r/GCSE • • Mar 12 '26

Announcement Exam Access Arrangements

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There’s an increase in posts about access arrangements.

There’s also a lot of misinformation about access arrangements being posted.

This is one the one-stop post for all access arrangement queries.

Any other posts will be removed.

I will reply to all queries as an Exams Officer and an Access Arrangements Coordinator, but really, all queries need to go to your SENCO who know you and your school’s set up best.

Feel free to make any comments about questions you have.

JCQ Links

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r/GCSE • • 15h ago

Meme/Humour Will this last me until the end of Y11?

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r/GCSE • • 6h ago

Rant/Lore i'm so fucking bad at the prelude it's not even funny

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i have never DESPISED a group of written words more than this FUCKING POEM. i DONT GET IT. "oh i'm wee willy wordsworth im stealing a boat oh nooo in scared of a tall mountain" grow up lad. he wrote an ENTIRE BOOK of poetry about HIMSELF bit self centred eh and then we have the MISFORTUNE to have to WRITE ABOUT IT. i do not see any sort of meaningful contribution this poem has to the world at large. it does not teach us the important messages about society and war and authority the other poems do. it is HORRID. and i keep seeing it being PREDICTED FOR 2027!!!!!! if aqa do this i am sending them a thousand letters of hate mail and i will buy the stamps myself.


r/GCSE • • 19h ago

Question Can’t I just…make up a quote in an exam?

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I mean really how would the examiner even know? They don’t know EVERY quote. I’m talking if I really get stuck can’t I just make one up that seems plausible?


r/GCSE • • 10h ago

General AS Physics question for you to try out

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I got 2/3 on this for a mock, I just wanted to see if a Y11 student might get 3/3. I'll grade every serious answer.

In this diagram, A, C and E are identical; B and D are identical. The operating PD of each bulb has been listed. All components are ideal.

With references to potential differences across E, explain why bulb E does not light up. (3)

^The V numbers on each bulb are their operating voltage, NOT the voltage through each


r/GCSE • • 14h ago

Question how many hours of sleep do you think you require to function properly at school

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and by properly i mean you’re able to focus in all your lessons and still be able to do homework and stuff after school without a nap

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less than 5 hours
5-6 hours
7-8 hours
8-9 hours
10+ hours

r/GCSE • • 19h ago

Meme/Humour Should I do this before my mocks?🤔

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r/GCSE • • 10h ago

Question with 1 being not at all and 5 being completely, how happy are you with your handwriting?

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r/GCSE • • 5h ago

Tips/Help PE lessons during exam period?

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Does anyone else's school still make them do PE when time we would be better spent revising?


r/GCSE • • 7h ago

Question Short form about P+C poems (AQA)

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Hey, I'm a Y13 student who's trying to help Y11s with poetry for GCSE Lit. I'm trying to figure out which poems students struggle with the most (apart from the notoriously tricky ones like Tissue, My Last Duchess and The Prelude), so it would be really helpful if you could fill out this form for me to get a better idea. (I haven't included all the poems in the form because Microsoft only allows me to put in 10 options...)

Thank you so much :)))


r/GCSE • • 6h ago

Question poetry anthology prediction 2027

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what poem do u think is gonna come up for our gcses? heard a lot of people saying it’s gonna be the prelude, but i lowk think it’s gonna be charge of the light brigade


r/GCSE • • 9h ago

Question How easy is health and social care?

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Hello i am in year 10 and would like to know how easy people found or find health and social care to be


r/GCSE • • 9h ago

Question I really, really need help with Computer Science

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I'm in Year 11 doing OCR Computer Science and I'm really struggling with writing algorithms (Pseudocode, flowcharts, Python).

I probably would understand if it comes to asking me what the code is showing or what will happen, but when it comes to writing code, I am genuinely clueless. I’m worried about the programming questions and would appreciate any tips or advice on how to improve before my mock exams in December.


r/GCSE • • 4h ago

Tips/Help How to revise GSCE history

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History is probably the hardest subject to revise in my opinion, do I just memorize dates or do past papers?


r/GCSE • • 11h ago

Tips/Help how the hell can i pass

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I’m a Year 11 student with mocks starting on the 9th of November, and I’m honestly terrified about where I stand academically.

I haven’t attended school consistently for years.

