GCSE's

A fun few months ahead...

Just some Advice




Yep that's right. For many teenagers like myself, this year may be the most stressful. Personally, I will have to sit 19 exams and meet 13 coursework deadlines in order to get 11 GCSE's.

All those years of school finally lead to my 23 hours and 30 minutes spent in the exam hall. Hopefully within that day spread over five weeks, I'll be able to remember something. With only 10 weeks until my first exam, I'm finding it hard to recall learning anything useful within the majority of my school life. In year seven, the first year of high school, I do not recall looking at any type of poetry in English or looking at any of the syllabus of Religious Studies. It's just something that I have found frustrating since it feels as though the years learning haven't helped as much as they should.

On a more positive, there is one exam I am thoroughly enjoying. The art exam (AQA) which is made up of two parts. The first part being a book that you have around nine weeks to complete and an exam sprawled over a day or two. The book has to be based on one title chosen from the seven. This years' were Food, Fantastic and Strange, Mark Making, Spirals, Mixed Media, Human Condition and Rituals. I chose Mixed Media. The exam is just the making of your final piece.

I began to break down the exam structure of some subjects but I'm not sure if anyone will find that interesting or useful. So, if you're not yet at exam time and want to know a little more about what individual subjects are like, feel free to ask.







Really, I don't know what I'm more nervous about. The exam days or the results day. I have it planned that I'll probably get away from the crowds and just open them up on my own. That way I can cry if I've done bad.
But in reality, it's not the end of the world if I mess up a little in the exams. So I won't really allow myself to get worked up over it.

My advice to anyone beginning the learning of the GCSE syllabus; just do it. Revise for the little tests and the mocks because I didn't and now I have 10 weeks to. Also, teachers know what they're doing. Well, most do. And so if they set you homework or give you a pop quiz, just put in the effort and the same amount you put in, you'll get out. Coming from someone who has a hell of a lot to do in a small amount of time; just try hard and it will pay off.