1. I didn't know you could use a pencil! Had I known that I woulda just used pencil for the whole thing. 2. Who owns a ruler? Why do lines HAVE to be straight? :( 3. Hope you enjoyed this! It was an absolute beast to film and edit
By the way, an 8 is very good and is an A* not an A. A 9 is an A** and very difficult to achieve. Congrats! EDIT: I get that there is no such thing as an A** but a 9 is described as an equivalent to it because the grade boundaries for the new 9 are a lot higher than the old A* but the boundaries for the new 8 are very similar to the old A*.
who’s gonna tell him we have to do 2 more of these papers, learn 2 books a shakespeare play and 15 poems, as well as content for like 10 other subjects
Learn 15 poems? You don't have to know them off by heart, just the general gist of them and maybe 1 or 2 lines. Or even just learn 2 of them really well and relate them to whatever the question is.
@impr0visati0n for a correct method you get marks. For example, stating and substituting the correct numbers into an equation would get you some marks, regardless of if the final answer is incorrect. So, you might mess up in rearranging a formula, but if the steps before that were correct you would, say, get 1/2 marks out of 4.
If the answers were correct he would of gotten every Mark, doesn’t matter where you write it and if there was any working. If he got the answer wrong but had working, he would of got some marks if the workings were along the right lines
One other thing to note: The reason you’re meant to write in black ink is because here in the UK, the scripts for external assessments are scanned by a machine before being handed to a physical examiner. The scanners are such that black ink is the only colour that it can recognise
as someone who sits the maths higher paper and is going gcses next year, i must say we are literally taught to dumb down and write every little step so that they cannot take off marks - the mark scheme loves being like ‘ok well you didn’t show you multiplied by 6 so lol fail’
I litrealy write down the fucking multiples of numbers like 6 for every assessment I do for the preperations for future exams because I know that they will be shitting on everything I don't point out
I cringed when he didn’t write his answers on the line and when he said points instead of marks. WHERE ARE THE CURLY X’s and he would lose marks for not putting unit of measurement
Jadkin S Oh, that reminds me of when my friend did the working out marks and had the right method but didn’t get the question right. And his teacher gave him ZERO method marks like-
It should be: All the marks for correct answer But if the answer isnt right then look at the method to see if they can atleast earn a few marks Personally i do everything in my head, and my meg is 9 so my answers are usually accurate, so i HATE having to show working out for the sake of it, such a waste of time
A little tip, the non calculator paper will generally use "nice" numbers. When you're asked to estimate, you need to round each number to 1 sig fig to get those nice numbers.
So true. I found Q8 particularly triggering. Guesses the values of the sides without showing the working of 72/12=6 and then multiplying by 3 and 4 and gives himself full marks instead of the 2 he would have gotten in a real test.
@@lol-bg4whthe first half is meant to be easy so that people have the chance to pass, and the grades are based on how well everyone in the country does so if everyone gets those questions right then the marks basically amount to nothing
@@lol-bg4what least the first couple of pages are from the foundation paper, the lower exam that only goes up to a grade 5 (thats around a high C) it’s so theses who are doing higher, that may not be as smart have a chance to pass.
Saw this off-hand whilst revising for my first mock paper. I get the paper today and it was THIS PAPER. Can't lie, I forgot anything this guy did in it so I flunked it. Mocks are going great, people.
Good job he isn’t communicating with any other candidate whilst he is in the exam room. But it’s not a proper test coz there isn’t a guy shouting “5 minutes remaining 5 minutes”
Yeah this guy gave himself so many extra marks, realistically he got around 50 marks and this paper is probably the easiest GCSE maths paper I've seen. 100% on this paper would be pretty easy for any grade 8/9 GCSE maths student. It's surprising that they don't teach trigonometry at the corresponding level of education in America as well, as the concept of trigonometry is fairly straight forward. I guess this proves that the British education system is far better than the American one.
Just because it's harder doesn't mean it's better. In 2024 only 22.9% of GCSE examinees passed with a grade 4 and up. That's fucking disgusting and pathetic from the British education system, and it needs some serious reform (39% of all students fail if you wanted to restrict the data to only student).
Someone needs to tell him that: 1. An 8 is an A* so he did do well. 2. Even thought it says ‘Higher level’ it means that’s standard level that most students do it at. 3. Yes, trig at gcse level - people normally start learning it in about year 8 (12-13yr olds) so it ain’t unusual 4. There are also a couple other maths papers that give u your final grade. 5. MARKS MARKS MARKS AND METHOD MARKS
Me being in Yr7 almost Yr8 and me being able to answer a bunch of the questions, being crap at maths having sadness as my default mood and being able to correct teachers when they inevitably get things wrong Adults and teachers with 10+ years of training: the British education system is fine, what are you complaining about 🙄🙄
Lizzie Johnstone I’m in year 12 let me just warn you it gets much worse and it will send you into depression during year 10 and 11 but if you devote 2-3 years of your life to studying it will be worth it. Keep grinding
Lizzie Johnstone I’m surprised you can answer some of those questions though I couldn’t in year 7 I was terrible I did manage to get a 6/B Though so I’m sure you’ll do fine
If it's anything like NZ, it's a basic level of maths literacy that you're supposed to achieve before leaving school, so some kids are doing this sort of maths way earlier and doing the exam with their peers, and some kids are doing both the learning and the exam at a younger age. We call it NCEA Level 1 now, but we used call it School Certificate and have the exam the year you turn 16 which used to be the year it was legal to leave school.
