To be totally clear about the spoken language assessment, schools can choose just to listen to your normal talk in class, or ask you to have a one to one conversation with them, or ask you to simply record yourself. Here's the actual wording: No requirement for teachers to submit sample of audio-visual recordings of spoken language assessment for exam board monitoring.
Uche Omoleweche Yes, you will get the grade you’ve just achieved on your certificate. I did my oral exam via a call, and I’ve been told that will be my certificate grade,
So are we going to get graded for doing thw speaking thats the important thing as if im not getting graded then im not going to prepare ill jist talk about my favourite thing which is football which il do if we get graded anyway😂
This just shows that the content we learn at GCSE is so unnecessary if we learn it to pass an exam and then forget about it. This whole situation demonstrated how incompetent the Uk educational system really is.
You may not forget about it though! To imply it will be is insultive to your own efforts so far and capabilities of retaining information. It may not be pointless if you find yourself fortunate to have retained all learnt during educational years in high school moreso than primary level. Nobody know what they will and won't retain, so cram your brain with as much knowledge as possible whilst you all still have access to free education and you can't really fail that way if GCSE results end up meaning very little at least you have crammed your brains with all the free educational knowledge you possibly can whilst your brains are still like sponges able to quickly absorb and retain.
@@deb7412 There's a scientific paper I recommend you read if you are interested in 'cramming your brain.' It's titled "Retrieval induces adaptive forgetting of competing memories via cortical pattern suppression." Basically, I'm sure that if I really tried, I could remember and retrieve some of the information that I had to learn for GCSE, however (as a scientist) if you were to present me with an English paper (no offense Mr Salles) then I would do nowhere near as well as I did at GCSE as I really have forgotten a lot of the knowledge that was deemed essential for the exam, but deemed inessential for my potential future career in science. The paper I mentioned explains it :)
@@deb7412 Although, like you said our brains are like sponges at this current moment, learning information that would serve no purpose in the majority of peoples later life is absolutely pointless. Sure it is the government's method of organising a social and economic hierarchy, but unless one is passionate about a certain subject, we should not have to retain information in an otherwise totally useless subject. I do get that through learning the subject, we learn different experiences and other things that may benefit us later on. However, strictly referring back to the point in the video, teachers would rather get better grades than the actual learning which really just accentuates my point. It seems the government and schools have given up on us.
as someone going into year 11 i actually agree with this change. you may find it upsetting that we don’t get to learn everything but i found the last 6 months of lockdown really overwhelming and couldn’t keep up with the amount of content i should’ve learnt. and this is coming from someone projected high grades. also we can learn stuff in college i really doubt the spoken english assessments is going to change me and prepare me for life lol
I have to say that it definitely helps anyone who may be uncomfortable with public speaking and the whole experience of it for me and others was good for me and I could see myself using those skills in the future. Whether or not that’s the case for everyone I don’t know but I think it would be a shame for schools to drop it, not because of the grade you may receive but because of how it may help shape your speaking skills
As a y10 student (starting y11 on thursday), I agree as in my opinion A-levels are probably worse given the higher amount of content (which is more challenging than at GCSEs), and clearly there are more GCSE than A-level online resources. Either they both should be changed or neither of them
@Jake Scott True. I'm just disgusted that some were changed but others weren't changed. Science is the WORST in its excessively-long content and wasn't shortened??? I'm just going into year 11 wanting to simply LEARN and not give a fuck about any grades that I get in the end- I might even learn all the topics available for history GCSE & A-level just to understand the main concepts, and continue Duolingo for the fun of it :)
I agree that y10s haven’t really learned much during lockdown as each schools have dealt with things differently. For example, mine wasn’t very good and taught set 1 maths work that we did at the very starry of y8 so we are extremely behind for all subjects. Even English the first 8 weeks of lockdown was just going over work we did in year 10. We are all extremely behind so i think that they needed to do a reduction to be honest. However, i do not agree with this as i have put the work in and tried to self teach myself some of my GCSEs so i also don’t think it is fair they have made these reductions e.g to speaking tests as for languages that’s the most important thing you need to know when you go to another country
I agree. The speaking aspect is the most important in both English and languages. It actually tests English (the exams are just about getting marks let's be honest) if anything should be scrapped it shouldn't be the speaking. My school also handled covid-19 poorly, while some schools were online and assigning work, my school didn't do much at all. And when students had the opportunity to return a couple weeks before summer. My school only did once a week, others were able to go 3/4 times a week to catch up.
Irrelevance same - my school only did once a week as well but there weren’t any sets or teachers teaching things they just handed out worksheets so I didn’t go
As someone who is going into year 11 i really do agree with what you have said here. Most of the changes are pointless and it would have been much more stress free doing modular exams. i'd rather know all of the stuff, or at least cover it, and actually get a grade based off my knowledge, then just cut a few corners and end up with the same grade anyways.
My skl hadn't touch AIC yet and i went out of my way for 5 weeks everyday of this HOLIDAY to analyse all themes and characters, now I realise I wasted my time
but even though i'm not in secondary no more, there is sooo much things you guys can do to learn new contents individually seriously. E.g. in science you can learn ALL the contents on freesciencelessons ( i relied on the guy more than my teachers and I managed to get all 9s on my science.) In english watch Mr bruff In maths do justmaths, or mathswatch etc. Again they have all the contents. In conclusion, when I was in year 11 I relied less on the teachers and more on me. Made myself a plan and worked along. Hoped this helped.
@@conor9104 oki, but btw I'm 17 year old girl, not a sir lol. My revision plan was actually very simple. I wrote down my plan for the following term and what my goal was to finish. I then uses to wake up at 5am in the morning and do like 3 subject (chemistry "30min", English "30min" and history "25min") those would be like something i haven't learned in school yet, I would especially do this for science. Then during breaks, after I finished doing something with my friends I would just take out my revision notes and just read for few minutes before the ring bells so I won't forget. These revisions cards would be something I learned in like yr 10. After school I would relax for a bit then after 1 hour i would continue to revise subjects I haven't done in the morning and spear some time to read revision cards. Btw remember to take care if your mental health and physical health. It's good to pick a day where you just relax and focus on yourselves. My self-care day was on Saturday!! I did no school work and just did something outside school related stuff. Again I hope this helped and good luck with yr11.
@@samsamhello5832Ah thank you! Btw sorry for not knowing you were a girl😂 it's the Internet and you don't know nowadays what ppl online actually look like tbf
This is really annoying, as in Y10 we have studied An inspector calls, Jekyll and Hyde and done MOST of the poetry anthrology. I wish we didn't do that all considering we haven't done Macbeth properly yet.
Either way it doesnt affect me. Im in yr 10 taking O levels in singapore this year. Despite the removal of many exams and being quarantined Teachers have not spared us any work. In fact they gave us so much to the extent whereby i stayed up till 2 and woke up at 7. Difficult times...anyways good luck to yall grades dont matter besides idt many actually use most of the stuff they learnt in sch idk this is just my opinion:)
year 10s are the unluckiest out of all the years, and plus we are behind 6 months worth of work so i dont understand how they want us to do everything in maths. we arent mathematicians come on now
The government is so messed up. Do any of them have any real world experience? NO! They all went to private schools and Universities. How are they making decisions for us when they’ve not ever been close to the breadline and shop in M&S, no offense to anyone who does ;) I’m sorry but I think it should be a requirement for all MP’s to have attended a state school and had at least 5 years of working class “experience” and by that, I mean having a regular job that pays far less than their ridiculous wage they get at the moment.
I’m pretty sure MPs don’t get Paid that much, under 10k a month (correct if me I’m wrong), and about the state schools that’s nonsenses since someone may really want to become an MP but their parents may force them to go to a private schools as they think it’s better for their child, but I do agree with the regular job for 5 years as it gives them a more realistic view of the public
Cric star ok yes I agree with you when you say that some may be forced to go to private schools but at the very least the education minister should have gone to a state school, how can they make decisions for us without experience?
@@caitlinwest272 yeah if your specifically talking about the education minister I agree cos then he'll understand the differences between state and private schools
Rank order is so stupid. What about the human bias that will have an effect without question? Some schools subconsciously discriminate against certain groups of students. Not to mention that a lot of students perform significantly better in the final exam than the rest of the year. When I did GCSE's two years ago, I was getting 6's throughout Year 10/Year 11- but in the final exam, I got 2 8's.
I did hours of work everyday during quarantine, and still am now even though it’s summer but all the work I was set was revision, I didn’t learn anything new and now we’re 5 months behind. There’s no way in the world we could ever catch up.
but even though i'm not in secondary no more, there is sooo much things you guys can do to learn new contents individually seriously. E.g. in science you can learn ALL the contents on freesciencelessons ( i relied on the guy more than my teachers and I managed to get all 9s on my science.) In english watch Mr bruff In maths do justmaths, or mathswatch etc. Again they have all the contents. In conclusion, when I was in year 11 I relied less on the teachers and more on me. Made myself a plan and worked along. Hoped this helped.
