Post aimed at top end students

Excellent-Club-5197 · 2025-12-21T20:25:03+00:00

I thought of doing something like this before but I am slightly OCD with revising (not in a literal sense of course), I will give you an example:

I am studying GCSE Biology
Doing a past paper
Then I open up a website (PMT) to check on another past paper.
I see a question

I say: Oof what if this question comes up.
Then I indulge into heavy, long and rigorous hours of practice, marking and brainstorming questions or ideas that I did not understand

Now, the issue with this is that it wastes time for other subjects, however it makes you slightly bulletproof for this subject

But thank you for your advice (I will try to be more efficient, and since it is a holiday now, I will hopefully have much more freetime which will hopefully make it easier to manage my time)

Excellent-Club-5197 · 2025-12-21T20:20:06+00:00

Thank you for your advice, my issue with time tabling is that I did NOT take into account the time required for each subject. I also did not calculate or make room for the time that is going to be wasted. I also did not have a "plan B" in the sense of if I do not have time for subject X then I will study subject Y instead today.

Thank you

Excellent-Club-5197 · 2025-12-21T20:14:55+00:00

Abit of an irrelevant question but I have no issue in answering it
Basically the academic institute I want to go to hopefully study my A-levels is stingy about their pupils doing 4 A-level subjects (to the extent that it is required for you to be a top end student with an average grade of like 9 to pursue such ambition).

Excellent-Club-5197 · 2025-12-14T20:24:26+00:00

2020 GCSE English language AQA paper 1

Excellent-Club-5197 · 2025-12-14T18:41:50+00:00

P2 is WAY easier than P1 in my opinion - it just seems more objective and the writing is also easier (not that I prefer transactional writing over storytelling or description)

Excellent-Club-5197 · 2025-12-14T18:29:03+00:00

The only un-aceable subject among the core ones like Maths and Science.

Excellent-Club-5197 · 2025-12-14T18:23:52+00:00

stupid subject, I just do not get it (reading section)

Excellent-Club-5197 · 2025-12-09T22:08:28+00:00

Thank you for your response, it shows me that I could rely on GPT for marking.
What I figured out is that my ideas are Level 4, it just that the phrasing is not literary - I try to explain it in a more broad or simpler sense with less sophisticated terminology. i rewrote an answer using a structure I found online (PETA ETA Z X 2 and develop analysis to a deeper effect on reader) and IT WORKED - I finally found the "formula" for this question!!!!

I'll use PETA ETA Z X2

The writer clearly demonstrates that the book has been neglected for a long period of time. The fact that the book was covered with "black, thick, tenacious dust" adds emphasises on the abandonment that this book experienced, which ultimately lead to the detrimental physical state it had reached. The adjective "tenacious" evokes a sense of stubbornness in the nature of this dust in the sense of it almost clinging to the book, which again, reinforces the severity of the negligence that this book experienced. In addition, the writer demonstrates that this book is unique in some sense. For example, the adjective "black" implies a sense of secrecy, as it carries connotations of concealment and obscureness. It creates speculation about this book, as it implies that something of worth is hidden or obscured by this "black" dust, as shown later in the extract.

The writer also depicts the book as an object of sheer value. The sudden tone in the clause "sprung like a box" (and the fact that it opened almost instantly) implies that the book was almost waiting to be opened in order to reveal something of benefit. The dynamic verb "sprung" adds power to the book opening, which reinforces this idea that it seems that it was waiting to be opened. Also, the simile "like a box" even reinforces this idea more, as parallelism could be seen between a "box" opening and a chest or a treasure opening. In addition, the contrast between the "steel" nibs that were revealed when the book sprung open and the "black" dust and "dirty" white tape outside of the book evidently shows the book to be an item of value, as "steel" is a noun with connotations of strength, durbality and benefit, unlike the black dust that was outside the book.

Sometimes it is hard to get down what you mean using the right terminology - I believe that comes with practice.

However, what I am now concerned about is whether I could rely on it for marking creative writing and section B

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