hi, thinking about self-studying psych, using my frees and devoting around 20 hr/week in total to it. im predicted all 9s, and have access to psychology teachers at my sixth form who i can ask questions to or pop in during the afternoon to speak to i believe. i would take it in the summer of next year privately. i am also taking bio chem maths, and i am very good at science and english. i want an A*, is it possible?
9 - (depending on subjects) thank you Jesus!!
8 - wow (deadpan)
7 - probably a panic attack (i had a nightmare that i got two 7s)
6 and below - relentlessly ask for papers, remarks and pester the teachers and exam board until it gets changed to my rightful 9
U - laugh
founded by yours truly who actually INVENTED results day, nightmares, and hence results day nightmares (/s)
claim your membership below with the craziest nightmare you've ever had about results day!
mine would personally have to be coming to school, dying and being trialled in hell with all the greek gods (while also being part of camp half blood), and being saved by trudi's sister from waterloo road, revealing i wasnt dead and it was all a psychological torture experiment. :)
GCSE results day specifically. i need to know how likely it is to get a 6 in english when ive been on a 9 all year. and if i mess up one paper and do well in another can i still get the grade i want? please just tell me your funny, crazy and sad stories so i can go in a little less blind.
THANK YOU WISE UNCS
hi. i just wanted to tell you guys that no matter what grades you get, we all have had something going on behind the scenes during GCSE season. honestly, half the difficulty is balancing GCSEs with all the challenges we have had to face. so whatever grades you get, look beyond the numbers. look to each night you studied through tears, every cramming session with friends, every time you fell back and said "i cannot do this anymore" and got up to your laptops and your lamp-lit desk like nothing was wrong. results day is a celebration more than it is a reckoning. whatever grade you get, if you know you worked for it and tried your best, consider it an achievement. people are proud of you, because being a teenager in 2026 is hard. with social media, friendship issues, mental health problems, wars, family problems, bullying, loneliness, physical illnesses and so much more it seems impossible that one day we're sobbing and breaking down and the next we're filing into literature paper 2 prepared to give it our all.
we, class of 2026, are remarkable.
if you open your results cards and you find it spelling out a future of resits, disappointed glares and the overwhelming void of "im not good enough" swallowing you whole, remember that exams don't decide who you are. only you can decide that. what's harder than the resits and the quick changes to your life plan is having the courage to work harder and do better, and if needed, reach out for help so you can study like your life depends on it. if you were lazy, that doesn't define you, because that was the past. if you want a future, still, work for it.
this is coming from someone hoping for all 9s who has had to fight just like you guys. i hope this tells you that not all toppers are annoying and stuck-up, haha.
may God be with you come 20/08. i will keep you all in mind when i pray my rosary. <3
^^^ this is only one of my amazing lines
sort of new to this community, this is only my second post. :)
what are your opinions on teen writers? there seems to be more than ever. i'm one too (i started writing at 4, got some competitions under my belt, moved to novel writing at 11, and now i'm 16). do you think teen writers can write good quality pieces in general, not 'for their age', and succeed in the publishing world without a parent getting their foot in the door?
just a question for discussion as i'm curious what other writers actually think.
for 2 years my parents have drilled in the importance of revision, saying that to be successful i needed all 9s, three A*s and a good education at a top uni.
i've done my gcses. and now im finding that after taking their advice, revising so hard and sacrificing my sleep, social life and mental health to drill pointless knowledge in my head, i get no reward. this is the worst summer i've ever had. my friends ditched me, and even with previous work experience, no jobs are taking me on since my city has more applicants than places and adults are taking roles that were supposed to be for people like me. work experience programs closed during my gcses, when i was too busy revising to apply.
why is it that even after doing our best, it's still not enough? most companies are prioritising boroughs that aren't mine/students who meet conditions i don't. clubs are closed, nobody taught me how to network since macbeth and "checking out me history" were so much more important, and my parents are now nagging at me to get out of bed and do something of my life. i already followed all the advice they had to give, and it still isn't enough. nothing is ever enough for the UK anymore.
what i think i will see on results day - as you can tell i'm hoping for all 9s but these are a bit more realistic
BOARDS:
AQA - Literature, Language, Maths, RS, Music, History, Further Maths
EDEXCEL - Bio, Chem, Physics, German
includes predicted scores and overall comments!
