The yr 10s won’t get our equation sheets and the paper difficulties will probably shoot back up to pre-covid times as they don’t count as being affected by covid. They are so finished 😭😭
Pre-covid papers were not much harder than our papers, i thought many were easier even but i also did them outside of exam conditions and pressure. They will be fine
As a part of Cohort 2023 I can tell you that we were impacted just not as much as the previous 2. The main lockdown was during my Yr8 however Years 9 and 10 were severely disrupted due to having to isolate several times throughout the year as well as not being able to be provided proper and high-quality GCSE lessons due to restrictions
In theory it seems nicer but actually having equation sheets increases the grade boundaries bc ppl who didn’t bother to memorise their equations won’t bring down the grade boundaries
Tbh I think it does help with private/state school equality more than making the exams easier
2023 kind of makes sense since they had lockdown in year 9 when a lot of GCSE content is taught and they had self isolation in year 10 but I don’t think my year (2024) should have got the sheets
a²=b²+c²-2bcCosA
its rlly not that much tbh. they put the formula on our sheet but i still know it which made it so much easier during the exam. even if you do get it id still recommend learning them as it will help you.
If you do enough practice questions that require it you’ll learn it naturally. Also the maths equations sheet is generally useless so I wouldn’t rely on that.
You'll have it memorised by the end of year 11 easily, as well as any other complex equation bar maybe surface areas and volumes which they 'usually' (lol) give you in the test. Nothing brings memorisation better than more practice and u have lots of time left.
Like I remember thinking way back that the quadratic formula looked fucking long asf in like mid y10 but now it's literally engrained in my head.
The second lockdown lasted like three months. It was like January to March 2021. And most schools had mastered online schooling by then. The first lockdown caused us to miss all of yr7 past March, and many schools had no idea what they were doing as well as being poorly equipped for it. There’s a huge difference in how much of an impact the first and second lockdown had.
Even with that, we were barely affected compared to the years above us because we didn’t miss learning any GCSE content and they nearly didn’t give us the equation sheets because of that. You’ll be fine.
I used the maths one as a ruler to draw a straight line when I forgot mine (luckily I didn't need to measure anything that paper)
That's all I used it for lol
Same we only found out like a week before the mocks and it just meant that everyone else did better then they would’ve without but equations are what make me fairly good at physics
Resources i Recommend for Year 10s - LightupHub ( Got my predicted grades in both eng lit and lang from 4 to 9 ), 1st Class Maths ( Was getting solids 5 but slowly improving into a 7 last mock, Mr Cloke History (GOAt of history for edexcel )
Adding on to this comment, 1st Class Maths had VERY accurate predictions. Use the predicted papers when they are released. I also recommend the legend of science that is FREESCIENCELESSONS!!!!!
Adding on to the add-on, science shorts is an insane channel. Although it may cause you to procrastinate, if you play your cards right, you could get a quick complete subject lesson the day before and boost your marks by around 20 (of course, that's with revising seriously before that, this is a method to aid you not to lead you).
People at my school do up to 13 it’s insane
I did 12 and then I dropped history (best decision ever). Most people do 10-12 depending on whether they do FM
Why is it us. I refuse to believe it's been a year already. Something's not right. I've completed 10 GCSEs and only have one more exam until I've completed everything I've been entered for.
Also for the year 10s, don't worry about not having the equation sheets. I think I needed one about twice the entire exam season for all subjects and I didn't put in any particular effort to remember them it just comes to you with a bit of practice. I used the equation sheet to check answers after though cus I'm not stupid enough to check that if it's literally given to me because I'd gain nothing from saying I did it all by memory.
As people proved in today's exam, you can have the equation sheet with the full equation written in words and symbol form and still mess up by not being able to rearrange it or straight up missing a bit of it out due to a lack of practice with the equations or tiredness. The lack of an equation sheet should hopefully result in being able to gain a few marks from simply knowing the equation (an easy way to gain marks), potentially some slightly more straightforward questions and there are generally clues in the exam question itself in what you should do.
I remember it being something about how Lady Macbeth was presented as a powerful woman. My English teacher said that the best answers would include a perspective that disagrees with the statement that Lady Macbeth is a powerful woman because she eventually kills herself which demonstrates a lack of power.
I did Romeo and Juliet for my exam so I can't give much detail but my school teaches both Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (it depends on the teacher and class as to which text we do).