I don't understand why they make kids take such a ridiculous number of GCSEs. You actually only typically need 5 GCSEs from A-C (or whatever the equivalent is with the new system) including Maths and English for most purposes in life. I know someone that went to Oxford and now has a PhD with only 5 GCSEs. Once you're past higher education or training, literally no one cares. The entirety of your GCSEs will be summed into a brief line on your CV (if that) and nobody will bother checking. I'd say to anyone doing GCSEs now, focus on the core subjects and what you enjoy.
@@mothturtle7897 it's because the schools get recognised and funding the better the students do an the more qualification they get. I know at A level there was an actual qualification called general studies and we had zero lessons or anything and everyone was enter into it
@@mothturtle7897 I prefer the British modulized certification where you only really need 2 GCSEs to get into a college unlike the American and Australian GED/HSC that expects students to pass on a multitude of unecessary subjects.
Marley Barley I know. I'm a Brit. I sat my GCSE'S and A Levels in England. I remember that we were always told to read the instructions. Then read them again!!
finthefish I think the point they were making is that many people would find stuff like this easier when they say it aloud, he had to make this video entertaining though so he had to talk
Elliot Alderson I felt that... How many times I wanted to speak to myself in a mock Bruh and the fact my future could be ripped in half after saying a word is scary to think about Watch me have a panic attack in the exam
@@susman5804 that's a type of Indian entrance exam right? (I'm sorry if that's wrong Im not familiar with other types of exams) Jee advanced may be harder than GCSEs I think it's silly that they makes us do such difficult tests at such a young age
I did mine as well 2 weeks ago and we had two papers to do, I’m from Northern Ireland so our exam board is CCEA, the papers were calculator and non-calculator and I think the non-calculator was easier than the calculator
problem 8: don't guess values for sides , simply do this: 5x+4X+3x =72, then x=6. area is 4x times 3x over 2. Then area is 6x^2=216cm^2. Its actually very trivial.
ArduinoBen this exam is the standard higher gcse, further maths gcse is equivalent to the AS math qualifications. Normal A level maths is like GCSEs but they add calculus and advanced statistics. Further maths A level is basically the same as A level but they also add topics from the stuff a first year undergrad in a math degree would study.
The thing that shocked me most was not knowing what a counter was, how shit were US primary school maths lessons if you didn’t fuck around with counters the whole time?
tbf some questions are easier and are like 30 seconds per mark so i did those first then moved to the big boi's like if something required me to think and i knew it would i'd just skip it and do other shit till i had no other questions left and then i'd go through figuring out what to do near the end teachers say "make sure to answer every question" fuck that answer all the questions that are easy then some of the harder ones but don't ever spend 20 mins trying to figure out a 6 mark questions that just isn't clicking because you feel the need to answer it slap down some very basic working out (for example if it's a circle find the circumference and show you understand pie to get an extra mark and leave if nothing else comes to mind) Better to take your time and prioritise it - to get good marks and qualative answers then rush and get less (don't stress and your good)
now to do three of these along with 4 english exams (for which you need to become an amateur journalist, memorise by heart 15 poems, 3 books and the ability to analyse a new poem in detail in less than an hour), 2 exams for physics biology and chemistry, (you need to pass all these to move on in your life), four history exams (which you need to know the content for 4 topics in detail, half of which make you feel faint because it’s essentially uncensored gore), learn spanish (ya know, just like that), write two entire new essays in 1.5 hours for drama and spend 10 hours on an art piece in complete silence with now music or anything. now you might be thinking “oh that’s fine, i have 2 years to revise” WRONG. you need to spend that time creating a freaking wall full of artwork, writing a short play and writing 15 pages of waffle explaining what you did in drama class when you can scarcely remember anything because your brain is full to the brim with equations and poems and chapters of novels and detailed traumatic descriptions of the dangers of surgeries from 1300-1800, along with so much more. you need to know EVERYTHING, but only 10% of what you’ve forced into your brain actually appears on the exams. you had to give up your mental health, time with friends and family and the allusive “blissful experience” of being young to memorise stuff that NEVER MATTERED TO YOU. time, money, energy gone to BARELY scrape a good grade in subjects that you never were interested in. i realise that i’ve ranted but i hope people can see that gcses are hell. and it is almost non optional that you must do them. i am coming up to my exams now and every single day is a struggle to grasp on to my sanity while revising an endless list of topics. i now naturally stay awake until 3 am with stress, guilt and anxiety. and i know that my efforts in the long run amount to nothing as even if i got top grades i’d still be unlikely to find a job or a home. gcses take so much from you and leave you with nothing. i know that most of my friends are struggling to get through each day too. we are all depressed and anxious and i don’t know anyone in my friend group who hasn’t hurt themselves since the start of these awful two years. this is the effect of the british school system. i’m sorry for ranting and getting personal.
For the record, since the recording of this video, it has gotten even harder than this since the minister of education likes to make gcse's even harder each year
idk about other schools but we were always taught, second half of the paper is the hard part so when revising, first revise the subjects YOU struggle with, then revise the subjects on the second half of past papers. i got a grade 9, idk what letter that equates to but its the highest possible grade u can get.
Even harder when ur doing it at the age of 16 and for 10 other subjects Edit: thanks for the likes. Also to everyone commenting when they did there GCSE's and what they got good for u but I was just trying to say that people in england have it harder than people in america and maths is one of the easier ones for us.
