GCSE Grade Boundaries Much Tougher in 2023?

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[archieellis]

This confirms that GCSE’s are basically the Hunger games 💀😭

[frenchyfrie]

I’ll keep my subscription even if I shan’t touch English ever again, as a sign of respect and thank you to ‘The G.O.A.T’, a.k.a Mr Salles

[realnoscope]

The grade boundaries will be high for everything except OCR Computer Science, if you know you know

[mralfie]

My school started our GCSEs in year 9 rather than the standard year 10. Lots of learning for these subjects was missed and impacted due to covid and i think that this is extremely unfair that the boundaries will be tougher despite impacts of covid

[anjalinarayanan]

Got 9s in Lang and Lit, dropping 5 marks overall in the literature papers!! I couldn't have done it without your videos Mr Salles, you distilled what I've always found to be a daunting subject into manageable bitesize chunks and I'm sure it's all the complex and original ideas which you shared with us that got me my grades. I honestly learnt more through binging your videos the week before the exam than I did during the whole GCSE course. I'm not sure you could fully comprehend how big of an impact you've had on myself and thousands of other students across the country - what you do is amazing. Thank you so so much!

[xyrex]

we have to consider that we can't really predict grade boundaries this year because we don't know if they'll return to 2019 percentages or go somewhere between 2019 and 2022

[manasvim]

Thank you Mr.Salles, thanks to your help I managed to go from 6s to 9s in both lit and lang

[mariag]

Thank you so much!
We need to know the truth, even if it's uncomfortable. You have always been upfront - thank you.

[alastairaiken]

Sir, while your videos have been very helpful, I think you are placing too much faith in what students did over lockdown. Yes, many students did spend more time watching more educational content, but how much of that information did they retain? Very little. In fact, lockdown caused a "memory fog" due to the social isolation people had to endure. They watched videos because they were bored, and if you're doing something because you're bored, you're not going to remember it. For instance, if you scroll through TikTok (which many students do), you're not going to remember what videos you've just watched. Because you did it out of boredom, not out of passion.

Furthermore, much of the educational videos people watched over lockdown had very little to do with GCSEs. They watched "edutainment" videos because they were interesting. Channels like Vsauce, Tom Scott, Numberphile, not channels like Freesciencelessons. GCSEs are much more about exam technique than about actual content, especially in English. And if they did watch channels like Freesciencelessons, it was probably because their schools set those videos to them as tasks.

Anyway, thank you sir for all the videos you've made; they have helped me a lot. This is definitely the only video of yours I did not agree with.

[mtisboss]

I just hope the people who mark my paper are fair 😅

[tonyc]

Mr Salles, I am stronger in maths and science, but you alone carried me from 6 and 7 to 9 and 9 in English with all your videos! Thank you much Sir, you have given me hope!

[rajveersingh-gmcz]

Mr Salles, I am so nervous for tomorrow. I want to do well. Your videos are amazing!
Just to let you know, in the exam on paper 2 Q5, I wrote about politics and about the PM of the UK, Rishi.

[amongusplaz]

Thanks for your hard work, I managed to get a grade 9 in both English language and literature, so happy and thank you again. Your Macbeth videos were a life saver, went from a six to a 9, no exaggeration. Words can't express my gratitude since I have been watching since year 7, I hope you see this so you know your a beautiful person.

[jameshibberd]

Ontop of lockdown, our teacher left at easter in year 10 and we didn't get another english teacher until year 11, we just had cover teachers who had no subject knowledge. English also very much isn't one of my strengths naturally anyway, so If Im hearing that a 4 is going to be easier to get, thats music to my ears.

[eequestrian]

Hi Mr Salles! I’m not sure if you will see this message but I just wanted to say a massive thank you for all the videos you made before GCSEs 2023. I received my results today and thanks to you I got a 9 in English Literature as well as full marks in English Literature Paper 1 so couldn’t be more grateful for your help! I hope you have a wonderful rest of the summer and for anyone reading this, trust me, Mr Salles will absolutely save you!!

[ae]

went from getting two 5s to a 9 in language and 7 literature. thank you so much

[clashofmagic]

Sir, thank you so much
I got 157/160 on English lit.
That's insane.
That's my only 9 and I almost aced the exam. All down to you. Thank you so, so much

[MohamedAli-ksqy]

I don't take all of these measurement serious. Last year AQA being lied to us when they said the examiners will be generous. Most of student got grade 3 which is mean they failed them.

[Slinkycomet]

I PASSED MY ENGLISH! Thank you Mr Salles for your irreplaceable help!

[danielwalker]

You have got me shaking to my core. I tried hard in english as it's my worst subject, but omg the fact its going to be now harder is killing me ;<