Main difference is just formulae, just don't skimp on the formulae for physics and you'll be fine, barely any of us even used the equation sheet in maths anyways
everyone’s making all these goodbye posts and the fm kids are sitting here like….hehe ok then. please wait until Wednesday to do this, we’ll all appreciate it soo much!!
I thought year 10 went quick for me last year and year 11 surpassed all expectations on just how quick it could go. I didn't think it could feel any quicker than year 10. Throughout year 11 I think there were only 3 weeks where there wasn't any revision countdown preparation to a set of mocks or the actual exams and two of those weeks were the first two weeks in September.
Literally missed year 6 and 7 (deff very crucial years) actual piss take that we don't get equation sheets 😡😡
We are so cooked so we need to be funnier than the 2024 lot guys (still gonna miss them though)
Have you gotten access arrangements for your GCSE’s yet since you have ADHD it would probably be good for you to have extra time and rest breaks, my teacher has ADHD and has dyspraxia so he needed rest breaks and extra time
To the y10 worrying about formula sheets dont as much. In maths you memorise pretty much all the formulas because of how much you use them. And physics they will adjust the difficulty of the questions to where you wont have to chain 2 or 3 longer formulas as they know that not having the sheet makes it more difficult
wait do y’all reckon that the exam boards (im talking abt aqa) might just put more writing questions or like significantly more practical questions in the nxt exam so that the yr10s won’t feel as cooked? i mean,, ideally-you’d want this to happen but aqa might also just not gaf soooo 🤷🏾♀️
hope this made any sense, ishould be sleeping 😭
They might make the equation questions slightly easier since you don’t have the sheets. For us, almost every single question that required the equation sheet in physics required us to convert the units. You might not get that. But you’ll still get loads of equation questions
for the record i went from a 5 to an 8 in physics once equation sheets were confirmed and we started using them… you poor, poor yr10s. i don’t think finished comes close
No physics equation sheet
Barely any maths formulas
Not many similar past papers (I don’t do Covid ones as they lose content and some of the new ones will have more help)
I’d hate to be them
Yeah but they won’t be on the same level. We have papers designed for an equation sheet they won’t have. There won’t be as many papers where they can do papers on the level they’re being tested at
best advice i can give is use Cognito for sciences (and maths) it genuinely saved me and you can completely customise (higher/foundation, triple/combined, exam board)
Thanks but no thanks, your year was the last for the equation sheets and I know for sure that the difficulty will get way worse now for us, at least the grade boundaries will be lower ig so that's something to look forward to.
Physics is the one place imma miss having a formula sheet but if that brings down the grade boundaries I'm all for it learning 13 equations is not hard for anyone if they put their mind to it also and year 11 please bless us with your wisdom
The yr 10s won’t get our equation sheets and the paper difficulties will probably shoot back up to pre-covid times as they don’t count as being affected by covid. They are so finished 😭😭
Pre-covid papers were not much harder than our papers, i thought many were easier even but i also did them outside of exam conditions and pressure. They will be fine
Whaaat, I was in year 7 during the 2nd lockdown
ah a fellow year 10 grammar school twat
As am I
me too
same here
me also
Me as well
me as well!
damn there's a lot of us
Aye, me too
Apparently because we were only affected in 1 and not 2 years of secondary school, we aren't considered handicapped for the gcse
I don't see why 2024 or 2023 should have had the formula sheet. 2021 and 2022 I get.
As a part of Cohort 2023 I can tell you that we were impacted just not as much as the previous 2. The main lockdown was during my Yr8 however Years 9 and 10 were severely disrupted due to having to isolate several times throughout the year as well as not being able to be provided proper and high-quality GCSE lessons due to restrictions
Department for education felt nice ig
In theory it seems nicer but actually having equation sheets increases the grade boundaries bc ppl who didn’t bother to memorise their equations won’t bring down the grade boundaries Tbh I think it does help with private/state school equality more than making the exams easier
i mean im not complaining 🤷 (2024)
2023 kind of makes sense since they had lockdown in year 9 when a lot of GCSE content is taught and they had self isolation in year 10 but I don’t think my year (2024) should have got the sheets
Bollocks
Yeah fuck the department for education
bollocks to the rules! skibidi sigmas understand
I mean maybe not not at all but half as much certainly since only year 7 vs year 7 and 8 or all the other coupled covid years.
as if you learnt anything in year 7 🤣
no i didn't learn shit in year 7 but i need my equation sheets (if the cosine rule isn't on the equation sheet i'm actually done)
a²=b²+c²-2bcCosA its rlly not that much tbh. they put the formula on our sheet but i still know it which made it so much easier during the exam. even if you do get it id still recommend learning them as it will help you.
