant to be revising for those. I'm not looking forward to my Spanish or French Oral at all. At least I have no coursework at the minute. Had an english essay back last week on Far From the Madding Crowd and I got an A* so I am ecstatic with that,bearing in mind it was a rush. I should be revising for end-of-years, but I have no motivation. Only 1 year to my GCSE's and my I.C.T AS-Level. Oh! Good Luck to everyone doing GCSE's this year
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I'm only in Year 10, but we have started a lot of coursework and done module tests. I have History, RE and Art mocks when I go back, I'm really nervois about them.
lol Ive done my mocks they arent that bad, nothing much to worry about at least
has anyone got any languages exams in the next few weeks?
ive got my french one in two and ill fail it cos we aint even finished writing the answers yet, let alone learnt them.
I have my German Speaking Exam in a couple of weeks time. I've just about sorted my prepared topic, so i've just got to go through and memorise it all (or at least most of it). The conversation questions are easy, so i'm not worried about those. The role plays are a bit harder, especially the A/A* ones, but you can't prepare for them, so i'm not worrying about it. If i know what to say, then great. If i dont, then i'll cope!
i have my german speaking on weds and i am not looking forward to it!!! i have learnt 3 of the 5 topic areas, but so much more needs doing.
i have my french in 3 weeks time and although i have only learnt one topic area i'm not worrying because i am stronger at french than german.
awww all i can say is good luck to all you guys
I started my art mock exam today, all day, and its going good so I'm happy :D I've got a history mock tomorrow though, which I'm a bit nervous about. Good luck to anyone doing exams :D
thanks clo :) i'm gonna need a lot of luck on weds for this german exam... not as much as the rest of my group but still a lot- when ever i sit down to go over it, i get panicky and now i'm scared that they take marks off for stuttering and stuff, so i think i'll have ti get all my probs sorted out tomorrow with my teacher
What exam board are you on, LMF? And what Tier are you doing?
LMF? well ive never heard of that ebfore ive only heard of AQA OCR and edexcel
LMF is my name lol! well actually its vikki but.... for german i'm higher tier AQA.. you abi?
Edexcel Higher, for German. You do role plays in the speaking exam though, right? If you do, are your C role plays (A/A* ones) basically impossible to do?! I'm gonna screw that bit up so badly...
oops lol sorry i though she was asking you if you were on that exma board lol sorry
yes we do have role plays and erm.. i'll just go and look at the C ones. we have been given a practise booklet with them all in. if they are like yours, i hate to think what the D ones would be like!!!
the C ones...
they look okay, but a bit hard. i don't like them, but i will practise them tomorrow night
ive got practice books for french and i can honistly say im really nervous about my french oral im gonna fail it i no it.
also all of the other teachers are giving us shed loads of revision to do and i cant cope with it all.
pressure pressure pressure. grr
good luck by the way to LMF and abi on your german oral.
thanks lollymay :) you can do it, do what i did- prioritise- do the stuff for real exams first and then worry about in class stuff. if they want to phone home, let them and get your parents to explain how stressed out you are and stuff... and about your oral- do 2 hours a day broken up and you will do fine :)
thanks for that, ill have to prioitise. talk about stress and im only 16.
feeling slightly calmer now, think it as the school day that got to me.
too many exams i say! the ministers are so old they can't remember back to their days at school, so they think we have as many exams as them
I fell like i'm about to die...
I had my PE GCSE moderation assesment today. I had to do 3 hours of Circuit training, followed by 3 hours of netball. The netball was outside, and it was bloody hot. And as if that wasn't bad enough, i was put in a team with all but one members of the year 11 netball team at my school :eek: Whenever i caught the ball, i nearly knocked myself out!! I guess it shows that they THOUGHT i'd do alright... but it was awfull. I broke the 3 foot rule so many times. Is obvious i failed, but them too things aren't even the sports i like, let alone i'm good at!!
Circuit training wasn't that bad, so it might have pulled my grade up a bit, but the moderator stood right in front of me when i was doing sit ups. Totally put me off, and i burst out laughing. I dont think she was so amused.
Should have done athletics... if only i didn't break me ankle last year, eh?
Ah well, its only short course, but now i'm shattered. So exhusted.
aww Abi. if its as hot as it has been here then you shouldn't have been out! people at my school weren't allowed to go outside for PE as it was too hot!
The moderator from EdExcel was there though, so we had to, because she needed to assess us and moderate the marks for our final grades.
And netball is an outdoors sport, so we needed to go outside. The sports hall was being used for Basketball anyway, and the Gym and Sports hall were being used for the year 9 SATs. So we didn't really have an alternative.
i remember when i did my pe practical assessment for gcse, i was so knackered afterwards! we had to do ours inside though cos it was pelting down with rain outside. i would rather have done it outside though cos we had to try and play rounders inside and obviously cos thats difficult the examiner just gave us the marks our teacher had given us, which was annoying cos we couldnt improve, and the same went with athletics, we couldnt do it outside, so couldnt do the sprint or long jump, so all we had to do were sprint starts and cos we couldnt be timed, our marks couldnt go up. but i wasnt as tired as i could have been cos in the easter holidays we had had a trial day so id been through it all day before and on that day we had done it outside in the boiling hot so when we did the real thing it didnt feel as bad
Do you have to do a PE exam even if you don't choose it as one of your options?Quote:
Originally Posted by Abi
no you dont, you only do one if you choose to take gcse peQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
Phew, I would clearly fail as I have cerebal palsy.
Thats what everyones saying, but i didn't choose it as a full-course GCSE.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco
PE is compulsory around me, so i either had to do ELA (which is completly practical based, and mainly full of boys), JSLA (which is a sports leadership course, i've already done as part of me GB leadership training) or short-course PE. So i chose Short course GCSE PE. And now i regret it!!
oh well maybe every schools different, like we had to take re but some other schools near me didnt. but its not a subject which the government says is compulsory to take, so you probably wont have to do itQuote:
Originally Posted by Abi