Just get good at maths. Also when you get your results DO NOT go on UA-cam all you see is fucking girls saying „omg I got 5 8s and the rest 9s but I didn’t do that well“ Trust me I did it last year
All this plus: Romeo and Juliet A poetry anthology A Christmas Carol Three separate sciences Two years' worth of religious education A photography project A drama set text The entire French language The whole history syllabus
1. Get that smart watch off, you would be disqualified for that. 2. It's MARKS not POINTS 3. This is why we are depressed 4. Dude, you're an adult. I'M 15! I'M DOING THIS EXAM IN 6 MONTHS TIME!! 5. You can't do all of it in pencil, once again you would be disqualified (also, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!!!) 6. There are also 2 more papers to make up the grade You're Welcome
Did my GCSE's in 2015, it seems daunting now but you'll realise in a years time that one: they're incredibly easy compared to a levels (seriously do a btec, I regret it every day of my life) and two, after you've started college not a single person will care about them unless you're applying for a part time job during college.
Thats all I could focus on the whole video. That and how he writes .6 instead of 0.6 an examiner isnt going to give him the mark because they're going to think its 6 instead of 0.6.
He was on question 9 with 1 hour and 10 minutes left... I would have already had 2 mental breakdowns, 4 tantrums and stormed out of the exam hall in the same amount of time.. tf
I think you mean you DON'T want the average american to do this Dear god my friend what sort of mark do you expect from an individual that has a LEGITIMATELY DECENT CHANCE of not accepting that the world is round?
Laurie then a grade 10 American (year 11 in UK when take GCSE) and take the average of multiple classes and ranges of schools ( due to some being better then others)
still, i did all of this in September, got a 7 and I legit think i would get a 4 or 5 now because it's all just outta my mind. All you really need when you stop doing maths is like pythagoras, trigonometry, logarithms and all of the basic shit so the overwhelming majority just forget it all, so yeah
thats so true, but u should try going to french school. first of all we have 9hour long days. second of all, the presentation has to be PERFECT if not you loose 2/3 of the points, so he would have completely failed and then u have USA with multiple choice answers😰
showing your working out is a pain in the arse but you get some marks for showing working out even if the answer is wrong. (not on all questions and papers)
@@bahar1082 not necessarily science exams might be easier for you but other people will find the maths exams easier it depends what your strong point is
@@kermitthefruitsalad6445 true but its because science is mainly learning things off by heart and for maths you have to be more logical, and maths comes more naturally as well
The best comparison I’ve seen for American vs British exams is that in America they say leave your answer in terms of pi but in the uk they say use pi =3.14
I'm taught to leave it in terms of pi on non calc and or give the exact calc answer to whatever degree of accuracy the question says. Idk what you are talking about with using pi = 3.14 thats not something people really do (unless for non calc on some ultra specific question).
who else is watching this when they should be studying for their ACTUAL gcse's also who's gonna tell him about the fact that we do MULTIPLE tests for subjects and science does 6 tests?
Hi, sorry to break the news to you but I was a maths and physics examiner for this exam board for a number of years and your final score on this exam would have been 52, not 61. This equates to 65%, which in that year would have given you a grade 5 (possibly 6) which is equivalent to a grade 'C' (possibly B) on the paper for 16 year olds. You have given yourself a few marks here and there which would almost certainly not have been given (unless you had a VERY sympathetic Examiner). Your point about incorrect grammar was correct - I have fed this back to the Subject Officer for maths at Edexcel / Pearson. Points to note: 1) You should use a ruler for graphs (It does say you require one on the front of the paper) and your working is set out in a chaotic manner which makes it difficult to follow. 2) When it says 'show your working' you need to set out each step logically and in order, top to bottom, and not keep jumping around in the answer space. You need to DEMONSTRATE your working, not merely provide it for the Examiner to go looking for. 3) You should use 'x' for multiplication signs, not '.' (which can be misinterpreted as a decimal point). 4) Your numbers are unclear....you should take care that your numeric 4's cannot be mistaken for a 'Y' or the greek letter 'Gamma'. You should also note that your '6' looks like a 'b' and vice versa, and that on question 19 your 'x' looks like a 'y'. 5) You actually had 90 minutes for the paper but only used 60, making it difficult to predict what your final score would have been if you had used the full allocation of time. Based on this you would be borderline for acceptance on to an 'A' Level course (16 to 18 year olds) in most UK schools, and would probably need to rely on a good score on Paper 2
Epic burn! He was way too cocky for my liking, and a lot of his workings were really chaotic to follow. It’s a long time ago now, but I feel like when I did GCSE Maths, we used to number each step down the page?
I had 24 exams to do for my o levels. I was 16 at the time and they included Maths ,Additional Maths, chemistry, biology, physics, english, french, computer science.
