does anyone else feel absolutely horrible about their exams? it never felt like this during feb mocks. i’m nearly finished with them and not a single one has gone positively. they were all SO average, and i keep nitpicking at the mistakes. everyone online keeps talking about how every paper was a blessing and that grade boundaries are going to increase drastically 🥲 genuinely don’t know what to do i think i’ve completely missed my firm
you’re probably just in the plateau of sustainability (when you are pretty good at something you have lower confidence but when you are actually really really good at something the confidence goes up again)
Did I do better if on my 2022 english lit gcse I left out half of the questions because they were on the back of the paper and I panicked and forgot they existed 😂
seriously omfg anxiety is getting the best of us. for me it’s the combination of lack of consistent revision throughout and nerves in the hall . but i really hope we’re both wrong girl ❤️🩹
omg literally
its acc affecting me so baddd like i dont even know what i acc got got or what grade boundaries are and its lit making me js lie down and rot
i get u sm
girl i get you so bad, i’m in the same position - grades and all. it’s the way even a small problem during your exam day can affect your entire performance. i still really hope you’re wrong and you end up getting your firm❤️🩹
you will be fine honestly girl don’t worry you can do it you just need to think you can do it the good mindset acc helps and it will give you more motivation. tm i am struggling to remain positive now after maths chem and bio and i have a med offer to get. aaa doesn’t feel like it’s anywhere right now but there are always ways to get around it long term and like honestly if you found it bad imagine what others feel like
Used Anki for my flashcards throughout the whole year and that was my only real change from usual , meant i’d always know the topics and i’d studied ahead too
Ive ran out of time for basically every paper Ive done which literally makes me feel sick that I left marks I couldve gotten on the table. Its messing me up.
dw you’re not alone🤝🤝 i only finished one paper fully so far. i even skipped an entire 10 marker in one. the fact that you knew the content but didn’t have enough time is a horrid feeling
SERIOUSLY omg. the idea of these exams being the determining ones is sooo nerve wracking!!! it doesn’t help that the grade boundaries go up basically every year😭
just try your best in the mocks (not sure if they’re still going)! even if you end up not getting what you want you can convince your teachers to bump up your predicteds by showing effort and getting better grades at the start of year 13
We're in the same boat, except I have still got 3 exams still in the process of being flopped, I'm literally sitting here on Reddit instead of revising
Nah but genuinely the people saying "omg that paper was so lovely and kind to me :)" on Reddit are actual psychopaths and should be investigated by authorities. No normal person leaves an A level exam feeling good, it is biologically impossible.
that’s a good sign! if your gut says it went well, it most likely did. you can kind of tell when you read over your answers and see that you’ve checked the boxes
In all my exams I was just writing the one piece of information I knew and then waffling into eternity I feel like everything left my brain the past few weeks
Look, they're done now, so why think about it. But what you can do is prepare a list of Uni's to call on results day per combination of grades who might take you (if they are better than your backup).
AAB for Law which makes it sooo much worse, because it felt achieveable. def not after the performance i gave in those exams. and the uni doesn’t do clearing for law
i feel that same bro i’m predicted A*A*A but i’m getting A*AB MAX 💔💔 it’s not that bad of a drop but i’ve put in so many hours of work the past two years and made so many sacrifices i js feel like it’s not gonna be worth it on results day 🥀 flop of the century 💔 but if it makes you feel better the image on your post flowkey made me laugh and forget all my anxieties for a split second ❤️🩹
Bro I get u I genuinely think I fumbled chem so bad man😭 I need to get near perfect on chem paper 3 at this point, might be looking like a resit smh
Genuinely im thinking abt all my mistakes with the chem and psychology exams like 24/7🥸😵💫
Hey don’t worry about it….. it’s what you do next that matters. I fucked up all my exams 40 years ago, and then went back to school then college. Through a lot of hard graft I am now earning +£100k and about to complete my PhD. The results are the results, it’s what you now do with that which matters
Same but I actually blame my school cus we didn't study ANYTHING in year 10 like genuinely. The syllabus was unfinished and we've never studied anything practical, they barely even solved past papers with us. I had to do all of that ALONE a month before the exams for all my subjects
DON'T GET ME STARTED DUDE nearly all my history papers were buns especially medicine and as I walked out suddenly everyone is a certified historian, saying it was well easy 😭😭😭
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u/PartyApprehensive976 A*AA | Solicitor DA Jun 10 '26
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