1 STUDY TIP for EVERY subject I ACED in my GCSEs 📚
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the creator reflects on their journey through secondary school, highlighting the challenges of adapting to new subjects and environments. Despite the initial overwhelm, they achieved top grades across 11 subjects, including math, sciences, and languages, while balancing a YouTube channel and other activities. The creator shares strategies for effective studying, such as understanding core concepts, consistent revision, and leveraging tools like Quizlet. They also promote their 'Student Accelerator' program, offering further guidance for academic success.
Takeaways
- 🏫 The speaker started secondary school feeling overwhelmed by the number of new subjects.
- 🌐 Transitioning from primary to secondary school involved learning 11 subjects, including unfamiliar ones like Latin and music.
- 💯 Despite not being naturally gifted, the speaker achieved top grades across all subjects through hard work and effective study strategies.
- 📈 The speaker managed to excel academically while balancing a YouTube channel, gym workouts, sports, and playing musical instruments.
- 🔢 In Maths, the speaker leveraged their strength in additional Maths to make IGCSE Maths easier and relied on understanding core concepts.
- 🧪 For Sciences, the speaker used consistent revision, past papers, and focused on weaknesses to improve their performance.
- 📚 The speaker's English proficiency was built on a foundation of reading and mastering essay structures.
- 📈 History was a challenging subject for the speaker, but they overcame it through extensive revision, model answers, and immersion.
- 🇫🇷 French was improved through immersion, vocabulary practice, and using idioms and level 9 phrases to sound more proficient.
- 🎵 For Music and Latin, memorization techniques and frequent revision were key to achieving top grades.
Q & A
How many subjects did the speaker have to take for their GCSEs?
-The speaker had to take 11 subjects for their GCSEs.
What was the speaker's initial reaction to starting secondary school?
-The speaker felt lost, scared, and overwhelmed by the unfamiliar environment and the number of new subjects.
What was the grading system for GCSEs mentioned in the script?
-The grading system for GCSEs was distributed by a bell curve, with grade 9 being at the far end of the curve.
How did the speaker manage to achieve high grades while maintaining a YouTube channel and other activities?
-The speaker had to become creative and find ways to study in less time due to limited availability.
What was the speaker's strategy for achieving high marks in Maths?
-The speaker was naturally strong in Maths, took additional Maths, and did every single past paper to predict the type of questions that would come up.
What was the speaker's approach to studying for the Sciences?
-The speaker revised consistently, wrote down the entire specification, and focused on their weaknesses by doing past papers.
How did the speaker improve their French language skills?
-The speaker immersed themselves in the language by using it in daily life, listening to French songs, playing games in French, and even going to France for an exchange trip.
What was the speaker's attitude towards History before they started their GCSEs?
-The speaker initially hated History and had a low enthusiasm for the subject.
What was the speaker's method for improving in English Literature?
-The speaker read consistently since a young age, got familiar with essay structures, and wrote skeleton essays for every possible question.
What was the speaker's advice for students who want to excel in their studies?
-The speaker recommended checking out their program 'Student Accelerator' for guidance on becoming the best student possible.
How did the speaker deal with the challenge of Additional Maths, which was considered the hardest GCSE?
-The speaker focused on understanding the basics thoroughly and ensuring they knew each step of the process.
Outlines
📚 Overcoming Challenges in Secondary School
The speaker reflects on their first day of secondary school, feeling overwhelmed by the new environment and the multitude of subjects they had to learn, including GCSEs in maths, English, biology, chemistry, physics, French, history, Latin, music, and additional maths. They recount their journey from barely being able to speak English to achieving perfect grades in all subjects, despite the additional challenges of maintaining a YouTube channel, going to the gym, and playing sports. The speaker emphasizes that their success was not due to being special or gifted but rather through hard work and creativity in finding efficient study methods.
🧠 Strategies for Excelling in Maths and Sciences
The speaker shares their strategies for achieving high marks in maths and sciences. They discuss how their strength in maths and taking additional maths made IGCSE maths easier. They also reveal their approach to biology, chemistry, and physics, which involved consistent revision, identifying weaknesses, and using past papers to predict exam questions. The speaker suggests that understanding the fundamentals is crucial for success in maths and that for sciences, regular and frequent revision, as well as focusing on past mistakes, are key to improvement.
📖 Mastering English and History Through Immersion and Practice
The speaker discusses their experience with English literature and history, highlighting the importance of reading and essay writing for English. They mention their disappointment with their English results despite their passion for the subject and their strategy of reading multiple times to understand the literature deeply. For history, they recount their struggle and eventual success through intense revision, including writing model answers, engaging with a vast amount of historical content, and using memorization techniques. They also touch upon their experience with French, emphasizing the value of immersion and vocabulary acquisition for language learning.
