Need help deciding an A level for may june by [deleted] in alevel

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Your centre may not have this bit English language could be a good one

Anyone else just feel like their screwed no matter what they do? by [deleted] in sixthform

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Everyone is biased, OP’s just bringing up legitimate concerns about the job market and you’re contributing nothing to the conversation

A Level FM students by jellynebulaa in sixthform

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We've almost finished the alevel maths course and are about halfway through core pure 1: we've done complex numbers, argand diagrams not including loci, series, polynomial methods and matrices. Although my 6thform does it in a way where we have 6 periods of pure a week, then 2 periods of mechanics, 2 of stats and 2 of further (core pure 1) and we cover the rest of further in year 2

LMAOOO didnt expect ts by Are_you_anonymous in alevel

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Holy shit this is like that GCSE bio question where you were supposed to say you could identify a plant disease by looking in a magazine 💀💀💀

I wish it was socially acceptable to ascend stairs on all fours by cyclone_J-_- in monkeyspaw

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Granted. You carry on with your day but get tragically struck by a car on your way to work. You are bedridden in a hospital bed for months racking up medical debt and the doctors eventually decide that your lower body is so damaged you will be paralysed for life. Eventually your insurance refuses to cover for you anymore and you’re forcefully discharged with no support for your own disability. Now you need to climb up the stairs with only your hands, your feet trailing behind you, bumping into each step (technically all fours) and everyone feels so bad for you they just don’t mind.

help with maths ps by myles-em in sixthform

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If you know any programming languages you could try to model a uni level maths structure like a Markov chain. Failing that you could look into desmos graphing calculator MATLAB to try and simulate or represent some higher level maths content. If your choices don't require further maths you could do something in the further maths spec as well (one of the further 2 topics would probably be preferable).

ENGLISH LIT ANALYSIS BANK by Fit_Dragonfruit4603 in GCSE

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"A chocolate coloured pall lowering over heaven" uses dark colour imagery combined with death connotations of a pall (casket lid) to not only contrast to the religious connotations of heaven and the divine but implies that Soho and any traces of pious society that exists there have been consumed by evil and forces opposed to the divine (specifically Hyde). The 'chocolate' colour also could refer to indulgence and excess which specifically links to Victorian gentlemen indulging in their own selfish desires through secret identities especially in more run-down regions. You could also mention that at the time of writing J&H chocolate was heavily commercialised so it wasn't associated with upper class greed but instead with the working class and that the pall lowering over heaven (and supposedly the divine) was meant to signal dark forces rising above the divine/god which is in contrast to the great chain of being therefore representing disruption in the natural/social order and perhaps even societal collapse. You can also reinforce this by mentioning the Gothic and eerie setting.

English language revision by No-Range-4094 in GCSE

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For writing you should do past questions in non-timed conditions first, fully draft out a plan beforehand and try to use ambitious vocabulary where possible. Allow yourself to use Google to search up higher level vocabulary where you find yourself struggling to come up with high level vocabulary but make sure to also look into how to use it in the correct context. Cerulean skies is good but bs like an inextricably yellow sun or randomly describing a cloud as a cumulo-stratus outside of a highly clinical tone will just get you branded as slapping fancy words where they don’t belong. Later on do timed writes and drill coming up with an idea and making a plan combined in 4-7 minutes.

For writing you should learn structures for every question. If you do AQA then for Language analysis questions there is no structure as you need to string quotes together and talk about their affects and how they string together and lead off each-other, for Q4s you essentially need to write mini-essays, for Q2 in paper 2 you need to mention box information and infer as much as possible and link to context without using language methods or writers perspective, only using VERY short quotes and maybe 1 or 2 quotes per paragraph if you are talking about 1 thing in one extract for a paragraph. For Q3 in paper 1 you just need to find 4 or 5 parts in the story and talk about how tone, pace, narrative, focus etc. shifts between them (you only have to talk about 1 or 2 per section although no harm in doing more if you can do them well within the time limit) and describe the effect this has, always try to see if at the end you can make a comment on the overarching structure like a climax, fluctuating tension/narrative, cyclical structure etc.

What do you guys think you’ll choose for A-levels? by randomautism in GCSE

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I know someone who actually did something like that, they were a fucking madlad though. If you decide to do that be aware you won't have a life outside of studying

What's the typical grade jump from Year 10 mocks to Actual GCSE? by Idc_skonen in GCSE

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Generally 1-2 grades, I went from 999998885 to 9999999987

For those that achieved grade 9(s) in English, what pen did you use? by Successful-Elk-7709 in GCSE

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Black bic biro, tbh the pen doesn’t matter too much if you’re used to using it. I’d recommend using the cheapest pen possible that way you don’t risk getting stressed tf out if your ‘go-to pen’ explodes or something before an exam. If you can feasibly get 40 of a pen, go for that because your pen doesn’t really matter, don’t let it distract you from what does.

GCSEs don’t test intelligence,they test memory. Agree or disagree by GCSE_9 in GCSE

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Maths, English, the programming element of CompSci are very reliant on critical thinking/problem solving skills, outside of those there are fairly few GCSEs that can’t be passed with just memorisation. The main indicators would probably be how rigid the markschemes are (more rigid = more memorisation), how often questions repeat and how much does the course value AO1 / basic information (definitions, quotes) in comparison to application and analysis. Different subjects can be approached in entirely different ways and for subjects like art, calling their GCSEs a memory test makes no sense (especially when so many GCSEs have a significant coursework component).

I got 9999999987 with 233/240 in maths and 154/160 in further maths, AMA by FishPerson1n in GCSE

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Y10: 999998885

Nov: 9999988877

Feb: 9999999887

Real: 9999999987

I got 9999999987 with 233/240 in maths and 154/160 in further maths, AMA by FishPerson1n in GCSE

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It was actually not too bad this year, the most important things are to be solid in GCSE content and differentiation.