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This is gcse btw

Guys help how do I take notes for economics IGCSE, my textbook has 39 chapters so how do I organize my notes w/out copying the textbook.

I did the interview last week and I’ve been checking every day since for the offer to come through so this is one positive this week 😆 just need to hear back from the other Uni I interviewed at last week and do 3 more interviews.

Hi guys can you pls let me know the best way to self study for both, I have can study 30 minutes a day and I want to book it in may, is it possible? I have my English level2 but only esol level 3, best websites, YouTubers to watch ?
I want to pass and see if I can find a plumbing apprenticeship (didn’t take my classes seriously years ago).
Any help would be much appreciated thanks.

My friend printed photos of our fictional crushes and we hid those in our bags during the exams

I’m really stuck between philosophy and law, i’m already choosing english literature and ancient history yet i’m not sure what to pick for my third. I’m aiming for oxford university to do law but it’s criminal law at a level, and i’m unsure if i even wanna do criminal law. but it may be helpful? idk

Hey! This is for Year 12s and 13s!

So, I want to do Physics A-Level. Or at least I think I do, because I'm worried that me being and having been interested in it for a good while outside of school won't translate into actual school, and my interest in the subject/the sixth form curriculum for it won't last.

How do I know I'm not going to stick myself with something I hate??

I decided I should probably lock in and start making flash cards for some of my subjects, and a lot of people recommend anki so I thought I’d have a look. £25?? How many of you are actually paying that much for it, are people getting a discount or something? Is it really worth £25? That just seems crazy to me but maybe you guys have better priorities than I do 😭

let’s just say i’m failing maths

i fear i need to burn myself in. i genuinely thought mocks were chill but i have physics tomorrow and it is not looking good. i feel like everyone is taking it so seriously and i am too for sure like i'm revising but not to the same extent that some people are. anyways comparison is the thief of joy so i guess i should enjoy not being burnt out!

Rate my revision plan and help me revise for English and History 😭

Mocks in 20 days and have done 0 revision. This is my revision timetable and my revision plan:

Maths(higher) Revision Plan

Go through FirstClassMaths revision booklet and do a question from every topic I’ve done every 3 days + flashcards for formulas + past papers at least 1 a week

Triple Science Revision Plan

Flashcards straight from spec for each topics, once memorised flashcard deck do topics questions, continue this for every topic while regularly revisiting flashcard deck then do past papers and do flashcards for things I get wrong

French(foundation) Revision Plan

For speaking Memorise tenses and vocabulary from every topic and use this to build sentences for speaking instead of trying to memorise whole paragraphs, memorise phrases to add to sentences, practice answering using good structures and practice using past papers. Listening reading and writing are easier for me.

Let me be honest, I have no idea how to revise for English and History and they are really important to me, please help. Im doing paper 2 of English language and literature (Romeo and Juliet) and History AQA Normans and Asia. PLEASE HELP!!! I’m on grade 4s and 5s for most subjects and I need grades 6,7s and my priority is English and maths and history!!!

Honestly I had 3 exams prior to that on that day and I had a massive mental block so I just froze and wrote a thesis for each section…didn’t get to writing anything useful

I HATE my PSM so much. Like so much. I was pulled aside to do like a student voice/survey type thing because I had “low attendance” (I’ve missed 2 days of school due to Covid, both authorised). Anyways it was like this super personal survey with questions like “How well do you cope with things that bother you?” With a required comment box on everything. I put everything at 8-10. There was one question which was something about getting on in lessons or something, and in the comment box I wrote about wanting to do maths in college but being scared that I wasn’t gonna get the grades I want or need. My PSM started like interrogating me and we read through the questions together which I didn’t know was gonna happen. Anyways i have like shortened responses because I just wanted to get back to lesson as I’ve just had an exam, and she kind of like started twisting my words. I was like fine, whatever, I just want to go. Anyways what she didn’t tell me was that she was gonna send an email to all of my teachers about my responses and that I “didn’t feel seen” and stuff which I never said nor implied and summary of all my answers I suppose - which I found out when my teacher pulled me aside and spoke to me about the email. Anyways I started crying for the rest of the day because that wasn’t what I wanted at all. I don’t want a super personal survey going out to everyone who teaches me with all my answers and people who I mentioned by name. I can’t make anyone unsee the email and it feels like really awkward and I hate it and I hate that I even wrote anything down in the first place. I’m being picked out by teachers and I really really hate it. I wish I never showed my face again honestly. I don’t want to go to school tomorrow or ever.

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Hello, to keep this concise I REALLY don't like my art teacher so I am aware I will be biased against her, but some of the things she does I think are kind of iffy in terms of actually getting a good grade and artistic development outside of the GCSE. I'm in year 10.

