Logan Brown Jesus Christ how’d you get a 5. Yes I know I’m only in year 9 atm and I’m only getting grade 3. My school will murder me if I don’t get a 6
Evan thinks he’s acing these exams by giving one vague idea for each question. The mark schemes for all uk tests require you to say an exact word or phrase to get any marks.
I once got no arms for a question because I used a specific scientific term for something in the brain instead of just vaguely using the term brain in my answer. Bullshit.
most annoying example of this is when you’re taught about “semi-permeable” membranes in GCSE bio but once you get to a-level noooo only “partially permeable” is correct,, no marks for saying semi permeable
@@vapourmile it wasn't an official test and we marked it in class, I talked to my teacher and he said it would have been right but I failed to mention the specific scientific term and I can't remember what that term was because it was a year ago and if you remember questions from a dumb test you took that meant nothing from year ago I'd be pretty damn surprised
Evan is seriously underestimating the fact that the mark schemes are harsh, there's mounds of coursework, multiple stages to pretty much every exam and just lots and lots to revise
This to me was always the worst part of it. They made fun of the question for email, but you could describe an email perfectly, in a way that shows you know exactly how it works, yet if you missed the 1-2 exact keywords they wanted, you would get a zero. So the questions aren't always as easy as they appear. Like Matty said I especially had this problem doing AQA Biology for GCSE and AS level.
I failed RE... i cant remember 2 religions at once. But i do remember i had like 14 GCSEs, and close to 30 exams. Hopefully A level exams wont be too rough this year
Ellyse Faulds shut the fuck up im 15 from Britain and GCSEs suck ass. He’s only showing an example of each question, there are higher tier intermediate and lower for maths and I have to do higher. I did one past paper and I’m pretty damn sure ima die when it comes to the exam
@@oliverhickman9747 ahah I take physics chemistry and biology. I'm so glad that I couldn't take 4 bc I would've taken maths and honestly the thought makes me cry
Computer Science is very different to ICT. ICT is quite a stupid exam whereas Computer Science actually has some reasonable questions, its closer to Physics or Maths than it is to ICT.
A girl in my year did that and she got a talk from the head re teacher the year coordinator and the vice principal she then got detention for a week and had to resit the test and attempt every question. Note I go to an Australian Catholic High school in the middle of nowhere.
Honestly GCSEs are so annoying if you don’t put the specific word in but still got it righteous wouldn’t he the mark but Evans answers are so vague and would get zero marks
Very unfun, especially when theres a question in which you HAVE to mention both, possibly compare em too. Fortunately our teacher knew this, so only bothered to teach us christianity and Islam in detail. Just basics on the others.
Our school did WJEC for re (no idea why considering we aren’t welsh) and I remember being super pissed because we were told to work on the basis of a mark a minute but there were 126 marks for a 2 hour exam, this was just for a half gcse as well, can’t imagine doing the full thing that would be painful
@@ffynloparnell1888 You said you took WJEC for R.E. even though you're not Welsh... our school is using the WJEC exam board for our *English* exam😂😂 (our school isn't in Wales either)
My cousins live in America, and their school is very strict in how they award marks. If they fail any random test their mark goes down. It is really stressful.
It actually depends though. Yes, in some ways, but then there's also the fact that everything counts. I have done one pop quiz my entire life and it was scary af.
Yeah... I'm a software developer with a Bachelor's in computer science. When I saw that IT exam compared to the CS exam, and he said that, I was like, "Uh... I don't think so, Evan" lmao
Yep it is teaching how to use a computer , while computer science teaches you how a computer works in terms of hardware and software than we are able to manipulate this info to innovate
"I thought geography was just teaching you where countries were" I got an A in geography, I know how rivers mould the landscape and what protections are installed to reduce risk of flooding but I've never in my life had a lesson about where anything is. I had 1 sheet where you filled in what you know for counties in England. That's it. I don't know where anything is, we were never told.
Me too which I found so annoying since I like learning about countries and flags and capitals much more than flood protections and coastal formations (though I have to admit that I got just as excited about freeze thawing as Noah did since I was like I LEARNT THAT)
Amennnn! I did GCSE Geography back in 2016 and all my friends who didn’t take it just naturally thought I was learning maps and I’m like... I learned maps in year 3
Same! There was a running joke in my school where you always refer to geography as colouring in maps lessons. WE DIDNT COLOUR IN A SINGLE MAP SINCE LIKE YEAR 9 !!
I did this exact exam and the correct full mark answer would be "A electronic message sent across networks via the Internet" And due to the harsh marking system you would basically have to put that exact answer (or something very similar) and you would have lost marks for saying electronic mail,messages sent by a computer and just using the word letter by its self hope this helps
Dice Goblin OMG 😱 really? These are the moments when I’m glad we didn’t stay in the UK longer and I finished my education in Germany. It’s really insane.
I've taken both with similar points but are completely different subjects especially in the way they are taught. Also there is graphic communication which is different again but very similar elements to ICT
It's offensive how he's making them out so much easier than they actually are. Especially giving wrong answers and thinking he's acing it. Honestly I think I'm just lowkey still salty cause I remember the stress from my GCSEs earlier this year.
Remember that in GCSE’s the questions are usually staggered in difficulty, so the first few pages are the easiest questions and the last few pages are usually the hardest to ensure every ability level can at least attempt to get to the next level
Ella I love the gradient in the maths test because at the start is just some simple algebra and maybe some log and at the end the formulas look like you’ve started to read machine language Except the first tests last question which was unnervingly easy to answer with the quadratic equation to the point it makes it seem like it’s wrong
Maybeornot exactly. ICT is like what all people over age 35 should have to take and computer science is the thing you’d take if you actually want a job in computing
Yes! ICT was filled with learning how to use Excel and PowerPoint whereas in computer science you learn how a computer actually works, and you learn a whole programming language
"Computer science? It's like the same as ICT" ICT is like websites, Photoshop a d that kind of stuff and Computer Science is like coding and the makeup of a computer ect...
@Roshna Begum "Exactly. This is why people like Evan are dumb." You may have an opinion about not needing to type correctly capitalized, spelt, and punctuated comments on the internet, and that's fine. But when you are actually writing specifically to call someone else 'dumb'? Not to mention the fact that your comment makes no logical sense whatsoever. Let's just say it's fairly obvious to some of us which out of you and Evan appears the dumbest.
I did it this year and there was a case where someone had 4 exams in one day and 3 clashed - I think it was English in the morning and then business, French and Greek all clashed. They made him stay in the exam hall from 9am with the english til 5pm with only the 45 minute lunch break while supervised so he wouldn't give the answers to others doing exams back to back without a break. I thought 2 exams a day was hard but that was just inhumane!
@@hannah-davies3154 It is inhuman! In Germany, there is a law that ensures that nobody writes more then one exam a day and less then three a week. But unfortunately we can write as many tests as they want us to, so the weeks also become very stressful..
For the RS GCSE, to get the top marks you had to memorise quotes from the bible, and sometimes the other texts you were studying. It was not fun in the 10 minutes before our GCSE started watching people yell bible quotes at each other from across the room at break in an effort to memorise them
We did Matthews gospel and ethics. For Matthews gospel you had to learn 40 full bible stories word by word and you’d be asked to recall them. Glad that’s over
You studied... other texts? In mine we learnt like 3 teachings for each religion that you could work into any conceivable question, RS was a doss at my school.
1. RS exams consisted of 4 papers on two different religions. Most commonly Christianity and Islam, but other combinations were allowed. You had to compare the religions often too, despite the papers being 2 on each religion. 2. Computer Science is very different to ICT. Computer Science tends to be a lot more about logic, problem solving, how a computer actually processes things (deeper than containing particular components) and a bit of coding. ICT is just ICT really 3. Geography was piss easy provided you paid enough attention in class to grasp the basics of each topic. Aside from the things like "what type of rock is this cliff likely to be", and some of the terminology and case studies, it's mainly common sense as long as the knowledge was partially there in the first place 4. You have compulsory GCSEs, so everyone across the country would take maths, English literature, English language, either double or triple science (triple science being a separate GCSE for biology, chemistry, and physics, and double science being a combination of two grades, worth two GCSEs, for all three sciences combined in a slightly more limited syllabus and shorter exams). Most schools made RS compulsory on top, although since leaving my secondary school, they've decided not to make students sit a GCSE on it due to the poor results in the last few years, but instead just have meaningless lessons on it all throughout your GCSE years. You then get 3 options on top, where you can pick your subjects. For example, art, a humanity, music, computer science, resistant materials, PE, Drama, business studies, all sorts. Languages would also be included in the options, unless your school is a language school like mine was, so I had to take a language anyway, not taking up an option. I ended up taking a total of 11 GCSEs. I think I sat 25 exams in total during exam season, excluding my art GCSE exam and coursework that was sat/handed in a month prior to the official start of exams. 5. After SATs aged 10/11, you start secondary school. For the UK, that's years 7 to 11. GCSEs are two years long, spanning years 10 and 11 (aged 14/15 to 15/16). The previous years are continuing your education and building up the basic knowledge in order to learn GCSE content. 6. PE is compulsory throughout all years, but not to be taken as a GCSE, just to regularly force you to exercise against your will really. 7. For the English GCSE exams, we had to know enough quotations to back up whatever point they decide to make us write about for the entirety of Macbeth, An Inspector Calls, and A Sign Of The Four. These may vary. I think most people did Macbeth and maybe An Inspector Calls, but the novels tend to change. Schools can pick which ones they want to teach. There were different exams for each book. We also had to memorize 18 poems, as one would be provided in the exam, and we would have to compare it to another one from the 18 we were given. Except we didnt know which one would come up, and they all compared best to different poems, so we genuinely just had to know 18 poems, or wing it... which a lot of people tend to do for their GCSEs. Most people give up trying by the time they reach that time, and not many people really revise that much.
I had 3 years of GCSE and my year in the school got lucky since RE and a language weren't compulsory however they were made compulsory for the years below us. (RE wasnt compulsory if you took history or geography otherwise you had to take it) For my GCSE I had to take Eng Lit and Lang, Maths, double science and chose to do Computer Science, Business studies music however, because i didnt pick any humanity or language subjects so they put me into E. If you did citizenship or sociology you still had to do RE. In year 10 I was moved from Computer Science to ICT because although I was doing good in practical work I was failing theory. And we didn't have to attend PE in year 11 if we said we're revising and everyone used that excuse to have a break from lessons and studying In conclusion all 3 years of GCSE were stressful and hard to deal with despite the very small advantage.
I haven’t done my GCSE’s (I’m in year 8) but I remember my year 6 teacher in literacy (higher set) giving us some year7ish level tests, but they were old GCSE’s from only a few years ago. A lot of teachers I know are also surprised because what happens is that things some of them learned in *university* is being teached to year8/year7
In Wales, Welsh is also a core subject. A lot of schools do Welsh bacc as well, which gives two GCSEs I think - it basically teaches you skills that are considered important but noone likes it because its boring and annoying lol. It can help you get into uni if you get a pass in it though
This video would’ve more accurate with a uk student who had just done their GCSEs this year or last year because they could relate to how hard they are now
yeah, he should do a part 2 with someone younger or with someone from a state school instead. A lot of what Noah was saying isn't the same for most English students
@@pestobea I thought the same... Noah didn't attend a standard UK Comprehensive for Secondary level Education... ( Academy or High School ) Not Noahs fault, its interesting to hear his experiences, I don't think it is an accurate representation of UK Secondary School education though. Neither was my education though lol! 😁
@@Little-Sparrow what was yours like? I feel like mine was pretty different as well since I went to a really small school and everyone was forced to take certain subjects which in other schools you don't. Did do the new GCSE spec last year as well though
@@pestobea mine was back in the 80's but was a 1500 pupil voluntary aided roman catholic school that was headed by a formidable man who ruled his way or the highway. It changed after he left apparently but I was long gone myself by then...