@@samsamhello5832 yeah but the problem isn’t learning the content, it’s finding the time to do it, it’s not fair that i’ve missed 5 months of school and still have to sit the same information packed impossibly timed exam as someone else did 2 years ago who had the full time at school
@@oliviatann588How is it hard to find time to do it???? you guys have been at home for so many months, you guys could just made a plan for yourselves and decide which day to do the subjects. No offence but if I was currently in the same situation as you guys were in I would finish the whole science and maths curriculum by now. there is so many available places on the internet to find help. But I do agree that there is some subjects where you guys need the teachers support such as languages and history/geography as they need a minimization of exams.
@@samsamhello5832 okay but that’s YOU. some people find it hard to work at home, some are depressed and can barely get out of bed especially just to do work. also have you ever heard of burnout? and no we haven’t just “been at home” for many months, we’ve been getting work set CONSTANTLY but because the teachers can’t support us they’ve set us revision work instead, hence why we have no time to catch up. if YOU were in my position YOU’D be behind still because surprise surprise you have OTHER STUFF TO DO
though i was lucky to get my teacher predicted grades and miss out on exams, i of course can’t say I should speak on behalf of any of the students who are taking their a levels and gcse’s next year. However, please don’t lose hope or faith in yourselves guys, I know probably no one will see this, but you can do so so well providing you work hard. Teachers are helpful in teaching the content but learning it is up to you. I know it will be difficult but the government and teachers will do whatever they can (hopefully) to make this coming difficult time as easy as possible for you. Just revise non-stop because you don’t need a teacher to get you good grades; a good mind and a little bit of hope and praying every other minute should do it, I promise.
Hey Mr Salles, just thought I should thank you for the grades I received in my English GCSES. I got 2 9s because of you! Before I started watching your videos I was getting sixes and sevens but you took me to a new level which I wouldn’t have reached were it not for this channels amazing content! Thanks again and keep up your amazing work 😀
To be honest, I feel like what most of us need is just more time, rather than changes to content. The exams should be pushed back further in my opinion to allow for us to learn the content rather than just taking it away. I know that if GCSEs were delayed to account for the missed time spent in lockdown, it would be massively beneficial for me and a lot of other students. That said, I honestly can't help but be glad that the speaking exams are gone. I have social anxiety (I'll usually have panic attacks and intense anxiety and insomnia for weeks leading up to presentations and stuff) so I wasn't looking forward to those. Though I do understand that they're important also and probably shouldn't be cancelled. I just won't miss them personally 😅
I agree I’m going into y11 and my school has ignored me and lots of others in my year who have asked for help as they have been constantly falling behind over lockdown. Personally I would be a lot less stressed if we did the exams in august or something and had the extra couple of months in school
I would definitely want extra time since I have fallen do behind during lockdown. And same with me my social anxiety is really bad and I would have failed speaking exams anyways.
As someone going into a Y11 that goes to a bad school (failed ofsted in just before lockdown) I know most of my year group hasn’t done anything, one of the things that worries me the most about someone that has done most of the work set, i don’t want to go over stuff that the majority of the class failed to do during lockdown, that i have already learnt.
Tell your teachers, and ask them to set you different work. Ideally, there will be 3, 4 or 5 of you in the class who can crack on together, getting ahead of the rest of the class.
As a student going into Year 11, I agree with you. All of the changes only succeed in reducing the value of GCSEs. In addition, the fact that Ofqual took FOUR MONTHS to propose changes is just so ridiculous - and only highlight how incompetent the education system is. I also think that teachers should have delivered lessons, like they normally would have, from the get go; whether that be through Zoom, Teams, TH-cam or any other way. I don’t know why the government rejected modular exams?!? They make so much more sense, than cramming the entire curriculum into 1 month. They also relieve stress. I think that GCSEs should be taught and assessed like this: in Year 11, all of the content is spread over the year (at least a half term), and assessed in modular exams. In Year 10, you have mock modular exams, some time after the actual Year 11 exams - after you’ve learned the content. This could also allow for a 3 week window, (after learning the content), which is the best time for active methods of learning - according to cognitive research. In addition, standards would be MUCH higher. In addition to your questions about English Literature exams, what happens if you answer all of the questions anyway?? It’s disappointing that after Ofqual has taken such a long time to propose changes, that haven’t even made them completely clear. In conclusion, the government’s response to the ENTIRE corona virus situation is completely ridiculous. Edit: It’s also “weird” say the least... that students are assessed on how much the know in comparison to everyone else, rather than how much knowledge that actually know. In addition, exams (science in particular) just don’t cover HALF of the curriculum. MAYBE a quarter - it’s so ridiculous!
these changes are needed since so many people haven't done any work and even if they have the pressure and anxiety/uncertainty over the work and everything that is going on in the world right now will make it harder for students to be motivated and do well without overworking themselves and literally having mental breakdowns (well at least for me lool) . These changes also show how bad the education system is. it shows how the only thing they care about is exams/grades and not about learning. I am dreading going back to school if I'm honest I have lost all motivation to do anything 😭😭 I've also had to start my DT coursework over lockdown and the summer with no help and I don't even know if sixth form open days will go ahead and I have no idea where I want to go for sixth form so I NEED to see the school/college first😭😭
Well some have good enough excuses such as: no laptop, no internet. Etc I’m one of the lucky ones and plus I’m Asian so if I do not do any work u would not see me again 😭
tbh, the fact that a LOT of gcse content is being cut has me both devastated and relieved. Yes, there's a lot less stress since you're expected to know less (what a relief for someone with bad memory like me) but at the same time, this means that you'll be knowing less than other year 11s who've graduated before you or future year 11s who will graduate after you. It just feels... kind of sad to me? What was the point in teaching us all that content if we're expected to not remember it now? what are even the point of gcse's? you revise so hard for these exams, shed blood, sweat, and tears into doing them - but what's the point if you forget half of what you learnt after the exam because your knowledge only matters during the moment you're taking the exam? what's the point? i just hate this system. we're forced to take 10 subjects - and for what? to forget it all? just so that we have the grades and qualifications even though we dont retain the knowledge? this is a very unopular opinion, and im probably going to hate myself and regret it later on in year 11 for even thinking this way, but im kind of glad that the maths gcse exams have remained the same. maths is one of my better subjects and i enjoy it (when i get the questions right, otherwise i hate it lmaoo) so if the exams are changed then i feel that if i do well then it wont feel like i did well because im good but rather because there's less content to learn. i want to prove to myself that i am good at maths but if i do well when theyve made a lot of reductions to the exams then the grade just won't feel very justified, if that makes sense? i want to feel like i earned that grade. that i did well because i put in the effort, not because of changes to the exam. i know this is a selfish thought, but its how i feel
So my gcse will be recognised as easier ? For example if its between me and someone who did 100% of the content my qualification won't hold as much water
To be honest as a person going into year 11 when we get back I do agree mainly because I am completely disheartened and gave up entirely in June and it has caused me so much stress at the sheer overwhelmingness of it all it got to the point where I just went into complete denial and refused to believe it was real the crushing amount of work more than what we would usual receive at that was impossible for me to keep up with and I kept of falling behind and whenever I tried to catch up the work I was behind on I then became behind on the work that I had received whilst catching up it was a never ending cycle of anxiety and stress and made me rather depressed so I couldn't take it anymore and completely gave up so to me I agree with this because even if we don't learn all of the things we would have we can always go back to it after gcses in our own time if we're really that concerned
I feel sorry for you. I got given amazing results without sitting all of my exams and I keep feeling like I’ve cheated for them. I feel like I’ve had it really easy compared to your year. I hope you still get the grades that you deserve.
I'm so disappointed at the removal of speaking. Its the most important yet least valued. I think they should have just dropped the grade boundaries (percentage of students who pass whatever that mess is) or remove writing content, not speaking
Mr Salles how are they going to differentiate between students that choose to answer as many questions as they can and those that choose to answer the least amount of questions as possible? Because those that answer more correctly would have a higher overall mark.
That's a good question. Do u mean e..g 4 questions (3 compulsory) out of 8, and who gets more: student A who gets 4/8 on 4 questions or student B who gets 5/8, 5/8, 6/8
Isn't the whole point of school to learn, so why cut knowledge in favour of doing better in an exam. They put so much precedence on the exam, what about our learning?
Can they just scrap it bc there’s most likely gonna be a 2nd wave and every school did things differently for example I’m going to year 11 and we are all pretty worried bc we literally missed so much and my schl didn’t even do anything except set us a bunch of work
I feel very sad about it to be honest. Things such as poetry may be needed in future English students, putting students behind. I would much rather have teacher assessments and spend the year actually learning the content and not learning how to do an exam! I am also super sad about English speaking because that was definitely my strongest area!
