#igcses

english as a second language (speaking test/ paper 3)

I will be banned from entering the uk if the examiners heard how much I was stuttering. thank god I didn't listen to my parents and chose speaking endorsement so this doesn't affect my overall score. the questions were so weird. "talk about why you would grow flowers in a school garden for 2 mins minimum" WHAT? my english teacher looked so disappointed in me and I felt terribly guilty because of it.

predicted grade: 75% (and that's if the examiners feel nice)

chemistry (paper four/ theory)

this was... surprisingly simple. even the organic chemistry section wasn't difficult or suicide inducing in any way. the exam was one movie long so I had enough time to revise my answers. what actually irritated me about today is the stupid taxi driver who purposefully took longer routes so that he can charge me (a naive looking teenager who he thought wouldn't notice) more. I couldn't call him out because I was scared of sounding rude. my headphones disconnected during the drive and I was listening to groan by dazey and the scouts so imagine the SCREAMING this man heard. he had music on too so wtv. worst part about this miserable drive was that at the road one street away from my house, he turns around, enters a CLINIC, and goes "here's your destination ;) " HOE YOU KNOW DAMN WELL I DIDN'T GIVE YOU THE LOCATION OF A CLINIC- wait, this was supposed to be about the exam.

predicted grade: 80 to 100% (if im lucky enough, of course)

mathematics (paper two/ non calculator)

if this was supposed to be the easy paper, what the hell should I expect for the actually difficult one? unless the curve is in the negatives, there's no hope for my relationship with maths. god also thought having a period cramp during the exam in a freezing room and when I was revising a difficult topic (WHICH CAME IN THE EXAM) would be a great idea so I psychically couldn't think or do anything. im so sorry but the past years exam papers were third grade level. WHAT is this?

predicted grade: 60% or less

biology (paper four/ theory)

(okay im writing this nine hours before the exams and fuck. biology is one of my good subjects and I spent way too much effort to fail this one but then again, this was the case with maths too and I fucked that shit up. please no period cramp today im actually going to sob.)

the exam was nowhere near as bad as I thought. the question asking about where you would detect carbon 14 using radiation in a random ass plant that had its stem cut off made my brain crash but overall, it was fine. I loved the enzyme questions.

predicted grade: 70 to 90% (not bad)

mathematics (paper four/ calculator)

I'M NOT RETAKING MATHS IN THE NEST SESSION. YAYYY!!! this was easier than the supposedly easy paper even though this required so much more writing and thinking. I felt like a mathematician figuring out the answers to the questions and got a massive ego boost. you might assume that this is because P4 is with calculator and P2 is without but my mental maths skills were something I always prided myself on and I had no problem calculating stuff. problem was, I didn't know what I was supposed to calculate to begin with. anyways, no circle theorems or vectors. god loves me <3

predicted grade: 80 to 90 %

english as a second language (paper one/ reading and writing)

I wrote about why social media is terrible for teenagers (local hypocrite)

(overall, the exam was nice. I finished so early, I had time to form opinions about every person in the reading comprehensions. huge problem is, me and my bff are so interconnected, we accidentally used almost identical ideas in our first writing question. none of us cheated or anything. it was pure coincidence. I hope cambridge doesn't fail us)

predicted grade: 70 to 100%

chemistry (paper six/ alternative to practical)

everyone came out of that exam hall saying "omg that was so easy" and got my ass humbled. I studied for this shit and was scoring good in it. what happened? every single igcse 0620 student was arguing about whether that graph line was a curve of a straight line with the first point being an anomaly and me personally, I opted for drawing the latter. turns out it was wrong. yay. I'm not scoring a nine in chemistry, I fear

predicted grade: 60 to 70%

physics 🖕  (paper four/ theory)

im as surprised as you are. i can finally get away with not knowing what's a motor. im not going to take physics next year (hopefully I don't jinx it)

biology (paper six/ alternative to practical)

might have fucked up the drawing and might have fucked up planning an investigation but it's all good. it's all good. at least the graph was nice.

predicted grade: 80 to 100%

physics 🖕  (paper six/ alternative to practical)

im deeply terrified by the fact that the subject I hate the most is the easiest one until now. I know I should be grateful and all but if I score worse in bio or maths (my favorites), im going to feel horrible.

predicted grade: 80% or above

english as a second language (paper two/ listening)

physics 🖕 (paper two/ multiple choice)

biology (paper two/ multiple choice)

I finished my GCSES, I'm so happy they are done but I'm absolutely terrified for results day. i find it difficult to judge whether I did good or bad in an exam as my brain loves to be a little delulu and trick me , so i really don't know how to feel.