Absolutely! I've been saying this for years Charlie, kids are put under immense pressure at a young age now, far far more than I had as a kid at school in mid 70's to late 80's. I don't think it's anywhere near as much fun being a youngster nowadays as it used to be. How it SHOULD be. 😓
Evan knows math and that's about it. He seems to like to play up the "stupid American" in nearly all of his videos. My little cousin (12 years old) is learning about topography this year. The whole world already believes we're stupid, Evan doesn't help.
Vinnie Redfearn noooo I care >:( tests are the little irrelevant ones that you do in class at the end of the topic or something like that, exams are GCSEs and A levels and all that
In normal state schools RE is about all religions and was actually p good. In exams we had essay questions like "use references from their scripture to describe how a Buddhist or a Muslim might feel about abortion" some of it was heavvyyy but p valuable
I'm an extremely non religious person but RE was my favourite class! It was super interesting and instead of being taught what to believe, you were taught 'here's how different religious groups feel about a bunch of different topics and why'. It's a great class in terms of honing debate/essay writing skills
I went to catholic school so RE was a mandatory GCSE but it wasn’t on just Christianity it was on all kinds of different religions we just did a lot of lessons on Catholicism but none of it was on the exam it’s would just be for in school tests
Geography has ruined me. I went on holiday to Brighton and ended up explaining spits, bars and lagoons to my sister and thought about the formation of headlands and bays every. Single. Time. I looked at a beach. Also, when I watched the 5th fast and furious film I kept pointing out different landmarks in Rio to my friend.
Do you love geography that much or did you revise so much for geography you couldn't forget what you learned? Lol. Though, I guess it's valuable to retain GCSE knowledge in some cases.
@@scrollingdownonlytofindcom2663 I haven't actually done my geography GCSE yet and it has still taken over my life. I enjoy it, but thinking about rivers and coasts every waking moment is stressful, although I am quite good at that part of the paper.
I've just finished geography a level and let me tell you, it gets so much more detailed! I can't walk down a street without noticing different urban forms and taking note of sustainable urban drainage... If it's even a ittle bit windy in town my brain just goes "VENTURI EFFECT"
I went to first school and middle school we did all religions, but when I went up to secondary school in yr9 everyone had to study christianity and Judaism and take the gcse as it was a Christian school - defo not posh though!
James Neave he did go to some weird ass school. But in RS at GCSE In the course there was only Judaism, Christianity or Islam and you had to learn 2 of those 3. I think some other exam boards did Sikhism, Buddhism and maybe Hindu, but I’m not too sure.
@@MostlyPennyCat took my rs GCSE last yr we only learnt two out of the three same as the guy above but we had to learn it in detail check the specification on the aqa website
Evan will never know the pain of trying to revise a folder full of very specifically worded content for every exam (for me, 20) for every subject (9) trying to do coursework for subjects like art that I’m so behind in at the same time
I'd love to see a comparison between UK and American uni applications (e.g. in the UK you use UCAS and can only apply to 5 UK uni's, personal statement vs. personal essays (America focuses more on extra curriculars), and American offers are final but in the UK you typically get a conditional offer and have to wait for results day to see if you get the grades you need to go to that uni)
Certainly, when I were a lad (started uni 20 years ago this October), you could pretty much write "I am a fish" 500 times for the personal statement and get in if you had the grades (well, maybe not Oxbridge or whatever), unless you were applying for medicine or vet medicine.
This is half correct and is sending the wrong message, If you want a true representation of a person doing GCSEs then don’t talk with a private school student because it could be much different from public.
Also you mean State not Public, a Public School is more similar to a Private School. For example Eton is a Public School. A State School is one funded by the State.
@@EditsandStuff350 - and the public schools were named in the Public Schools Act of 18XX. I think it mentioned only 8 by name. Including Eton, of course
As someone who finished their GCSEs a few months ago and did the PE papers, I can say this years was pure wank and the chemistry and biology papers this year were written by Oxford professors on crack
Anyone else getting their results next Thursday. Lol wish us luckkkk Update!!: 9 in english lang 8 in english lit 8 in music 7 in photography 7 in german 6 in geography 5 in maths 4 in physics (And I failed chem but oh well ahaha)
I literally just started answering the Religious Studies and Geography questions subconsciously, before realising that I just accidentally got 4/4. What has my life come to?
THIS omg i’m in year 11 now and 8 markers are the worst because you need a good four paragraphs to get full marks - that’s 2 minutes a paragraph and trying to quote the Bible or Hindu holy books i- 😪😪
@@bean669 i’m in year ten and we did our first practice paper but just with one set of a b c and d question and oh my my hand nearly feel off.having to write a 12 marked in 12 minutes was so hard
Yeah I did my exam in year 10 and it nearly killed me. I’m in year 12 now and I took ethics and philosophy and they’ve amped up the difficulty because now I have three 40 mark questions in one paper at a minute a mark. Kill me now!!!🙄😬
omds having to write 3 paras for, 3 paras against, AND a conclusion all in 12 minutes for a 12 marker, four times over for all four papers... toooooooooooooo much stress for a 16 year old to handle
you should do a video with someone who went to a public school not private and got average grades as that will give a realistic idea of how impactful and difficult these exams are
ella milly Yeah in the UK, private schools are called "public schools". Yeah it's confusing, I know. The vast majority of kids in the UK go to state schools, as in regular schools run by the state (the UK government) and have a curriculum dictated by the state Noah said he went to a boarding school, which doesn't necessarily mean it was a public (private) school. There exist plenty of state run boarding schools. Though perhaps the boarding schools are still better in quality of education compared to the average state school, so yeah it'd be interesting to see an average person go over these exams Though as someone who is 30, and is also really dumb about most things, these exams all seem quite easy. Nothing likr the exams we had in my day 15 years ago. We didn't get multiple choice questions. We had to know the answer, we just had blank boxes to fill, we didn't get presented the answer in among a bunch of incorrect answers. Which is strange because all studies say that humans are smarter today than ever before in history, and we're only ever getting smarter and more knowledgeable over time. So it's strange that the kids of today are the smartest generation ever so far, but they got these easy arse exams to do.
duffman18 yes I know as I go to a state school. These exams are far from easy. Coursework is gone in all subjects, meaning you only have the written exams that will get you the grade. Content from A levels has also been put into the new GCSE system, making them a lot than the A*-C system. Only the first 2 or so questions are multiple choice and that is in only in a few subjects. Kids these days have it a lot harder. An example is having to learn 3 plays and 15 poems for the English Lit exam off by heart as you don’t get the text. And that is just 1 subject.
tbh, having the texts for lit. didn't help much - you spent so much time flicking through your post-its looking for quotes that you got stressed out and ran out of time. My teacher instead made us memorise quotes that could be used to answer a range of questions, which was really useful. But - give it a decade and no-one will care what your GCSE results were. This is the first chance I've had to brag about getting 14 A-C in at least 9 years (and it still pisses me off that they brought in a* the year after I sat them!) However - supposedly one of the reasons they've moved content from A level to GCSE is to reduce the knowledge and study expectation gap between A-level and uni. There used to be a huge jump from study at A-level to study at uni, which theoretically has now decreased... Making a-levels more like the IB, just with a still decreased subject breadth. The move from coursework to exams also favours some - my year had a fair few who weren't good at coursework, no matter how many drafts they had, but aced exams. Does suck for those who are the other way round though, and does absolutely nothing to decrease stress levels. As for the questions seeming easy - if you continue to study, or take a keen interest in, the subject area, they will be easy. If you don't, then you're unlikely to get the same grades a decade on. Recently watched someone who took maths a-level sit a higher maths GCSE paper (from around the year he actually took it) having not done maths for 8 years (no revision) - he got 26%, which equates to a c. He got an A* the first time round. The exams (and our education system as a whole) don't actually teach you the subject matter - it teaches you how to pass the exam - so the information is easily forgotten, as it holds little intrinsic worth. Which is probably why no-one cares what you get several years on. Sure, your grades make getting onto A-level and uni courses straight away easier - but I have a friend who left high school with 3 D GCSE's. A few years later he re-sat English and maths, and then went on to do a foundation degree followed by a BSc. He's only 5 years behind anyone who left high school with straight A's (1's?!? 8's?!?) And that's assuming they didn't take a gap year or do a sandwich course. Don't assume that grades equate to intellectual intelligence. Don't assume grades dictate your life course. And don't let them stress you out! Your mental health and wellbeing is far more important that your grades. Although I guess with the Pandemic everything's gone to pot with this year's exams anyway 🙃
1. PE is OPTIONAL for GCSE - you have to take part in classes but dont get a written test on it unless you choose it as one of your GCSE options 2. Short Course RE/RS is Mandatory but you can take a more indepth exam (again) if you choose it for GCSE options. Most Church Schools with have you take Full Course RE regardless of choice. Many exam boards require you to look at more than one Religion and compare and contrast their views 3. We only had 2 different exams Higher and Lower. High was A*-C and lower was C and below. If you did really badly you could get below a C on a Higher paper. Which paper you took often depended on how you did in Yr 9 and/or how you did on your coursework 4. My school made us do Tech GCSE but we had 4 different Tech courses (Graphics, Textiles, Cooking and Resistant Materials) but we got to choose which ones we did by ranking them and we would get put in the class according to our choices and spaces. 5. My school had 9 1/2 mandatory GCSEs (Short Course RE was 1/2) 6. My school didnt have IT but we had Business and Comms. Which was a mix of Business Studies and IT. 7. Geography was option in my school 8. Some schools had International Baccalaurete instead of A Levels 9. I took a mix. AQA English and Maths. OCR Science. AQA Drama. 10. I spent Yr 10 not paying attention in RE but still managed to come out with a B Thats just me and my school. Everywhere was different although a lot of schools in a local area will take the same exams coz there isnt much exam board variation in the area, borough, county etc
Agreed. My school RS you had to do at least one religion that wasn't Christianity. I am genuinely suprised that Noah got away with just doing Christianity. Maybe because he wasn't at a state school. FYI to all Americans- public/private school is basically the same thing, a school funded by the government is a state school (although there are many types including comprehensive, religious and grammar)
Im my school RE was not mandatory, Once we hit GCSE years we had to choose between 2 of the 3 Geography, History or Re. I chose Geography and History. Also GCSE PE was separated from PE. Everyone did standard PE which was just playing sports, GSCE PE was optional but in a class room and we learnt about the body, health and training. No sports involved.
Rs isn't mandatory for me. I had to take either geography or history.(Of course I took history tho cuz I dont wanna be stuck learning about urbanisation for two more years)
In my school you had to choose between history, geography and French for an ebacc subject I did (am still doing) History and French with one other btec option and I did Drama and we did the exam for our btec in year ten so we would have free periods where we got to choose an option lesson to do instead. I chose Option science because I'm doing higher triple and its AQA and their mark schemes are brutal
Jessikaka Wait how many options do you get to choose Coz I’m my school we get 2 option choices A choice of a language And history or geog Plus all the maths science English Lit and Lang etc
jesus u have a lot of options. Lucky to have psychology though, i wish that was an option at my school. I have the same compulsory options (i have AQA for science tho) but Computer Science is also compulsory for me and im quite happy abt that. We got to pick 3 options (i chose art, history and music) but we had 1 option taken off us at the beginning of year 10.
