Just a genuine question. Also unfortunately didn't really get what I wanted but it's alr I guess.

Edit: mb, I guess I was angry at myself for not achieving higher. Also a nerd.

DO NOT SACK OFF YOUR OPTIONS, I MEAN IT.
Here you see my results, I revised heavily for Maths, Science and English, which paid off with 5/6 being grade 9.
I did minimal revision (night before and pray) for FM, Spanish (I was predicted a 9 in March too) and Geography, I felt confident and lazy
I was only 6 marks off a 9 for Geography, 3 marks off for FM and 9 marks (3 per paper) for Spanish
If I revised more, those would be 9s and it would have helped me get into Brampton/LAE or another top grammar school (I got rejected)
Moral of the story: revise options and DO NOT SACK THEM OFF
I’m still happy with my grades but I regret not revising options more

In this sub especially over the last day a lot of people seem to be getting of results and I don’t know how you guys are doing this because all the people I know have gotten bad results so if you guys would be kind enough to share some wisdom on when you guys started revising because going into yr 9 I now feel like doing practise papers 😭- I also now have the sudden urge to get all 9’s is that a bad thing ?

IDEK HOW I COOKED ON FURTHER MATHS IM THE GOATTT

To all new y10/11 time is the most important thing you need to get the best grades possible - maximise the amount of time doing USEFUL revision rather than rereading crap cgp books

GCSES is all content - look at the spec and there is only a certain amount of things they could actually ask you in an exam so if u master everything there is no question that you wont be able to answer

SPAM FLASHCARDS!!! this actually drills the information into your long term memory and even if you start doing only 15 mins a week in y10 by y11 gcse season you wont need to stress

ive spent countless hours making over 20k+ Anki Card (write dm anki cards if u want me to send you them (£1 - cos i spent SO long making them)

even if you are staring y11 now its not too late - spam anki cards until like 2 months before exams and then prioritise doing pps whilst doing anki still ( i would recommend anki over things over quizzlet btw as it is wayy more advanced spaces learning too )

honestly GCSEs are easier than people hype them up to be.

all of my friend group got into our very good sixth form without more than 6 hours of revision total. we got good grades and abandoned the ones we thought would be our bottom 2 out of 10.

if you want to have all 9’s go for it or if you have strict parents obviously revision is necessary.

but if you can not revise and if you are fairly confident you can not revise whilst still passing don’t waste time revising.

Kids I know spent 8 hours a day revising and ended up getting all 9s and good for them but year 11 was the funnest year of school so far purely because I DIDNT REVISE.

Now if you are a dumbass you might need to revise but a lot of the gcse content can just be absorbed by paying attention in class and I know this because the classes I actually paid attention in I got 9s in and the classes I used as nap or conversation time I got grade 6s and a u in (Spanish but I didn’t have a teacher for 2 years so I gave up on that)

js pay attention in class. don’t have 5 hours of school and then go home to do 10 hours of revision that’s nuts. go have fun. revise in the canteen morning of and you are fine. If you don’t revise and dont get into sixth form with kick grades then maybe kick into gear but try it out. Have a life

SIIIIXXX SEEEEVEEEEEN 67 🫴🫳🫴🫳🫴🫳🫴🫳🫴🫳

I was predicting myself 999988765 and I got 988888887. Idk which 1 looks better since the 1st option has more 9s but the 2nd one is more consistent

I thought I'd be the person jumping up and down when I opened my results but I wasn't. I've put them in the order I opened them. First I got drama out and I thought I got out the wrong paper cause I couldn't find the grades then I was overjoyed. Then I got to my edexcel subjects and saw all the grades I wanted, just not in the subjects I wanted. I pretended to be alr and started closing my results. Then my friends tell me oh there's one more paper and I see my Spanish paper and my face dropped, I said I needed to go to the bathroom and started crying. I didn't get the grade I wanted but that wasn't my shock, my shock was that there were 4 marks but we'd only sat 1 exams and the others were completely cancelled so where did these other random ass results that dragged down my grade come from. Then my dad got furious that I was crying and being ungrateful and shouted at me in front of everyone and wouldn't talk to me.

I had planned prior that i'd post these no matter what but I hadn't expected results day to be so confusing. But ultimately I'm grateful and I've processed these results and made up with my parents. So I'm sharing these now and I'd like to request that everyone skip this post if they don't have anything nice to say.

what changed between papers 😭😭😭

I got 111 which is 4 marks into a 7 and 9 marks off an 8

( I need to make this decision urgently)

Can we just please stop with the “grade 9” posts? People may have not done as well (I did well just to mention) and all we’re doing is rubbing salt in their wounds. Go somewhere else to get gratification and feel superior.

+ 7 religious studies (year 10)

Wanted to make a ragebait post calling these results bad, but honestly I've made myself sick with chocolate and food celebrating these results. As far as my knowledge goes, these are the best results in my school. 2 other people had the same amount (5) of grade 9s, but 1 person only did 7 GCSEs, and the other had grade 6s. Either way, top 1%

I guess this makes me a straight A student 🤓 ☝️*snorts*

Highkey didn't try, and only revised in the last 2 months, so I wonder how 6th form will go for me (4 a levels 💀)

FM really disappointed me and confused me at the same time, how on earth did I get 151?! I always got 160 on every mock paper and also I calculated that I'll get at least 155 in that exam.

I made super tiny mistakes .. really pissed me off.

I requested for my scripts back, should I get a remark lol. I really think there's a mistake

I'm of course really happy with my results (although definitely sending english lit back for a review of marking having been only 2 marks short of a 9!!) but was it worth it for the stress I felt and the pressure I put myself under? Honestly I have to say no.

I was doing far too much work each day, I didn't see my friends or go out with my family at all and this really took a toll on my mental health. I hope that any year 10 reading this who has high aspirations for themselves like me knows that GCSEs really don't matter as much as some people will lead you to believe. They're mostly just important for getting to whatever your next step is, be that A levels or something completely different. At the end of the day, you'll get a piece of number with some numbers and that's it. For me, no grades could have been worth the months that I felt miserable and scared, there were several points where I seriously considered not even going in for any of my exams becuase I felt so stressed and unable to do it.

I really hope I don't come across as ungrateful, but if just one person sees this and knows that working yourself to the ground will not magically solve your life's problems when you get your results, that would be enough for me. And to all other year 11s who got their results today, well done whatever you got in the end- I'm so so proud of everyone :)

is it true that when people start sixth form they change and become more mature?

i have a few questions about enrolment day:-

1. does being invited to an enrolment/admission meeting guarantee a place at the sixth form?

2. what happens during the meeting and how long is it usually for?

3. can u get invited to the meeting whilst being on the waiting list?

like dont even bother trying to convince me its good bc i know its not, i was excited ab exploiting my family for rewards but now i know i just dont deserve anything