🎵 Achieving Top Grades in Music and Latin Through Memorization
The speaker briefly discusses their approach to music and Latin, two subjects they were confident about achieving top grades in. They suggest that for music, memorizing a specific table and for Latin, focusing on vocabulary and set texts using memorization techniques such as multi-sensory learning and spaced repetition were effective strategies. The speaker also mentions additional maths, acknowledging its difficulty and recommending a strong focus on understanding the basics for those who choose to take it.
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Keywords
💡Secondary School
💡GCSE
💡YouTube
💡Productivity
💡Mock Exams
💡Revision
💡Past Papers
💡Student Accelerator
💡Immersion
💡Memorization Techniques
💡Additional Maths
Highlights
The speaker recalls feeling overwhelmed on their first day of secondary school due to the unfamiliar environment and new subjects.
They had to learn 11 subjects in secondary school, including some they were not aware of in primary school.
The speaker achieved perfect grades in all subjects despite the challenges, emphasizing it was not due to being special or gifted.
They managed to balance academics with a YouTube channel, gym, sports, and playing instruments.
For Maths, the speaker relied on understanding fundamentals and practicing past papers to predict exam questions.
Biology, Chemistry, and Physics were grouped together as sciences, with the speaker achieving high marks through consistent revision and past paper practice.
The speaker admits to disliking sciences initially but managed to improve by focusing on weaknesses and using past papers to guide revision.
For English, the speaker emphasizes the importance of reading, essay writing, and familiarizing oneself with essay structures.
They read their English literature book multiple times to ensure deep understanding of the text.
History was a challenging subject for the speaker, but they overcame it through extensive revision and immersion in the subject matter.
French was another difficult subject, but the speaker improved by immersion and focusing on vocabulary and idioms.
For Latin and Music, the speaker used memorization techniques and spaced repetition to achieve high marks.
Additional Maths was the most challenging subject, and the speaker advises focusing on understanding the basics.
The speaker recommends their 'Student Accelerator' program for students seeking guidance on studying and time management.
They encourage viewers to check out their other videos for more detailed study tips and strategies.
Transcripts
I still remember my first day of
secondary school I joined and it was an
unfamiliar environment I felt lost and
scared and the worst part of it all was
that I had to start learning subjects
that I didn't even know existed and
everything was just so so
overwhelming in primary school the only
subjects that I had learned were maths
English and topic which was a
combination of like history geography
and like all the other Humanities and by
the end of like the sixth primary school
years I had barely just learn how to
speak English to like a conversation
level osar
and now I was told that I had to take 11
subjects for GCS maths English biology
chemistry physics French history Latin
music and additional maths it was tough
and there were highs and lows but before
I knew it my secondary school chapter of
my life was over and all that was left
was an envelope and in that envelope was
a set of perfect grades the grades for
gcss get distributed by a bell curve
like this with a grade n being at like
the far end of the bell curve right here
and I did this for every single subject
11 times the same subject that I didn't
even know existed at the start of
secondary school and I don't say this to
BR because by no means was I special I
know people who got better results than
me and then by no means was I gifted
either I still believe that anyone can
do it but there is something that worthy
of Praise in all of this and it's the
fact that I got these results while
still posting twice a week on YouTube
and making videos is a lot tougher than
you might think I still went to the gym
on most days I did it while I still
played Sports
kickboxing playing the instruments while
having
fun and so anyway enough yapping here's
how I got the results that I did for
each of the subjects and since I was so
limited on time I had to become creative
and find ways to study in less amount of
time so feel free to skip around and
I'll show you the exam board that I did
the Mark I got what a nine was and my
personal difficulty raisting for each
other subjects I took and so let's start
with the first subject XXL IG
SFS and so a nine for this subject was
163 marks out of 200 or 81% and I got
197 marks out 200 which was
98.5% and the difficult raising for
maths was this for me I've never been
gifted but I've always been kind of
strong at maths and also since I took
additional maths as one of my extra gcss
which was like maths but really hard
normal maths like igcs math just became
kind of easy and so for my like actual
gcsc exams this was one of the subjects
that I barely did any revision at
because I had to use that time for other
subjects because some of the subjects
were very very difficult for me to get a
night and to be honest I do think that
like I got lucky in the sense that the
papers are really really easy I could
have easily got full marks on this exam
and it was just like one question that
like I made a mistake on and I still
know what that question is and here's
how I got these results during school
time if I didn't understand a topic
which would come up quite frequently I
would always teams message my math
teacher and I'm grateful she'd always
reply and walk me through a problem even
though I was probably really annoying
her and so my tip for Matt is to always
understand why Sunny is sunny and don't
let sunning that you don't know like
Maring like just don't skip over your
weaknesses and think like I'll come back
to it later because when you learn more
things in maths when you learn more
advanced topics they all stack on top of
your fundamentals like it all relies on
you you knowing how to do like basic
problems so if you don't strengthen like
your foundations or like any type of