I don't get this thing in the comments of this video where everyone is focused on the specific exam board for each subject they do. It really doesn't matter. It doesn't make a difference. They're all so strictly confined by tons of rules of how they have to be written that they all end up the same anyway. Trust me, when we were doing GCSE's and A-Levels 15 years ago, nobody cared at all what exam board each exam was from. It wasn't even a thing we noticed. And you'll never once think about it again in your life after you've done them all. A grade is a grade. No uni will say "oh you got an A* but it was in an AQA test so we can't accept it, sorry" or something like that.
ICT and Computer Science are soooooo different by the way. Also, ICT is no longer a GCSE as the government didn't renew it after 2018 so ICT can only be taken as a BTEC now.
I had to take a 'certificate in digital applications' instead as they changed it after my options were put through in yr 9 so the school found a different equivalent - we had a website design exam and a game design & making coursework but both had briefs so we had to learn to make every type of game and website features just in case it was on it
each exam also has loads of parts to it like history, for example, you have to revise 4 completely different topics which are all stupidly content-heavy, then for English you have to know 3 books basically off by heart, all the quotes, the plot, and the character analysis and on top of that, you had to memorize 20 poems, who wrote them, when they were written and all the other context. and that's only 2 subjects....... American kids are so lucky
@@geekygalaxy4307 Mine dropped Elizabeth and just a few days ago they dropped Medicine. We had started Medicine in the first lockdown after finishing Germany, and what I had done on Medicine in the lockdown we then redid starting September, so there was no fucking point doing any of the work in the lockdown. And now Medicine has been fucking cancelled.
@@katie6384 I agree 100% with that, it's just way too stressful for young people. I feel like mental health is just as important and should be considered. If only they could lower the standards and let them breathe. You've got to admit they are put under so much pressure.
@@jessicawise3598 Scotland have a different system, we still do exams but the new CfE (it is having some teething issues sure but the idea is solid) aims to put more focus on continuous results over the entire year rather than how pupils perform in an exam; so in class projects, smaller tests, short reports etc make up xyz% of the grades and to gain the equivalent of the lower graded GCSE you just have to pass the in class stuff as there is no exam for Nat4
@@autist1689 wow that's really very interesting :) it's great to hear some exam boards and governments here are trying to lessen the need for exams, I personally would prefer everything you just said over exams counting for everything. It's great to hear they're at least trying and it seems like its going in the right direction!
I did RE about 20yrs ago (god, I feel old typing that out) & it was just Christianity, so the old GCSEs were also single religion (usually the majority religion of the school).
aqa is more "legit" than wjec😂😭 he was literally looking at a shortcourse ict paper hahaha try looking at the higher maths or triple science papers we don't get it easy trust😂
Non of the exam boards are easy though and thats what evan got wrong. All of the exam boards cover the same subjects but some may seem easier and maybe a little easier. But they are all hard
@@aswinsenthilkumar1497 WJEC is known for introducing more and more complicated and convoluted papers, to the point where the new geography GCSE is the hardest in the UK.
I think I know where Evan's confusion is coming from. At the high school I went to in the US thinks like erosion and types of rock would be covered primarily in Earth and Space Science (or your local equivalent), and then again in something like ecosystems, environmental science, and/or marine biology. Geography would usually start with where countries physically are and their capitals, then cover things like features of maps and other aspects of cartography and GIS. Lots of US schools also offer human geography and not regular geography.
@@PixelatedH2O Geography is really two subjects, physical geography and human geography (a _very_ small subset of which is where countries are and their capitals). Notice the paper they look at is sub-headed "The Physical Environment". There'll be other papers for the GCSE about other aspects, like human geography. Physical geography and geology overlap to some extent but whereas geology is about the Earth, what it's made of and the processes that affect it, physical geography is more just about the Earth's surface and the processes that affect it. So as an example, a geologist might study sand and the rocks it eroded from but wouldn't normally study estuaries, sand bars or beach erosion whereas that's right up a physical geographer's street (and involves knowing a _bit_ about sand itself, how it's formed etc. - geology in other words).
@@miaclarke6859 Before Covid, everyone had PE in my school, but if you were doing it for an actual GCSE, you'd have 4 lessons a week instead of 2 (for my school anyway)
We didn’t have to do rs but we did have to do a language so I think aside from maths, the three sciences and the two englishes it changes from school to school? Idk tho 😂
Meerah Nakaayi - don’t be jealous, it’s good to be challenged and pushed to be your best, the US education system explains why so many US-Americans are stupid.
Its inculcated in us from a young age so we get used to it. Which is why we find the American system weird to us. But if you have always done it it becomes quite useful in university because you are just continuing what you have always done. Lots of essays and electives connected to what you did a few months ago in high school
I wouldn’t say AQA is the hardest- imo it’s OCR and edexcel (especially in subjects like History). AQA English was relatively simple, at least in my experience. You’ll be fine. :)
AQA is actually not that bad. I mean I dunno for the sciences but for English it’s easy to bullshit your way and get marks, same with languages and AQA maths is easier than edexcel imo, I sat an a level paper at home when I was bored and got like full marks compared to the shambolic edexcel paper .
It depends on the subject which exam board is considered harder. For example, in MFL one might require more complex vocabulary but have more questions in English, whereas the other requires simpler answers but there are more questions in the target language. Overall they’re supposed to be equivalent and then the grade boundaries are set based on the average results received when the exams are sat. But whichever exam board you use, it’s a LOT of pressure and stress!
it annoys me so much that some schools get to do RE in year 10 like you focus on it more but in year 11 you're not gonna memorise quotes for it when you have 11 other subjects to worry about
I feel this guy has had a different experience to most people as he went to boarding school, you should have asked someone who went to a state school to do this video.
I am currently doing my GCSE’s and I’ve honestly never heard of an IGCSE. Also you don’t choose your exam board you choose subject and your school chooses which exam board to go through
I'm Welsh and did 2 Welsh, 2 English, and 1 French GCSE. Also, all my other GCSEs were done in Welsh so I did 12 GCSEs in 3 different languages. Bloody nuts.
Did you think it negatively impacted your GCSE performance? Or did it help? Just wondering as it seems strange (I'm trying to learn so I can engage with the engineering and science subjects for welsh schools, its just wierd as everywhere else in the world they just use English, then in Wales it's made wierd)
Some of his comments are SO DIFFERENT to my experience at school. Ill mention that IGCSEs are often taken by private schools, not regular GCSEs, but may come from the same exam boards. Every RE student Ive spoken to (and I am one) learns christianity AND something else - we learnt Judaism, but before that we did a bit on Muslims and Islam. IGCSEs arent exactly easier, however universities look for lower IGCSE grades and higher GCSE grades (especially if they happen to be russell group members) which people argue means it is easier for IGCSE kids.
@@itsben2316 since when? When did they make that change? When I was doing GCSE's 15 years ago, we could choose whichever religion to study, and in fact we barely covered Christianity at all from year 7 to 11. In fact I'm starting to remember, I think we didn't actually cover Christianity at all. Because most of us where white kids. We had one Muslim kid in the class, one Jewish kid, and that was it. So I think they were thinking we all knew Christianity already, let's teach them about everything else. I found them all fascinating. Hinduism especially. Our teacher had a big bunch of posters on all the walls of these amazing paintings of Hindu gods. They were beautiful.
The answer? Take them to a movie and a dinner and order a nice expensive bottle of wine, listen to them and laugh at their jokes, and be patient. Don't want to rush things, get too aggressive too quickly. Because then they can get quite sheepish.
I really hate that we had to take so many GCSE's but that fact that people from all across the UK can talk about how they hated a specific exam, and because we all did the same one we know what they're talking about, is pretty amazing. My school made the RE exam mandatory for the entire year group because they knew if they didnt they wouldnt have enough people for a whole class, there just under 300 people in my year. Almost no one wanted to do it
You should do a part twoo Suggestions: Media Business studies Textiles Design technology Music and Citizenship aka the most useless subject ever Also can you look further in the paper because all the easy questions are first
My GCSEs are: Maths English Lang English Lit Biology Chemistry Physics Spanish Citizenship History Business Studies Computer Science Edit: I’m English and my school offers Hospitality and Catering as a GCSE so it’s not just welsh people
@xXHobo TrashXx not who you're talking to and I didn't do it for GCSE but I had a class called BVC (beliefs, values and citizenship) in early secondary school and we learned stuff like how laws are passed, voting, social responsibility/charity, had debates on stuff like abortion and capital/corporal punishment and discussed religion in broader terms including atheism and agnosticism.
xXHobo TrashXx how laws are passed, democracy and voting system, workers rights, how the law deals with rule breakers (different kinds courts and sentences), UK culture and diversity, how the public can try to get laws changed (so pressure groups and talking to the local MP), how MPs get elected, and we briefly touched on immigration and asylum seeking.
This account is shared Interesting. My grandparents generation calls grades marks. As in, “Did you get good marks this semester?” My sis and I would always be like, “Yeah, gma, we got good GRADES.” Lol. I always though it was funny.
Studying is learning new content, revising is going over stuff you've already learnt e.g. for an exam. Thats how people around me have always used those words
I'm going into sixth form next and from experience I would suggest that you don't stress too much. Just study months in advance. Pace yourself and do plenty of essays.
Amilia Savage- Urban Spaceman it was a discuss question so it was actually a good 15 marker but the way they phrased it was a bit odd like what consists of good? Does that challenge his divineness or the level of his actions being only good? Everyone from my school came out of the exam confused 😂
Eleanor Phillips Music what’s odd about the phrasing of that question? Jesus isn’t JUST a good man, He is the incarnation of GOD. Pretty basic knowledge if you are a Christian.
@identity crisis same here, she would put everyones screen on the big projector so everyone could see what everyone was doing.. She could lock our screens or close our windows.
Leah Maslin we had that in year 11 but sometimes the teacher didn’t use it or o lay focused on a couple specific people so if you didn’t annoy them you could do what you wanted.
They had that shitty software to control and view all the computers from the main one. One kid found a way to disable it for all users of that computer even after he logged off, so everyone in our class would do it and then the IT guys would have to come and re-install/enable it on every computer ready for the next lot haha. The IT guys gave a £15 bounty for anyone in the class who told them how it was done and then they stopped it from happening :(
A lot of the "stranger" GCSEs are the very basic building block for someone to start rebuilding/start again with nothing onto a potential career. It is not impossible some schools will have the occasional GCSE like Hospitality, if it interests students who might go onto to do a real course in college. Especially if there is a local college with a specialist hospitality courses! But you will find a lot of people do these kinds of things later in life, and often from a position of leaving school with very little and not doing much. Sometimes just people where they didn't necessarily fail at school, but things haven't gone how they wanted in life. You can often get free courses at colleges in this position normally evening classes, and these courses might look like something stupid and pointless but have helped kickstart lives again as you progress from these simpler ones onto something that gets you somewhere.
One of the things I had to do in PE was be in charge of a lesson, like make a full lesson plan and the enforce it and we were graded on it. I was baptised as an infant but I'm not religious, I also somehow got an A in RE. In my ICT lessons we just played games on like miniclip and I still somehow got a B
Ryan True so you’re not actually describing GSCE PE. there’s three gcse options for sports. GCSE PE is most common, you do less practical and more theory but the theory is about the body and how you apply that to sport. there is an extensive practical exam in three chosen sports and that has a huge impact on your final grade. another option is sports science but they only usually give that option in high end schools such as private schools because it’s a less common exam. that’s very similar to GSCE PE accept you study energy systems and joints/bones instead of the heart and blood. the last option is BTEC sport which is equivalent to a GSCE but you do more practical and you have to do coursework for leadership. BTEC theory is more about types of sports and it’s better for people that want to pursue a career teaching PE. BTEC sport only has a tiny practical exam. you were talking about BTEC sport instead of GCSE PE.