Euan Worth it depends on the examiner. Most will allow it but some times if your exam gets ‘checked’ to make sure it’s correct marked, you’ll lose marks for not putting it on the line, because apparently ‘if you don’t respect the exam enough to use the line then [they] don’t have to respect you enough to use give you the benefit of the doubt’. Direct quote from an exam checker talking to the head of maths at one of my schools lmao. But if it’s not formally checked you’ll probably get away with it
To all year 10s and younger who are commenting about their fear of gcses: 1. As someone who has just finished, the lead up to the exams (jan to May) was a lot more stressful than the exam period itself. I built up this huge fear of the exams that when they started, they were almost a pleasant suprise and I actually preferred exam period to the months before hand. They aren’t as bad as you expect. 2. DONT LEAVE REVISION UNTIL THE NIGHT BEFORE. I can’t stress this enough. But don’t over work either. 1-2 hours a night from January onwards is by far enough. 3. Mocks aren’t as important as teachers make out. The week before the mocks our teachers made out they were so important, and i found them so stressful and they seem important at the time. However a week later they are completely forgot about and meaningless. If anything they are just there to show where you are going wrong so you can improve for the real thing. I think that’s everything tbh but yeah I saw some year 9’s and 10’s commenting so i thought I should this. Anyway my final exam is Tomorrow (further maths) so I better go revise EDIT: ‘mocks aren’t as important as teachers make our’ oops this didn’t age well 😂 sorry if anyone listened to my advice lollll
Maisy Smith just wanted to add, the thing about the exam build up is the same for a levels too. i just finished my exams and as stressful as they were, definitely not as bad as i thought and having 9 exams instead of 20+ at gcse really helps
It's honestly not too bad, just finished doing mine. I mean Maths is one of my favourite subjects but most of my friends as well as myself don't find it *too* bad, but I guess it's all we have ever known for the past 5 or so years so who knows haha. He did also miss the last 30 mins of the paper (there are a few more questions, I am 100% sure as I remember this paper very clearly) that he didn't do.
I dont know about the others in these comments. But I was in the first year to do the new maths GCSE our grade boundaries were so low that my 30% to 60% accuracy in my maths tests equalled an A/7
the grade boundaries for maths shows how hard it acc is. And just did this years maths gcse and people were calling paper 3 near impossible even maths teachers were struggling to do the questions
@@aldohorn1704 Are you silly? Maths hasn't changed since it was created. It's all the same, plus he has a degree in it and this is what 15 year olds in the UK are doing for their graduation exams.
Speaking as a former mathematics major - the maths you do in a degree at university is very different from this, and it's very easy to forget if you haven't done it in several years.
@@KasiaGoclowski I agree, I did an Honours Degree in Metallurgy. That contained a lot of maths, mechanics, physics, chemistry, crystallography, quantum mechanics. Admittedly, I would have had difficulty with some of this - and it’s not the hard paper - and I did an exam harder than this when I was 16.
@@claraishungry501 I’m doing A levels atm (got a maths exam in 3hrs 😳). Trust me GCSE is piss easy compared to A levels. I went from getting 8s to a D in my A levels
My american friends cant understand the GCSE system, and i always joke they should do a transfer over here for a mont h and their response is always "NO, I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO THINK" theyre a yr above me equivelant and IM having to teach one of them history for his summer school, the stuff i did in sep yr 10 😂
@@greenyd4438 the history taught in the US is basically propaganda as well so be prepared lol. Eg. Whenever 1812 gets brought up, Americans always say that the US won… they also seem to think they’re not a democracy because the US is a ‘republic’, and a bunch of other incorrect things
@@tacosmexicanstyle7846 I’m an American and that is not true 😂. Why do you people always have to generalize us? The war of 1812 is taught as a draw between the US and Britain and the US is a republic that is just a fact
i do tht and i regret it so much i end up having no space to write a new working out🙄and i keep promising myself that i will write on the left but oh well
1. I didn't know you could use a pencil! Had I known that I woulda just used pencil for the whole thing.
2. Who owns a ruler? Why do lines HAVE to be straight? :(
3. Hope you enjoyed this! It was an absolute beast to film and edit
How’d you find the gcse compared to SATs? - loved the vid btw thanks for doing it
You can only use a pencil for the working out. You need to use a black pen because the paper is scanned and it stops cheating.
In English maths exams it’s on the equipment list and they can mark you down on diagrams if they’re not neat 😂
You should try an a level maths paper!!!
By the way, an 8 is very good and is an A* not an A. A 9 is an A** and very difficult to achieve. Congrats!
EDIT: I get that there is no such thing as an A** but a 9 is described as an equivalent to it because the grade boundaries for the new 9 are a lot higher than the old A* but the boundaries for the new 8 are very similar to the old A*.
Who’s gonna tell him there are two more papers that make up an overall grade, it’s even worse if you do further maths
IKR 😂😂
Lol Ikr XD
Husni Egeh :)
2 and 3 would bring that to a 6 maybe 7 if he’s lucky
And that in order to pass you have to get over 110 marks.
who’s gonna tell him we have to do 2 more of these papers, learn 2 books a shakespeare play and 15 poems, as well as content for like 10 other subjects
yh :'(
yuppp ;-;
And if you’re doing humanities :/:/
I’m just happy it’s over
Learn 15 poems? You don't have to know them off by heart, just the general gist of them and maybe 1 or 2 lines. Or even just learn 2 of them really well and relate them to whatever the question is.
Who’s going to tell him he would be scored zero cause he didn’t write it in the answer line...
and even if he got the answers right and on the line the method is so shit that he would get no method marks
@impr0visati0n yes
@impr0visati0n for a correct method you get marks. For example, stating and substituting the correct numbers into an equation would get you some marks, regardless of if the final answer is incorrect. So, you might mess up in rearranging a formula, but if the steps before that were correct you would, say, get 1/2 marks out of 4.
