An Insight into GCSE
We spend three years of stress, revision, and tests striving to be the best we can possibly be and do the best we can possibly do, dreading the GCSE results that might say we aren’t.
Students who decided to take on an even bigger workload and do Twilight Languages at Newstead Wood just went through the stressful process of doing mocks a year early giving them a unique insight into what their peers and they will have to go through. We all know what we think we’ll expect, as Georgia Higgin says ‘Long hours slaving away in a great big room, drowning in revision cards and stress’ but is that what it’s really like.
Shivali Agrawal who is studying Latin and Japanese in addition to her GCSEs has taken her Latin mocks and will be taking her Japanese mocks next week said that while mocks aren’t the same as the real thing they give the same inordinate amount of stress and anxiety that the real thing does. Before her actual mock she spent weeks revising and psyching herself out that when it came to actually take the test it was almost a relief knowing that it was almost over. She says that as long as you are prepared you will do fine. When I asked her whether she was worried about her results she said that she had put it out of her mind, some events are beyond your control and its no use worrying over them. Her advice to you is that while it’s easy too be overwhelmed with stress you need to stop think and relax
While GCSEs indeed seem like the most important obstacle we could ever face right now just remember it doesn’t matter as long as you know you tried and strived and fought to be the best you can possibly be.
By Sarnica Sivananthan Newstead Wood school