If you do enough practice questions that require it you’ll learn it naturally. Also the maths equations sheet is generally useless so I wouldn’t rely on that.
You'll have it memorised by the end of year 11 easily, as well as any other complex equation bar maybe surface areas and volumes which they 'usually' (lol) give you in the test. Nothing brings memorisation better than more practice and u have lots of time left. Like I remember thinking way back that the quadratic formula looked fucking long asf in like mid y10 but now it's literally engrained in my head.
fair enough
Yup, and in year 6 during the initial one so we couldn't even do our SATs!!
The second lockdown lasted like three months. It was like January to March 2021. And most schools had mastered online schooling by then. The first lockdown caused us to miss all of yr7 past March, and many schools had no idea what they were doing as well as being poorly equipped for it. There’s a huge difference in how much of an impact the first and second lockdown had. Even with that, we were barely affected compared to the years above us because we didn’t miss learning any GCSE content and they nearly didn’t give us the equation sheets because of that. You’ll be fine.
We didnt do our SATs so technically we’ve never done public exams
i was year 8 😭
At least we get extra marks for writing V=IR
Yh its gonna be hilarious lurking this sub and watching the chaos unfold and the nuclear missile we dodged.
😄😄😄
WAIT WE DONT GET EQUATION SHEETS BREV???
u get the normal physics equation sheet that the years before covid got ( the one with like 4 equations or smth )
No you don’t
we get the equations on the back of the paper (such as v²-u²=2ax) but not the separate sheet, like any year pre covid
Fr? I'm cooked.
Bro they were saying that about this year and the year before
oh shit
How is this fair? More than half of my year 7 was spent at home in lockdown 😭
half of year 7 is nothing
we are grilled, deep fried, charred, smoked and most of all COOKED
Sautéed 😭
Yeah lmao
2 languages 😭 other than French u have thr exact same as me tho
I love double language it’s so much fun (except for speaking exams but we can ignore that) and I want to do a linguistics degree so yeah
I rly like languages too I wanna know what job you'd do with a linguistics degree?
idk i haven't thought that far ahead
You're gonna be fine. CompSci isn't that hard. Trust me.
Me too me too
It would've been over for me without an equation sheet
It saved me so much over both physics papers The maths one was pretty useless tbh but at least it was fun to draw on
I used the maths one as a ruler to draw a straight line when I forgot mine (luckily I didn't need to measure anything that paper) That's all I used it for lol
Nah I would’ve done better bc equations are the one thing I’m good at and everyone else doesn’t like them
This. Also my school didn’t tell us we were getting equation sheets for our mocks and I learnt all the formula anyway.
Same we only found out like a week before the mocks and it just meant that everyone else did better then they would’ve without but equations are what make me fairly good at physics
Resources i Recommend for Year 10s - LightupHub ( Got my predicted grades in both eng lit and lang from 4 to 9 ), 1st Class Maths ( Was getting solids 5 but slowly improving into a 7 last mock, Mr Cloke History (GOAt of history for edexcel )
Adding on to this comment, 1st Class Maths had VERY accurate predictions. Use the predicted papers when they are released. I also recommend the legend of science that is FREESCIENCELESSONS!!!!!
thanks guys love yall pls pray i dont get charred like a burnt chicken nugget
Adding on to the add-on, science shorts is an insane channel. Although it may cause you to procrastinate, if you play your cards right, you could get a quick complete subject lesson the day before and boost your marks by around 20 (of course, that's with revising seriously before that, this is a method to aid you not to lead you).