Mr Salles, I 100% agree with you sir! Firstly can I just say thank you for helping me achieve two 9s at GCSE English, and whilst I didn't choose to study it at A level you helped me tremendously to actually enjoy learning the subject. Secondly, whilst I understand some students may be too overwhelmed and lacking motivation, the idea that students don't have to learn as much for these new GCSE changes actually makes me sad and sorry for the people going into year 11 - I loved all aspects of the English lit exam and to dismiss entire genres as non important is kind of disgraceful. As my chemistry teacher always says: "I will teach you two things - chemistry, and then how to pass a chemistry exam." If that's the mentality of teachers and students, surely it's time the system was remodelled!
I think modules would be an amazing idea and it is a shame they rejected it as then you could do focused revision for each exam specifically and it would take so much of the pressure off from just a week and a bit. Give your brain some time to rest. Also, your whole grade won't be ruined if you have one slightly bad exam day. Anyway, thank you for the video and for making it clear. Before, I was confused as to what was happening for me next year...
Start by doing one big exam question at a time. Allocate how much time you can give each day, or each week. I would choose a time you are confident you can do, and stick to it.
I am on the same page as you. But use something called active recall and spaced repetition. There are multiple videos on in but watch the ones from Ali Abdaal - th-cam.com/video/ukLnPbIffxE/w-d-xo.html. I would recommend you to watch this vid Study 2 hours a day after school.
@King Joffery Baratheon Year 10 is fine honestly just keep up with homework and listen in class lol and in exam season you might want to revise an hour or 2, two weeks or one week before any exams
As someone going into Y11 in a week time, I can say that this makes the GCSE as a whole much easier. Not having to learn the entire anthology means I can spend significantly more time revising other subjects which will probably increase my overall grade, so I welcome the change.
Im really glad some changes are made as i feel underpepared and there is still lots of pressure. To let you know drama is 80% theory/writen so its more than 2 mins of acting for a qulificatuon
Hey there, Mr Salles, could you possibly do updated videos of Macbeth as many of us will be studying this in year 11, if so, that would be AMAZING! Your videos are awesome man, keep it up!
The main concern that i share with many other peers in the classroom with exams is the mass cramming and memorisation of key quotes, dates/ figures, case studies etc.
personally i would have preferred to learn everything, seeing as pressure is my motivation. However, realism is needed in these types of situations so I agree with the change
Honestly I agree with mr salles that the actual point in education is to learn as much as we can so we can use it in our lives, but sadly its the truth that we all have to admit that we all get judged based on our exam grades in the future, whether its for getting into unis or work, so its more “important” we get good grades. It just proves that the education system is so messed up that even the leaders of it realise all this is just for some numbers on a piece of paper
Mr Salles Teaches English if lots of content has been removed then surely it will make us more likely to get higher grades than if we still had to learn the original amount of content right?
Some of my year 11 companions they would just drop any interest they have in their subjects. Some in fact have already done that this summer and I just feel so bad for them
I agree with some of the changes that were made, i personally veiw the english lit change as a huge weight off my chest but i take both art and textiles and i was counting on doing well in those thanks to the practical aspects of them. But now most of the textiles advantages i could have had because i've put so much work into practical improvements has gone down the drain thanks to the changes.
As someone going on to do a university degree in acting this September, I'd recommend picking a 1 and a half minute monologue it's slightly more difficult but it makes you focus on expression and makes you the centre of focus for the performance which is easier to mark. Oh if you all ready studying Stanislavski then if you wanted to improve expressions and movement though story telling then you should probably have a look at Biomechanics or if you wanted something more contemporary and modern there's allways physical theatre company's like DV8 or frantic assembly 😑😊
I did GCSE music, with AQA, last year and your performance pieces had to add up to 3 minutes, with both the solo and ensemble performance being not less than 1 minute long, and each composition, Brief and Free, had to be a minimum of one minute in length too. I think is it a bit silly for then to cut the time down by 1 minute because most performance because add up to over three minutes anyway, and when doing a composition if you follow a basic structure of 32 bars (A section) , 32 bars (b section) and then the A section repeated again with further development you will most likely have 2 to three minute piece (depending on the tempo). As well as that you do not even need to compose 32 bars of new music, you can compose 16 bars using a chord sequence (each chord over 2 bars), and then duplicate it and develop it. There also is not rule on the amount of instruments so you could do two pieces only using a piano and a violin if you wanted, this would mean you would only have to compose for three lines of music. On the topic of the changes in subjects, I hope that with the English papers we can choose which areas to do, because I have tough my self the poetry though your videos, Sir, and when my school started giving up online lesson I was actually really good at poetry getting good marks, and it was one of the areas of English was dreading the most. As well as that the school that I got to, because it is quite small, lets your do two options in year 10 and two in year 11 (with the other core subjects), so even without the changes we have to learn a subject in a year, granted we do have ten hours of lessons for each option subject each over two weeks. The changes to exams could mean we loss some of the lessons in our option subjects, allowing for extra time for core subjects, because we have to know less, or it might just mean that there is less for us to do in the lessons because we do not need to know as much anymore. On a whole I think it would have been better to keep the exam the same, because the stress of waiting to find out what was going to happen was unnecessary, also the fact that there are still decisions to be made on the matter is ludicrous as for most students in England school are staring school in the next two weeks. If they did want to make change to the exam, and saw it as absolutely necessary, they could always have allowed for students to have blank anthologies in English Literature and more formulas given for Science and Maths etc. Doing this would aid students but only those who have learnt the syllabus. The students would still have to know the poems and how to use the formulas but some pressure would be lifted as they would not have to know them off by heart, and the students who did not know the syllabus would not be helped by them as they would, most likely, not know which ones to use or how to use them.
Extremely happy that I’m not doing my GCSEs next year, I’d panic by the changes after preparing for years only to change the last year without any pre warning. Happy I had mine this year lol
For Drama, there are three main sections, exam, scripted piece, written piece. It’s enough work as it is. I also find that making drama students write essays defies the whole drama as being an Arts subject as many people aren’t very good at writing essays but can perform well, subsequently lowering their grade.
Overall, school has been done so wrong that it’s gotten to the point where we only learn to perform in exams, our minds are trained for exams only now, which is sad. But now it is like this, we might aswell continue like this and not try to learn everything because then it would get way too stressful, and more people would give up. People with mental health issues would be at a disadvantage.
@cookie 123 dont burn yourself out. Take mocks seriously but not to the point where you are doing like 5 hours of revision 2 or 3 is fine. If you dont feel like harcore revising like I did wait until around March then start. Remember these are important but dont stress, chill, play games, watch TV, they will come around fast but you can revise just as fast. I started around March doing about an hour or 2 hours of a subject, whenever I didnt feel like doing it I didnt, you will find your rhythm as you go through. Good luck, it's difficult but a great experience that you will miss so make the most of it :DD
Hey, Mr Salles, I was just wondering since I'm going to year 10 this year, do you think these changes will apply to GCSEs 2022? Obviously, this whole situation is unprecedented and I know there will be further changes . However, during the lockdown, I have been working hard to learn the majority of the specifications for each of my exams. So I'm not sure what content to learn and what to dismiss?
i feel like this man is too judgemental like 😭 gcses are a general certificate not an alevel ? its a standard of knowledge in an area, even at full capacity , drama gcse isnt going to make you an academy award actor. its general knowledge in certain areas.
I've seen multiple of my year ten friends from other schools saying they have mocks in September but I have not heard anything so I'm now in a constant state of panic ;-;
Thank you, Mr. S: we can always rely on you to know the lastest - really appreciate your posts. Totally agree with you. Students may think they've got it easier this year, but it's to the detriment of their overall knowledge and education. 😕
The problem is I think that yk for a levels you need to know the gcse content right? 😂 so what r they gonna take content of the a levels that my year group will sit in 2yrs I don’t get it 🤦🏻♀️
Also am i the only one that had amazing support from my teachers in lockdown and had the perfect amount of work. Even my sociology teacher whos asistant head and does load of meetings and helps decide the new rules even she gave feedback every now and then which i didnt expect tbh
we managed to learn poetry from September- exam season and they decided to do the exam in year 10. Most schools have probably been learning it since year 9 so I think they’ll be fine
I know some people are complaining that some of these changes aren’t good enough, but just be thankful that you have some changes. Here in South Africa, schools closed in mid-March and started opening back up from June for certain grades only (for reference, our school year runs from mid-Jan to early December.) During the lockdown period, some private schools were able to provide online learning for their students but a very large majority of the population do not have access to internet and devices and hence have not been to school since mid-March. The grade 12 students (students in their last year of high school) are now still expected to write exams on the entire curriculum in November and the government is refusing to reduce the curriculum.