If the answers were correct he would of gotten every Mark, doesn’t matter where you write it and if there was any working. If he got the answer wrong but had working, he would of got some marks if the workings were along the right lines
@@wojciechs9129 that only works in the sciences not maths unfortunately
One other thing to note:
The reason you’re meant to write in black ink is because here in the UK, the scripts for external assessments are scanned by a machine before being handed to a physical examiner. The scanners are such that black ink is the only colour that it can recognise
we do that in America too
@@spencertarver then youre just dumb for using pencil then😂😂
dad stop hiding behind this filter you have not come back home in 10yrs
‘Use black ink , this is maths ,the pencil’
Fam we gave up on pencils in year 6
Its pens for writing and pencils are only used for drawings
ye we get beat if a teacher sees a pencil on your desk in year 7 if you're not in maths
(in yr 11 now btw, not yr 7 :) )
GPretzel 14245, wtf, I think your living in the wrong era. It’s 2020, not the Victorian Era.
վɑӏӏ ςɑղ ɾҽӏɑեҽ uh yeah I didn’t do all that work for that pen license for nothing..
felonii obviously not completely serious :) lol
This is what a 15 year old takes😂 this person is an adult with maths degrees
15-16 year olds*
I swear my maths mock i had 1 week ago was so much harder than this though
I was 15 :(
I had a test just like this and I’m 13 😂
@@MrMichaelsheldrake yeah sure you did mate
Are we not going to talk about how he should be disqualified because you have to do the exam in silence?
Haha 😂
true lol
It's the voices talking
Yep. XD
True 😌
as someone who sits the maths higher paper and is going gcses next year, i must say we are literally taught to dumb down and write every little step so that they cannot take off marks - the mark scheme loves being like ‘ok well you didn’t show you multiplied by 6 so lol fail’
GCSE markschemes are garbage
I litrealy write down the fucking multiples of numbers like 6 for every assessment I do for the preperations for future exams because I know that they will be shitting on everything I don't point out
Fr sometimes it's annoying since I got a question right but didn't have the right working put making me lose 3 marks
maybe its ur exam board but for the ones we do if u get the right answer u get full marks
@@smamy8861 is it AQA? OCR? or what?
I cringed when he didn’t write his answers on the line and when he said points instead of marks. WHERE ARE THE CURLY X’s and he would lose marks for not putting unit of measurement
OMG I THOUGHT IT WAS THE ONLY PERSON
sabha imran
Don’t worry, you’re not alone here
People saying points makes me feel like it's a game
Dog Paw
And for anyone who’s done an exam, you know it’s not a game
@@GirlInPieces6296 I know it's just cos where I live in school it's marks and games are often counted in points
Why did I just watch some random guy do a test wtf
Hxmuza same
this is exactly what i was thinking, at 1:26am
aka i love you
same.
Hxmuza it’s 12 35 here in England and I fucking can’t go sleep 😢
I need help 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Evan: do I have to write all the steps?
Every uk kid: DO YOU WANT THE WORKING OUT MARKS OR NOT!?
I get so angry when i vote the answer right but i don't get any marks cause i didn't work it out.
Jadkin S Oh, that reminds me of when my friend did the working out marks and had the right method but didn’t get the question right. And his teacher gave him ZERO method marks like-
1 method mark
1 method mark
1 method mark
1 method mark
1 method mark
1 accuracy mark...
Y ISN'T ACCURACY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING HERE!!!!
@@Tishsaw I literally just write random working out even if I don't understand. And that's how I always get the highest in my class. Lmfao.
It should be:
All the marks for correct answer
But if the answer isnt right then look at the method to see if they can atleast earn a few marks
Personally i do everything in my head, and my meg is 9 so my answers are usually accurate, so i HATE having to show working out for the sake of it, such a waste of time
A little tip, the non calculator paper will generally use "nice" numbers. When you're asked to estimate, you need to round each number to 1 sig fig to get those nice numbers.
Can we just appreciate that 15 year olds take this test and it isn’t even the hardest maths one at GCSEs there are further maths papers too.
@@jamiemarshall6832 IKR, I have mine this summer :(. Well technically not GCSEs but CAGS
@@callumcandy4153 tf is a cag?
@@callumcandy4153 and your exams got cancelle
@@tw6rn centre assessed grades, what you do if your exams get cancelled because of covid
Further math gcse is tough, I remember struggling on it xD
Being a British citizen hearing him call them ‘points’ is getting on my nerves
marks!!! :)
Fahmeda Ali exactly 😂
Well than please leave
finthefish it's just very annoying we dont have to leave it's just very irritating
marks ✊😔
God I wish this man was marking my tests, he was giving himself extra marks all over the place
🤣
So true.
I found Q8 particularly triggering.
Guesses the values of the sides without showing the working of 72/12=6 and then multiplying by 3 and 4 and gives himself full marks instead of the 2 he would have gotten in a real test.
@@alistairsanger3111 yes it takes away the real strictness of how the actual exams are marked
Agreed he gave himself extra marks everywhere
If you are gonna take a level maths it will be much easier than this bc they don’t pull bs questions you haven’t gone over
You cannot compare American 'exams' to English. US exams might as well be a quiz on the back of a cereal box
omd i forgot about cereal box quizzes!! that sparks memories
I’m American 16 and this looks like one of the easiest tests I’ve ever seen, the first half of the questions i could answer from 8th grade
@@lol-bg4whThe first half of the paper is the same as foundation (which the maximum grade is 5 for). It gets more difficult as you progress.