@@morganmillward I'm pretty sure i was talking about just PE i took whilst I was taking my GCSE's as I didnt take it as a subject itself it was just a lesson we had to do twice a week
"There's too much to revise for" ... Welcome to the phrase British kids have been saying for the past 15 years.
I agree. They expect too much
at least we only have to pass English language, English Lit doesn't require a pass
I just found out that I did gcse while being dyslexic and I got a pass for literature and they made that the main english grade.
I know, I done 10 GCSE's whereas my friends dkne 8 and their was far to much just for the main 3 nevermind all the extras
Lucky for you I’m in year 10 and doin GCSE’s early re and English lit
Having to memorise 18 poems, Macbeth, An inspector calls, and a Christmas Carol all for just 2 exams sucked
Toraiix I know
Toraiix I have to do all of them except Xmas carol. I have Jekyll and Hyde instead. Still sucks though.
Logan Brown standards are different I see
Peeper Yh but I still passed without revising I saw a lot of people get the same grade or even worse even though they revised😂
Logan Brown Jesus Christ how’d you get a 5. Yes I know I’m only in year 9 atm and I’m only getting grade 3. My school will murder me if I don’t get a 6
Evan thinks he’s acing these exams by giving one vague idea for each question. The mark schemes for all uk tests require you to say an exact word or phrase to get any marks.
I once got no arms for a question because I used a specific scientific term for something in the brain instead of just vaguely using the term brain in my answer. Bullshit.
@Holly Kennett Year 9 Rawmarsh Yeah, no, if you score too badly in UK tests you get amputated as punishment. It's pretty harsh tbh.
Can’t forget the quotes
most annoying example of this is when you’re taught about “semi-permeable” membranes in GCSE bio but once you get to a-level noooo only “partially permeable” is correct,, no marks for saying semi permeable
@@vapourmile it wasn't an official test and we marked it in class, I talked to my teacher and he said it would have been right but I failed to mention the specific scientific term and I can't remember what that term was because it was a year ago and if you remember questions from a dumb test you took that meant nothing from year ago I'd be pretty damn surprised
Evan is seriously underestimating the fact that the mark schemes are harsh, there's mounds of coursework, multiple stages to pretty much every exam and just lots and lots to revise
Varun Gangalam
Yeh you have to put the exact words in or they won’t give you the marks
They cut marks for you for the simplest errors
@@filthycommunist1922 Yeah, if you're getting coursework, then you're probably doing a BTEC. Or Tech and Design.
No coursework anymore except for BTEC and some specific creative subjects
There's literally no course work in any gcse anymore. Everything is graded solely on the exam and its so stupid. But there is still a lot of work
There's still coursework in PE at GCSE and ALevel as well as arts subjects and quite a few other A Level subjects
Its just that all British tests are super specific in terms in vocabulary you have to use answering it
AQA biology much
Matty Spratt actually disgusting
This to me was always the worst part of it.
They made fun of the question for email, but you could describe an email perfectly, in a way that shows you know exactly how it works, yet if you missed the 1-2 exact keywords they wanted, you would get a zero.
So the questions aren't always as easy as they appear.
Like Matty said I especially had this problem doing AQA Biology for GCSE and AS level.
like in chem we were marking a test and i said iodine instead of iodine solution and the mark scheme wouldn’t allow the mark
Bios the worst for it, but gets even worse at A level (just finished A1/AS this year)
I’m ngl , this man has no idea how complex GCSE’s are , and how specific the mark schemes are
Tristan Lee seriously
Ikr
@SlappyTheClappy I didnt revise for RS and got a 7. But it's still hard and the questions are bs
I failed RE... i cant remember 2 religions at once. But i do remember i had like 14 GCSEs, and close to 30 exams. Hopefully A level exams wont be too rough this year
@@veIvette just write jesus because jesus is always the answer
"there are too many things to revise for"
Me: *laughs in British*
Ellyse Faulds shut the fuck up im 15 from Britain and GCSEs suck ass. He’s only showing an example of each question, there are higher tier intermediate and lower for maths and I have to do higher. I did one past paper and I’m pretty damn sure ima die when it comes to the exam
James Ogonovsky why are u offended wtf
James Ogonovsky why are you offended like sheila birling at the end of act 3 in an inspector calls, pipe down jeez
Person 101 fair
Maruf Ahmed I was in a bad mood at the time
I've got an idea, maybe next time he should check the mark schemes so that he can see just how specific you have to be.
I swear to god you purposely use every key word possible in your answer just to have it be SLIGHTLY off the mark scheme
Evan you have offended me, GCSES are way harder than he is describing
Try A Levels
Muhammad Mirsab I found alevels easier than GCSEs cause there were less subjects to lead
@@clumsygamer4769 depends on what subjects you take
Caitlin Steele cries in further maths a level 😂
@@oliverhickman9747 ahah I take physics chemistry and biology. I'm so glad that I couldn't take 4 bc I would've taken maths and honestly the thought makes me cry
Computer Science is very different to ICT. ICT is quite a stupid exam whereas Computer Science actually has some reasonable questions, its closer to Physics or Maths than it is to ICT.
I believe they stopped the ICT course a few years ago
Amy Lou no it’s a btec.
@@louby5678 nope, but it's a lot less popular now.
I did A level computing.
It involved writing code by hand, it was soul destroying.
4rt_6uy I did GCSE and I’m currently doing A Level. The coursework is a little irritating I agree.
You're looking at the first questions which are always super easy
In our RE exams in school, one kid just wrote "god isn't real" on his paper and left the hall. He got one solitary mark for the mention of god
I know 3 who got high and another 2 that got drunk and got A* in re. When they got the results they actually thought it was wrong.
Hazel Stabler lol that's so funny😂
Did he not get disqualified for leaving the exam hall?????
erin weaver-wilkinson Meanwhile I cheated on one of the exams and still ended up with a D
A girl in my year did that and she got a talk from the head re teacher the year coordinator and the vice principal she then got detention for a week and had to resit the test and attempt every question. Note I go to an Australian Catholic High school in the middle of nowhere.
Honestly GCSEs are so annoying if you don’t put the specific word in but still got it righteous wouldn’t he the mark but Evans answers are so vague and would get zero marks
I'm sorry, 4 YEARS OF PE?! Here in the UK I took 13 YEARS OF PE. Age 4 - 16. It was mandatory.
Eva Gelevska we have to do it in sixth form too 🙃
flaming games if u also don't like PE then I am so sorry 🙏
Its mandatory from 3-18 we do it in primary school as well
We got made to do it into year 13, 2 hours a week wasted
They tried to get our sixth form to do it too with what they called enrichment but it never stuck
“It’s not that bad..”
But imagine 4 of those tests on 2 different religions in only 1hr and 30mins
Very unfun, especially when theres a question in which you HAVE to mention both, possibly compare em too.
Fortunately our teacher knew this, so only bothered to teach us christianity and Islam in detail. Just basics on the others.
Our school did WJEC for re (no idea why considering we aren’t welsh) and I remember being super pissed because we were told to work on the basis of a mark a minute but there were 126 marks for a 2 hour exam, this was just for a half gcse as well, can’t imagine doing the full thing that would be painful
@@ffynloparnell1888 You said you took WJEC for R.E. even though you're not Welsh... our school is using the WJEC exam board for our *English* exam😂😂 (our school isn't in Wales either)
Cries in has 15 minutes to write a 12 marker
During my mocks I only had an hour because the invigilators made a mistake and stopped us early 😍😍
American education system is 100% easier, and don't even get me started on A Levels
Yes
Yeah living here is a constant test 😣
My cousins live in America, and their school is very strict in how they award marks. If they fail any random test their mark goes down. It is really stressful.
It actually depends though. Yes, in some ways, but then there's also the fact that everything counts. I have done one pop quiz my entire life and it was scary af.
Lmao have u seen AP’s?
Felt low-key offended when he said computer science is basically IT.
Yeah... I'm a software developer with a Bachelor's in computer science. When I saw that IT exam compared to the CS exam, and he said that, I was like, "Uh... I don't think so, Evan" lmao
Everyone is my computer science class looked down upon the IT class
Yep it is teaching how to use a computer , while computer science teaches you how a computer works in terms of hardware and software than we are able to manipulate this info to innovate
I took both. They overlap in areas but are definitely not the same.
I did computer science and we were all made to do IT and take the exam at the end of one year and HOLY IT is SO much easier
"I thought geography was just teaching you where countries were"
I got an A in geography, I know how rivers mould the landscape and what protections are installed to reduce risk of flooding but I've never in my life had a lesson about where anything is. I had 1 sheet where you filled in what you know for counties in England. That's it. I don't know where anything is, we were never told.
Me too which I found so annoying since I like learning about countries and flags and capitals much more than flood protections and coastal formations (though I have to admit that I got just as excited about freeze thawing as Noah did since I was like I LEARNT THAT)
Its used to be about countries and capitals but then the 'Blob' decided that such information wasn't important and scrapped it.
Amennnn! I did GCSE Geography back in 2016 and all my friends who didn’t take it just naturally thought I was learning maps and I’m like... I learned maps in year 3
Same! There was a running joke in my school where you always refer to geography as colouring in maps lessons. WE DIDNT COLOUR IN A SINGLE MAP SINCE LIKE YEAR 9 !!
Ikr. My family thinks as I just got a 5 (c), that I know which country is. I like, idk 😅😅😂.
If you looked at the mark schemes you would understand our issue in the uk
This is literally it...
ughh so true
GCSE retake results next week. Kill me 😭
This is so true
Yeah I don't like grading boundaries 😭
Evan: Laughs at email question
Also Evan: Proceeds to not be able to answer question
I think he laughed because the question is just something that no one would even ask, ever.
Just curious: what would be the correct answer? I honestly have no idea and would answer similar to Evan
I did this exact exam and the correct full mark answer would be
"A electronic message sent across networks via the Internet"
And due to the harsh marking system you would basically have to put that exact answer (or something very similar) and you would have lost marks for saying electronic mail,messages sent by a computer and just using the word letter by its self hope this helps
Dice Goblin OMG 😱 really? These are the moments when I’m glad we didn’t stay in the UK longer and I finished my education in Germany. It’s really insane.
Computer science is a completely different subject to ICT
I've taken both with similar points but are completely different subjects especially in the way they are taught. Also there is graphic communication which is different again but very similar elements to ICT
I took computer science. I learnt how to program a Christmas tree animation.
i really really hate computer science. i honestly regret picking it for my gcses. (my name’s charlotte too!)
@@guiltyavocado Omg same!! I can't wrap my head around python 😩😩
Izzy xo | i’ve just given up at this point. tho tbh i gave up like 3 weeks into the course. i just go to lessons to piss about
It's offensive how he's making them out so much easier than they actually are. Especially giving wrong answers and thinking he's acing it. Honestly I think I'm just lowkey still salty cause I remember the stress from my GCSEs earlier this year.
xoaalixo I definitely agree with you. They’re mocking some of the question thinking they got it right when they wouldn’t even achieve the mark.
i mean it’s not really offensive it’s just unrealistic
Then that's the problem with the way the exams are conducted and marked and not because anything they say is wrong.
he needs to start from the back
It’s almost as if this video is for entertainment purposes and not revision purposes. I think you’re looking for Bitesize...
Remember that in GCSE’s the questions are usually staggered in difficulty, so the first few pages are the easiest questions and the last few pages are usually the hardest to ensure every ability level can at least attempt to get to the next level
Ella I love the gradient in the maths test because at the start is just some simple algebra and maybe some log and at the end the formulas look like you’ve started to read machine language
Except the first tests last question which was unnervingly easy to answer with the quadratic equation to the point it makes it seem like it’s wrong
@@Alucard-gt1zf machine language lmaoo
I feel that he doesn’t realise how incredibly hard it is to revise for the gcse exams
Evan: “what’s ‘reconciliation’?”