Different schools had different learning during lockdown. Slot of schools had online lessons in zoom or something, that followed the normal stuff school day, or at least had some lessons like that or slot of teacher student face to face. My school however, had a lot of teachers that weren't so good with technology. So we just had work set on class charts like how they do with homework. For me however, this didn't work. I was quickly overwhelmed by the amount of work that had to be done (our school closed a week before everyone else and thought we'd be going back so told teachers to set the amount of work we'd normally do in a lesson) it took me at least 2 maybe 3 times the time to get the work done than it should have, not to mention my low self confidence in my work. At school I'm normally hard working, in top sets, good grades. At home that all went out the window. Unlike in the classroom I couldn't just put my hand up and ask them to check my work to see if I was doing it right, or bounce ideas of classmates, now I could have emailed them, but I have anxiety and, well for me that just wasn't going to work. Our school only started using Microsoft teams like halfway into lockdown, and even then we didn't do online lessons. Some kids had one on ones with teachers, I only had maybe 2 and that was with my Art teacher who (bless her) is quite new to that sort of technology, and even normally, doesn't often get you're ideas - so online it was a lot harder as you couldn't really show her your book. (She's great tho, just going to say that). I got behind in Maths because they handed off the setting of our work to another teacher who I didn't know, and so I felt I couldn't ask questions, plus the work was set on PowerPoints which are ment to have a teacher talk through it and there was no voice over (plus theirs sometimes mistakes) and Hegaty Maths and our class hadn't used that before; I can't cope with change and she also sent out massive amount and I didn't understand stuff. (I also relied on having the same maths teacher as I had at the start of the year next year to help get us back up to standard, but it turns out he's going to another school this September. He was a great teacher and inlearnt so much and well in his classes, So I'm screwed). It took enough for me to motivate myself to do any work (I work best in the classroom, even in a normal week I struggled to motivate myself to do my homework when I get home), so long story short - I'm two weeks behind in everything, stress out when I think about school and the coming year, and didn't catch up over the summer because of this. My school is really great though and my teachers/ head of year are really great and understanding. Although I don't think they realise how behind I am. So in Conclusion: a lot of kids will probably be behind and may give up in year 11. And I would be grateful for any amount of alterations to the exams, although the more the better. And you said in another video how messed up the exams are, so I don't know, I'm just hoping for good grades, the ones I was predicted in my Interim (Report).
i'm not even doing GCSEs or A Levels until next year (starting year 12 tomorrow so i missed my gcse) but i think if they're changing the GCSEs they should also change A levels too as it puts them at a disadvantage
I’m shitting myself about my drama devising piece. Before the lockdown we already established a script and the performance as a whole, but when we came back to school we had to adjust our ENTIRE script, staging, etc. We now have to distance and have NO physical contact, which is in the criteria to meet a certain grade I want to achieve. We learned about this 3 weeks before our GCSE performance which will determine our grade. It’s an absolute shambles, I am fearful I won’t get the grade I deserve.
The changes are 50/50 as for history thats my favourite subject and its my passion and i want to be a history teacher so i wouldve liked to do the whole test but also it means less and im already at a disadvantage as i moved school and started 4 new subjects 3 of which nothibgs changed. It aldo means fir history i can focus more on 3 topics and get a better grade. For english less is amazing as english is something im mediocre at
I swear year 11 is gonna be the death of me lmao. Since school is finishing later I probably wont get home till 6 and if I actually went to sleep at the reccomended time (which I dont but shh) I would only get 4 hours to myself and homework, revision, housework, cooking dinner (my mums disabled so I do all the stuff round the house), all of that would cut into those 4 hours which seems hella unfair to me but oh well 🙃
dang that sucks, i would probably start to do the work like 5am-6am cause i’m going year 11 and i was thinking it would only be best as that’s the only time i don’t get distracted and need to do stuff around the house
as a year 10 who is going into year 11 let me tell you this- half of us have lost all motivation to even get out of bed, majority of us have lost our already little faith in the government and our year group's mental health is suffering. but lets continue to put up fake smiles and drown our self in work and depressive thoughts for exams that are meaningless.
i agree w the fact year 10 havent learnt anytgung because? i simply didnt have access to the resources i needed to fully focus. it wont affect my eng too much since im expected a 9 in lang and 6 in lit but maths ? im fucked
thank you for this, genuinely appreciate it! do you know when they will confirm the details about the english lit paper? ( eg : whether your mark will be higher if you complete all 3 questions, and how that'll be fair? )
To be totally clear about the spoken language assessment, schools can choose just to listen to your normal talk in class, or ask you to have a one to one conversation with them, or ask you to simply record yourself. Here's the actual wording:
No requirement for teachers to submit sample of audio-visual recordings of spoken language assessment for exam board monitoring.
Your a star.a human treasure even.
We already did the spoken assessment and got a grade. Will it appear on our certificate?
Uche Omoleweche Yes, you will get the grade you’ve just achieved on your certificate. I did my oral exam via a call, and I’ve been told that will be my certificate grade,
Does that include English speaking too ?
So are we going to get graded for doing thw speaking thats the important thing as if im not getting graded then im not going to prepare ill jist talk about my favourite thing which is football which il do if we get graded anyway😂
SOOO MANY KIDS HAVE ALREADY GIVEN UP, THEY SAY TO ME THEY DONT care about gcses anymore. They sed the government have failed them which I agree
I agree with you, I've given up too. Everythings just messed up now and theres no point anymore
There’s still hope
Itz Christy ummm don’t, for your own sake follow the system for now. You can protest outside of that, but don’t put yourself in a bad position
Agreed
@Em Powell are you being sarcastic?
This just shows that the content we learn at GCSE is so unnecessary if we learn it to pass an exam and then forget about it. This whole situation demonstrated how incompetent the Uk educational system really is.
I have some sympathy for this view, sadly.
Wise words - sadly I also agree with you! C'mon gov...
You may not forget about it though! To imply it will be is insultive to your own efforts so far and capabilities of retaining information. It may not be pointless if you find yourself fortunate to have retained all learnt during educational years in high school moreso than primary level. Nobody know what they will and won't retain, so cram your brain with as much knowledge as possible whilst you all still have access to free education and you can't really fail that way if GCSE results end up meaning very little at least you have crammed your brains with all the free educational knowledge you possibly can whilst your brains are still like sponges able to quickly absorb and retain.
@@deb7412 There's a scientific paper I recommend you read if you are interested in 'cramming your brain.' It's titled "Retrieval induces adaptive forgetting of competing memories via cortical pattern suppression." Basically, I'm sure that if I really tried, I could remember and retrieve some of the information that I had to learn for GCSE, however (as a scientist) if you were to present me with an English paper (no offense Mr Salles) then I would do nowhere near as well as I did at GCSE as I really have forgotten a lot of the knowledge that was deemed essential for the exam, but deemed inessential for my potential future career in science. The paper I mentioned explains it :)
@@deb7412 Although, like you said our brains are like sponges at this current moment, learning information that would serve no purpose in the majority of peoples later life is absolutely pointless. Sure it is the government's method of organising a social and economic hierarchy, but unless one is passionate about a certain subject, we should not have to retain information in an otherwise totally useless subject. I do get that through learning the subject, we learn different experiences and other things that may benefit us later on. However, strictly referring back to the point in the video, teachers would rather get better grades than the actual learning which really just accentuates my point. It seems the government and schools have given up on us.
as someone going into year 11 i actually agree with this change. you may find it upsetting that we don’t get to learn everything but i found the last 6 months of lockdown really overwhelming and couldn’t keep up with the amount of content i should’ve learnt. and this is coming from someone projected high grades. also we can learn stuff in college i really doubt the spoken english assessments is going to change me and prepare me for life lol
Well, the good news is that 76% of teachers are likely to agree with you. That's why I put the statistic in there.
I have to say that it definitely helps anyone who may be uncomfortable with public speaking and the whole experience of it for me and others was good for me and I could see myself using those skills in the future. Whether or not that’s the case for everyone I don’t know but I think it would be a shame for schools to drop it, not because of the grade you may receive but because of how it may help shape your speaking skills
if they’re gonna change GCSEs, they should’ve changed A levels too, not a single change in all four of my subjects 😔
Hey you said you have a TH-cam video I think I found your ROBLOX u auad u yt? Nashta
@@TotalRobloxDramaFan20 i don’t know what any of that means, i’m sorry
@Jake Scott i agree, but if A levels are going to remain unchanged then GCSEs should too
As a y10 student (starting y11 on thursday), I agree as in my opinion A-levels are probably worse given the higher amount of content (which is more challenging than at GCSEs), and clearly there are more GCSE than A-level online resources. Either they both should be changed or neither of them
@Jake Scott True. I'm just disgusted that some were changed but others weren't changed. Science is the WORST in its excessively-long content and wasn't shortened???