@@lol-bg4whthe first half is meant to be easy so that people have the chance to pass, and the grades are based on how well everyone in the country does so if everyone gets those questions right then the marks basically amount to nothing
@@lol-bg4what least the first couple of pages are from the foundation paper, the lower exam that only goes up to a grade 5 (thats around a high C) it’s so theses who are doing higher, that may not be as smart have a chance to pass.
he.... he doesn’t- he doesn’t do curly x’s
My teacher used to shout at me and say how do I know they aren't times signs
To which I say THE ANSWER ISNT 3×+1 is it Miss? Its 3x+1
@@winnielewis1749 why did I read this as times and x
I just used X as a times and x as x but yea I got a little annoyed at it as well lol
*to the ranch*
😂
Wait he has a degree and is struggling with maths GCSE’s, we do it when we’re 15/16 stressed with 20 other exams
You mean like 20 other exams! Fuck the British education system :(
I actually had multiple nervous breakdowns because of GCSEs
WaveyG 25 other exams*
The A Channel I had 28 😂
@@jimmyg1913 I'm gonna have more aww *fuck* man
it stresses me out that you do x like a multiplication symbol, not a curly x that everyone uses in algebra
frankiii_ 5002 same lol
Sammmeeeee
We use a dot for multiplication
I use a dot... it’s a lot less work
frankiii_ 5002 i use a straight X for both algebra and multiplying
Saw this off-hand whilst revising for my first mock paper.
I get the paper today and it was THIS PAPER.
Can't lie, I forgot anything this guy did in it so I flunked it.
Mocks are going great, people.
Anyone else from Britain cringe every time he said points instead of marks
I m a Pakistani but got cringe,,
How can you cringe to a word?
DonPingus because in Britain it’s marks not points lol
gxlittry I know I have lived both in England and America but just feeling cringe because he’s saying a word differently in my opinion is kinda dumb
OH MY GOD YESSS
Mans got his smart watch on, you're disqualified mate
He also had his phone with him, on the desk and all ffs
@@leochen7607 and his speaking in the exam 🤣😂😂
I had to take my Fitbit off during my GCSE’s lmao
And he’s talking
Good job he isn’t communicating with any other candidate whilst he is in the exam room. But it’s not a proper test coz there isn’t a guy shouting “5 minutes remaining 5 minutes”
my teacher would be screaming cos he doesn’t do curly x’s
😂😂😂😂😂
Cos x
lol i do them naturally for any writing :b
Lily Grace sameee 😂
Your English teacher is screaming because you put an apostrophe in between x and s
Yeah this guy gave himself so many extra marks, realistically he got around 50 marks and this paper is probably the easiest GCSE maths paper I've seen. 100% on this paper would be pretty easy for any grade 8/9 GCSE maths student. It's surprising that they don't teach trigonometry at the corresponding level of education in America as well, as the concept of trigonometry is fairly straight forward. I guess this proves that the British education system is far better than the American one.
Fax, calculator papers often harder tbf
I think we already knew the British education system is far better than the American one lmao, America’s education system is in literal shambles.
@@DrFuzzyaka-atomicdepends on the person. I’d say paper 2 is easiest of the 3 and paper 3 is the hardest
@@BananaWasTakendepends each year imo
Just because it's harder doesn't mean it's better. In 2024 only 22.9% of GCSE examinees passed with a grade 4 and up. That's fucking disgusting and pathetic from the British education system, and it needs some serious reform (39% of all students fail if you wanted to restrict the data to only student).
“Why don’t you like maths”
Everyone in the UK:
Stfu
@@Kaiji... I love maths
@@badmitten690 no one fucking cares
Lyrical Robloxian lmao probably better than u
@@jackiessquirrel5508 yet again no cares
Someone needs to tell him that:
1. An 8 is an A* so he did do well.
2. Even thought it says ‘Higher level’ it means that’s standard level that most students do it at.
3. Yes, trig at gcse level - people normally start learning it in about year 8 (12-13yr olds) so it ain’t unusual
4. There are also a couple other maths papers that give u your final grade.
5. MARKS MARKS MARKS AND METHOD MARKS
Me being in Yr7 almost Yr8 and me being able to answer a bunch of the questions, being crap at maths having sadness as my default mood and being able to correct teachers when they inevitably get things wrong
Adults and teachers with 10+ years of training: the British education system is fine, what are you complaining about 🙄🙄
Lizzie Johnstone I’m in year 12 let me just warn you it gets much worse and it will send you into depression during year 10 and 11 but if you devote 2-3 years of your life to studying it will be worth it. Keep grinding
@@zachariahdub7487 oh god
Lizzie Johnstone I’m surprised you can answer some of those questions though I couldn’t in year 7 I was terrible I did manage to get a 6/B Though so I’m sure you’ll do fine
@@zachariahdub7487 I'm doing maths for A levels 😭😭
I’d just like to point out he has a degree in maths... and 16 year old children are supposed to take this
Are we children though?
H under 18 so yh
T .0 but we can get married, buy lottery tickets and leave school so doesn’t feel like it
H legally children
@@jdc4316 not in most countries tho
12:08 BRO STARTED USING THE STRAIGHT LINE GRAPHS FORMULA FOR SIMPLE SHAPE TRANSLATIONS!
So?
it's rotations not translations lmao
@@AngelDelight69are you slow? 😂
Most people: loathe GCSE’s, would rather do quite literally anything but
Evan: so today I’m going to take a GCSE for fun
Love your vids ♡♡♡
Aghh its chloe
AHHH CHLOE FOUND HERSELF HERE LMAOOO
If this isn’t me-
Chloe Rose Art actually would take 40 GCSEs in front of my last alevel
Who’s gunna tell him 15 year olds are doing this
And that I'm 13 and I am doing this kinda stuff
If it's anything like NZ, it's a basic level of maths literacy that you're supposed to achieve before leaving school, so some kids are doing this sort of maths way earlier and doing the exam with their peers, and some kids are doing both the learning and the exam at a younger age. We call it NCEA Level 1 now, but we used call it School Certificate and have the exam the year you turn 16 which used to be the year it was legal to leave school.