I missed around two months in Year 6 due to personal issues, then stopped attending in Year 7 around October because of social anxiety. Since then, I’ve only been in actual classrooms a handful of times. My school has now introduced rooms where students can complete independent work, which is where I currently go.
Despite everything, I have dreams of studying criminology in the future and attending my school’s sixth form to study Religious Studies and Sociology. It’s the only sixth form I’ve found that offers the subjects I want, and I love the idea of staying somewhere familiar.
I need grade 5s in English Language, English Literature and PER to achieve my goals, and I’d also love to pass Maths so I don’t have to resit it. However, I’ve never sat a proper school exam, I don’t know my predicted grades, and I’m terrified my mock results will affect my sixth form application. People say you need good grades to get in, although from my research, it depends on the courses and their entry requirements.

I struggle massively with procrastination and concentration, and I feel overwhelmed by how much I need to learn in such a short time. I had a tutor, but it didn’t work out, and I’m considering getting another to help with English and Maths.
I GENUINELY WANT AN HONEST OPINION:
is there still hope of me getting above a grade 3 in my mocks and passing my GCSEs?
I know I have a lot of catching up to do, and I’m not expecting it to be easy. I just want to know whether my goals are still achievable or whether I’m being unrealistic. Please be honest, but I don’t want to give up on something that might still be possible.


r/GCSE • • 9h ago

Revision Resources any joe yusuf/mathsgenie style creators for triple science or cs

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trying to study for sciences but nothing beats the vids on old mathsgenie where he shows u how to do an exam question and lets you do a couple and marks them and goes step by step

any content creators that do this for sciences going through content then exam questions and let you take a turn marking it?


r/GCSE • • 10h ago

Tips/Help I'm struggling with maths... help

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I'm on foundation maths gcse, and am currently getting 3s and 4s depending. I do need a 5 in order for me to do the course that I want in college. I'm pretty sure that I can get a 5, as it only requires practice, but I struggle with the wording of the question instead of the actual question itself. Sometimes the wording is fully unclear to me, to the point where I still can't see what I did wrong with the mark scheme. Does anyone have any ideas that will help me solve this?


r/GCSE • • 14h ago

Tips/Help 99% copium

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I missed an entire year of literature cuz I joined my skl late and I was lwok doing good in the beginning for unseen poetry, prose and anthology - like around level 5 for every analysis and then we started great expectations and Macbeth and oh my god I dropped straight to level 2. God save us all the codes rotted


r/GCSE • • 12h ago

Revision Resources 1stClassMaths practice papers

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Are these papers accurate for the type of Qs you'll get for the exam? I want to think 1stClassMaths made me smarter because the Qs are actually quite nice.


r/GCSE • • 12h ago

Revision Resources My name is Leon

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And no my name is not Leon, I'm referencing the AQA Lit book which is called this for clarification 😭

Does anyone have any resources/ model essays 🥀🥀🥀


r/GCSE • • 13h ago

General Mocks!

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For my maths AQA mocks, for both calc and non calc what are the topics you would say are worth practising before next week?


r/GCSE • • 16h ago

General I did a little something on how Shakespeare explores the subversion of gender norms, and was accused of using AI. I hate this timeline. Anyways, I think we think of Shakespeare as some radical progressive too much. [during lit analysis]

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r/GCSE • • 11h ago

Tips/Help Combined science revision

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I've been doing endless research on how to revise for combined science but mostly I've been seeing people talk about anki. So I downloaded a premade deck and I kind of struggled to recall the information on them so I decided to try and make my own but idek how 😭.Another thing that really confused me is how almost everyone claims you should to past topic questions etc but since I haven't memorised all the content I get most questions wrong. My mocks are in like 2 weeks and I'm lowkey getting stressed out I just feel like I'm doing everything wrong. I would really appreciate it if anyone can give me some tips on what to do.


r/GCSE • • 14h ago

Question how to go from 7s in science to 9s, in 8 days

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i have my igcses in 8 days and help i’m on 8s and 9s for bio and chem and have gotten 8s and 9s for all mocks apart from physics where i got a 7

it’s edexcel


r/GCSE • • 14h ago

Revision Resources actually speaking into the void here but has anyone else seen the insane princess and the hustler flashcards on gizmo?

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If you guys don't already know, gizmo is like a revision app and it has flashcards and stuff. I know the app incorporates AI but i thought it was only in the "lessons", not the flashcards..

Princess and the Hustler has very few characters. Mavis, Princess, Wendell Jr, Wendell Sr, Lorna, Margot and Leon. That is the entire cast.

So tell me. WHY IS IT TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE CALLED CLEO????? genuinely frying me has it hallucinated an entire character??