Me: laughs in Catholic
I grew up Episcopalian and pentacostal so I was lost
Evan Edinger it’s confession 😇
@@evan i have never heard those words before
me : laughs in catholic school
Catholic school laughing
I took 11 GCSEs which came to 26 exams all together over a 4 week period. It was insane.
Same! Then I also did Welsh baccalaureate so had that teacher breathing down our neck while doing the exams
I did eight and got 19 iirc, how on earth
im doing that amount im in yr10
Carys Wild dude welsh bacc is torture
@@cez_is_typing agree, I'm in yr10 and I hate it so much, my teacher doesn't even know what he's doing
ICT is basically how to use computers, whereas Computer Science is learning programming and how Computers work
Maybeornot exactly. ICT is like what all people over age 35 should have to take and computer science is the thing you’d take if you actually want a job in computing
Yes! ICT was filled with learning how to use Excel and PowerPoint whereas in computer science you learn how a computer actually works, and you learn a whole programming language
ICT also had coursework which was worth 60%. Ngl it was easy as hell but nice
Oh wow, I always thought they were the same thing😅
Computer science is also pretty new, didn't have it when I did GCSEs back in 2013-2014
"Computer science? It's like the same as ICT" ICT is like websites, Photoshop a d that kind of stuff and Computer Science is like coding and the makeup of a computer ect...
@Roshna Begum "Exactly. This is why people like Evan are dumb."
You may have an opinion about not needing to type correctly capitalized, spelt, and punctuated comments on the internet, and that's fine. But when you are actually writing specifically to call someone else 'dumb'?
Not to mention the fact that your comment makes no logical sense whatsoever.
Let's just say it's fairly obvious to some of us which out of you and Evan appears the dumbest.
Just wait until he finds out about A-Levels
Evan: _there’s too many things to revise for_
Me: _umm you also had more than one exam in a day_ literally didn’t get a break till half term...
My school had mandatory revision classes during half terms and holidays! We never caught a break!
I did it this year and there was a case where someone had 4 exams in one day and 3 clashed - I think it was English in the morning and then business, French and Greek all clashed. They made him stay in the exam hall from 9am with the english til 5pm with only the 45 minute lunch break while supervised so he wouldn't give the answers to others doing exams back to back without a break. I thought 2 exams a day was hard but that was just inhumane!
bruh max was 3 exams a dayyyyyyyy yy
@@hannah-davies3154
It is inhuman! In Germany, there is a law that ensures that nobody writes more then one exam a day and less then three a week. But unfortunately we can write as many tests as they want us to, so the weeks also become very stressful..
Jess Bass Same! WEEKENDS, HALF TERM AND EVEN THE BLOODY EASTER HOLIDAYS!!!
For the RS GCSE, to get the top marks you had to memorise quotes from the bible, and sometimes the other texts you were studying. It was not fun in the 10 minutes before our GCSE started watching people yell bible quotes at each other from across the room at break in an effort to memorise them
We did Matthews gospel and ethics. For Matthews gospel you had to learn 40 full bible stories word by word and you’d be asked to recall them. Glad that’s over
Hahaha I’m just done my gcse RS did anyone else use the same 2 quotes like 30 times awe it’s so funny
‘Love thy neighbour’ every. Single. Time.
Sarcastic Squareflake YESSSSS! haha and then to spice up a certain answer u might throw in a cheeky thou shall not kill
You studied... other texts? In mine we learnt like 3 teachings for each religion that you could work into any conceivable question, RS was a doss at my school.
1. RS exams consisted of 4 papers on two different religions. Most commonly Christianity and Islam, but other combinations were allowed. You had to compare the religions often too, despite the papers being 2 on each religion.
2. Computer Science is very different to ICT. Computer Science tends to be a lot more about logic, problem solving, how a computer actually processes things (deeper than containing particular components) and a bit of coding. ICT is just ICT really
3. Geography was piss easy provided you paid enough attention in class to grasp the basics of each topic. Aside from the things like "what type of rock is this cliff likely to be", and some of the terminology and case studies, it's mainly common sense as long as the knowledge was partially there in the first place
4. You have compulsory GCSEs, so everyone across the country would take maths, English literature, English language, either double or triple science (triple science being a separate GCSE for biology, chemistry, and physics, and double science being a combination of two grades, worth two GCSEs, for all three sciences combined in a slightly more limited syllabus and shorter exams). Most schools made RS compulsory on top, although since leaving my secondary school, they've decided not to make students sit a GCSE on it due to the poor results in the last few years, but instead just have meaningless lessons on it all throughout your GCSE years. You then get 3 options on top, where you can pick your subjects. For example, art, a humanity, music, computer science, resistant materials, PE, Drama, business studies, all sorts. Languages would also be included in the options, unless your school is a language school like mine was, so I had to take a language anyway, not taking up an option. I ended up taking a total of 11 GCSEs. I think I sat 25 exams in total during exam season, excluding my art GCSE exam and coursework that was sat/handed in a month prior to the official start of exams.
5. After SATs aged 10/11, you start secondary school. For the UK, that's years 7 to 11. GCSEs are two years long, spanning years 10 and 11 (aged 14/15 to 15/16). The previous years are continuing your education and building up the basic knowledge in order to learn GCSE content.
6. PE is compulsory throughout all years, but not to be taken as a GCSE, just to regularly force you to exercise against your will really.
7. For the English GCSE exams, we had to know enough quotations to back up whatever point they decide to make us write about for the entirety of Macbeth, An Inspector Calls, and A Sign Of The Four. These may vary. I think most people did Macbeth and maybe An Inspector Calls, but the novels tend to change. Schools can pick which ones they want to teach. There were different exams for each book. We also had to memorize 18 poems, as one would be provided in the exam, and we would have to compare it to another one from the 18 we were given. Except we didnt know which one would come up, and they all compared best to different poems, so we genuinely just had to know 18 poems, or wing it... which a lot of people tend to do for their GCSEs. Most people give up trying by the time they reach that time, and not many people really revise that much.
I had 3 years of GCSE and my year in the school got lucky since RE and a language weren't compulsory however they were made compulsory for the years below us.
(RE wasnt compulsory if you took history or geography otherwise you had to take it)
For my GCSE I had to take Eng Lit and Lang, Maths, double science and chose to do Computer Science, Business studies music however, because i didnt pick any humanity or language subjects so they put me into E. If you did citizenship or sociology you still had to do RE.
In year 10 I was moved from Computer Science to ICT because although I was doing good in practical work I was failing theory.
And we didn't have to attend PE in year 11 if we said we're revising and everyone used that excuse to have a break from lessons and studying
In conclusion all 3 years of GCSE were stressful and hard to deal with despite the very small advantage.
I haven’t done my GCSE’s (I’m in year 8) but I remember my year 6 teacher in literacy (higher set) giving us some year7ish level tests, but they were old GCSE’s from only a few years ago.
A lot of teachers I know are also surprised because what happens is that things some of them learned in *university* is being teached to year8/year7
this is basically our school too like why do they need to force me to go through the pain of PE even though I haven't chosen it
In Wales, Welsh is also a core subject. A lot of schools do Welsh bacc as well, which gives two GCSEs I think - it basically teaches you skills that are considered important but noone likes it because its boring and annoying lol. It can help you get into uni if you get a pass in it though
In the start of my high school, they made RE compulsory for everyone. And yes I mean everyone. Regardless of what you took in Year 10, 11.
This video would’ve more accurate with a uk student who had just done their GCSEs this year or last year because they could relate to how hard they are now
yeah, he should do a part 2 with someone younger or with someone from a state school instead. A lot of what Noah was saying isn't the same for most English students
@@pestobea I thought the same... Noah didn't attend a standard UK Comprehensive for Secondary level Education... ( Academy or High School )
Not Noahs fault, its interesting to hear his experiences, I don't think it is an accurate representation of UK Secondary School education though. Neither was my education though lol! 😁
@@Little-Sparrow what was yours like? I feel like mine was pretty different as well since I went to a really small school and everyone was forced to take certain subjects which in other schools you don't. Did do the new GCSE spec last year as well though
They are fucking BRAIN DESTROYERS
@@pestobea mine was back in the 80's but was a 1500 pupil voluntary aided roman catholic school that was headed by a formidable man who ruled his way or the highway. It changed after he left apparently but I was long gone myself by then...
this is the reason why many children in the uk have anxiety and depression
Absolutely! I've been saying this for years Charlie, kids are put under immense pressure at a young age now, far far more than I had as a kid at school in mid 70's to late 80's. I don't think it's anywhere near as much fun being a youngster nowadays as it used to be. How it SHOULD be. 😓
@@Little-Sparrow but weirdly I miss that environment that I left 2 months ago
@@IS-nd4pe I doubt it's weird in the slightest! You can hate something and yet find the familiarity comforting...
😉x
@@Little-Sparrow it didn't hate I found that it pushed me to be better and do better I just saw the negative implications on those around me
@@IS-nd4pe same, I'd do anything to go back there again
Also geography is the most underrated subject. I can't believe evan thought it was just where countries are.
Evan knows math and that's about it. He seems to like to play up the "stupid American" in nearly all of his videos. My little cousin (12 years old) is learning about topography this year. The whole world already believes we're stupid, Evan doesn't help.
If it was just where countries are, I'd get a 9 on it lol. I can draw the world map from memory
@@bn56would It's not a good world map if you've only marked 9 countries, I'm sure there's at least 13 ;P
@@sarahl3721 I'm talking about GCSE marking scheme. A "9" is a full marker (the scale is 1-9).
I guess you aren't English or Welsh.
Sarah was making a joke. Hence the ';P' at the end.
also top tip: most english students hate when you call them “tests”. they are exams
no english student cares if u call them tests stop lying
Vinnie Redfearn noooo I care >:( tests are the little irrelevant ones that you do in class at the end of the topic or something like that, exams are GCSEs and A levels and all that
This account is shared I never understood that because I’ve always used “pants” for both trousers and underwear (I’m from the north of England btw)
@Everyone hates Suprizo Face me :C Yeah calling them 'points' annoys me to no end, i dunno why but it's just so irritating 😐
@@hollybramhall1351 Those are quizzes for us. Tests are the bigger stuff. Exams are the really big stuff.
“There are too many things to revise for”
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In normal state schools RE is about all religions and was actually p good. In exams we had essay questions like "use references from their scripture to describe how a Buddhist or a Muslim might feel about abortion" some of it was heavvyyy but p valuable
In all honesty, I never knew Religion was a GCSE subject...
VladdyTheBear there is two courses the half gcse and the full course
I did it for two years and hated everything about it
I'm an extremely non religious person but RE was my favourite class! It was super interesting and instead of being taught what to believe, you were taught 'here's how different religious groups feel about a bunch of different topics and why'. It's a great class in terms of honing debate/essay writing skills
I went to catholic school so RE was a mandatory GCSE but it wasn’t on just Christianity it was on all kinds of different religions we just did a lot of lessons on Catholicism but none of it was on the exam it’s would just be for in school tests
Geography has ruined me. I went on holiday to Brighton and ended up explaining spits, bars and lagoons to my sister and thought about the formation of headlands and bays every. Single. Time. I looked at a beach. Also, when I watched the 5th fast and furious film I kept pointing out different landmarks in Rio to my friend.
Do you love geography that much or did you revise so much for geography you couldn't forget what you learned? Lol. Though, I guess it's valuable to retain GCSE knowledge in some cases.
@@scrollingdownonlytofindcom2663 I haven't actually done my geography GCSE yet and it has still taken over my life. I enjoy it, but thinking about rivers and coasts every waking moment is stressful, although I am quite good at that part of the paper.
