GCSEs 2012: It’s All Over, Let The Summer Begin – 27 June 2012
What a feeling! Months of relearning, revision, and stress are over. This morning, I completed my last exam of the season – and, all being well, my last ever GCSE exam – meaning I...
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Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE German Unit 1 (Listening) – 18 June 2012
Throughout the GCSE German course, I spent many, many weekends learning what were effectively ‘scripts’ with the hope I’d be able to repeat them word-for-word in the six writing and speaking examinations (though only...
Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE History (Paper 2) – 15 June 2012
A few days after Tuesday’s OCR GCSE History exam on International Relations (1919 to 1945) and Germany (1919 to 1945), it was back to school for today’s paper on Britain (1945 to 1975). “#HistoryGCSE...
Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE History (Paper 1) – 12 June 2012
This afternoon saw me donning my school uniform for the first time in a couple of weeks, as I went in to complete the first of my two GCSE History exams, in which I...
Post-Exam Thoughts: AQA Certificate Further Maths Calculator-Allowed – 1 June 2012
Snappy title, eh? This afternoon I was back into school to complete the second paper of the AQA Further Maths Certificate, the exam in which a calculator is permitted.
Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE English Language (Higher) – 29 May 2012
For me, my Language exam was the one I was feeling most confident about – only ever so quietly, mind, but confident all the same. In both of the two mock exams I did...
Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE English Lit Unit 2 – 24 May 2012
Back in late February, when our English teacher told us that we’d be starting the preparatory work for our Poetry exam soon, I was one of the few (certainly one of the only boys)...
Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE Chemistry C3 – 24 May 2012
I’ve never regarded Chemistry as one of my fortes, though I’ve been surprised to see how well I have done at it throughout the GCSE AQA Science course (I’ve dropped fewer marks in it...