english literature -
jekyll and hyde - 25/30
macbeth - 30/30
poetry - 27/30
animal farm - 30/30
unseen - 21/24, 8/8
total: 149/160 -- 9
comments: beautiful questions all around, lovely unseen, awful time pressure, and subjective marking
RE:
paper 1: 94/102
paper 2: 88/102
total: 182/204 -- 9 BUT predicting an 8 to be safe
comments: both papers were harder than i thought, 12 markers were evil, short answer questions were thankfully alright, hopefully will get full marks on all the 4s and 6s, but the 12s i think i got 9-12/12 on each one which is where the majority of my marks are flying away to. all 1 markers should also be ok other than surah 112.
german:
speaking: 45/50
reading: 45/50
listening: 48/50
writing: 42/50
total: 180/200 -- definite 9
comments: all papers were fairly easy, especially listening. this should be a comfortable 9.
history:
paper 1: 64/84
paper 2: 75/84
total: 139/168 -- grade 9
comments: paper 1 went awfully, paper 2 went amazingly. hopefully brought it up!!!
english language:
paper 1: 70/80
paper 2: 70/80
total: 140/160 -- grade 9
comments: pretty sure its a 9, time pressure went crazy but i am proud of how i did!! boundary is usually around 135 so i should be just on or above :)
music:
performance (already graded): 67/72
composition (already graded): 68/72
listening: 55-70/96
total: 190-205/240 -- grade 8-9
biology:
paper 1: 83-85/100
paper 2: 87-92/100
total: 170 - 177/200 -- grade 8-9
comments: paper 1 was worse than paper 2, nice paper 2 six markers, very likely i get a 9.
maths:
paper 1: 74-9/80
paper 2: 76/80
paper 3: 77-9/80
total: 227-234/240 -- grade 9
comments: paper 3 is my husband
chemistry:
paper 1: 90-95/100
paper 2: 80-88/100
total: 170-185/200 -- grade 9
comments: paper 1 was amazing, paper 2 was less amazing but definitely doable! missed the 2 marker at the end though.
physics:
paper 1: 87-93/100
paper 2: 80-86/100
comments: paper 1 was very very good, but paper 2 was difficult and the calculation problems were awfully hard. the dynamo questions were also a struggle.
further maths:
paper 1: 73/80
paper 2: 68/80
total: 137-141/160
comments: if grade boundaries don't stay low i'm going to put myself on death row
(explanation: revealing that the third person narrator is an in-universe character rather than the author themselves. this is all explained in the book haha)
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also i am a minor (16 years old) so please be nice!!!
she really hated the OCR (oxes cats & rats) biology paper 67 the questions were near impossible 💔💔💔
i will vote for whichever party opposes this
hi there, sorry i am speaking in english, my arabic typing speed is not that quick and its late where i am right now so i need to sleep.
i am syrian by blood, but was born in europe after my parents migrated there.
the situation right now is that a family member is not well, and we believe he may not survive much longer. two of my dearest immediate family members want to travel to syria from the UK, where we are situated, to see him in damascus for a week or two. i am a very anxious person and worry a lot about my immediate family, so is travel into syria right now safe? is there a risk of unjust detainment/kidnapping? and is it unsafe for women?
any information would be appreciated to calm my fears slightly.
thank you my brothers and sisters.
someone ik and I were supposed to have smth on today but they forgot. Nobody else has texted anything more than story replies (1 person who didn’t continue the convo) and wordless snap streaks. my grandad is dying and my mum is flying out to my home country with my brother to say goodbye so I’ll be even more isolated (the family environment is not very healthy so I likely won’t go but that’s under debate rn). in terms of my mental health I spend all day in bed doomscrolling and have lost interest in all my hobbies. I don’t eat more than a meal a day if anything at all most days and my parents brush it off bc to them eating at all means I’m ok. I’m a picky eater so… and I crave comfort food since eating nice meals is all I have to look forward to until results day.
the medical help they promised never came as they’re more concerned about me getting a gym membership and cutting out sugar from my diet. my home life isn’t great, it feels overcrowded and I can never get a word alone with anyone plus we never eat or do anything as a family at all so it’s really lonely. any self destructive actions I could talk, I don’t have the motivation for. so yeah I guess.
sorry if this isn’t gcse related but it’s gcse summer and I actually know u guys so I thought to put it here. please be kind :)
Disclaimer: this theory is based off of the events of the TV series "Peppa Pig" and the novella "Animal Farm", not any spin-offs or adaptations.