I did GCSE geography like 7 years ago and can still remember how an oxbow lake is formed. I've not seen an oxbow lake once since I left school.
I do this everytime I go on holiday now. Explains geography shit everywhere I go
I've just finished geography a level and let me tell you, it gets so much more detailed! I can't walk down a street without noticing different urban forms and taking note of sustainable urban drainage... If it's even a ittle bit windy in town my brain just goes "VENTURI EFFECT"
i want evan to spend 5 years learning the whole gcse content for 9 subjects then do exams on them
To be accurate I think he'd have to do it in two years
Yeah and actually doing all the papers for each subject, cuz in total i had 21 papers for all of my gcse's in yr11 :'((
5 years??
@@cheshux6934 the amount of years you spend in secondary school in England, excluding sixth form (some secondary schools have built in sixth forms.)
@@septicaemia5699 yeah dude I know I’m British but we all get 2 years to study for our actual gcses
When I did RE, it was about all religions.
Standard secondary schools teach them all.
This kid went to some posh Christian boarding school
I went to first school and middle school we did all religions, but when I went up to secondary school in yr9 everyone had to study christianity and Judaism and take the gcse as it was a Christian school - defo not posh though!
James Neave he did go to some weird ass school. But in RS at GCSE In the course there was only Judaism, Christianity or Islam and you had to learn 2 of those 3.
I think some other exam boards did Sikhism, Buddhism and maybe Hindu, but I’m not too sure.
@@StrayChoom
In my best Kyle Reese.
What day was it?
_What year?_
(I took my GCSEs in 1995)
@@MostlyPennyCat took my rs GCSE last yr we only learnt two out of the three same as the guy above but we had to learn it in detail check the specification on the aqa website
Literally
Evan will never know the pain of trying to revise a folder full of very specifically worded content for every exam (for me, 20) for every subject (9) trying to do coursework for subjects like art that I’m so behind in at the same time
29 was my exam number, not including resists...
I'd love to see a comparison between UK and American uni applications
(e.g. in the UK you use UCAS and can only apply to 5 UK uni's, personal statement vs. personal essays (America focuses more on extra curriculars), and American offers are final but in the UK you typically get a conditional offer and have to wait for results day to see if you get the grades you need to go to that uni)
Certainly, when I were a lad (started uni 20 years ago this October), you could pretty much write "I am a fish" 500 times for the personal statement and get in if you had the grades (well, maybe not Oxbridge or whatever), unless you were applying for medicine or vet medicine.
@@paranoidandroid2098 Hey, don't blame me! I'm in the same boat as you and quietly waiting to drown!
@@paranoidandroid2098 ELEVEN DAYS TO GOOOOO
I would loooofw to apply like in the US I did way too many extra curriculars hahahah
@@paranoidandroid2098 You too! And no matter what happens I'm sure you'll have a fantastic year :)
"Email is a way of sending a message between 2 computers" - wrong answer Evan, so perhaps not as easy as you thought.
69th like :)
This is half correct and is sending the wrong message, If you want a true representation of a person doing GCSEs then don’t talk with a private school student because it could be much different from public.
that's very true
Also you mean State not Public, a Public School is more similar to a Private School. For example Eton is a Public School. A State School is one funded by the State.
Edward Teather public school is nothing like private school😂
@@aaliyahminihane971 No but it is also nothing like a state school. And is more similar in that the parents pay for their child to be there.
@@EditsandStuff350 - and the public schools were named in the Public Schools Act of 18XX. I think it mentioned only 8 by name. Including Eton, of course
As someone who finished their GCSEs a few months ago and did the PE papers, I can say this years was pure wank and the chemistry and biology papers this year were written by Oxford professors on crack
L Burrows so true
Did you think the mocks (last years exams) were harder or easier?
Guessing you were aqa too 😂
@@ajrcherrington nah i did edexcel for science and maths but everything else was aqa (apart from geography which was OCR B)
@@tayyiba.c they were so much easier than this years
GCSE's are weird and not fun in the slightest :) glad that chapter of my life is over
Faye Is Not Sexy doing them in 9 months 😭😭😭
@@ethan-jaygladwell7200 GOOD LUCK!
Oof, starting year nine in september.... G.C.S.E
Faye Is Not Sexy thank u I’ll need it 😖
Done them already, and results day is in 11 days, damn..
I’m here in 2020 having wasted 2 years on my life on GCSE’s for them to be cancelled because of the Coronavirus... 🤗
Aw. Bless. It means you can learn rather than have to study to the exam.
Lol me too 🤦♀️
2 years where we could have been working.
Houstly i studied so much just for my GCSE to be canceled and now im getting my crappy perdicted grades instead 🙄🤦♀️😒
Me too lmao, I know I could’ve done better than my predicted grades
I'd love to see Evans reaction to Business studies and Drama GCSEs
Daisy or dance 😂
The drama one is kinda on crack
Or history having to learn 16 case studies for what 2 and a half to come up
Sounds more like geography rather than history ^
and music
Anyone else getting their results next Thursday. Lol wish us luckkkk
Update!!:
9 in english lang
8 in english lit
8 in music
7 in photography
7 in german
6 in geography
5 in maths
4 in physics
(And I failed chem but oh well ahaha)
I get mine on the 22nd, and i'm gonna cry! :)
Francesca Taylor GOOD LUCK!
Yes😥 Good luck🍀.
Me too! Good luck to everyone 😬
I’m beyond depressed by this. Thanks for reminding me to cry into a bowl of free Nando’s chicken.
I literally just started answering the Religious Studies and Geography questions subconsciously, before realising that I just accidentally got 4/4. What has my life come to?
Even find myself doing analytical bs of anything and everything. GCSEs are eating our minds. 😂😭
I couldn’t when they said RE didn’t seem that bad... does Noah REMEMBER the minute-a-mark timing????
THIS omg i’m in year 11 now and 8 markers are the worst because you need a good four paragraphs to get full marks - that’s 2 minutes a paragraph and trying to quote the Bible or Hindu holy books i- 😪😪
@@bean669 i’m in year ten and we did our first practice paper but just with one set of a b c and d question and oh my my hand nearly feel off.having to write a 12 marked in 12 minutes was so hard
Yeah I did my exam in year 10 and it nearly killed me. I’m in year 12 now and I took ethics and philosophy and they’ve amped up the difficulty because now I have three 40 mark questions in one paper at a minute a mark. Kill me now!!!🙄😬
omds having to write 3 paras for, 3 paras against, AND a conclusion all in 12 minutes for a 12 marker, four times over for all four papers... toooooooooooooo much stress for a 16 year old to handle
For my History exam, I computed a slightly more generous time of 1’24” (approx.)-and I had enough time!
you should do a video with someone who went to a public school not private and got average grades as that will give a realistic idea of how impactful and difficult these exams are
A public school IS a private school
ella milly Yeah in the UK, private schools are called "public schools". Yeah it's confusing, I know.
The vast majority of kids in the UK go to state schools, as in regular schools run by the state (the UK government) and have a curriculum dictated by the state
Noah said he went to a boarding school, which doesn't necessarily mean it was a public (private) school. There exist plenty of state run boarding schools. Though perhaps the boarding schools are still better in quality of education compared to the average state school, so yeah it'd be interesting to see an average person go over these exams
Though as someone who is 30, and is also really dumb about most things, these exams all seem quite easy. Nothing likr the exams we had in my day 15 years ago. We didn't get multiple choice questions. We had to know the answer, we just had blank boxes to fill, we didn't get presented the answer in among a bunch of incorrect answers. Which is strange because all studies say that humans are smarter today than ever before in history, and we're only ever getting smarter and more knowledgeable over time. So it's strange that the kids of today are the smartest generation ever so far, but they got these easy arse exams to do.
duffman18 Only the first few marks would be multiple choice. Many subjects don’t have any multiple choice questions.
duffman18 yes I know as I go to a state school. These exams are far from easy. Coursework is gone in all subjects, meaning you only have the written exams that will get you the grade. Content from A levels has also been put into the new GCSE system, making them a lot than the A*-C system. Only the first 2 or so questions are multiple choice and that is in only in a few subjects. Kids these days have it a lot harder. An example is having to learn 3 plays and 15 poems for the English Lit exam off by heart as you don’t get the text. And that is just 1 subject.
tbh, having the texts for lit. didn't help much - you spent so much time flicking through your post-its looking for quotes that you got stressed out and ran out of time. My teacher instead made us memorise quotes that could be used to answer a range of questions, which was really useful.
But - give it a decade and no-one will care what your GCSE results were. This is the first chance I've had to brag about getting 14 A-C in at least 9 years (and it still pisses me off that they brought in a* the year after I sat them!)
However - supposedly one of the reasons they've moved content from A level to GCSE is to reduce the knowledge and study expectation gap between A-level and uni. There used to be a huge jump from study at A-level to study at uni, which theoretically has now decreased... Making a-levels more like the IB, just with a still decreased subject breadth.
The move from coursework to exams also favours some - my year had a fair few who weren't good at coursework, no matter how many drafts they had, but aced exams. Does suck for those who are the other way round though, and does absolutely nothing to decrease stress levels.
As for the questions seeming easy - if you continue to study, or take a keen interest in, the subject area, they will be easy. If you don't, then you're unlikely to get the same grades a decade on. Recently watched someone who took maths a-level sit a higher maths GCSE paper (from around the year he actually took it) having not done maths for 8 years (no revision) - he got 26%, which equates to a c. He got an A* the first time round. The exams (and our education system as a whole) don't actually teach you the subject matter - it teaches you how to pass the exam - so the information is easily forgotten, as it holds little intrinsic worth. Which is probably why no-one cares what you get several years on.
Sure, your grades make getting onto A-level and uni courses straight away easier - but I have a friend who left high school with 3 D GCSE's. A few years later he re-sat English and maths, and then went on to do a foundation degree followed by a BSc. He's only 5 years behind anyone who left high school with straight A's (1's?!? 8's?!?) And that's assuming they didn't take a gap year or do a sandwich course.
Don't assume that grades equate to intellectual intelligence. Don't assume grades dictate your life course. And don't let them stress you out! Your mental health and wellbeing is far more important that your grades.
Although I guess with the Pandemic everything's gone to pot with this year's exams anyway 🙃
It is somewhat immoral to upload a video about GCSEs less than two weeks before GCSE results day.
only slightly panicking lmao
*Tears eyes out*
*screaming noises*
*whispers*
Kill me
I'm scared
I'm going to die when I get my results, just like an axolotl in water with a low oxygen concentration
@@francesatty7022 😂😭 same. A picture of an axolotl came up on my phone a week after that exam and I nearly cried
1. PE is OPTIONAL for GCSE - you have to take part in classes but dont get a written test on it unless you choose it as one of your GCSE options
2. Short Course RE/RS is Mandatory but you can take a more indepth exam (again) if you choose it for GCSE options. Most Church Schools with have you take Full Course RE regardless of choice. Many exam boards require you to look at more than one Religion and compare and contrast their views
3. We only had 2 different exams Higher and Lower. High was A*-C and lower was C and below. If you did really badly you could get below a C on a Higher paper. Which paper you took often depended on how you did in Yr 9 and/or how you did on your coursework
4. My school made us do Tech GCSE but we had 4 different Tech courses (Graphics, Textiles, Cooking and Resistant Materials) but we got to choose which ones we did by ranking them and we would get put in the class according to our choices and spaces.