like problem the cracks will begin to
show and I did like every single year
past paper so I was able to predict what
type of questions will come up so for
example I knew in paper 2 mats I knew
that the last couple of questions would
always be like a sequence question a
vector question and some like cylender
volume type of question and so I was
able to prepare for that before I go on
to my other subjects if you want to know
exactly what I did the steps I took in
all regards of being a student how I
manage my time productivity systems I
used mindsets I had and even personal
resources that I was able to use to get
these grades you should check out
student accelerator which is my program
for students helping them become the
best student that they can be and me and
experts will help guide you into
becoming the student of your dreams and
if this interests you make sure to click
the first link in the description but
more about that
later all right and next I'll group
together biology physics and chemistry
as the
Sciences I'll group them together
because I actually got really really
similar marks for all of them so again I
did igcs at XL for all of them and the
exams for scientists were all out of 180
because the paper w and paper 2 and I
got 158 155 and 152 out of 180
respectively for Bio chem and physics so
they were all in the high 80% and the
grade n was around 141 for all three
around 78% the difficulty for each of
these for biology I'll say it's this for
chemistry this and for physics this as
you can see for me biology was always
just the easiest and chemistry and
physics were much more difficult and
also I decided like early 11 that I
hated the scientist I ruled out medicine
and and so like my enthusiasm for
Sciences kind of died down and so that
kind of explains the kind of lower marks
but that doesn't mean I didn't revise
because to be quite honest Sciences took
up like so much of my time probably the
second out of like all the subjects I
took I had done revision consistently
for these subjects since mock remember
little but often is always key for AEV
Vision but there was also a lot of
cramming involved the way I revised of
these subjects to get these results was
I revised of the specification I would
write down the entire spec as you can
see for all three of the subjects and
then I'd marked down which was my
strengths and which were my weaknesses
and I knew this by doing loads of the
past papers and writing down like the
mistakes I tended to make in notion that
way I literally had a bank of like all
the mistakes and my weaknesses and I
knew I had to just work on those and so
I just draw those again and again and
again and I also remember for the
2-month exam period I was always on
Quizlet on the bus like Quizlet on the
toilet like quiz I'd search up like for
example IGI biology paper one on quizl
and there'll be set other people have me
covering like the core like points that
you need to learn for the exam and so
just by like being able to do space
repetition and activ revising by doing
flash cards probably ended up getting me
a lot more marks just Spam all the past
papers that you have available and don't
neglect
mistakes the next subject is
English so IGCSE English literature I
got 139 out of 150 and the language Mark
actually wasn't shown but I bumped into
like my English teacher in front of my
gym and he said I did really well so
I'll take his word for him difficulty
for both this and to be honest I was
kind of disappointed with my English
mark because English has always been my
40 and in my mock I actually got 95% and
97% respectively for English language
and literature and now that gone down to
93% although like it may seem like I'm
being annoying like I'm arguing about
like the couple of like perets in the
'90s because IID always got that like it
did kind of suck but to be honest I did
no revision so what did I expect a nine
was 67% for English language and 80% for
English literature so I ended up
clearing those and the way I did that so
my tip for English is I just got really
friendly with words I always liked
reading from a young age and so I
consistently read since my 11 plus and
that ended up helping me a lot and also
I got really good at essay writing a tip
I have is to get really familiar with
English essay structures and understand
like what kind of like structures and
like analysis uh writers like and that
will get me loads of loads of Mark
because it's really clear concise and it
makes sure it TT all the boxes so using
this I also wrote skeleton essays for
every single 12 marker possible and kind
of just memorize them so that it was so
simple and easy also writing YouTube
scripts in my free time definitely
helped out a lot and I also ended up
reading my English literature book which
was Things Fall Apart like three times
so just make sure you really know the
text and poems and you'll be good for
English and the next one history IG sesi
and actually this one wasn't Ed XL this
was ciee like I don't know what it
stands for but yeah history cie IG SSI
the difficulty for this is this boy do I
have beef with history I actually ended
up getting a seven in my mock like I've
never publicly announced this before and
it's like covered up a lot of times but
I just hated history so so much OG
viewers will know that my mom forced me
to take this subject and although it was
interesting I was just like always kind
of [ __ ] at it I genuinely think like 99%
of the amount of revision I did for gs's
all went into history and the thing is
like throughout the year I'd randomly
get like 9 but then also randomly get
like sixes and it was just so
inconsistent which made me really
nervous because like this might be the
one subject that brings my entire GCS
grades down and so as much as I hated it
I knew I had to like lock in get a good
result because imagine I'd be like the
study YouTuber who got like 10 NES but a
seven like that just could not happen
like straight nines I had to get and so
this year I needed 113 out of 150 to get
a N9 for history which was so high that
was a 10% increase in Gray boundaries
from last year but I clutched up and I
got 85% which was 10% higher than what I
needed for a night and so that actually
that was the biggest plot twist and the
