The qualification has also been dramatically overhauled. Combined science is worth 2 GCSEs and so students will get a double grade, from 9-9, 9-8, 8-8 through to 1-1. Talking about a topic to a family member or friend and being tested verbally can help with the recall of information and allow understanding of the links between topics.Around a month before the exams, begin to practice exam papers. Many students write down answers and attempt to learn these answers by heart, hoping the questions come up in the exam. The new exams will provide more accurate information to help teenagers decide what would be the best way forward for them.

Under the new system, an A is the same as a 7, and a C is the same as a 4. London WC1R 4HQ. This compares with 17.2 per cent of boys’ entries. There is more demanding content and coursework has been reduced. Professor Alan Smithers is director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham.At North London Collegiate School 77.5 per cent of all entries were given a 9.Science double award was the most popular GCSE, making up 14.6 per cent of the total exams taken. The effect is such that a feminist friend was led to suggest that the exams upheaval was part of a patriarchal plot to put down girls.GCSEs this time around will have been an especially gruelling experience for all concerned, but it will have been worth it. Certainly Twitter has really taken off over the last couple of years around exam time.“Students if they have anxiety, they raise it on Twitter and that can get magnified very quickly because of retweeting.” Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: “It was already very hard to achieve the top grade of A* under the old system, and it is even harder to achieve the top grade of a 9 under the new system.“Young people striving for those top grades may therefore feel disappointed if they do not achieve them, even though they have done exceptionally well in the grades they do achieve.”Sally Collier, chief regulator at exam watchdog Ofqual said today: “Students picking up their results today can be confident they have achieved the grades their performance deserves. The long interlude between the GCSE exams and results day meant an invitation for feelings of angst and self-doubt.The relief when I got 10 grade 9s at GCSE – placing me in the top 426 students of 850,000 nationally – was overwhelming.For each topic covered in class, I made sure to have my notes and flashcards prepared, so that once it came to exam season, I could concentrate on memorisation.Find out which exam board you follow, and then the complete exam information (the specification) can be found online.End-of-topic tests, spot tests and mini-quizzes can seem dull, but they are incredibly important.Just 15 to 20 minutes of learning a few key points for each of these quizzes can really build up over a year, and make the learning much more manageable.Mock exams are the biggest opportunity you’ll get to test the waters before your real exams. Biology is up 23 per cent, chemistry up 18.6 per cent and physics 17.2 per cent.Computing entries are up 11.8 per cent to 74,621. The modelling has been done at qualification level. But many will be disappointed at not getting the highest grade possible.Under the new system, an A is the same as a 7, and a C is the same as a 4.

Content has got tougher, most coursework has been scrapped and final exams brought in instead of modules.Maths and English were the first to use the system last year.

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Many of the students who scored an 8 today would have got an A* under the old system. And be sure to take into account your extracurricular commitments; you may need to start studying earlier if your calendar is busy. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? He said: “One of the areas we have seen an increase in volumes of enquiries is on Twitter.

While the proportion of A grades and above grew to 31.4%, the percentage of students achieving a C grade or above (including the new C* grade) also increased marginally. registered in England (Company No 02017289) with its registered office at 26 Red Lion Hello GCSE Art Students! For many students, preparation for the GCSE exams begin at the end of Year 9 or start of Year 10. This is the first year that the majority of exams have been graded with the new system. It's a tall order, but I was certainly hoping for it. We’d been promised only a handful of Grade 9s across the entire country, but in the end over 2000 pupils achieved straight Grade 9s. broadly the same proportion of students will achieve a grade 4 and above as currently achieve a grade C and above Exams watchdog Ofqual said no other comparisons can be made between the grades.This year has seen the biggest change to GCSEs since their inception in 1988. Girls are still well ahead, but boys have reduced the gaps at both grade 7 and above and grade 4 and above.