S H shut up you nerd
Literally did this exam earlier today whilst revising for my mock
BruhTV it’s a Saturday
"Oh my god this is a right angle"
Finding a right angle actually gave me so much joy in maths. It was like a gift of one less angle to solve
being able to use pythag instead of advanced trig ... thank god
And then he tried to use a angles and said that an acute and an obtuse were the same size. Love that
I think I actually busted a nut when I saw a right angle one time lmao
@@pepticgloopys1013 chile- anyways soo
@@RahimAli-lu6jx ??? What kind of response is this
Not me just watching this instead of revising for my GCSE Maths exam hahaha
Same 😂😭
@@Alys-may me too.. its tomorrow and i dont know anything
@@strawberry_sweetner_278 Literally hunched over writing on an exam paper right now i should be asleep 😭
literally me
I was 15 when i sat my maths GCSE had over 20 more exams to do also . British education system is evil
I don't understand why they make kids take such a ridiculous number of GCSEs. You actually only typically need 5 GCSEs from A-C (or whatever the equivalent is with the new system) including Maths and English for most purposes in life. I know someone that went to Oxford and now has a PhD with only 5 GCSEs. Once you're past higher education or training, literally no one cares. The entirety of your GCSEs will be summed into a brief line on your CV (if that) and nobody will bother checking. I'd say to anyone doing GCSEs now, focus on the core subjects and what you enjoy.
@@mothturtle7897 it's because the schools get recognised and funding the better the students do an the more qualification they get. I know at A level there was an actual qualification called general studies and we had zero lessons or anything and everyone was enter into it
it isnt that bad
@@mothturtle7897 I prefer the British modulized certification where you only really need 2 GCSEs to get into a college unlike the American and Australian GED/HSC that expects students to pass on a multitude of unecessary subjects.
You only really need 1 math A level on a cv oppose to a lib art degree + c grade gcse in math
Laughs in British for all of those marks he lost for putting the answer in a box not on the given line
IN AMERICA WE BOX OUR ANSWERS
In Denmark we put two lines under the answer. Honestly thought the whole world did that. 😂😂😂
I do the same as the Danes. Underline answer twice. But I also went to uni in Germany as well as England.
Rachel Singleton - British uni exams are very different to GCSE and a level exams though
Marley Barley I know. I'm a Brit. I sat my GCSE'S and A Levels in England. I remember that we were always told to read the instructions. Then read them again!!
Who's gonna tell him we're not allowed to talk at all
U think he’s just going to sit there for 50 minutes without talking
@@finthefish2525 yes
MrMag do you realize how boring that would be
finthefish I think the point they were making is that many people would find stuff like this easier when they say it aloud, he had to make this video entertaining though so he had to talk
😂
3:22 that pound sign made me have an aneurysm
Do this with 12 poems a Shakespeare play and calsic novel all the sciences and your 3 chosen options.
U have 4 chosen options
@@sartajpurewal5429 nah at my school the make us take citizenship which causes us to lose and option
@@-mushroom-9326 most schools pressure their students to take Ebacc as well, it's not just you fancy grammar school types
i have 6 chosen options 😭😭
@@esra4404 are you ok. do you need to talk do someone. why in all that is sane do that.
Put the answers in the bloody allocated areas!
I thought the same!! and he didnt write the units either!!!
In my school, if you don't it counts as if you didn't answer it
ahahaha I was watching fuming
Fuck you
In the ass
Who going to tell him that this was the easier paper out of the three
Luca Colucci *Laughs slowly turning into tears*
I hate paper 1, paper 2 is faaaar easier and better
Pasta Italiana nah paper 1 is easier unless your dumb af and don’t just abuse the calculator
Nope. It's actually a higher tier paper.
Yunkoe
Paper 1 is non-calculator
Paper 2/3 are calculator papers
Or atleast they were for me
this paper was my mock paper last year, somehow got a decent mark, watching evan overcomplicate it is really funny
Fam this guy was on like question 4 in 3 minutes. When I did this paper it took me 3 minutes to figure out what my ‘other names’ were.
worddd lmaooo
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣i am dead bruh
LOL
😂 Rip
😂😂😂ffssss
My favourite part was when he said how is trig in gcse like we started learning that shit in yr8
XD
Did we I learnt it in yr 11 lol
trig stole our childhood
Yep year 8 killed me.....
Year 8?!? I started in year 7 😭😭
Then he realizes, he was sopposed to be silent when doing the exam otherwise they will rip your future in half.
Elliot Alderson I felt that...
How many times I wanted to speak to myself in a mock
Bruh and the fact my future could be ripped in half after saying a word is scary to think about
Watch me have a panic attack in the exam
Supposed*
@@Josh-wp5tm fuck off grade 9 student
@@crypt0g0ul75 'soposed' holy shit mate
Soposed.
Now imagine being 15-16 and having to do all that
Jee advanced is way harder than GCSE(both for 16 year olds)
@@susman5804 that's a type of Indian entrance exam right? (I'm sorry if that's wrong Im not familiar with other types of exams) Jee advanced may be harder than GCSEs I think it's silly that they makes us do such difficult tests at such a young age
It's kind of lightweight to be honest, you have 2-3 years to learn and practice all the content.