I'm just going into year 11 wanting to simply LEARN and not give a fuck about any grades that I get in the end- I might even learn all the topics available for history GCSE & A-level just to understand the main concepts, and continue Duolingo for the fun of it :)
When he said “they assumed that students hadn’t learnt during lockdown” I have never agreed so hard
I’m going to year 11 next year 😰
Good luck - it should be good
Sammeeee 😭😭😭
Hopefully it should be better than a GCSE during a pandemic, hate my grades 😥
Same
Same
I agree that y10s haven’t really learned much during lockdown as each schools have dealt with things differently. For example, mine wasn’t very good and taught set 1 maths work that we did at the very starry of y8 so we are extremely behind for all subjects. Even English the first 8 weeks of lockdown was just going over work we did in year 10. We are all extremely behind so i think that they needed to do a reduction to be honest. However, i do not agree with this as i have put the work in and tried to self teach myself some of my GCSEs so i also don’t think it is fair they have made these reductions e.g to speaking tests as for languages that’s the most important thing you need to know when you go to another country
I have already done my speaking exam, will it still count as something?
Lara .Z for gcse? You should’ve have got the result on results day last week
Lara .Z oh wait I’m wrong you don’t get any marks for it sorry about that
I agree. The speaking aspect is the most important in both English and languages. It actually tests English (the exams are just about getting marks let's be honest) if anything should be scrapped it shouldn't be the speaking. My school also handled covid-19 poorly, while some schools were online and assigning work, my school didn't do much at all. And when students had the opportunity to return a couple weeks before summer. My school only did once a week, others were able to go 3/4 times a week to catch up.
Irrelevance same - my school only did once a week as well but there weren’t any sets or teachers teaching things they just handed out worksheets so I didn’t go
As someone who is going into year 11 i really do agree with what you have said here. Most of the changes are pointless and it would have been much more stress free doing modular exams. i'd rather know all of the stuff, or at least cover it, and actually get a grade based off my knowledge, then just cut a few corners and end up with the same grade anyways.
My skl hadn't touch AIC yet and i went out of my way for 5 weeks everyday of this HOLIDAY to analyse all themes and characters, now I realise I wasted my time
Your school has a choice to do this or keep all the content in in certain subjects
but even though i'm not in secondary no more, there is sooo much things you guys can do to learn new contents individually seriously.
E.g. in science you can learn ALL the contents on freesciencelessons ( i relied on the guy more than my teachers and I managed to get all 9s on my science.)
In english watch Mr bruff
In maths do justmaths, or mathswatch etc. Again they have all the contents.
In conclusion, when I was in year 11 I relied less on the teachers and more on me. Made myself a plan and worked along.
Hoped this helped.
Could you perhaps give me a revision plan, if you don't mind of course sir. Like a timetable that outlines what I do since I'm quite indecisive.
@@conor9104 oki, but btw I'm 17 year old girl, not a sir lol.
My revision plan was actually very simple.
I wrote down my plan for the following term and what my goal was to finish.
I then uses to wake up at 5am in the morning and do like 3 subject (chemistry "30min", English "30min" and history "25min") those would be like something i haven't learned in school yet, I would especially do this for science.
Then during breaks, after I finished doing something with my friends I would just take out my revision notes and just read for few minutes before the ring bells so I won't forget.
These revisions cards would be something I learned in like yr 10.
After school I would relax for a bit then after 1 hour i would continue to revise subjects I haven't done in the morning and spear some time to read revision cards.
Btw remember to take care if your mental health and physical health.
It's good to pick a day where you just relax and focus on yourselves. My self-care day was on Saturday!!
I did no school work and just did something outside school related stuff.
Again I hope this helped and good luck with yr11.
@@samsamhello5832Ah thank you! Btw sorry for not knowing you were a girl😂 it's the Internet and you don't know nowadays what ppl online actually look like tbf
Mathsgenie is really good for maths too
I’m just replying to this so I can remember this for later
This is really annoying, as in Y10 we have studied An inspector calls, Jekyll and Hyde and done MOST of the poetry anthrology. I wish we didn't do that all considering we haven't done Macbeth properly yet.
same!
Varish Persaud I'm going into y11 and we haven't done any texts yet! Only a few poems
@@Username-ww2cd that's actually so sad :( Hope y11 goes well for you!
Either way it doesnt affect me. Im in yr 10 taking O levels in singapore this year. Despite the removal of many exams and being quarantined Teachers have not spared us any work. In fact they gave us so much to the extent whereby i stayed up till 2 and woke up at 7. Difficult times...anyways good luck to yall grades dont matter besides idt many actually use most of the stuff they learnt in sch idk this is just my opinion:)
Username whatt? that’s so unfair
year 10s are the unluckiest out of all the years, and plus we are behind 6 months worth of work so i dont understand how they want us to do everything in maths. we arent mathematicians come on now
The government is so messed up. Do any of them have any real world experience? NO! They all went to private schools and Universities. How are they making decisions for us when they’ve not ever been close to the breadline and shop in M&S, no offense to anyone who does ;) I’m sorry but I think it should be a requirement for all MP’s to have attended a state school and had at least 5 years of working class “experience” and by that, I mean having a regular job that pays far less than their ridiculous wage they get at the moment.
I’m pretty sure MPs don’t get Paid that much, under 10k a month (correct if me I’m wrong), and about the state schools that’s nonsenses since someone may really want to become an MP but their parents may force them to go to a private schools as they think it’s better for their child, but I do agree with the regular job for 5 years as it gives them a more realistic view of the public
Cric star ok yes I agree with you when you say that some may be forced to go to private schools but at the very least the education minister should have gone to a state school, how can they make decisions for us without experience?
@@caitlinwest272 yeah if your specifically talking about the education minister I agree cos then he'll understand the differences between state and private schools
Cric star yeah it would probably help, but I don’t really know it’s just my opinion 🤷♀️ hope you have a great day :)
@@caitlinwest272 thanks you too 👍👍
Rank order is so stupid. What about the human bias that will have an effect without question? Some schools subconsciously discriminate against certain groups of students. Not to mention that a lot of students perform significantly better in the final exam than the rest of the year. When I did GCSE's two years ago, I was getting 6's throughout Year 10/Year 11- but in the final exam, I got 2 8's.
I did hours of work everyday during quarantine, and still am now even though it’s summer but all the work I was set was revision, I didn’t learn anything new and now we’re 5 months behind. There’s no way in the world we could ever catch up.
Olivia Tann unlucky, with that dedication if hours everyday you’ll probably catch up hopefully! Good luck 😀😀👍👍
but even though i'm not in secondary no more, there is sooo much things you guys can do to learn new contents individually seriously.
E.g. in science you can learn ALL the contents on freesciencelessons ( i relied on the guy more than my teachers and I managed to get all 9s on my science.)
In english watch Mr bruff
In maths do justmaths, or mathswatch etc. Again they have all the contents.
In conclusion, when I was in year 11 I relied less on the teachers and more on me. Made myself a plan and worked along.
Hoped this helped.
@@samsamhello5832 yeah but the problem isn’t learning the content, it’s finding the time to do it, it’s not fair that i’ve missed 5 months of school and still have to sit the same information packed impossibly timed exam as someone else did 2 years ago who had the full time at school
@@oliviatann588How is it hard to find time to do it???? you guys have been at home for so many months, you guys could just made a plan for yourselves and decide which day to do the subjects. No offence but if I was currently in the same situation as you guys were in I would finish the whole science and maths curriculum by now. there is so many available places on the internet to find help.
But I do agree that there is some subjects where you guys need the teachers support such as languages and history/geography as they need a minimization of exams.
@@samsamhello5832 okay but that’s YOU. some people find it hard to work at home, some are depressed and can barely get out of bed especially just to do work. also have you ever heard of burnout? and no we haven’t just “been at home” for many months, we’ve been getting work set CONSTANTLY but because the teachers can’t support us they’ve set us revision work instead, hence why we have no time to catch up. if YOU were in my position YOU’D be behind still because surprise surprise you have OTHER STUFF TO DO
Maths, one of the most important things you need to learn, yet I'm still waiting for when I'm going to need to use the Sine and Cosine rules
Hey sine and cosine rules are cool y'know
quadratic simultaneous equations will definitely help me solve my real life problems
Just revised on that today 😂
I know maths can be such a pain, and there somehow are NO changes to maths, which is ridiculous considering its so hard already.