I'm sure i'll def get a 9 for art becoz I got marked 190/192 for the entire thing which I am so fucking happy about, but I'm scared for the other subjects.

I previously set a goal that I had to get seven 9s out of 10 GCSES, but now I'm really beginning to doubt myself

I got 9s for five subjects in my mocks and I'm scared that I might even do worse than my mocks as I am currently feeling less confident about my real exams than my mocks, which I'm quite sad about

Generally, I tend to get 9s in sciences but I barely scrape the grade boundary every time. I am scared for physics- (especially) as I think I messed up on paper 1. (I do IGCSE edexel) I will also have to pray that the bio mark scheme will not nonsensical bs this year

But what I'm truly terrified about is maths (edexcel IGCSE) and geography (AQA). I fucked up maths paper 1 and I only got 1 end question completely right, I think I got half marks for two others. Not only that, I rushed through the early questions, which is bad as I make careless mistakes very easily. Paper 2 was better, but only slightly. I got an 8 in my mocks which was bad as I desperately, desperately need a 9 to solidify my decisions as I will be doing maths for A level, and getting an 8 would shatter my dreams

Geography paper 1 was easy, but it was a mess at the same time. I write slow so I only had 5 minutes left to complete the whole of glaciation. I think I only got like four marks out of the whole section. Paper 2 was the best paper imo, I hope I got most right. Paper 3 was eh, I also didn't really finish, ( I needed to write 3 more sentences in the last question and I didn't fully finish a 6 marker). I will just have to pray to the geography gods that this won't bring my marks down. The thing is, the exams weren't even hard, I was just so fucking slow- (I'm really pissed)

English was also eh for both lang and lit for me. I have never been good at english since it's kind of my second language, (it's my first language now, but it wasn't four years ago, I'm chinese). I was only aiming for a 7, which is reasonable to my standards, but I'm scared that I won't. I do merchant of venice and sign of four, which are both such irrelevant books, and we got quite shit questions. I found this kinda unfair as the popular ones like Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Christmas carol, mr jekyll and mr hyde were really easy according to most people. Our questions, unfortunately were really eh. This would raise grade boundaries :(. I have always been bad at poetry, I nearly shed a tear when I saw my last duchess in the exam as I barely revised for it. My teacher never properly taught us this poem as well (it was the least annotated one in my anthology) so I barely had any context. I also played it safe and compared it with Ozymandias. My slow-writing ass also ran out of time to do the dumb 8 marker in the end, which wouldn't help at all. Unseen was also meh, I only got to write 1 page and a bit more. The only essays that truly went well is An Inspector Calls, and maybe Merchant of Venice

Lang wasn't any better, everything I wrote was just so average and general. None of my question 5s were also outstandingly good, which is unfortunate. As a whole, I was lacking in AO2 for all four papers which will also pull my mark down.

French was a mess. I did quite reasonable in all papers, except... the listening paper. I did so so terrible in the listening paper, and I am scared that I failed it- which will make me fail the entire french gcse. I do not want to see a U on my results.

DT has always been my strong subject, but unfortunately, paper 3 went so bad (I do CIE). I am going to pray that paper 1 and my coursework ( which I am quite sure I did well in) will carry as I did absolute dogshit in paper 3. I need to get a 9 in DT, it is a must.

hm. this one is a bit blurry, the photo quality kinda got messed up (i swear it was clearer before,, but give me the benefit of the doubt).

-> chem practice questions! I did these a while back, and I keep meaning to do more, but Madame Procrastinator over here keeps bumping it to the next day, and the next day... and you know the story.

that being said, practice q's are literally the biggest (!!!) tip when it comes to studying, especially if you're in exam-based curriculum. i kid you not, they are a LIFESAVER when it comes to answer structure & the scope of the content needed in answer.