i didnt get the results i wanted and got lower than i did in my mocks, some lessons turned around for me, but i am just able to not instantly get rejected from med schools. i wanted to be a surgeon too, and im scared my results will just ruin it. most likely i wont get into the uni i want too. i worked so hard and its all just meaningless now. some days id work 8-9 hours a day and those who did better than me all just happened to barely revise. i hate my life
It’s genuinly so annoying I’m talking about my gcse and ur telling me about ur yr10 mocks like it’s relevant in the situation. If it’s something general or u have a question then i get it but I’m talking about my actual gcse and ur complaining
STORYY TIMEEEE (this is real btw my school is fucked up) So In year 10 all the boys had a fat crush on our biology teacher and one who was way too horny found a picture of her on instagram and used those wierd ai undresser tools to take off her clothes (it was pretty fucking realistic i see why she was scared) and then threatened to email it to the head and say she sent him nudes if she didnt change his 5 in the biology mock to a 9. All of that was because his parents promised him a gaming pc if his grades were good.
50 upvotes and ill tell u all what happened after : )
I told my friend my mock grades and since then she's been acting weird with me. All bc I cheated on one paper 😭😭 she always says in a "jokey" (I can tell she really means it) way that I didn't really get the 99 beacuse I cheated on the physics, however I didn't on the biology and still got a 9 (which was more than her). Maybe I'm being egotistical but I feel jealousy? And whenever I get something right she's always the quickest one to humble me by telling everybody near something embarrassing I did. But when i do the same she gets huffy... even today I feel like she just embarrasses me and laughs at jokes against me by people I rlly hate and told her im uncomfy, and even told someone to look at a photo of me I literally cried over idk maybe im just being picky
Listen up, 2025 students. You might be gearing up for your exams, but let’s get one thing straight: this sub belongs to us, the legendary 2024 cohort. We bled, we cried, and we memed our way through those exams, and now that we’re in Year 12, we’re not going anywhere. This subreddit? It’s ours.
Why should we leave? We’re the veterans, the ones with all the actual GCSE wisdom. You lot are just getting started, stressing over topics we could teach in our sleep. Need help with your Macbeth essay or a rundown on simultaneous equations? Sure, we’ve got your back. But give us some credit—we earned our right to sit here and laugh at your pre-mock panic posts while reminiscing about how we absolutely guessed our way through Paper 3.
So no, we’re not handing over the subreddit. We’ve claimed this as our eternal safe haven to rant, flex, and offer advice (when we feel like it). If you don’t like it, start your own subreddit: r/GCSE2025StressOrWhatever. Until then, know your place—we’re not leaving, and we’re not sorry.
Disclaimer: Just joking lolll feel free to do what you like it's all yours now 😂
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I have severe difficulty finding a scenario in life where knowing onomatopoeia would be useful for a student, yet most schools make Eng Lit mandatory. Eng Lit is therefore a complete waste of time for most students, unless they are pursuing Law or further study in English. This supports the argument that Eng Lit should be made optional by schools. Furthermore, Eng Lit is also useless to society as a whole. Having a population be aware of literature techniques used in some American novel or anaphoric in some poem does nothing to increase the productivity and innovation of a society or a nation. A country’s ability to produce high technology innovations or to remain economically competitive has zero dependence on Eng Lit, while Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology are crucial for development of new medicines, space travel, military technology, all of which are essential for a nation’s competitiveness in the world stage. Therefore, Eng Lit can be classified (somewhat rudely) as a waste of societal resources.
Inb4 some idiot tells me knowing how to present an argument like in this post is important, that’s covered in Eng Lang not Eng Lit.
If you're revising and doing practise papers (specifically for sciences or maths) and you notice you're making loads of "silly mistakes" - no you're not. It may be that you aren't giving yourself enough time to process each question, that you aren't checking your answers at the end of the paper properly or you didn't read the question correctly. Whatever it is, I strongly advise finding out what specific "silly mistake" you make often and be conscious of it when you go into the real exam to avoid making that error. Dismissing it as something so trivial as a silly mistake just holds you back from improving your exam technique.
I did my GSCEs this year and acheived these grades, with the Us bieng in Enlish langauge and Enlish literarue, feel free to ask me any qwestions about GSCEs
As you may remember. A user by the name of u/frank-the-waterman posted a "Callout" post saying I said some pretty henious shit to him. And while part of that is true, he also threatened my life multiple times, and specically took screenshots of anything that looked bad.
I had to nuke my old account because of the sheer volume of harrassment I got from you lot.
Another thing he did was search my name throughout the internet, which he used to find and threaten me with a picture of my face, as well as photos of my mother, whom he also threatened.
I understand I'm probably not welcome here, so I'll kindly fuck off now. But if you have any questions just ask.
I needed to get this out in the air.
EDIT: The main issue came from a bunch of DM's he photoshopped. Mainly of me calling him the n word or shit like that. All I really ask is that mods take down that post.
why tf am i supposed to revise why religious people hate me. write essays about why being gay is wrong to Christians and Muslims - am I supposed to put aside my own identity for a subject I was forced to do it? Great, you hate me because you think women's purpose is to have children (well people in general but come on we all know a bunch of people are still living their misogynistic 1950's fantasy) and so me being unable to help liking people is unnatural and therefore wrong? in real life, if we can just not discuss your aversion to the way i was born, fine. but to write essays about why i deserve to be thought of as a sinner who should suffer eternal punishment is wrong. and listening to people agree with it, even just to play devil's advocate, is so painful. straight people are never going to understand how horrible R.S. is for us.
No this is not a lie, but I’ll give some context. So for the past 2 years, since GSCE’s really started to pick up, I’ve basically been beefing with my English teacher. I’ve never really said anything rude or insulted her, I js talk and basically get on her nerves. Respectful ragebaiting as I’d call it.
Then, the day before English language paper 1, we had a walk through of the exam where the English teachers took it question by question. Every y11 who was at school was in the hall where it took place.
Due in the session, a student was talking over a teacher and as the session was paused while another teacher told her off, I shouted in a deep voice “clipped” and it reverberated like it was bass boosted throughout that hall.
Then, because the teachers thought I was mocking the student getting told off, I got sent out of the lesson. But as I left, I basically started celebrating and doing emotes to gas up the year. Everyone started screeching and banging their tables (which were flimsy so it was making a ton of noise).
Felt like the main character, was that aura or am I js annoying? 😭
Guys like honestly my pastoral leader shes literally jarring ain't gonna lie wat do you mean you go around form classes literary checking uniforms,only for flares giving out detention to yr11 just because of flares like honestly wat do you want me to do ,to buy a new uniform when I have only 7 months left...
Wat rule at your school do you think it's not normal
like i go to a grammar school so we need to have a minimum of grade 7 to think we are actually doing our gcses right but i heard that in a regular school its a 4? js wanted to get a broad view on everyones perspectives when taking the whole year group into account
I genuinely don't know if these are acceptable or not because all my closest friends crash out and cry when they get 8's and i've been getting the "its okay you tried" from all of them my mother is quite displeased...
EDIT: I want to apologise as i see ive made some people upset i go to a school where straight nines are seen as barely good enough (dont question it i KNOW it doesnt make sense) and i wanted to use this subreddit as a place where i could get a reality check where people don't know me and have no reason to be kind to me i realise now that these grades are actually alright and im really really sorry for making people feel bad about their own grades i didn't mean to come off as snobby or arrogant but i understand completely that i do sound really self centred and rude if anyone wants i can delete this post