Ok tbf it's not likely you'll need that in real life -but I'm a maths need and it's so fun-
Being hard working isn't an advantage that needs to be counter balanced.
though i was lucky to get my teacher predicted grades and miss out on exams, i of course can’t say I should speak on behalf of any of the students who are taking their a levels and gcse’s next year. However, please don’t lose hope or faith in yourselves guys, I know probably no one will see this, but you can do so so well providing you work hard. Teachers are helpful in teaching the content but learning it is up to you. I know it will be difficult but the government and teachers will do whatever they can (hopefully) to make this coming difficult time as easy as possible for you. Just revise non-stop because you don’t need a teacher to get you good grades; a good mind and a little bit of hope and praying every other minute should do it, I promise.
Hey Mr Salles, just thought I should thank you for the grades I received in my English GCSES. I got 2 9s because of you! Before I started watching your videos I was getting sixes and sevens but you took me to a new level which I wouldn’t have reached were it not for this channels amazing content! Thanks again and keep up your amazing work 😀
That's so awesome - thanks for letting me know. good luck with A level.
To be honest, I feel like what most of us need is just more time, rather than changes to content. The exams should be pushed back further in my opinion to allow for us to learn the content rather than just taking it away. I know that if GCSEs were delayed to account for the missed time spent in lockdown, it would be massively beneficial for me and a lot of other students.
That said, I honestly can't help but be glad that the speaking exams are gone. I have social anxiety (I'll usually have panic attacks and intense anxiety and insomnia for weeks leading up to presentations and stuff) so I wasn't looking forward to those. Though I do understand that they're important also and probably shouldn't be cancelled. I just won't miss them personally 😅
I agree I’m going into y11 and my school has ignored me and lots of others in my year who have asked for help as they have been constantly falling behind over lockdown. Personally I would be a lot less stressed if we did the exams in august or something and had the extra couple of months in school
I would definitely want extra time since I have fallen do behind during lockdown. And same with me my social anxiety is really bad and I would have failed speaking exams anyways.
As someone going into a Y11 that goes to a bad school (failed ofsted in just before lockdown) I know most of my year group hasn’t done anything, one of the things that worries me the most about someone that has done most of the work set, i don’t want to go over stuff that the majority of the class failed to do during lockdown, that i have already learnt.
Emily W same! my school failed ofsted right before too. it’s really just a bad situation overall
Tell your teachers, and ask them to set you different work. Ideally, there will be 3, 4 or 5 of you in the class who can crack on together, getting ahead of the rest of the class.
I'm realising how much worse this has been for more disadvantaged schools.
I didn’t even think abt this! Hope schools have already thought ahead about this before you!
As a student going into Year 11, I agree with you. All of the changes only succeed in reducing the value of GCSEs. In addition, the fact that Ofqual took FOUR MONTHS to propose changes is just so ridiculous - and only highlight how incompetent the education system is. I also think that teachers should have delivered lessons, like they normally would have, from the get go; whether that be through Zoom, Teams, TH-cam or any other way.
I don’t know why the government rejected modular exams?!? They make so much more sense, than cramming the entire curriculum into 1 month. They also relieve stress.
I think that GCSEs should be taught and assessed like this: in Year 11, all of the content is spread over the year (at least a half term), and assessed in modular exams. In Year 10, you have mock modular exams, some time after the actual Year 11 exams - after you’ve learned the content. This could also allow for a 3 week window, (after learning the content), which is the best time for active methods of learning - according to cognitive research. In addition, standards would be MUCH higher.
In addition to your questions about English Literature exams, what happens if you answer all of the questions anyway?? It’s disappointing that after Ofqual has taken such a long time to propose changes, that haven’t even made them completely clear.
In conclusion, the government’s response to the ENTIRE corona virus situation is completely ridiculous.
Edit: It’s also “weird” say the least... that students are assessed on how much the know in comparison to everyone else, rather than how much knowledge that actually know.
In addition, exams (science in particular) just don’t cover HALF of the curriculum. MAYBE a quarter - it’s so ridiculous!
You sound like someone who thinks things through really clearly! Good luck with your future career - you'll make a difference, whatever it is.
Preach Sis!!
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish Thank you for taking the time to read my comment, and leave such a kind message!
This sounds like a great idea
these changes are needed since so many people haven't done any work and even if they have the pressure and anxiety/uncertainty over the work and everything that is going on in the world right now will make it harder for students to be motivated and do well without overworking themselves and literally having mental breakdowns (well at least for me lool) . These changes also show how bad the education system is. it shows how the only thing they care about is exams/grades and not about learning. I am dreading going back to school if I'm honest I have lost all motivation to do anything 😭😭 I've also had to start my DT coursework over lockdown and the summer with no help and I don't even know if sixth form open days will go ahead and I have no idea where I want to go for sixth form so I NEED to see the school/college first😭😭
im in the same situation as you ;-; im so nervous for school I have nightmares every night
@@vikavazna ahhh we're in this together 🤞😩
You can say it's sad but it's the truth, in my school there's been kids who haven't even gone on their school emails since lockdown.
yeah same i know some people who haven’t done anything to do with school since march
Well some have good enough excuses such as: no laptop, no internet. Etc
I’m one of the lucky ones and plus I’m Asian so if I do not do any work u would not see me again 😭
@@harjapbura5762 I'm Asian too but I'd say Asian households are the most disadvantaged so rip
Adil Ahmed I didn’t mean that part
I had my school's email during lockdown but then they got hacked so it's been shut down
tbh, the fact that a LOT of gcse content is being cut has me both devastated and relieved. Yes, there's a lot less stress since you're expected to know less (what a relief for someone with bad memory like me) but at the same time, this means that you'll be knowing less than other year 11s who've graduated before you or future year 11s who will graduate after you. It just feels... kind of sad to me? What was the point in teaching us all that content if we're expected to not remember it now? what are even the point of gcse's? you revise so hard for these exams, shed blood, sweat, and tears into doing them - but what's the point if you forget half of what you learnt after the exam because your knowledge only matters during the moment you're taking the exam? what's the point? i just hate this system. we're forced to take 10 subjects - and for what? to forget it all? just so that we have the grades and qualifications even though we dont retain the knowledge?
this is a very unopular opinion, and im probably going to hate myself and regret it later on in year 11 for even thinking this way, but im kind of glad that the maths gcse exams have remained the same. maths is one of my better subjects and i enjoy it (when i get the questions right, otherwise i hate it lmaoo) so if the exams are changed then i feel that if i do well then it wont feel like i did well because im good but rather because there's less content to learn. i want to prove to myself that i am good at maths but if i do well when theyve made a lot of reductions to the exams then the grade just won't feel very justified, if that makes sense? i want to feel like i earned that grade. that i did well because i put in the effort, not because of changes to the exam. i know this is a selfish thought, but its how i feel
It isn't selfish at all! Good luck with maths in particular.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish thank you so much :) you're my favorite english gcse youtuber. thank you for the wonderful videos!
I feel the same way
Interesting...! Bless ur knowledge and research
So my gcse will be recognised as easier ?
For example if its between me and someone who did 100% of the content my qualification won't hold as much water
Imagine how much this year's gcse will be recognised as they haven't been done
To be honest as a person going into year 11 when we get back I do agree mainly because I am completely disheartened and gave up entirely in June and it has caused me so much stress at the sheer overwhelmingness of it all it got to the point where I just went into complete denial and refused to believe it was real the crushing amount of work more than what we would usual receive at that was impossible for me to keep up with and I kept of falling behind and whenever I tried to catch up the work I was behind on I then became behind on the work that I had received whilst catching up it was a never ending cycle of anxiety and stress and made me rather depressed so I couldn't take it anymore and completely gave up so to me I agree with this because even if we don't learn all of the things we would have we can always go back to it after gcses in our own time if we're really that concerned
Good luck to all the new year 11s! I am among them but we will get through this.
I feel sorry for you. I got given amazing results without sitting all of my exams and I keep feeling like I’ve cheated for them. I feel like I’ve had it really easy compared to your year. I hope you still get the grades that you deserve.
I'm so disappointed at the removal of speaking. Its the most important yet least valued. I think they should have just dropped the grade boundaries (percentage of students who pass whatever that mess is) or remove writing content, not speaking
i feel your frustration, but some of these changes will really help students to at least be more motivated
maybe
I am going to yr 11 and I am very very excited to finish
Mr Salles how are they going to differentiate between students that choose to answer as many questions as they can and those that choose to answer the least amount of questions as possible? Because those that answer more correctly would have a higher overall mark.
That's a good question. Do u mean e..g 4 questions (3 compulsory) out of 8, and who gets more:
student A who gets 4/8 on 4 questions
or student B who gets 5/8, 5/8, 6/8
Varish Persaud yes
Isn't the whole point of school to learn, so why cut knowledge in favour of doing better in an exam. They put so much precedence on the exam, what about our learning?
Shush
shut it mate
Shush 😏
Shush
As soon as I saw the notification CLICKEDD
A distract14on same
Thank you!
