One of my biggest bugbears with modern education systems are their obsession with standardised testing and overexaggerating the importance of many inconsequential exams. Teachers being forced to drum into kids 'these are the most important exams of your life' right from Y2 SATs through to GCSEs. It's absurd, a lie, and puts an enormous amount of undue stress and pressure on some students which can cause a whole load of other issues too
The only thing that GCSEs are important for is getting into college/sixth form, and even then you should only need five (I think?) which really isn't that hard. Grade boundaries are also far more lenient and easier to achieve than at A Level especially, so that helps.
Look, I'm not saying don't care about them at all...but take it from me, even in three years you'll be looking back wondering what all the fuss was about. Don't stress, do your best and realise either way it's not the be all and end all of the rest of your life. Good luck
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Originally Posted by reece(:
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