5. My school had 9 1/2 mandatory GCSEs (Short Course RE was 1/2)
6. My school didnt have IT but we had Business and Comms. Which was a mix of Business Studies and IT.
7. Geography was option in my school
8. Some schools had International Baccalaurete instead of A Levels
9. I took a mix. AQA English and Maths. OCR Science. AQA Drama.
10. I spent Yr 10 not paying attention in RE but still managed to come out with a B
Thats just me and my school. Everywhere was different although a lot of schools in a local area will take the same exams coz there isnt much exam board variation in the area, borough, county etc
Thats very close to what I had to do for GCSEs (I picked Graphics), and that was 4 yrs ago
Agreed. My school RS you had to do at least one religion that wasn't Christianity. I am genuinely suprised that Noah got away with just doing Christianity. Maybe because he wasn't at a state school.
FYI to all Americans- public/private school is basically the same thing, a school funded by the government is a state school (although there are many types including comprehensive, religious and grammar)
Im my school RE was not mandatory, Once we hit GCSE years we had to choose between 2 of the 3 Geography, History or Re. I chose Geography and History. Also GCSE PE was separated from PE. Everyone did standard PE which was just playing sports, GSCE PE was optional but in a class room and we learnt about the body, health and training. No sports involved.
Rs isn't mandatory for me. I had to take either geography or history.(Of course I took history tho cuz I dont wanna be stuck learning about urbanisation for two more years)
In my school you had to choose between history, geography and French for an ebacc subject I did (am still doing) History and French with one other btec option and I did Drama and we did the exam for our btec in year ten so we would have free periods where we got to choose an option lesson to do instead. I chose Option science because I'm doing higher triple and its AQA and their mark schemes are brutal
*Compulsory subjects at my school:*
* Biology, Chemistry & Physics (Edexcel)
* Religious Studies (AQA)
* English Lit. & English Lang. (AQA)
* Maths (Edexcel)
*My option subjects:*
* Business (Edexcel)
* Computer Science (AQA)
* History (AQA)
* Psychology (OCR)
Jessikaka
Wait how many options do you get to choose
Coz I’m my school we get 2 option choices
A choice of a language
And history or geog
Plus all the maths science English Lit and Lang etc
jesus u have a lot of options. Lucky to have psychology though, i wish that was an option at my school. I have the same compulsory options (i have AQA for science tho) but Computer Science is also compulsory for me and im quite happy abt that. We got to pick 3 options (i chose art, history and music) but we had 1 option taken off us at the beginning of year 10.
Jessikaka were soo lucky in my school and it's not even private
I don't get this thing in the comments of this video where everyone is focused on the specific exam board for each subject they do. It really doesn't matter. It doesn't make a difference. They're all so strictly confined by tons of rules of how they have to be written that they all end up the same anyway. Trust me, when we were doing GCSE's and A-Levels 15 years ago, nobody cared at all what exam board each exam was from. It wasn't even a thing we noticed. And you'll never once think about it again in your life after you've done them all. A grade is a grade. No uni will say "oh you got an A* but it was in an AQA test so we can't accept it, sorry" or something like that.
Damn only maths and English is compulsory
GCSEs are typically a 2 year course which is usually started at 14/15 and the exams are taken at 16
I took mine at 15 because of my bday lol
My schooo start teaching about GCSE in year9
@aye yo That's how some schools do it, though I think most schools start teaching GCSE content in Y10.
I picked mine in year 8 as most courses are being extended to 3 year courses due to their difficulty.
@@racheloconnell5190 same
ICT and Computer Science are soooooo different by the way. Also, ICT is no longer a GCSE as the government didn't renew it after 2018 so ICT can only be taken as a BTEC now.
I had to take a 'certificate in digital applications' instead as they changed it after my options were put through in yr 9 so the school found a different equivalent - we had a website design exam and a game design & making coursework but both had briefs so we had to learn to make every type of game and website features just in case it was on it
Mustafa Adanır ICT is a gcse at my school tho and we chose last year
@@wolfzmusic9706 same but I didn't take it as all the it teachers at my school are annoying
Most schools do ICT still as IGCSE (international GCSE) which is either done with Edexcel or Cambridge
Wjec still do ICT :)
"computer science is the same as ICT" WRONG... JUST WRONG
my school did ICT, Computer Science, cida and one other computer subject that i forgot (we did imedia but its not that)
Omfg the IT btec mock questions this year were the fucking best from how stupid they were
Ah yes, a true intellectual.
Fr Computer science was a joke this year. At least OCR was.
Ugh so true
killed me when they said that , KILLED ME
each exam also has loads of parts to it like history, for example, you have to revise 4 completely different topics which are all stupidly content-heavy, then for English you have to know 3 books basically off by heart, all the quotes, the plot, and the character analysis and on top of that, you had to memorize 20 poems, who wrote them, when they were written and all the other context. and that's only 2 subjects....... American kids are so lucky
My year got to drop the history of America and a christmas carol because of covid
@@geekygalaxy4307 Mine dropped Elizabeth and just a few days ago they dropped Medicine. We had started Medicine in the first lockdown after finishing Germany, and what I had done on Medicine in the lockdown we then redid starting September, so there was no fucking point doing any of the work in the lockdown. And now Medicine has been fucking cancelled.
"there's too many things to revise for" welcome to the uk - it's hell
At least we get an education 🙌 so many people around the world aren't that lucky :(
@@katie6384 I agree 100% with that, it's just way too stressful for young people. I feel like mental health is just as important and should be considered. If only they could lower the standards and let them breathe. You've got to admit they are put under so much pressure.
Charlie Lewis his punishment for doing a shit job was a promotion
@@jessicawise3598 Scotland have a different system, we still do exams but the new CfE (it is having some teething issues sure but the idea is solid) aims to put more focus on continuous results over the entire year rather than how pupils perform in an exam; so in class projects, smaller tests, short reports etc make up xyz% of the grades and to gain the equivalent of the lower graded GCSE you just have to pass the in class stuff as there is no exam for Nat4
@@autist1689 wow that's really very interesting :) it's great to hear some exam boards and governments here are trying to lessen the need for exams, I personally would prefer everything you just said over exams counting for everything. It's great to hear they're at least trying and it seems like its going in the right direction!
How did he just do Christianity? Maybe it’s the new GCSEs cuz our school chose 2 religions to study out of Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Joshie yeah he only chose one paper. I did rs that year and we had 4 papers and did two religions (my school did Christianity and Buddhism)
I did RE about 20yrs ago (god, I feel old typing that out) & it was just Christianity, so the old GCSEs were also single religion (usually the majority religion of the school).
I took GCSE religon studies and it was christianity and Islam
In edexel u do Christianity, Philosophy and Ethics and one other world religion (Islam, Judaism, Sikhism etc.) idk how he did chrisianity only
paranoid android we had Christianity, Islam AND philosophy and ethics (for one religion only)
I winced a bit when he said IT and Computer Science were the same thing.
I initiated full BSc CompSci Nerd Rage.
@@MostlyPennyCat it truly was painful to hear
When you spent 3 years revising for these and now they're cancelled lol
aqa is more "legit" than wjec😂😭 he was literally looking at a shortcourse ict paper hahaha try looking at the higher maths or triple science papers we don't get it easy trust😂
Non of the exam boards are easy though and thats what evan got wrong. All of the exam boards cover the same subjects but some may seem easier and maybe a little easier. But they are all hard
Liv F separate chemistry was so so fucking hard
@@aswinsenthilkumar1497 WJEC is known for introducing more and more complicated and convoluted papers, to the point where the new geography GCSE is the hardest in the UK.
omg i so regret taking triple science, killed meeee
Drama GCSE exams were so weird... You had to describe how you acted a certain line in detail etc.
YES
omg fuck that. then u do it at a-level and it's hell for the kids that just want to act lol. i got an a but i can never get that time back lmaoo
I would be up for whatever they would throw at me but my mum won’t let me even do the GCSE
@@TheTomboygamer Same, I did A-level as well and HATED the exams!!
“I just thought geography was teaching you where countries were”
In year 1 maybe
I think I know where Evan's confusion is coming from. At the high school I went to in the US thinks like erosion and types of rock would be covered primarily in Earth and Space Science (or your local equivalent), and then again in something like ecosystems, environmental science, and/or marine biology. Geography would usually start with where countries physically are and their capitals, then cover things like features of maps and other aspects of cartography and GIS. Lots of US schools also offer human geography and not regular geography.
Don’t ever remember actually learning about countries I can remember attempting to draw the world map every year in first school though
We learned the continents and oceans in like year 3 and we just always used maps for history
I find it so weird to think that’s not normal
@@PixelatedH2O Geography is really two subjects, physical geography and human geography (a _very_ small subset of which is where countries are and their capitals). Notice the paper they look at is sub-headed "The Physical Environment". There'll be other papers for the GCSE about other aspects, like human geography.
Physical geography and geology overlap to some extent but whereas geology is about the Earth, what it's made of and the processes that affect it, physical geography is more just about the Earth's surface and the processes that affect it. So as an example, a geologist might study sand and the rocks it eroded from but wouldn't normally study estuaries, sand bars or beach erosion whereas that's right up a physical geographer's street (and involves knowing a _bit_ about sand itself, how it's formed etc. - geology in other words).
I learned the continents in year 7 and it was on my end of year exam
I think Evan thought everyone had to do GCSE PE, but you got to pick your GCSEs apart from English, Maths, Re/Rs, Science
Wait do you just not do pe cause its compulsory in my school
@@miaclarke6859 Before Covid, everyone had PE in my school, but if you were doing it for an actual GCSE, you'd have 4 lessons a week instead of 2 (for my school anyway)
@@geekygalaxy4307 oh damn in my school compulsory pe has exams and tests and stuff
We didn’t have to do rs but we did have to do a language so I think aside from maths, the three sciences and the two englishes it changes from school to school? Idk tho 😂
@@lj296 Depends on the school then, cause I didn’t have to do a language but did have to do RS
Watching these always makes me jealous of Americans cos it seems like they have it so easy in skl😪😪
That's why they're stupid
Yeah and then they have to spend the whole 1st year of college making up for everything they didn’t learn in high school
Meerah Nakaayi - don’t be jealous, it’s good to be challenged and pushed to be your best, the US education system explains why so many US-Americans are stupid.
@@Sophia-dg7wk same in Ireland too lol. We have it even easier.
Sunflower being pushed to do your best is one thing but being pressured to BE the best is another
'How do you revise for all these different GCSEs?'- eat, study, sleep, repeat... and that's not even A levels.
Its inculcated in us from a young age so we get used to it. Which is why we find the American system weird to us. But if you have always done it it becomes quite useful in university because you are just continuing what you have always done. Lots of essays and electives connected to what you did a few months ago in high school
Sleep? Never heard of it
I remember cramming every last minute I had into revising for A levels, still spent 3 hours straight in a group revision before my History exam
‘AQA is the hardest exam board’
Basically all my exams are aqa
I wouldn’t say AQA is the hardest- imo it’s OCR and edexcel (especially in subjects like History). AQA English was relatively simple, at least in my experience. You’ll be fine. :)
AQA is actually not that bad. I mean I dunno for the sciences but for English it’s easy to bullshit your way and get marks, same with languages and AQA maths is easier than edexcel imo, I sat an a level paper at home when I was bored and got like full marks compared to the shambolic edexcel paper .
Is no-one going to mention the hellishness of WJEC? I have to do 13 of them- I'm Welsh btw.
It depends on the subject which exam board is considered harder. For example, in MFL one might require more complex vocabulary but have more questions in English, whereas the other requires simpler answers but there are more questions in the target language. Overall they’re supposed to be equivalent and then the grade boundaries are set based on the average results received when the exams are sat. But whichever exam board you use, it’s a LOT of pressure and stress!
OCR is definitely the hardest - literally the Oxford Cambridge Rutherford exam board. As you can tell by the names, hard.
I actually cringed so hard when Evan said that computer science is the same as IT, like nah mate.
To everyone getting their GCSE results next week - good luck and all the very best.
