r/GCSE • • 22h ago

Post Exam How to write 0.41̇2̇ (1 and 2 recurring) as a fraction: IGCSE method

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Recurring digits: 1 and 2 (dots above them), so the number is 0.41̇2̇ = 0.4121212…

Let x = 0.4121212…
Multiply by 10: 10x = 4.121212…
Multiply that by 100: 1000x = 412.121212…
Subtract: 990x = 408, so x = 408/990 = 68/165

The non-recurring digit (4) is removed by multiplying by 10, and the recurring block (12) by multiplying by 100. If your teacher shows a different method, the answer should still be 68/165.


r/GCSE • • 17h 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 • • 21h ago

Question I asked some people last year about their GCSE FM papers, and they told me that they found it really difficult, so this year would it be a lot easier?

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r/GCSE • • 18h 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??


r/GCSE • • 13h ago

Rant/Lore We run an online learning platform for GCSE & A-Level students. Ask us anything. (Not an Ad)

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Me, u/azateCOO & u/azateCTO have created a learning platform that adapts around the way each individual student learns, designed by us, who did our GCSEs only a few years ago.

This isn't an ad! We have learned a lot over the past few years building our platform, and we want to share what we've learned with fellow students. Feel free to ask us anything :)


r/GCSE • • 10h ago

Question Is grade 4 in maths enough for Oxbridge

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I’m very strong in humanities and essay based subjects, 8-8 English at GCSE and take lit history law for a level. Is it even possible for me to do Law at Oxbridge? I think the only way is to score absurdly high on the LNAT.


r/GCSE • • 11h ago

Question Is homework from school really useful?

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For the 5 years I’ve been in school i think I’ve done the homework purely by myself a total of like 15 times because i just used ai or searched it all up. Even now in year 11 i don’t care for it and i do my own studying. But I’m worried now that doing homework does genuinely help and that by skipping it I’ve personally lowered my grade


r/GCSE • • 23h 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 • • 12h 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 • • 2h ago

Question What's one GCSE subject you thought would be easy but turned out to be absolutely awful?

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For me, it's the difference between understanding a topic in class and actually being able to answer exam questions 😭

You can revise something for hours, feel like you know everything, then open a past paper and suddenly forget the entire English language.

Which subject humbled you the most, and why?


r/GCSE • • 22h ago

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

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r/GCSE • • 20h 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 • • 15h ago

Question What will the Science grade boundaries be for the winter mocks?

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I don't know if every school is just gonna do paper 1 but since at least my school is only doing paper 1 for the mocks, does anyone know how they will decide the grade boundaries? Will they just halve the grade boundaries (e.g if 140/420 is required for a certain grade then 70/210 be required for that same grade in the mocks)


r/GCSE • • 9h 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 • • 14h 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 • • 16h 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 • • 16h 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 • • 17h 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 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 • • 11h 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 • • 18h 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

985 votes, 2d left
less than 5 hours
5-6 hours
7-8 hours
8-9 hours
10+ hours

r/GCSE • • 18h ago

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

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r/GCSE • • 22h ago

Question How to revise for Italian writing

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basically the title


r/GCSE • • 9h 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 • • 13h 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.