Peppa Pig (2004) is a British cartoon series following animals who live in a seemingly idyllic world, where there are no wars, drugs, poverty or death. The main characters of the show are the Pig family, consisting of Peppa Pig, George Pig, Evie Pig, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig. The animals seem to be totally equal, happy and financially well off.
In Animal Farm (1945), a similar world focusing on many animals and very few humans is explored, however, it is set within the limits of a farm. Two pigs naturally arise as leaders, Snowball, and Napoleon, and the pair are in direct opposition to each other. In order to establish his totalitarian dictatorship, Napoleon sets his fierce dogs, who he trained himself, on Snowball, and chases him out of the farm. In Animal Farm, there is a clear sense of inequality from the beginning, with the pigs giving "double rations" (feeding the animals) and manipulating them to believe that they had the right to steal milk and apples from them. This creates a system where the pigs are inherently more advantaged than the animals, providing a perfect set-up for Napoleon's seizing of power. The direct consequences of this include massacres, starvation and a direct alliance with the corrupt humans the Animalism movement sought to rebel against in the first place.
However, when Snowball is chased off of the farm, there is no definite conclusion given in the novella as to whether he lives or dies. Instead, Napoleon distorts the animals' view of him into a troublemaker who halts the structure and order the remaining pigs have placed on the farm. This is incorrect and just another example of the pigs' manipulation. Therefore, since the story does not specify Snowball's fate, there are infinite options available to us as we deduce his possible future.
The information given about Snowball in the novella suggests that he is quick-witted, inventive and adaptable. These are traits that would serve him well if he tried to persuade more animals to rebel against their owners, in a completely different area. He knows English, can read and write, and it isn't impossible that he slowly learns mathematics as well.
If Snowball were to establish his own community that follows the rules of Animalism, he would likely have learned from the inequality present in Mr. Jones' farm, and taken steps to offer a truly fair and equal society for all the animals to live in. In this kind of society, over generations the animals would've become more intelligent in maths and science, creating a completely self-sufficient environment for them. If we come back to the world of Peppa Pig, it is exactly that -- a society with almost no outside help from humans at all, eliminating sickness and death entirely.
This is where the relationship between Peppa Pig's world and Animal Farm can be theorised. Since Peppa Pig is a lot more advanced than Animal Farm was, it makes sense that the projects were created 59 years apart. This gives time for Snowball to build an army, conquer the humans, and take charge of abandoned buildings and research, inspecting biological trials on animals to administer medicines that vastly improved animals' quality of life.
The Pig family are extensive, suggesting that Snowball, perhaps, is Grandpa Pig. This would make sense in the timeline between the novella and the TV show. GP is constantly doing DIY projects, perhaps reliving his triumph with the windmill, and his friendship with Grandad Dog may have began as total aversion due to the trauma Snowball has faced at the hands of dogs. However, in his quest to make a truly equal society, Snowball may have decided to put his grievances aside and treat all dogs with as much kindness as any other species. Grandpa Pig eventually gave birth to Mummy Pig, with Daddy Pig's parents likely perishing in the quest to reoccupy pastures and territory preceding Snowball's revolution.
After the pigs used science to become as intelligent as a low-to-average IQ human (with the pigs obviously having a higher IQ) a peace treaty was formed due to Snowball realising that Animalism's hatred of humans was more damaging than it was beneficial. This explains why the human characters on the show, like the Queen, interact peacefully with Peppa and her class. She has likely sat through diplomatic talks with Grandpa Pig/Snowball agreeing on human involvement in the farm. A similar case has happened with Santa Claus, who is likely some sort of guide for the pigs as they learn how to use their intelligence and similarity to the human world without becoming corrupt.
This theory is completely fictional. However, one could also suggest that Laika, the dog taken to space, could have been a dog given up by Napoleon due to the fact that she, after chasing Snowball away, sees Napoleon's corruption and hears news of Snowball establishing a new world (the Peppa Pig world). In response, Napoleon used his close ties with humanity to get rid of her in the most efficient and performatively good way possible - give her up for experimentation and research. They could've done this with many other animals, who went into drug trials rather than into space. This was another thing Snowball sought to outlaw, making sure that Suzie Pig and her mother (Suzie Goes Away, S5E50) do not move away, as the 'new job' could have trapped the sheep family in drug trials.
In conclusion, this theory states that Grandpa Pig and Snowball are the same person, and the Peppa Pig world is a world created by the true principles of Animalism, with exceptional results.