Thank you so much!!! I’m shitting bricks
Ty x ifu r getting any good luck if not have an amazing life x
Sophie S don’t remind us of the horrors that await
My best friend is way too calm about it while I'm freaking out about themmmm
In my school we did our RS GCSE in year 10. The amount of bible quotes you have to learn is maddddd.
I just didn't learn RE I gave up xD
it annoys me so much that some schools get to do RE in year 10 like you focus on it more but in year 11 you're not gonna memorise quotes for it when you have 11 other subjects to worry about
We had to write 3 for, 3 against, conclusion, a quote each time. My hand just about fell off.
My school made it so rs is not compulsory so I don't have to do a gcse on it. The Yr 11s that just left were the last to do compulsory rs in my school
@@jaydenhunter648 my school did the same except that i was the last year 11 to do it compulsory
I feel this guy has had a different experience to most people as he went to boarding school, you should have asked someone who went to a state school to do this video.
I am currently doing my GCSE’s and I’ve honestly never heard of an IGCSE. Also you don’t choose your exam board you choose subject and your school chooses which exam board to go through
@@nawarulgafursamin also private schools mostly do igcse's since they have a lot of international students
@@nawarulgafursamin Isn't Bangladesh an independent country now? I didn't know you were still tied to the UK like that.
I'm Welsh and did 2 Welsh, 2 English, and 1 French GCSE. Also, all my other GCSEs were done in Welsh so I did 12 GCSEs in 3 different languages.
Bloody nuts.
Me too, but I did Maths and Science in Welsh so I only did 1 GCSE in English
Love this- and obv sorry
I did Irish, English, French and Latin for my JC so I did 11 JC HL papers in 4 different languages.
WJEC is confusing enough for me in English. The way they word questions is just so confusing
Did you think it negatively impacted your GCSE performance? Or did it help? Just wondering as it seems strange (I'm trying to learn so I can engage with the engineering and science subjects for welsh schools, its just wierd as everywhere else in the world they just use English, then in Wales it's made wierd)
Some of his comments are SO DIFFERENT to my experience at school. Ill mention that IGCSEs are often taken by private schools, not regular GCSEs, but may come from the same exam boards. Every RE student Ive spoken to (and I am one) learns christianity AND something else - we learnt Judaism, but before that we did a bit on Muslims and Islam.
IGCSEs arent exactly easier, however universities look for lower IGCSE grades and higher GCSE grades (especially if they happen to be russell group members) which people argue means it is easier for IGCSE kids.
i learnt christianity and something else but ik a lot of people who learnt about buddhism and islam or sikhism and judaism idk
In the UK state schools have to do GCSE Christianity as stated by the government
We had to learn all 4 and had exam like Christian& Judaism and Christian & one of the other ones but you had to talk about all four.
@@itsben2316 since when? When did they make that change? When I was doing GCSE's 15 years ago, we could choose whichever religion to study, and in fact we barely covered Christianity at all from year 7 to 11. In fact I'm starting to remember, I think we didn't actually cover Christianity at all. Because most of us where white kids. We had one Muslim kid in the class, one Jewish kid, and that was it. So I think they were thinking we all knew Christianity already, let's teach them about everything else. I found them all fascinating. Hinduism especially. Our teacher had a big bunch of posters on all the walls of these amazing paintings of Hindu gods. They were beautiful.
@@duffman18 I think they made the change with the new 9-1 GCSE spectrum
I have a GCSE in farming! 😂 I had to work on a farm for my grade. One of the question was "How do you get a sheep to breed?"
The answer? Take them to a movie and a dinner and order a nice expensive bottle of wine, listen to them and laugh at their jokes, and be patient. Don't want to rush things, get too aggressive too quickly. Because then they can get quite sheepish.
@@duffman18 bye- 🏃♂️
Feed them wheat, duh. Minecraft didn’t teach me nothing.
I really hate that we had to take so many GCSE's but that fact that people from all across the UK can talk about how they hated a specific exam, and because we all did the same one we know what they're talking about, is pretty amazing. My school made the RE exam mandatory for the entire year group because they knew if they didnt they wouldnt have enough people for a whole class, there just under 300 people in my year. Almost no one wanted to do it
You should do a part twoo
Suggestions:
Media
Business studies
Textiles
Design technology
Music
and Citizenship aka the most useless subject ever
Also can you look further in the paper because all the easy questions are first
design isnt that's weird its like woodwork in America but more engineering orientated
Also Latin
JustBecause I want to do Citizenship 😂
And astronomy
Health and social care.
The single strangest gcse I’ve ever done
My GCSEs are:
Maths
English Lang
English Lit
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Spanish
Citizenship
History
Business Studies
Computer Science
Edit: I’m English and my school offers Hospitality and Catering as a GCSE so it’s not just welsh people
Yeah he got confused about WJEC (Welsh Joint Education Committee). Despite the name it's a national board.
And you can't forget that most of these have more than one paper. I mean, is three history tests really necessary?
My EngLit and EngLan, and French were WJEC, and I’m from England. Good ol welsh national board
@xXHobo TrashXx not who you're talking to and I didn't do it for GCSE but I had a class called BVC (beliefs, values and citizenship) in early secondary school and we learned stuff like how laws are passed, voting, social responsibility/charity, had debates on stuff like abortion and capital/corporal punishment and discussed religion in broader terms including atheism and agnosticism.
xXHobo TrashXx how laws are passed, democracy and voting system, workers rights, how the law deals with rule breakers (different kinds courts and sentences), UK culture and diversity, how the public can try to get laws changed (so pressure groups and talking to the local MP), how MPs get elected, and we briefly touched on immigration and asylum seeking.
Wait. Does “revise” mean study in England? That threw me off.
ellie day In the US, revise means to edit. Like you revise a draft of a book for example. We say study instead. How interesting.
@@GodotsRaincheck in UK studying can be done in class, and is mainly done in the classroom at least until university.
This account is shared Interesting. My grandparents generation calls grades marks. As in, “Did you get good marks this semester?” My sis and I would always be like, “Yeah, gma, we got good GRADES.” Lol. I always though it was funny.
Studying is learning new content, revising is going over stuff you've already learnt e.g. for an exam. Thats how people around me have always used those words
It means reviewing the stuff you've studied throughout the course. You are studying the information, hopefully, for the second time.
Am I the only one who forgot literally everything after GCSE’s
oxbow lake
@@sarahl3721 that's all I remember from geography
@@cheddarcheeseisgood8030 Same lol
People in England also take exams on the welsh exam board
That's so weird. Is some of it still bilingual?
No one actually speaks Welsh
@@franki1993 Yeah but no one actually speaks it, apart from Deano
@@adamt7667 ah, a Gavin and Stacey reference.
@@adamt7667 that's just not true...
thought id be laughing...
but im now stressing about year 11 in september yAaYy
I'm going into sixth form next and from experience I would suggest that you don't stress too much. Just study months in advance. Pace yourself and do plenty of essays.
Phoenix Keziah ME
how you holding up?
It's all good.... A Pandemic has come along and cancelled gcse's. No need to stress about them! 🙃
One of my RE questions this year was “was Jesus just a good man” 😂
Was it a direct question though or a 'discuss' argument essay question? 🤔
Eleanor Phillips Music that actually makes quite a good 12 market
Amilia Savage- Urban Spaceman it was a discuss question so it was actually a good 15 marker but the way they phrased it was a bit odd like what consists of good? Does that challenge his divineness or the level of his actions being only good? Everyone from my school came out of the exam confused 😂
Eleanor Phillips Music what’s odd about the phrasing of that question? Jesus isn’t JUST a good man, He is the incarnation of GOD. Pretty basic knowledge if you are a Christian.
sweet potato it was just what consists of good it confused most of my year 🤷♀️
Y do they find this funny
It's actually peak for us Brits
Computer Science and ICT are very, very different 😂
Me being Australian "what's so weird about a PE exam?"
Legit you can do pe as an elective in Australia too & they have an exam on it.
“It’s like if a nerd wanted to learn to play tennis.”
-the anime Baby Steps
ah yes king of tennis
i did that re paper and seeing it again is giving me ptsd not gonna lie
arches/stacks/stumps was my FAVE part of GCSE geography
Not my favourite but definitely up there for me! It was interesting to learn about I think
Oxbow lakes ftw :-)
T Croft ahh forgot about them meandering lakes!
Demographic transition model gang, where you at?
If you want to do a weird GCSE, try Ancient Greek, it’s a wild time
Beth xxx and Latin 🥴
What the hell
Or classical civilisation
We weren't allowed on email in ICT and the teacher could see all our screens on tbeir computer.
Our teachers can do that too
@identity crisis same here, she would put everyones screen on the big projector so everyone could see what everyone was doing..
She could lock our screens or close our windows.
Same but that didn’t stop us from sending each other memes
Leah Maslin we had that in year 11 but sometimes the teacher didn’t use it or o lay focused on a couple specific people so if you didn’t annoy them you could do what you wanted.
They had that shitty software to control and view all the computers from the main one. One kid found a way to disable it for all users of that computer even after he logged off, so everyone in our class would do it and then the IT guys would have to come and re-install/enable it on every computer ready for the next lot haha. The IT guys gave a £15 bounty for anyone in the class who told them how it was done and then they stopped it from happening :(
A lot of the "stranger" GCSEs are the very basic building block for someone to start rebuilding/start again with nothing onto a potential career. It is not impossible some schools will have the occasional GCSE like Hospitality, if it interests students who might go onto to do a real course in college. Especially if there is a local college with a specialist hospitality courses!
But you will find a lot of people do these kinds of things later in life, and often from a position of leaving school with very little and not doing much. Sometimes just people where they didn't necessarily fail at school, but things haven't gone how they wanted in life.
You can often get free courses at colleges in this position normally evening classes, and these courses might look like something stupid and pointless but have helped kickstart lives again as you progress from these simpler ones onto something that gets you somewhere.
One of the things I had to do in PE was be in charge of a lesson, like make a full lesson plan and the enforce it and we were graded on it.
I was baptised as an infant but I'm not religious, I also somehow got an A in RE.
In my ICT lessons we just played games on like miniclip and I still somehow got a B
Ryan True so you’re not actually describing GSCE PE. there’s three gcse options for sports. GCSE PE is most common, you do less practical and more theory but the theory is about the body and how you apply that to sport. there is an extensive practical exam in three chosen sports and that has a huge impact on your final grade. another option is sports science but they only usually give that option in high end schools such as private schools because it’s a less common exam. that’s very similar to GSCE PE accept you study energy systems and joints/bones instead of the heart and blood. the last option is BTEC sport which is equivalent to a GSCE but you do more practical and you have to do coursework for leadership. BTEC theory is more about types of sports and it’s better for people that want to pursue a career teaching PE. BTEC sport only has a tiny practical exam. you were talking about BTEC sport instead of GCSE PE.
@@morganmillward I'm pretty sure i was talking about just PE i took whilst I was taking my GCSE's as I didnt take it as a subject itself it was just a lesson we had to do twice a week
Do a video on how US/UK grade papers
Grading systems can change drastically depending on the state so it would only really be accurate for New Jersey lol
lmao i just love how all their answers to the re one were wrong
WJEC exams aren’t all easy, they can be really hard for the core subjects e.g. maths, English and the sciences and geography and history etc
yh, and my alevel criminology is wjec, i have two 8 hr exams for just 50%
Yeah, i’m doing WJEC religious studies and even tho the content is easy, in the exam it’s a mark a minute and it’s awful
@@jackwilliams7539 it’s pretty tough tbf
@@jackwilliams7539I just did my WJEC exam for RS and omfg it’s so hard to keep up with the timings
Dropped a level biology because the mark scheme was bs and marked you wrong with correct answers for no reason