#igcse

[learningsanctum]

when I finally start learning something I had been postponing and I suddenly rediscover my will to study and apply myself until I’m the best again

[igcse-bioworld]

First post:))

[blueberrycasanova]

none of yall have ever been told “skill ko skill issue mat banao” by your economics teacher and it shows.

[theidlespoon]

nothing will ever be higher comedy than my classmates' posts the night before an exam

[lovetaylorrussellgrr]

I have to study 6 chapters and my mock on Thursday do u think ima be able to do it 😞😞 i studied 2 of them before but I’m scared cuz it’s bio so a lot of memorizing

I just wanna watch MOIVES and sleep

[hellotobi22]

I love computer science, don't get me wrong, but something about having to learn that this bus goes to here and this one is unidirectional and this one is actually wider than this one and—get this—there can be more than one of all of them, makes me wanna throw my computer off the top of a building.

[softcarebears]

guess what

guess what

guess what

yo girl ranked first in both french literature and food and nutrition for igcses and now she's getting her oscar this friday teeheeheee🤪😛😩💥😋😱🤭

[saheira-dreams]

Why is studying for an mcq so damn hard like I had no problem studying for hours straight for every structured paper now here I am struggling to do like 5 mins of studying for an mcq 💀

[emo-philosopher]

IGCSE

Heyy everyone

So did CIE's IGCSE and *hair flip* got an A* in all my subjects.

So yeah I'm just tryna help. Fr.

Now listen u dont need to get an A* to be happy with ur grades. If those are ur goals then u go girl. If those are not u still go girl.

But my mum always says "Always aim higher than what u can get. Then you will reach the farthest u can go. Now go make another omelette for me."

Now a major thing I would do before an exam is open a candidate response, the qp, the ms and the examiner report.

Do each question, check with the markscheme, check the candidate response and assess where u are and then the examiner report.

I love this so much: https://paper.sc/

Examiner reports are a really underrated resource and are REALLY HELPFUL.

Use the 'IGCSE' reddit and discord server

IGCSE Notes – Soumya Pandey

Here are some of the resources I used and each subject tips

Maths:

Past papers past papers past pAPERS PAST PAPERS PAST PA-

Girl i cant tell u enough

Also makes sure to learn all the calculator tricks including the linear equations one, differentiation (the only ones I can think off the top of my head)

Make sure to practice past papers have good time management. Calm down during the exam. It'll all be fine.

(trust me i went and got bangs cause i was depressed about the way i wrote the exam and here we are)

Sciences:

Use the examiner report tip. Always always use the syllabus of each subject. And ofc past papers

Skill for Science Packs - Google Drive

Bio:

Drives:

IGCSE Biology (0610) notes from MS - Google Drive

bio

Chem:

Heather Houston - YouTube

IGCSE all chemical tests - YouTube

Drives:

chm

0620 Chemistry – Google Drive

Phy:

physics resources

Business:

Bs is one of the easist subjects cause of the repeated questions and the low thresholds. If there is one subject u wanna chose for fun let it be BS or EVM

EVM:

Smallest syllabus ever

Just do past papers you'll be fine

Ik everyone says that but thats cause its true

The same advice goes to ICT. Like the practicals are the easiest shit u can think of but a big mistake that people do is forget theory.

Study for theory and u get good marks.

English (1st language) :

My fav subject in IGCSE

It was sooo good

Always choose descriptive its just easier to score in

Go read books from good authors like Madelline Miller, Katherine Arden, and Ocean Vuong. Get phrases that u really like and copy them into a word document. Go through it before the exam and use it in the writing

You can also use: https://www.descriptionari.com/

Examiners' Secrets: Descriptive Writing (Mr Salles) - YouTube

Paper 1 video

---------

AND THATS ALL

To everyone doing their GCSE's

All the best

Just remember that it isnt everything. Year 10 and 11 is all about finding urself and having the time of ur life. I sure as hell did. And at the end of the day these results dont matter half as much as u think. Its not that they're not important. Its just that there are more important things in the world.

Go live ur best life before the A level train hits.

[kg1316]

Which board 👩‍🎓🏫

[lippyeepy]

okay so apparently this is supposed to be the most important year of my life. i wake up at 6:00 am just to go to school and feel like a confused shit for seven hours straight. then come home, stare at my books, and call it revision. love that for me.

everyone keeps saying "enjoy your last year of high school!" um. how? while i'm being pressured into studying how the multi fucking store model of memory works and english lit essays that expect me to analyze the trauma of characters who didn’t even go to therapy?

and don't even get me started on the pressure. every adult is like “just do your best :)” while simultaneously reminding me that if i mess this up, my entire future will combust. thanks for the motivational ted talk, yamma.

but even with all the chaos, i kind of want this year to be good. like not peaceful good, because let’s be honest, that ship sank around october. but funny good. memory good. laugh-until-i-cry-on-the benches-good. maybe even get a little unhinged with my friends before we all get emotionally exiled to university.

i’m not trying to have a perfect year. i’m just trying to survive it with my brain cells semi-intact and my sense of humor still functioning

wish me luck.

[mrpoison]

I heard that if just one person dies in the exam room everybody passes.

I volunteer.

tomorrow you all pass.

[igcse-bioworld]

[lecxtasy]

OMG IGCSE RESULTS OUT

[nosypunfiltered]

My totally serious guide to solving quadratic equations ✨

Sorry not sorry

I don't feel like writing rn, I feel like doing math🥰 so come

(Note = I used to take IGCSE Additional math and ext math soooo i hope this hepls if ur taking the same thing LOL)

(also pls don't unfollow i promise i wont be a full math blog 😔)

EXAMPLE =

x² + 4x + 4 = 0

ax² + bx + c

So as you can see there is a secret, hidden 1 in front of the x² so that will be our a value. For the b value you can get it in front of the x which is 4 and lastly the c is the number at the end with no variable so its 4.

TLDR; a = 1, b = 4, c = 4

So I usually make a big X thing and i put the product of a and c at the top and put the b value at the bottom. Like the pic above ig

So the product of a and c is 4 x 1 so it's 4 and then the b is just 4 so its 4.

THEN we gotta find 2 numbers that can be added to become 4 and mutliplied to become 4

SO it has to be like this (pretend the numbers are m and n)

m + n = 4

m × n = 4

So now we gotta do guess and check, I usually try to find the factors of the product, the one we have rn is 4 so

Factors of 4 are 1, 2 and 4

So let's try to find it! Let's try to check if 4 and 1 can.

1 + 4 = 5 ❌ <- doesn't add up to 4

2 + 2 = 4 ✅ <- adds up to 4

So now we just put it into the factors thing, Your answer should be (x+2)(x+2) or (x+2)²

BUT WAIT We're not done yet!

We gotta find x

So since it's (x+2) multiplied by (x+2) that means x + 2 = 0

and we just solve algebraically

x + 2 = 0

x = -2

So there's your answer

OR You could always use the