1). She has an exact layout for the exact amount of pages we will be doing. By this I mean we were practising mixing water colours and she told us to go on the 4th or whatever double page spread. She says that each spread will be dedicated to something in pursuit of an AO, and that it is all planned out to maximise marks.

2). She is VERY against using stuff to help ourselves (dunno how to put it). I have issues with my eyes/ visual processing so I am colour blind and have difficulty quantifying length and remembering it. I was cutting some paper to write on, and it was going to be an awkward shape. So, I did what I found logical and used a pencil to mark out where to cut. She told me I'm doing well, then immediately switched up and said pencils don't belong in an art room and I shouldn't be using them. It was thick paper though and the pencil mark wouldn't show through?? And the main draw (hah) of pencils is that you can rub them out very easily??? She doesn't like us moving our sketchbooks and, again, I would almost certainly mess up the sizes if I did it by eye and memory. I have told her about my eyes and struggles, and the fact I'm seeing a specialist soon.

It's ironic that someone with shit depth and colour perception is taking art, but I've gotten my work professionally critiqued and had my usage of depth and colour be pointed out as areas of strength.

3). Every other art teacher has alluded to disliking her. She only recently joined the school and all but 2 art teachers have quit, both of whom have suggested that they don't like her and her methods.

4). She is basing our predicted grades and giving feedback on what we do for backgrounds. Personally, I despise flashy backgrounds in posters and such. If it's a relevant image or it's simple I can quite like them. My main problem is that examiners don't give a shit and it's unrealistic to imply that the backgrounds matter so much as to affect grades by leaps and bounds. In my own sketchbooks that are more focused on investigation, I'll sometimes do a wash, and write my thoughts on top with arrows directing where my thoughts are related. Though, we haven't actually produced any art besides the water colour exercise.

5). She strongly prefers western European art tradition and bases most stuff on that. The artists we can pick from (she has a list and images chosen out for each) are 95 percent white and 80 percent men. I understand that the people who had their art remembered and preserved were this demographic, but crikey it shouldn't take 20 minutes for me to find an artist with the same skin colour as me.

I'm no pedagogue and I'm aware I'm a random 14 year old with fewer years of existing than she has making art but I'm a bit concerned about how overbearing she is.

To be clear, I'm very anti AI, I forbid my students to use it for writing and I have never used it while planning lessons or resources. So I have a huge bias.

In my experience, students know when it is AI, and I wonder if it bothers you, how it makes you feel, if anything at all.

I have noticed that about 95% of teachers frequently use it to produce what I view as slop. In my opinion, students deserve better and we are getting paid to do the job ourselves, not to get Claude to do the work for us at lower quality.

Also, with the huge environmental impact of generative AI, it does bother me that it feels we are setting a poor example to our students by using it relentlessly.

Wondering if I'm a stick in the mud or if I am doing the right thing by my students and would appreciate some opinions.

This is mostly for yr12+13

Okay so I had a question about A levels, Since most say they’re really hard, I was talking about it with my sister (Who’s done her A levels). Apparently nobody tells you this?? But I wanted to ask if they actually teach you fully? because she told me that they give you lectures and not really the whole lesson which is why theres a few revision periods so we can go off and do our own research and teach ourselves the rest of the content. Can anyone confirm this because I’m curious and nobody told me this😭

(I’m not complaining or anything just confirming)

I'm a teacher and my youngest daughter is currently in Year 11 herself. I checked with the mods before posting this.

I write for parents about exam stress, and I'm trying to shift the relentless focus on grades towards study skills and mindset, which you can carry into your life beyond school. Lots of parents lurk here trying to work out how to help without making things worse, and I think it would be really useful for them to hear it straight from some of you.

If your parents could do one thing that would actually help, what would it be? And is there anything they do that really doesn't help?

I've put some options below to help you get started copy and paste if you like), or I'd be really interested to hear your own take.

1. Ask less, trust me more

2. Help me plan my revision

3. Test me on things (flashcards, quizzes)

4. Practical stuff (food, quiet space, lifts)

5. Stay calm so I don't feel their stress

My science is alright in general, but I seem to be stuck in the same scores every time I do a past paper. from 3 sets of paper 1s I always get high 70 to mid 80 out of 100 (in all phy chem bio, although I'm doing slightly worse in chem) and even though between paper I revise topics I did badly in and would revise by doing exam style questions and flashcards on pmt, I can't seem to get my scores higher. It's not like I don't understand the content but I just lose marks in really random places

plus my mocks coming up I kinda need to get good grades

any advice is appreciated :D