how to get ALL 9s at GCSE in a week (complete no bs guide)

Make sure that you watch this video fully and read the description CAREFULLY because I am going to tell you everything you need to know to get the grades that you want:
0:00 Mindset
4:00 Past Paper Method
6:10 Secret tip
7:02 Environment
7:54 General Advice
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Past Paper Method:
1) Do past paper under timed conditions with NO notes to hand
2) Mark paper and check what grade you got (be HARSH)
3) Now check your paper and copy down EVERYTHING from the mark scheme, in your own words (in a different colour)
4) If you do not understand something, watch a YT video on it or use a textbook (I'll leave down the links of useful material down below)
5) Using your textbook and the videos, now write down any question-specific knowledge that you missed (in another colour)
6) This past paper is now an EXCELLENT revision resource
7) Repeat until you have finished all the past papers
8) Start doing each past paper again and see how much information you have retained
9) Repeat steps 1-8 until you are getting 80-100% on each paper
(P.S. Make sure you pay extra attention to the 2019, 2020 and 2021 past papers because the topics in those papers are likely to come up in 2024 (not guaranteed but an educated guess))
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The day before the exam:
1) Get ONE (ONLY ONE) piece of A4
2) Scroll through your syllabus
3) Anything that you still feel uncertain with, watch a video on it and use your textbook to make a colourful revision resource on the A4 piece of paper
4) Make sure you condense the information to only the most essential
5) Revise from this one paper, the night before and the morning before the exam
6) Hopefully, you should know everything on that piece of paper by the time you enter the exam hall
7) If you've followed the past paper method and also this, you have maximised the grade you can get hereon
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Additional advice:
1) Get sunlight in the morning ☀️ (wakes you up and makes you alert for revision and the exam)
2) Cold shower 🚿 (if you have the discipline for it because it jolts you awake)
3) Healthy food to aid brain function 🍏 (it is crucial that you are optimising performance at this stage)
4) Exercise 🏋️ (a break from revision and good to get the blood flow)
5) Meditation 🧘(optimising performance by keeping your mind focussed and clear)
6) 2-3L water 💧 (keep a bottle by you; hydration is essential for optimal performance)
7) Sleep 😴 (6-8 hours per night is crucial so that you can perform your best in the exam
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Useful links:
Past Papers and Revision resources:
www.physicsandmathstutor.com
revisionworld.com
www.savemyexams.com
Science:
/ @freesciencelessons
/ @cognitoedu
Maths:
www.mathsgenie.co.uk
corbettmaths.com
/ @thegcsemathstutor
Computing:
student.craigndave.org
English:
/ @mrsallesteachesenglish
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[@cuzze-gr9zf]

Good luck to everyone that has their gcses today!

[@SamanthaJones-rf2eu]

How did you guys find the paper?

[@Alishhh_7]

@@SamanthaJones-rf2eu re?

[@fungee6285]

@@Alishhh_7 fucking dreadful

[@djjrjdhwbbr]

Mines in 2 days

[@megamason8335]

Just did biology and sociology

[@jnyYT]

THANKS! this is the first ‘last minute’ revision video that has actually motivated me, not only instilling fear but including advice to accommodate the fear

[@_simplytk]

happy to hear it helped

[@ishaand6370]

followed ur advice and got 94% average across all 3 sciences gcse thanks 🙏

[@edbud6302]

i swear gcse aibt ecen started yet

[@cthei8558]

what was ur mock grade may i ask😭😭

[@senjitsu]

gcse started today

[@cthei8558]

@@senjitsu mines tmr coz i dont do rs

[@senjitsu]

@@cthei8558 mk

[@Zuqiro]

I have biology tomorrow 😭 so I'll try to do the past paper thing for my other exams 💔

[@EbonyFox-ys6oe]

Same good luck.

[@OilRig-1]

ive got re today 😭 biology tomorrow (separates)

[@3aloosh623]

bro im actually finished

[@supranova1]

how did you do?

[@amigoodorbad7651]

@@supranova1 easiest paper yet mocks were harder lmao

[@AmmarYahia-co9km]

istg man ur so relateable. you gave me that extra little push for aiming for a 100% instead of a 9. Im so grateful for you making this video Im now seriously aiming for all 100%. tysm

[@_simplytk]

hope it all goes well 🙌

[@ormmeee1234]

I can't believe I'm watching this the day before my 5th and 6th GCSE 😭

[@user-ot1hc8qo9t]

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[@poloX_FN]

u deserve more recognition man ur great. gl to ppl with bio on friday

[@_simplytk]

appreciate it man

[@thomasstarlingcollector8157]

My first exam is tomorrow which is biology, I did a bio past paper on Sunday which I got roughly 71% so it was a grade 9, really hope AQA goes easy on us tomorrow

[@HarrisonBradke]

Now we have all done it, how did you find it? will you get 100%?😂

[@thomasstarlingcollector8157]

@@HarrisonBradke haha no cause I can’t read off a graph 😂 in all fairness AQA went easy on us this time!

