Question: how do i get better grades on my gcses?

Charlotte Gale answered on 6 Feb 2026:

Annoyingly, the answer to that is probably different for different people. Finding something you are interested in with each subject helps, but I know that can’t solve everything. The most useful thing I found was working out how the exams were marked – for example, science exams often give you marks for stating facts that are relevant to the question.

I would suggest looking at some past papers (you can usually find them online if you google the exam board and the subject), ideally doing some like they were real exams, and learning what kinds of questions come up and what marks are given in the answers – I found that for science and maths in particular, you can start to notice patterns and sometimes the questions will even be repeated in your real exam!

Is there a particular subject you are worried about?