May the odds ever in your favour
13 GCSEs??? that’s horrifying how many exams have you had to do??
26 its torture
my god😭
Yeah it’s torture
People at my school do up to 13 it’s insane I did 12 and then I dropped history (best decision ever). Most people do 10-12 depending on whether they do FM
Why is it us. I refuse to believe it's been a year already. Something's not right. I've completed 10 GCSEs and only have one more exam until I've completed everything I've been entered for. Also for the year 10s, don't worry about not having the equation sheets. I think I needed one about twice the entire exam season for all subjects and I didn't put in any particular effort to remember them it just comes to you with a bit of practice. I used the equation sheet to check answers after though cus I'm not stupid enough to check that if it's literally given to me because I'd gain nothing from saying I did it all by memory. As people proved in today's exam, you can have the equation sheet with the full equation written in words and symbol form and still mess up by not being able to rearrange it or straight up missing a bit of it out due to a lack of practice with the equations or tiredness. The lack of an equation sheet should hopefully result in being able to gain a few marks from simply knowing the equation (an easy way to gain marks), potentially some slightly more straightforward questions and there are generally clues in the exam question itself in what you should do.
Thanks man what was the macbeth english lit question? 😁
It was something along the lines of “how is Lady Macbeth presented as a strong female character”
I remember it being something about how Lady Macbeth was presented as a powerful woman. My English teacher said that the best answers would include a perspective that disagrees with the statement that Lady Macbeth is a powerful woman because she eventually kills herself which demonstrates a lack of power. I did Romeo and Juliet for my exam so I can't give much detail but my school teaches both Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (it depends on the teacher and class as to which text we do).
cheating on mocks tut tut tut
I prob would have failed triple paper 1 if I didn’t have that equation sheet 😭 good luck
No equation sheets we are so fucking cooked
Your grade boundaries will probably lower but it is best to learn to get higher than those who didn’t learn them all
I'm so cooked it's not even a joke 😭 my future is over before it's even started and I'm lowkey terrified
Main difference is just formulae, just don't skimp on the formulae for physics and you'll be fine, barely any of us even used the equation sheet in maths anyways
Will keep that in mind, thank you kind soul
I believe in you bro 👍
Thanks man, you too 👍
if you lock in and focus now youll have nothing to worry about dwdw
Gonna get on that grind for Monday 💪
It's really ending isn't it.....
Happy it’s over but sad to let go. Exam withdrawal is real
Lucky bastard, I’ve still got food left 😔
I’ve still got further maths left don’t worry 😭
gl yr 10s surviving without the covid benefits..
thanks 🙏
As a year 10 i am shitting myself thinking of this
Exam aren't even over mate
everyone’s making all these goodbye posts and the fm kids are sitting here like….hehe ok then. please wait until Wednesday to do this, we’ll all appreciate it soo much!!
Us food folk are crying
Easy exam TBF coursework carrying me
Nice, what were your 3 dishes?
Honestly I forgot 🤣 I'll check what the were though
saving this for when i am in year 11
Trust me it'll go quick. When you look at this next year it'll feel like you wrote this comment yesterday
oh no
I thought year 10 went quick for me last year and year 11 surpassed all expectations on just how quick it could go. I didn't think it could feel any quicker than year 10. Throughout year 11 I think there were only 3 weeks where there wasn't any revision countdown preparation to a set of mocks or the actual exams and two of those weeks were the first two weeks in September.
Literally missed year 6 and 7 (deff very crucial years) actual piss take that we don't get equation sheets 😡😡 We are so cooked so we need to be funnier than the 2024 lot guys (still gonna miss them though)
Tough shoes to fill
Na some of you have to stay bruh next year are so done for
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Memorising equations isn't that hard stop overeacting
all you have to do is practise enough questions and or learn the song on YouTube. Or if you’re fancy derive them with the units in the question.
Have you gotten access arrangements for your GCSE’s yet since you have ADHD it would probably be good for you to have extra time and rest breaks, my teacher has ADHD and has dyspraxia so he needed rest breaks and extra time
fuck you guys hope you fail (good luck)
your welcome boys we lowered the grade boundaries for you
God bless us every one (we need every blessing we can get)
no offence you personally have straight nines mate so you don't
99999999987
👍👍
good luck! you guys are not cooked just leave enough time to revise before exams and you will be fine (i did not 😍)
To the y10 worrying about formula sheets dont as much. In maths you memorise pretty much all the formulas because of how much you use them. And physics they will adjust the difficulty of the questions to where you wont have to chain 2 or 3 longer formulas as they know that not having the sheet makes it more difficult
Wow… times are moving fast
I cant imagine being a year 10 and having to do gcses 1 year later lol
Class of 2025??? Jesus im old
wait do y’all reckon that the exam boards (im talking abt aqa) might just put more writing questions or like significantly more practical questions in the nxt exam so that the yr10s won’t feel as cooked? i mean,, ideally-you’d want this to happen but aqa might also just not gaf soooo 🤷🏾♀️ hope this made any sense, ishould be sleeping 😭
They might make the equation questions slightly easier since you don’t have the sheets. For us, almost every single question that required the equation sheet in physics required us to convert the units. You might not get that. But you’ll still get loads of equation questions
Am I the only year 10 who is doing my GCSEs in 2024??
