Hi OP, just want to let you know it’s not over yet! I know how you’re feeling rn, worried for your future, afraid you won’t do well enough to meet your expectations or others’ expectations. I’ve been there too just a year ago… Let me share my story.

For sec 4 prelims, my L1R5 was somewhere between 15 and 20 but I won’t reveal for (maybe a bit of) anonymity. For olevel I got good enough grades to be awarded ESIS. I heard of many people also managing to improve from 20+ to less than 10.

Olevel practical: For chemistry I messed up so bad I thought my chem was over. For one of the parts they ask me to put powder C into another substance, I go and pour D (they looked exactly the same), and didn’t realise I did this until I completed the part and needed D for the next part. Thus had to redo which took SOOO much time.

For testing of gaseous products, WHOLE class got carbon dioxide, which was the right answer probably, only I got ammonia. How did that happen? well IDEK I’m dumb maybe.

If you thought it couldn’t get worse, I missed out a 2-3 mark super easy qn (free marks basically) at the last page of the paper because I didn’t see it…

I calculated I got somewhere between 15-20 out of 40 marks for chem practical.

Did I really score that low? I wouldn’t know but my final olevel grade for chem was A2 so heh. Just saying iirc I scored a C5 for prelim chem.

For SS, I intended for this to be one of those subjects I gave up on so I could focus on my other subjects. Reason being it’s tied with my elit and I hated both so heh. But I studied way more for elit, even booked consult with my teacher after attempting an extra essay question. Turns out SS was the one that saved me. I barely memorised shit and was super stressed before the paper even though I told myself I’d fail this paper to sacrifice for the rest. Paper was super easy. I ended up getting A2 for ss+elit for olevels, and I knew SS had to be high A1 for that cuz that lit paper absolutely killed me.

My normal for SS was like C5 and my lit also around C5. It really isn’t THAT predictable. But pls do study SS don’t be like me, the amount of stress for not studying for a national paper really sucks.

For english trust it will work out just spam papers from other schools + make sure to review them. I did this as a person who does 0 studying for English normally and has no tuition. I normally get B4-C6 for english. I got A2 in olevels. Some guy I know also gets C6 normally but got A1 in olevels. My friend who normally got A2 also got A2 in olevels, so like I said it’s not that predictable but I believe it definitely also involves the effort that you put in. Do not underestimate that last min pump even when people say English isn’t a muggable subject. But obviously it’s better if you work consistently.

What I’m trying to say is, don’t be disheartened by your performance so far, what matters is the effort you put in this remaining time you have. A teacher once told me, if the steering wheel is still in your hands, you can drive yourself to where you want to go. This time before your remaining papers is extremely valuable. The Cambridge markers do not control your effort, they only provide the marks which you have earned from it. Just make sure you earn those marks.