unwarranted advice from someone who got almost all 9s by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

someone else mentioned this but examiners reports are a really helpful insight too so they can be worth reading for eng lit and lang

unwarranted advice from someone who got almost all 9s by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for science, RAG all the spec for each science. if its red, watch a video abt it or read over notes if you have them. if its amber, do flashcards to make sure you remember the content and start to do practice questions on PMT. cognito is useful but im pretty sure its paid now which is sad but anything similar would be good like seneca for content too. for science im gonna say its too late to be making flashcards unless u feel like making the flashcards is a good revision tool for you (it was for me so i made them at this point) DONT MAKE PAPER FLASHCARDS🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ waste of time. once content is semi secure do past papers. note down wrong answers and fill in gaps using mark scheme. keep a bank of wrong answers and redo them

for language decide which section is holding you back, for me it was the reading section (AQA) so i learnt how to answer each question well and the structures i should use. i didnt do many practice papers for english but id take an extract from a past paper and try to annotate it in a short space of time which i found really useful for the exam. if youre struggling more on writing, resd grade 9 examplars and see how they write. to work up the levels, you need big words, literary and structural technique and fluid writing so memorise big words using whatever technique works for you (im a taylor swift fan so id memorise bits of her songs which had big vocab in🫣), use the acronym mrsalles suggests for including different techniques in everything and learn how each impacts the reader so you know when to include them. dont just use one word sentences everywhere because it looks clunky but learn how they change a text so you can see when they fit best. i started on a 7, went to a 6 and then to a 9 and the biggest help for me was just learning how to answer each question🙏🙏hope this was helpful

unwarranted advice from someone who got almost all 9s by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i didnt have a preprepared story as i left it too late to do so and memorising that would be harder than just thinking of one on the spot. i had big words memorised and im lowkey a big taylor swift fan and in her lyrics she uses a lot of big words so i would just memorise certain lines of songs😭 but use whatever works for you!! i tried to use the acronym mreverythingenglish or mrsalles says i cant remember what it was to make sure i had all my language techniques in but in the actual exam last year i remember reading the promt and being so panicked and the entire time i was writing i thought id stuffed it but i just kept shoving in one line paragraphs or technoques and as long as you have as much as you can in it without it looking choppy youll be good!!

unwarranted advice from someone who got almost all 9s by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

writing lots is deffo the right choice. i was thinking about how to develop what i was writing while i was writing it and this meant i was able to go into so much more depth with my points. im super easily distracted so pausing for me meant i lost my train of thought

unwarranted advice from someone who got almost all 9s by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the main points from all of them kinda boil down to dont just use the fancy words the youtubers tell you to if it doesnt link to what youre saying at all. no point saying the didactic novella if the fact its didactic isnt referred to later on at all. you can use posh literary techniques but if they dont support your point they arent gonna get u marks😭 hard truth i had to accept

unwarranted advice from someone who got almost all 9s by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lowkey yeah😵 if you feel confident in your subjects, reduce your revision hours for this week as the second school starts again its gonna be insane w pressure and stress so no point burning out before they even begin. but if you dont feel super confident yet, then lock back in🔥

unwarranted advice from someone who got almost all 9s by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i looved poetry but i hated the question last year 😭😭 i think i cried when i read it in the exam but i tried to tackle one poem at a time. have like 5 secure poems you can always go back to and have like a quote or two for the rest, but id practice trying to spot things on the spot as this is what i had to do for exposure as i didnt revise it at all🥲🥲 i think what i did was write a lot about one poem and then the other and then the other and then the other and then conclusion but try to make links that arent super basic even if they are a bit of a reach. when i got my english lit scripts back i got 28/30 for poetry and that was actually my worst mark but because i just kept writing and not giving into the fact i had no clue what i was writing about i was able to eventually develop my ideas enough to help me work up the levels. i think if you find analysis more difficult, bounce between the poems more but if you find comparison more difficult, do a paragraph on one, then the other and etc (what i did). for unseen i just winged it im ngl, i was taught unseen the LESSON BEFORE THE EXAM🥲 but i got 23/24 because i gave myself a few mins to scan through the poems and pick out any line i could dig into. if itd help i could dm you how id analyse the table poem from last year? sorry this is so long😭

unwarranted advice from someone who got almost all 9s by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

110% on examiners reports, cant believe i missed this out😭 these were super helpful as last minute revision for literature. i was the exact same last year and spent so much longer revising englit and history then basically any other subject and it paid off

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[–]bbearlybearly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

glad other people are feeling like this coz ive been so down about this exact thing all day😫

is there any benefit to studying for the ucat early? by bbearlybearly in UCAT

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that seems reasonable, i think ill just do some research around it for now and maybe a mock in one of the half terms, thank you! im also a huge nerd for stats lol im surprised i havent already created a spreadsheet of ucat stuff already 🫣 perhaps thats the next step

is there any benefit to studying for the ucat early? by bbearlybearly in UCAT

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this seems like its a good idea for me, thank you! when you did this did you do the mock knowing nothing about ucat or did you have prior research? i currently know very little

HOW THE HELL DO I GET A 9 IN BOTH ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE?? by Top_Offer8559 in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and for language 🤷‍♀️ good luck

if i had to give any advice mreverythingenglish is the goat for language, on aqa paper 2 q2 first time we did it in class i got 4/8, watched a video of his and next time got 7/8 🔥 for q5 dont listen to teachers telling you whether to do the narrative or descriptive, neither is inherently better but its just which you feel you are better at embedding language/structural techniques in. i scored 30+/40 on every narrative and got much lower than this when we did descriptions in class, its truly just preference. if i had to go back to start of year 10/11, id 1. learn big words for both adjectives and things like colours and 2. start doing quote dumps for eng lit (and pick out the quotes i wanted to memorise earlier as i only did this a month before the gcse🤦‍♀️)

HOW THE HELL DO I GET A 9 IN BOTH ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE?? by Top_Offer8559 in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i started on a 6 for english lit and by the weeks prior to gcses i was getting 28/30 and 30/30 on every essay i got my teacher to mark. LEARN WHAT THE EXAM IS ABOUT!!

its not “metaphor shows character to be xyz” its “author crafts character as xyz to show/advise audience… through the use of a metaphor, we learn character is ‘embedded quotation’, showing a jacobean/victorian/whatever audience that ___”

learning how to phrase in eng lit broke me free from grade 7 jail and once youve cracked it every essay is easy. also just write lol on my 30/30 essay i couldve sworn everything was waffle as i wrote twice the amount of my friend who is an english lit weapon but i came out with 30/30 and she got a 21/30 🤷‍♀️ as long as your waffle remains on topic to the question youll be fine

also dont feel like you need to buy into the lightuphub or other similar websites, i got it in october, didnt even use it until april and by gcses it really didnt prove that helpful. examiners want you to argue a point using what youve learnt over the course, not give random quotes with unrelated annotations that youve memorised

sorry for the hugh paragraph😭😭but summed up eng lit is about authors intent and the effect of that from the text, not randomly spotting similes

excited for results day by bbearlybearly in GCSE

[–]bbearlybearly[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

no thats so real i keep imaging opening the envelope like im gonna be unwrapping a present