way I got good at history is actually
like a combination of love things part
of it was just brute forcing after
learning each topic I would watch little
summaries on YouTube about like every
topic I wrote down model answers for
literally every single possible Topic in
the spec and then when our school gave
us this like 100,000 Word document of
like every single question by it I did
most of them and I even had a onetoone
session with my teacher during study Le
history I just had to read the textbook
I really really get into like the
details and it felt so so like endless
like I'd read about like the Munich p
and then I realized that there was like
so much about that in itself that there
are like many events that I needed to
know inside out if I really wanted to
get a top top Mark and so that basically
ended up with me like sticking like
dates and about like history on the wall
and like just always looking at like
history dates doing flash cards on
Quizlet Etc because I was just exposing
myself to as much history as possible
hoping that I pick it up and it actually
ended up working I started to draw like
the spiderweb diagram in my mind and I
saw how everything was kind of
interconnected and once you see like the
interconnection especially with history
that's when it starts to make sense and
also having the questions by topic and
being able to do that really really
helped but to be honest I got really
lucky with the exam questions this year
because they were quite easy compared to
the previous year examples and so
there's that as well but thank God I'll
never have to do history
again next is IG sesy French also at
XL I needed 134 out of 160 and after
history this was the subject I was
worried about the most cuz I knew it was
tough these are really high grade
boundaries but I actually surprised
myself and I ended up getting 144 out of
160 only dropping 60 marks this was the
best I had ever done in a French test
period like during my school career so I
was actually really shocked most of my
peers either had parents that like could
speak French or had been learning French
all the way from primary
school so I was disadvantaged and I knew
I had to lock in the way I got such good
results for French was in two ways the
first was immersion when I was on the
bus or train I just randomly like look
outside the window I see trees and I
asked myself okay what's that in French
and I just like keep on immersing myself
and like trying to ask myself like
random pieces of French vocabulary
wherever I went I listened to French
songs I played valerant with the
language set as French I even went to
France for a week for an exchange trip
and I'm not saying that's necessary I'm
just showing you the extent I went to to
immerse myself in French and it will
really did help also for French a really
practical tip is that it's 90 80% just
vocabulary learn vocabs sets and
although it's really really boring just
grind these out just do like 10 20
French words a day do your bucking vocab
if you don't do your bucking vocab and
we lose the vocab Bowl I kill the dog
and you won't regret it because when
you're good at vocab you're able to
understand it when you when you hear it
and you're listening you're able to use
a wider range of vocabulary when you're
speaking you're able to understand what
vocabulary means when you're reading
which is literally the entire point of
reading right you're able to spice up
your writing you're covering all four
bases of the French examle also idioms
and level 9 phrases are your best friend
I made a set of like these 30 phrases
that I just memorize and I put
everywhere in my writing my speaking and
it made me sound so Pro and like when my
examiner asked me like what's your
favorite food and I could say like uh
it's actually sushi but it cost an arm
and a leg which is such a shame like
when I could say that
like okay don't put that in no French um
yeah it made me sound pro when I wasn't
and it's a really good way to spice it
up languages are hard to cry make sure
to do little
often and lastly Latin and music are
group together because I know a lot of
my viewers probably won't do these
subjects but I'll still briefly talk
about them the difficulty for both of
these were this and to be completely
honest I knew I was getting a nine for
both of these subjects and so I really
did not revise for this to make time for
Sciences French and history and so for
these subjects I just recommend like
since it's literally like these both of
these are just memorization based
subject for music I just memorized this
table that I made and for Latin I just
memorized the vocabulary and the set
text by using like memorization
techniques such as like making
PowerPoints with like drawings multi
Sensory Learning and just like looking
at them little but often to use to like
space repetition that what I did to get
a nine in these
subjects and additional Mass was
probably the hardest GSC that I took it
was really really difficult it's
basically like half of the A- level
course for Math and the difficulty
obviously will be this but um since like
I know like very very few people will do
do this um the only tip I can have is
the same for Mk basically just get down
to the gritty gritty no just get down to
the basics and make sure like when you
don't understand a topic watch video
walkthroughs read the mark scheme and
get to know each and every step and know
where you went wrong and anyway if you
got this far I wish you luck I really
recommend you check out my other videos
because although like I briefly talked
about one tip for each thing there's so
much to studying there's memorization
there's like note taking flash cards
like what technique should you even use
and I feel like I do a good job in
explaining all of these and you know
it's backed up by my results and so if
you're new here I'm looking forward to
seeing you around and make sure to take
AC in what you learn today if you want
the most amount of help and you really
want to like cement yourself in like the
top of the top for the students you want
to get into that echon of like eliteness
make sure to check out your T Ser
because it really really is valuable so
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I'll see you in the next
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