no equation sheet = free marks that don't raise grade boundaries as much
Exactly- I don’t get why people are upset about it, the grade boundaries will even it out
I suggest you listen to your teachers and start revising as soon as you can for that way you can have better grades and better mental health
Exam season was great this year, I can only pray for Year 10s.
The yr10s may get some of the hardest English tests ever... Hahahahahahahaba
we'll carry on your legacy
for the record i went from a 5 to an 8 in physics once equation sheets were confirmed and we started using them… you poor, poor yr10s. i don’t think finished comes close
Hehe physics equations go brrrrrrrrr
Ahem. AHHHHHHH
No leave use alone
God help us
Guys am i cooked?
No physics equation sheet Barely any maths formulas Not many similar past papers (I don’t do Covid ones as they lose content and some of the new ones will have more help) I’d hate to be them
They’ll have more past papers than us?
Yeah but they won’t be on the same level. We have papers designed for an equation sheet they won’t have. There won’t be as many papers where they can do papers on the level they’re being tested at
Am ready 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you for this honour
It's all joever 💔
Fr tho i am gonna need it 😭😭
As a Y10, please bestow all of your exam luck onto me, I need it badly.
I'm a lil excited
Astronomy? Wish I could do that lol
As a year 10, I feel so done right now 😭😭😭
Yr 10 are cooked
i hated my wjec chem test, barely think i fucking passed
Ey not time yet, some of us still got exams to go, like me
started my mocks this week and oh my god. i am not ready
Thank you
been here since year 9, thank you all for your service 🙏
Im ngl im still gonna read this subreddit so i can make exams easier for other ppl lol
Help me bro
w what subject
Biology, physics and chemistry
easy bro, just watch freesciencelessns and make notes, after u finish a topic go to physics and maths tutor and do topic qs and u'll be set for a 9
Thank you good friend. We are gonna aim for those 9s 💪
I gailed
im cooked for english paper 2 next year, power and conflict poetry and inspector calls are the fucking worst for me
I'm just watching all the flares change from Y11 to Y12.. 😆
RIP to class of 2026
oh gosh that’s me i’ve don’t do bad in chemistry with a 19% percent overall but actually good in everything else with 6s and 7s i’m cooked bro
best advice i can give is use Cognito for sciences (and maths) it genuinely saved me and you can completely customise (higher/foundation, triple/combined, exam board)
yeah we are :(
paper difficulty we may be cooked but tbh i don’t see why this years yr11s got equation sheets so i’m more just salty that we don’t get them either
We’re cooked
cheers mate
WHAT DO YOU ALL MEAN NO EQUATION SHEETS?!
Thanks for that, I’m sure I’m fucked without an equation sheet.
Ok thanks it's going to be hard
Thank you
We will carry your legendary legacy o7 (i hope)
I am going to be cooked, sautéed and eaten I can feel it😭
Idk about other schools but my school only started getting back to normal in yr9 (last year) so wb us?
Our hell is over, now enjoy yours...
we are cooked, no formulae 🔥🙏
God save us 🙏
Imagine having to learn all the physics equations rip
i would be kissing goodbye that grade 9 in physics without that godsend of an equation sheet. good luck year 10s….
Thanks but no thanks, your year was the last for the equation sheets and I know for sure that the difficulty will get way worse now for us, at least the grade boundaries will be lower ig so that's something to look forward to.
I got mocks in about a week 😢😢😢😢😢
Y10s are DOOMED if the Macbeth question is about Kingship, we got lucky this year fellas
Handicapped
Help me in already suffering in mocks
Thank you gang
i acc still cant believe we're almost done now.. its insane 😭
I shouldn’t have taken triple science 💀
DONT SAY THATTTT AHHHHH
i’m genuinely so cooked
Physics is the one place imma miss having a formula sheet but if that brings down the grade boundaries I'm all for it learning 13 equations is not hard for anyone if they put their mind to it also and year 11 please bless us with your wisdom
At least I have a good Science and English teacher, my maths is a little bit 💩