[@habshihalwa8855]

I've already done half the exams but I'm still absolutely terrified. Ill follow this advice and come back on results day.

[@_simplytk]

good luck

[@gabzwithazed]

This is actually so helpful! Thank you so much! This is definitely motivating me for my English lit and media exams on Monday!

[@NexusAero]

I'll try my best man! Thanks for the inspirational words 👍

[@akshar.p]

Feeling well prepared now thanks to you 😀

[@PhoenixWrightAceAttorney]

Idk why I'm watching this as I am finished with secondary school. I'm in university but these tips may some in handy some day...

[@_abhiraj_rajput]

Cheers bro followed your advice and went from Us to all Bs 🐐🐐

[@cthei8558]

how long did u spent may l kindly ask❤️

[@marleywatchesyt7876]

How long do u study

[@_abhiraj_rajput]

@@cthei8558 3 hours a day for 20 days

[@_abhiraj_rajput]

@@marleywatchesyt7876 3 hours a day for 30 days until the exam

[@rxshan17]

i swr down this deserves sm more recognition. u and dekrissh are cooking!!

[@shilpisaha9584]

Bro thank you so much for your advice i am glad you made be keep up my motivation at last minute ❤

[@s.vi8392]

this video is an absolute gem thank you for making it and not giving the same generic advice as everyone else !

[@_simplytk]

glad it was helpful

[@k3sh431]

This video motivated me very much

[@ruetennn]

Thank you for this!!! Gonna start aiming for 100% instead of 9's 💪💪💪

[@grimsim2673]

Really needed help with my maths exams thanks for this

[@ThevinduBombuwala]

bro's speaking facts!!!

[@StarryxBu77erfly]

I could have done better at my previous exams if not for my mom trying to control the way i should study and it has affected me a lot, even 6 hours of sleep seemed a lot to her and i couldn't even take proper naps to make up for the lack of sleep..anyways thnx for the motivation, i have been already doing what you said but i wish i had done it properly. I hope i pass the exams im currently taking rn and work hard for the other units that are left♡ im also so happy that you mentioned to take 7 hours of sleep 😭everyone here seems to think less sleep=more study but it does the opposite effect!

[@_simplytk]

good luck 👌

[@grubbygamer7678]

Thanks brother, I have my biology exam tomorrow and you’re a life saver

[@TheArtisticDragonStudio]

Me too, good luck dude

[@grubbygamer7678]

@@TheArtisticDragonStudio and you brother

[@crunchygarlicbread6701]

i'm gonna follow this vid and ur advice, prayiing for those 9s atp 😭😭

[@itsrelaxing3238]

How was r.e bro

[@crunchygarlicbread6701]

@@itsrelaxing3238 i don't do re, first paper is bio tmrw

[@Aurora_Animates]

@@crunchygarlicbread6701how’d bio go, what paper did you take

[@crunchygarlicbread6701]

@@Aurora_Animates aqa triple higher, it was actually not that bad 🤞but i have a feeling the rest of the gcses r gonna be so much harder. i was most prepared for bio tbh

[@senjitsu]

thank you bro

[@User.skz1]

Thank u man now I understand why my teacher always stresses to aim for grade 9s

[@meeponegero1535]

Thank you 👍

[@mehreen5338]

Thanks I'm really bad at Physics so I needed this

[@boomberry9037]

Thank you for your words of motivation i needed that i was getting lazy and procrastinating on doing anything to avoid my work spending hours on my phone but still wanted to achieve high grades .I have pretty much all My AS subjects next week but i'm going to cram like my life depends on it now. My parents have been disappointed with my unit 1 results in which i got 3 B's and in and i 've been feeling so insecure around my friends who are achieving the grades they work for. I am going to bridge that gap between us and make my parents proud. 🙏💪💪

[@_simplytk]

good luck

[@edwinbobyjohn594]

thnx for making this video

[@user-tt6yr7rc3h]

thanks :>

[@user-je3mx9bb4d]

damn bro thanks uu

[@DulliPlayzz]

I shoudve seen this 2 months ago

[@CalebJemegbe]

Never let bro cook again🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@_simplytk]

caleb 💀

[@Arun-xm7jb]

Do u think i should start revising for GCSEs in year 10? im bottom 15% of all year 10 students in a grammar school ?

[@_simplytk]

if u revise for all your school tests and try to do well on them, you are going to indirectly revise for your gcses

[@pythonian9977]

For the Paper 2s after half term I'm absolutely clueless about some of them like Geography what would I do then. Am I solely focussing on the paper 1s right now?