Same
Omg same. Going to yr 11 in 12 days!
Can they just scrap it bc there’s most likely gonna be a 2nd wave and every school did things differently for example I’m going to year 11 and we are all pretty worried bc we literally missed so much and my schl didn’t even do anything except set us a bunch of work
can't have a second wave if the first one never ends
Same. Just a bunch of work that I don't understand. I email my teachers for help but they hardly ever respond
I feel very sad about it to be honest. Things such as poetry may be needed in future English students, putting students behind. I would much rather have teacher assessments and spend the year actually learning the content and not learning how to do an exam! I am also super sad about English speaking because that was definitely my strongest area!
Mr Salles, I 100% agree with you sir! Firstly can I just say thank you for helping me achieve two 9s at GCSE English, and whilst I didn't choose to study it at A level you helped me tremendously to actually enjoy learning the subject. Secondly, whilst I understand some students may be too overwhelmed and lacking motivation, the idea that students don't have to learn as much for these new GCSE changes actually makes me sad and sorry for the people going into year 11 - I loved all aspects of the English lit exam and to dismiss entire genres as non important is kind of disgraceful. As my chemistry teacher always says: "I will teach you two things - chemistry, and then how to pass a chemistry exam." If that's the mentality of teachers and students, surely it's time the system was remodelled!
I think modules would be an amazing idea and it is a shame they rejected it as then you could do focused revision for each exam specifically and it would take so much of the pressure off from just a week and a bit. Give your brain some time to rest. Also, your whole grade won't be ruined if you have one slightly bad exam day.
Anyway, thank you for the video and for making it clear. Before, I was confused as to what was happening for me next year...
Yes, modules would have a big advantage that way
When would the skill of knowing Shakespeare be useful if you want to manufacture technology?
Hey sir, I'm a bit concerned about year 11. How much revision would you recommend I do everyday to be okay?
Start by doing one big exam question at a time. Allocate how much time you can give each day, or each week. I would choose a time you are confident you can do, and stick to it.
I am on the same page as you. But use something called active recall and spaced repetition. There are multiple videos on in but watch the ones from Ali Abdaal - th-cam.com/video/ukLnPbIffxE/w-d-xo.html. I would recommend you to watch this vid
Study 2 hours a day after school.
@King Joffery Baratheon Year 10 is fine honestly just keep up with homework and listen in class lol and in exam season you might want to revise an hour or 2, two weeks or one week before any exams
As someone going into Y11 in a week time, I can say that this makes the GCSE as a whole much easier. Not having to learn the entire anthology means I can spend significantly more time revising other subjects which will probably increase my overall grade, so I welcome the change.
Im really glad some changes are made as i feel underpepared and there is still lots of pressure. To let you know drama is 80% theory/writen so its more than 2 mins of acting for a qulificatuon
Hey there, Mr Salles, could you possibly do updated videos of Macbeth as many of us will be studying this in year 11, if so, that would be AMAZING! Your videos are awesome man, keep it up!
Hey I appreciate this as year 10 student
Thank you - very helpful!
The main concern that i share with many other peers in the classroom with exams is the mass cramming and memorisation of key quotes, dates/ figures, case studies etc.
personally i would have preferred to learn everything, seeing as pressure is my motivation. However, realism is needed in these types of situations so I agree with the change
Honestly I agree with mr salles that the actual point in education is to learn as much as we can so we can use it in our lives, but sadly its the truth that we all have to admit that we all get judged based on our exam grades in the future, whether its for getting into unis or work, so its more “important” we get good grades. It just proves that the education system is so messed up that even the leaders of it realise all this is just for some numbers on a piece of paper
True enough, but the changes will make no difference to your eventual grade
Mr Salles Teaches English if lots of content has been removed then surely it will make us more likely to get higher grades than if we still had to learn the original amount of content right?
I’m going towards doing poetry and AIC for English Lit, primarily because the Mr Salles A Christmas Carol guide has not been released. 😂
Lmao same 😂
I don’t know why I’m still subscribed 🤣 I used to watch you in when I was in year 11 in 2017 and got a 5 in English!!
Some of my year 11 companions they would just drop any interest they have in their subjects. Some in fact have already done that this summer and I just feel so bad for them
I’m so confused with the English language speech! Do we have to do at all? Or is it just not sent into ofqual?
I agree with some of the changes that were made, i personally veiw the english lit change as a huge weight off my chest but i take both art and textiles and i was counting on doing well in those thanks to the practical aspects of them. But now most of the textiles advantages i could have had because i've put so much work into practical improvements has gone down the drain thanks to the changes.
I’m actually so disappointed that they’ve made so many changes for English Lang and lit, it’s one of my stronger subjects by far !
As someone going on to do a university degree in acting this September, I'd recommend picking a 1 and a half minute monologue it's slightly more difficult but it makes you focus on expression and makes you the centre of focus for the performance which is easier to mark. Oh if you all ready studying Stanislavski then if you wanted to improve expressions and movement though story telling then you should probably have a look at Biomechanics or if you wanted something more contemporary and modern there's allways physical theatre company's like DV8 or frantic assembly 😑😊
I did GCSE music, with AQA, last year and your performance pieces had to add up to 3 minutes, with both the solo and ensemble performance being not less than 1 minute long, and each composition, Brief and Free, had to be a minimum of one minute in length too. I think is it a bit silly for then to cut the time down by 1 minute because most performance because add up to over three minutes anyway, and when doing a composition if you follow a basic structure of 32 bars (A section) , 32 bars (b section) and then the A section repeated again with further development you will most likely have 2 to three minute piece (depending on the tempo). As well as that you do not even need to compose 32 bars of new music, you can compose 16 bars using a chord sequence (each chord over 2 bars), and then duplicate it and develop it. There also is not rule on the amount of instruments so you could do two pieces only using a piano and a violin if you wanted, this would mean you would only have to compose for three lines of music.
On the topic of the changes in subjects, I hope that with the English papers we can choose which areas to do, because I have tough my self the poetry though your videos, Sir, and when my school started giving up online lesson I was actually really good at poetry getting good marks, and it was one of the areas of English was dreading the most.
As well as that the school that I got to, because it is quite small, lets your do two options in year 10 and two in year 11 (with the other core subjects), so even without the changes we have to learn a subject in a year, granted we do have ten hours of lessons for each option subject each over two weeks. The changes to exams could mean we loss some of the lessons in our option subjects, allowing for extra time for core subjects, because we have to know less, or it might just mean that there is less for us to do in the lessons because we do not need to know as much anymore.
On a whole I think it would have been better to keep the exam the same, because the stress of waiting to find out what was going to happen was unnecessary, also the fact that there are still decisions to be made on the matter is ludicrous as for most students in England school are staring school in the next two weeks. If they did want to make change to the exam, and saw it as absolutely necessary, they could always have allowed for students to have blank anthologies in English Literature and more formulas given for Science and Maths etc. Doing this would aid students but only those who have learnt the syllabus. The students would still have to know the poems and how to use the formulas but some pressure would be lifted as they would not have to know them off by heart, and the students who did not know the syllabus would not be helped by them as they would, most likely, not know which ones to use or how to use them.
Stop waffling 🧇
I hope you are given the choice to do the poetry.
Extremely happy that I’m not doing my GCSEs next year, I’d panic by the changes after preparing for years only to change the last year without any pre warning. Happy I had mine this year lol
For Drama, there are three main sections, exam, scripted piece, written piece. It’s enough work as it is. I also find that making drama students write essays defies the whole drama as being an Arts subject as many people aren’t very good at writing essays but can perform well, subsequently lowering their grade.
Overall, school has been done so wrong that it’s gotten to the point where we only learn to perform in exams, our minds are trained for exams only now, which is sad. But now it is like this, we might aswell continue like this and not try to learn everything because then it would get way too stressful, and more people would give up. People with mental health issues would be at a disadvantage.
Good luck to the new year 11s, its rough but you will make it :D
@cookie 123 dont burn yourself out. Take mocks seriously but not to the point where you are doing like 5 hours of revision 2 or 3 is fine. If you dont feel like harcore revising like I did wait until around March then start. Remember these are important but dont stress, chill, play games, watch TV, they will come around fast but you can revise just as fast. I started around March doing about an hour or 2 hours of a subject, whenever I didnt feel like doing it I didnt, you will find your rhythm as you go through. Good luck, it's difficult but a great experience that you will miss so make the most of it :DD
@cookie 123 no problem man, dont worry about, it isnt as big as it's made out to be, we believe in you, you got this
Hey, Mr Salles, I was just wondering since I'm going to year 10 this year, do you think these changes will apply to GCSEs 2022? Obviously, this whole situation is unprecedented and I know there will be further changes . However, during the lockdown, I have been working hard to learn the majority of the specifications for each of my exams. So I'm not sure what content to learn and what to dismiss?
