should i be worried?

[mollykins]

This is also stressing me out aswell.

So far i've had 6 of my gcse exams and found them easy, including the one that everyone expects to be hardest, triple chemistry.

However, normally when i find exams easy it either means that i've studied incredibly rediculously hard or i've misunderstood the questions and got about a c. I almsot always pay attention in classes, revised quite a lot and have had good teachers for these subjects that i've jsut been tested on.

Should i be worried that i found them easy because i misunderstood the question? meaning i'll get a c maybe a b or hope that its easy because i worked hard and was lucky with the right questions coming up?

[redman41]

Good luck with your Exams molly but don't be such a Pessimist as you may do better than you think. Be Optimistic......

[mollykins]

And i know some of you will say 'well you can only do your best.' but the practice tests i did were harder and i did ok and since then i revised more and learnt things that maybe had been missed out from the teachers changing or they did when i was ill.

[mollykins]

thanks redman its just that i feel i didn't do enough revision to be in the second scenario. But this year i've had less than a week off sick and last year, when i found the science and math exams i did hard, i did well i missed hlaf of january plus loads of other weeks.

[sophie_1003]

Don't worry about them at all, at least not till you've got the rest out of the way! I found that some of my GCSEs were easier than I expected as well and I had the same thoughts as you but did rather well!

[mollykins]

But because i missed ll that time the excessive revision paid off, but if i've had better teachers this year, then i wouldn't have needed to teach myself a biology unit and help my friend with it aswell (who inceidentally was predicted a c and got a couple of marks off an 'a'.)

[mollykins]

phew, thats good sophie.

[bensmum]

Hi Molly
I'm sure that you have done really well - to be honest it's too late to worry now, there is nothing you can do about it. Practice papers are often harder - I think it's to get people to try that bit harder for the actual exam. You have obviously revised and worked hard and that's paid off in the exam. Good luck, I'm sure your results will reflect that xx

[redman41]

What's your ambition when you leave School molly, what Career would you like ?

[mollykins]

And to be fair, most other poeple found them easier than they thought.

But most of the practice papers we did we old exam papers.

[mollykins]

When i properly finish school, i'm going to sixth form and doing biology chemistry maths and geography, then going to a uni on the south coast to do marine biology.

[redman41]

You'll do fine molly, Marine Biologist in the making......

[mollykins]

In ym last maths leson at that school there were only few people that turned up so we were doing brain scrambling stuff (some of which is a level work), such as infinity stuff and how 1=2.

[mollykins]

But if you use algebra it kind of works, but if you were to sue numbers, then it wouldn't work as you end up divinding be 0 which is wrong so technically 1 doesn't equal 2.

[razza]

Do they knock marks off for spelling mistakes.

[mollykins]

Some exams do (english, social ethics and hsitory i think are the only ones) and some don't and others give you extra for spelling technical terms right.

[rowanwitch]

Remember the harder you work the luckier you get,

[zzxxee]

relaxing before hand is the hardest part make sure you get enough sleep eat some breakfast and simple things like this make all the differnce good luck !!!

[mollykins]

zzxxee i've recently found myself painting before i go to bed.

Firstly it was a canvas that i got for christmas, then i finished that so now i've got a canvas painting of a puppy, a painted pencilcase, a painted scrapbook folder (inside and outside) and keywords for various subjects and pictures to help me remember things on my wall , on a big sheet of paper.

[mollykins]

My mum says that there's stuff she did for o-level maths thats now a-level but there's other thing we do that she's never heard of such as vectors and quadratic graphs.