[@_simplytk]

I would recommend focussing on the paper 1s and the moment you have some freetime, you should start incorporating revising for paper 2s into ur schedule

[@user-hd3fu2yn3h]

hi, I just wanna say I spent so long for my bio and history on friday which literally drained me out so much and now I got further subjects to revise for. Each days between the exam I am going to revise my hardest. Would it be still able that there is some chance I can actually acheive this ?

[@_simplytk]

what's the alternative if you don't revise mate? You only have one shot at this.

[@ishaand6370]

where were u last yr!!!

[@myraasg]

helped me so much but what do i do last night before gcse bio DONE NOTHING NO PAST PAPERS

[@_simplytk]

i think you shld look at the 2018-2021 papers and try revise the topics you feel uncomfortable with

[@slyce541]

Week ❌ Day ✔ I hope ill do fine though, I got 8s on most mocks even though i studied the night before for each... Good luck to everyone else!

[@ibtihalsiari7154]

I have maths, chemistry and geo this week I do not have time to do every paper im actually so cooked what do I do?

[@mannangupta6331]

how can I incorporate edge maxing with my revision routine?

[@shamalam7]

💀💀💀💀

[@cthei8558]

i am so terrified.. Pls may i ask based on ur experiences , will it be possible to get maths physics chem higher triple from 5s to 7s within days if i use the past paper method in th video? i started my gcse courses at year10 and i am so anxious about my grades that i couldnt eat or sleep well:(( i am soo soo afraid that i tried and endup with failure and this stress is destroying me😭

[@lying.4fun]

yes but you gotta follow these steps

[@cthei8558]

@@lying.4fun i defo will i wish i can get what i want still few days to go wish me luck

[@_simplytk]

push yourself to work as hard as you can and you will get grades you are satisfied with. Good luck

[@cthei8558]

@@_simplytk ty🥹🥹

[@willowlol4536]

I have around 5 subjects next week which are all equally difficult for me, how should I revise all of them deeply without burning out? The first's on Monday

[@_simplytk]

Use google calendar to plan your time and set out what you want to have achieved before your exams. Obviously take breaks and if you feel like you can’t concentrate, meditate. Get the concept of burnout out your head. Ofc it exists but I highly doubt many people work to the point of burnout. Lots of people use burnout as an excuse for laziness. I’m not saying you are but don’t build a limiting mindset.

[@applepie7537]

I can’t sleep either. I only sleep 3 to 4 hours a day now.

[@yeahno1796]

exam tmr is phy and i still didnt start studying 🤪

[@purpleskrim6935]

WHat is the best possible way to revise both english lit and lag ive basically got the midset and pastpapper statergy down but the english pastpaper dosent work.

[@_simplytk]

i wld still recommend doing past papers for english - use ur notes if u need because you want to improve your writing technique

[@RayanPesnani]

past papers is great for science, but how would you revise essay subjects like english econ and history

[@_simplytk]

i don’t know much about history because I never did it but for econ and english I still think past papers are great. For English, I didn’t revise any of my quotes so what I did was plan my points for every single past paper q and under my points I would add a few quotes. Once I did this for all the available past paper qs, I started writing my answers with no notes to hand. By doing this again and again, your answers are bound to improve every time and you’ll probably have covered every single q type. I also recommend watching the prediction videos and try to make sure you’ve got solid points for those.

[@ishaand6370]

essay plans for all qs like macbeth for lit + memorise pre made descriptions for q5 worked for me got 40/40 and 30/30 in all lit and lang papers

[@stezypeasy]

@@ishaand6370 wtf

[@llllllllllp]

@@ishaand6370omgg can you give us some lines from your description please

[@cacaloverrr]

@@ishaand6370what abt paper 2 lang tho? the prompt is always diff.

[@we3e3]

wish i was shown this months ago

[@unkown2182]

I'm doing aqa foundation what did everyone get for maginfication

[@snobbystrains7398]

Fellow non sibi enjoyer

[@janaemad3841]

I'm a year 10 student struggling with school, my marks are not looking so good and it demotivates me a lot, whenever I try to study I find myself doing something else and tell myself I'll start in 5 minutes, then it becomes 10, 15, an hour, and in the end of the day I feel like I did nothing. Please give me some advice to do from year 10 because I feel so lost and ill be entering year 11 with empty hands at this point.