No, I think we will have returned to something a bit more normal.
Another useful and informative video 😁
i feel like this man is too judgemental like 😭 gcses are a general certificate not an alevel ? its a standard of knowledge in an area, even at full capacity , drama gcse isnt going to make you an academy award actor. its general knowledge in certain areas.
I have mocks in 2 weeks time and I’m cramming for my life and I’m in year 10 going to year 11 :( Sir Help!
lol same I'm literally cramming despite knowing the negative impacts of it
I’m going into yr 11 too and you guys are already prepping for mocks?? wtf
I've seen multiple of my year ten friends from other schools saying they have mocks in September but I have not heard anything so I'm now in a constant state of panic ;-;
im in year 10 n i thought mocks were next year 🥴
Thank you, Mr. S: we can always rely on you to know the lastest - really appreciate your posts. Totally agree with you. Students may think they've got it easier this year, but it's to the detriment of their overall knowledge and education. 😕
Thanks
Im going into year 11 and i totally agree with you, this change is absolutely ridiculous and there should have been no change... SMH
Thank you so much for this video this is so useful and informative
Thank you , you are a God sent.
The problem is I think that yk for a levels you need to know the gcse content right? 😂 so what r they gonna take content of the a levels that my year group will sit in 2yrs I don’t get it 🤦🏻♀️
What about computer science sir?
Also am i the only one that had amazing support from my teachers in lockdown and had the perfect amount of work. Even my sociology teacher whos asistant head and does load of meetings and helps decide the new rules even she gave feedback every now and then which i didnt expect tbh
Obviously you said that you didn’t want everything to change Mr Salles, but which of the options would you choose to implement if you had to?
I guess exams in modular form is the best of these, even though that does lead to long term memory loss
Wait hold on, will these changes apply to the autumn exams?
we managed to learn poetry from September- exam season and they decided to do the exam in year 10. Most schools have probably been learning it since year 9 so I think they’ll be fine
I was thinking of changes, but this is making it too easy!
Do these changes include IGCSEs? And exams taking place in January?
I know some people are complaining that some of these changes aren’t good enough, but just be thankful that you have some changes. Here in South Africa, schools closed in mid-March and started opening back up from June for certain grades only (for reference, our school year runs from mid-Jan to early December.) During the lockdown period, some private schools were able to provide online learning for their students but a very large majority of the population do not have access to internet and devices and hence have not been to school since mid-March. The grade 12 students (students in their last year of high school) are now still expected to write exams on the entire curriculum in November and the government is refusing to reduce the curriculum.
Thank you for watching from South Africa. Good luck. I hope the Lions tour comes off next year!
I didnt see anything about computer science here, i might have missed it, can someone give me an update on that, it would be much appreciated
Oh damm I really gotta get cracking on my art corsework/portfolio I’ve been slacking recently
There are changed in RE?? They're taking out one of the christianity sections. I remember we spoke about it before the end of term.
Wait really? Do u know what exam board that is
@@K_10107 oh cool! We r doing Equadas for RS
@@K_10107 Christianity, Judaism and Islam
having mental health issues and going into lockdown really didnt help any work get done. i hope year 11 is better.
what do you mean i can't make my prototype for DT that was what i was excited for
Do you know where we could find equivalent information for A-levels? Cheers :)
I've just put the Ofqual link in the description - thanks for reminding me
Poetry is 60% of paper 2 lit so how will the paper be arranged? and wouldn't the grade boundaries be high? idk I'm just confused.
Different schools had different learning during lockdown. Slot of schools had online lessons in zoom or something, that followed the normal stuff school day, or at least had some lessons like that or slot of teacher student face to face. My school however, had a lot of teachers that weren't so good with technology. So we just had work set on class charts like how they do with homework. For me however, this didn't work. I was quickly overwhelmed by the amount of work that had to be done (our school closed a week before everyone else and thought we'd be going back so told teachers to set the amount of work we'd normally do in a lesson) it took me at least 2 maybe 3 times the time to get the work done than it should have, not to mention my low self confidence in my work. At school I'm normally hard working, in top sets, good grades. At home that all went out the window. Unlike in the classroom I couldn't just put my hand up and ask them to check my work to see if I was doing it right, or bounce ideas of classmates, now I could have emailed them, but I have anxiety and, well for me that just wasn't going to work. Our school only started using Microsoft teams like halfway into lockdown, and even then we didn't do online lessons. Some kids had one on ones with teachers, I only had maybe 2 and that was with my Art teacher who (bless her) is quite new to that sort of technology, and even normally, doesn't often get you're ideas - so online it was a lot harder as you couldn't really show her your book. (She's great tho, just going to say that). I got behind in Maths because they handed off the setting of our work to another teacher who I didn't know, and so I felt I couldn't ask questions, plus the work was set on PowerPoints which are ment to have a teacher talk through it and there was no voice over (plus theirs sometimes mistakes) and Hegaty Maths and our class hadn't used that before; I can't cope with change and she also sent out massive amount and I didn't understand stuff. (I also relied on having the same maths teacher as I had at the start of the year next year to help get us back up to standard, but it turns out he's going to another school this September. He was a great teacher and inlearnt so much and well in his classes, So I'm screwed). It took enough for me to motivate myself to do any work (I work best in the classroom, even in a normal week I struggled to motivate myself to do my homework when I get home), so long story short - I'm two weeks behind in everything, stress out when I think about school and the coming year, and didn't catch up over the summer because of this. My school is really great though and my teachers/ head of year are really great and understanding. Although I don't think they realise how behind I am.
So in Conclusion: a lot of kids will probably be behind and may give up in year 11. And I would be grateful for any amount of alterations to the exams, although the more the better. And you said in another video how messed up the exams are, so I don't know, I'm just hoping for good grades, the ones I was predicted in my Interim (Report).
Is this just for 2021 gcse?
Or they going to follow this for 2022 gcse as well ?
i'm not even doing GCSEs or A Levels until next year (starting year 12 tomorrow so i missed my gcse) but i think if they're changing the GCSEs they should also change A levels too as it puts them at a disadvantage
I’m shitting myself about my drama devising piece. Before the lockdown we already established a script and the performance as a whole, but when we came back to school we had to adjust our ENTIRE script, staging, etc. We now have to distance and have NO physical contact, which is in the criteria to meet a certain grade I want to achieve.
We learned about this 3 weeks before our GCSE performance which will determine our grade. It’s an absolute shambles, I am fearful I won’t get the grade I deserve.
Mr Salles- if you do CIE IGCSE history and French do the changes still apply or is it only for regular GCSES
The changes are 50/50 as for history thats my favourite subject and its my passion and i want to be a history teacher so i wouldve liked to do the whole test but also it means less and im already at a disadvantage as i moved school and started 4 new subjects 3 of which nothibgs changed. It aldo means fir history i can focus more on 3 topics and get a better grade. For english less is amazing as english is something im mediocre at
I swear year 11 is gonna be the death of me lmao. Since school is finishing later I probably wont get home till 6 and if I actually went to sleep at the reccomended time (which I dont but shh) I would only get 4 hours to myself and homework, revision, housework, cooking dinner (my mums disabled so I do all the stuff round the house), all of that would cut into those 4 hours which seems hella unfair to me but oh well 🙃
dang that sucks, i would probably start to do the work like 5am-6am cause i’m going year 11 and i was thinking it would only be best as that’s the only time i don’t get distracted and need to do stuff around the house
Sorry about that, I truly hope everything works out for you and your mum. You are incredible and don’t let a silly grade tell you ANYTHING else 💗
@@rickr0113d awww thank you so much! and hope everything will work out for you too 💕
as a year 10 who is going into year 11 let me tell you this- half of us have lost all motivation to even get out of bed, majority of us have lost our already little faith in the government and our year group's mental health is suffering. but lets continue to put up fake smiles and drown our self in work and depressive thoughts for exams that are meaningless.
11:45 will I be compared to students in my class/year or nationally?
nationally the top 1% get g9
@@myleshayhurst7526 top 7% i think
I checked it’s the top 4%
In my school we do eng lit in year 10 but because it got cancelled we got a centre accessed grade
thank you sir..i moved a grade better and get a 5 in estimated grades
i agree w the fact year 10 havent learnt anytgung because? i simply didnt have access to the resources i needed to fully focus. it wont affect my eng too much since im expected a 9 in lang and 6 in lit but maths ? im fucked
this video was so salty I love it
thank you for this, genuinely appreciate it! do you know when they will confirm the details about the english lit paper? ( eg : whether your mark will be higher if you complete all 3 questions, and how that'll be fair? )
Not yet - I have written to the exam board for clarification
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish you legend man, thank you!
does this go for the channel islands too ?