[@_simplytk]

i feel like the problem is that you don’t have a good study environment. You want to designate a place simply for studying and never do anything but study in that location. Keep any distractions away from you and keep that environment simplistic. So everytime you go to that environment, it’s a subconscious trigger to your brain that that environment is simply for studying and studying only. Remember once you get started, it is so much easier to continue. Just discipline yourself for five minutes to start and it’ll become sm easier to continue

[@janaemad3841]

@@_simplytk how can i discipline myself? and also like I dont rlly have a specific place to study, i just study on my desk in my room

[@_simplytk]

@@janaemad3841 it sounds unsurprising but you just have to do it. Good use that desk just for studying

[@janaemad3841]

@@_simplytk do u have anything i should follow to help me pass year 10 so i dont struggle as much in year 11? Literally anything helps bro, im in a really bad place rn

[@dilarademir7095]

Since you’ll have another set of mocks soon it’ll be paper 1 content again with the paper 2 content so this a good opportunity to go over parts you struggled with in your recent mocks, at least that’s what I’ll do ( I’m in year 10 as well, it’s a struggle fr 😔✊)

[@Shinigami-W]

Idk even if i can pass my grade will be 4 or 5 most

[@llllllllllp]

English language tips? Especially creative writing

[@_simplytk]

1) Plan out your answer structure (i.e. I did q5 first and then the other qs but this isn’t prescriptive - do whatever works for you) 2) Before you start the exam, make sure you give an allocated time for each questions so you don’t spend too long on each q 3) Highlight important pieces of information in the extracts and annotate 4) make sure you plan for q5 (I liked using a circular structure) 5) Follow the answer structure your teachers told you to follow for q2-q4 6) Keep practising past papers and mark yourself harshly

[@llllllllllp]

@@_simplytk thankssss

[@MarvelManz42]

Bro got me locked in

[@rawanamahjoub8617]

Fr

[@jem9190]

i just got a U on a chem paper ik no content so i cant do the papers what do i do

[@_simplytk]

do the same thing i told u to do - write down the correct answers to the q and learn the content udk

[@jem9190]

@@_simplytk but that’s litch every topic

[@madanameilus9268]

7:00 my friends are the smartest people and all they do is play playstation and they get 8s and 9s

[@_simplytk]

I know a few people like that but they do put in the work in some form. They either.. 1) Listen really hard in class 2) Do all their hw properly 3) Cram really well 4) Or they're lying to you Obviously, 1, 2 or 4 don't rlly add any value to you rn. All I can say is, talk to people who won't make you complacent and make the best out of your situation.

[@artsther]

You should be deluded… 😭 I am oo!!! Deluluuuu lowest is 95%

[@vedangpandit6147]

i might be cooked

[@roninmaster7721]

Real

[@MdhvComedy]

BTW would reading my mistakes before the exam still work

[@_simplytk]

If wldnt recommend reading ur mistakes before the exam because you don’t want to remember the wrong answer. If you meant reading your corrections, then yh

[@MdhvComedy]

@@_simplytk Oh yeah lol thats what I mean and also thanks for replying so fast and thanks for the advice, this vid was very helpful.

[@Hydr4z_]

Personally this is unrealistic… getting a 7 is great imo, I appreciate expectations but doing all these papers in a week is wild. Getting a 7-9 is great. You’re not going to get a 9 in 1 week. Even a 6 is decent. You will just stress yourself out and kill yourself mentally. You need me time and wind down time, but still revise 4 hours or so a day.

[@_simplytk]

if you don’t wanna work for your grades, someone else will

[@Hydr4z_]

@@_simplytk this is overworking. Once you have left it this late you wont get a 9. This expectation is wildly unrealistic, and your argument against it being “your not working for it” is madness. Its mental suicide, you will burn yourself out so quickly and revising all day will mean your sessions will become unproductive and a waste of time. Some people are just really good and well trained at avoiding this. But for most people, it wont work. People could have got something productive done in the time it takes to watch this video.

[@_simplytk]

@@Hydr4z_ i agree with your point that you should never work to the point where studying becomes unproductive. You should use your judgement on whether you are simply being lazy or if you genuinely worked so hard that you can no longer focus. But, you shouldn't have that limiting mindset. You will always do better when you have unrealistic expectations because in trying to meet them, you'll get something that you will finally be satisfied with. This doesn't mean you will necessarily achieve them but at least you tried.

[@Hydr4z_]

@@_simplytk i agree with the expectation thing but the sheer amount of content in all subjects you have to cover and then you saying do all those past papers is not possible. At the end of the day, gcses arent that significant in comparison to all other things you will do.

[@User.skz1]

Inshallah i do good 😭

[@_simplytk]

you will bro

[@user-hs3le3uu4d]

is it too late tho

[@_simplytk]

it’s never too late to start

[@octazooka3452]

People need to stop with "no bs" its pure cringe

[@_simplytk]

alr octazooka

[@y2zo]

GCSEs are thisss week lad..

[@_simplytk]

recorded the vid a week ago

[@chungnon0453]

neek

[@JannahMa]

Im gonna work my ass off innit 🦭💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 doing’s revision from 6am-9.30pm lately with few breaks in between i think im doing good but ill do more thanks for the confidence boost mate. I started studying in min february so a bit late which i regretted big time :( but my study routing has been increasing eversince with obviously some days not doing anything as well . But now im getting consistent im happy !