@@susman5804 jee is for 18+ year olds tho...
This madlad really just took GCSE Higher Maths WILLINGLY.
and got an 8 on his first attempt ?! i can barely get past a 4.
@@UwaisPlayz same lol
UwaisPlayz I got a 2 in foundation hahahah
Crazy IK!!!! I have to do the higher paper and I'm stressing out. I'm only in YR10
Got a 3 in foundation man like me 😎
I just did my GCSE maths last week and this made me dieeeeee
Also hearing him say “points” instead of marks oooof
I did it last year using this paper and same
I’m so glad our gcses are over now
@@NqcturnalPvP telling me 😂
I did mine as well 2 weeks ago and we had two papers to do, I’m from Northern Ireland so our exam board is CCEA, the papers were calculator and non-calculator and I think the non-calculator was easier than the calculator
I did it last week also but I'm on aqa
Can we keep in mind us British people do this when we are 16 years old.
I’ll do it at 15 😭
sometimes when we’re even younger
Not only Brits im giving it too ;-;
Some questions are kinda fun tho or that might be because I like maths lmao
Im doing scottish higher which is the year after gcse's (called national 5 in scotland) and its so much harder than this, like calculus and shit
problem 8: don't guess values for sides , simply do this: 5x+4X+3x =72, then x=6. area is 4x times 3x over 2. Then area is 6x^2=216cm^2. Its actually very trivial.
Americans are so lucky all they have to do is fill in circles
wtf really
U Lucky bois
Really?
it as they struggle like some words they not use proper english ;)
it's not easy ...
school : dEpReSsSiOn aNd anxiEty iS cAUsEd bY sOcIaL mEdIa
English education : enjoy 20-30 gcse papers
AlL oF yOu ArE cApAbLe Of gEtTiNg 9's!
AdamW5As literally every teacher
AdamW5As meanwhile I’m here with my 7’s and 8’s :(
My penis is unbelievably small, but stfu
Wait till you get to A levels. Am doing 3 subjects in A level and struggling. I did 9 subjects in GCSE (18 papers). Can confirm GCSE’s are a breeze.
Imagine someone like him struggling and then expecting us 15 and 16 year olds to do this😭
hes not struggling he got an 8
@@ギガチャド-l8z hes a math major
He should try further maths lmfao
Add in rona and missing so many lessons and we r fucked😭😭
So much pressure for me cos I am supposed to be doing the higher paper for math
“Renee you have a problem” okay but you can’t deny we all say this in our heads even when taking proper GCSEs
Just to let you know, 'higher' maths is just normal maths for most people in the UK
These are a levels right? Further maths is so damn hard.
@@Ben.N no it's GCSEs
ArduinoBen
Nah these are the GSCEs lmao. A levels come 2 years later.
ArduinoBen this exam is the standard higher gcse, further maths gcse is equivalent to the AS math qualifications. Normal A level maths is like GCSEs but they add calculus and advanced statistics. Further maths A level is basically the same as A level but they also add topics from the stuff a first year undergrad in a math degree would study.
ikr in our school no one teaches or does foundation
The thing that shocked me most was not knowing what a counter was, how shit were US primary school maths lessons if you didn’t fuck around with counters the whole time?
im from the us and we used counters a lot in elementary, i guess he forgot
I used to stack up the counters and see how much it would take until it would topple over in like year 5
Didn't Americans go to middle school
Americans are tapped anyway cah
Counters were my only source of knowledge when it came to addition and subtraction
i got stressed out for him he was spending wayyy too long on every question,, its supposed to be a mark a minute lmao-
tbf some questions are easier and are like 30 seconds per mark so i did those first then moved to the big boi's
like if something required me to think and i knew it would i'd just skip it and do other shit till i had no other questions left and then i'd go through figuring out what to do near the end
teachers say "make sure to answer every question" fuck that
answer all the questions that are easy then some of the harder ones
but don't ever spend 20 mins trying to figure out a 6 mark questions that just isn't clicking because you feel the need to answer it
slap down some very basic working out (for example if it's a circle find the circumference and show you understand pie to get an extra mark and leave if nothing else comes to mind)
Better to take your time and prioritise it - to get good marks and qualative answers then rush and get less (don't stress and your good)
I imagine he would do it faster if he wasn't talking through what he was doing.
A mark a minute was drilled into my head for the whole of year 11 lmao
Does anyone really follow that 😅
I tend to just go with the flow
Probably a bag idea though
yet he finished faster than the said time
now to do three of these along with 4 english exams (for which you need to become an amateur journalist, memorise by heart 15 poems, 3 books and the ability to analyse a new poem in detail in less than an hour), 2 exams for physics biology and chemistry, (you need to pass all these to move on in your life), four history exams (which you need to know the content for 4 topics in detail, half of which make you feel faint because it’s essentially uncensored gore), learn spanish (ya know, just like that), write two entire new essays in 1.5 hours for drama and spend 10 hours on an art piece in complete silence with now music or anything.
now you might be thinking “oh that’s fine, i have 2 years to revise” WRONG. you need to spend that time creating a freaking wall full of artwork, writing a short play and writing 15 pages of waffle explaining what you did in drama class when you can scarcely remember anything because your brain is full to the brim with equations and poems and chapters of novels and detailed traumatic descriptions of the dangers of surgeries from 1300-1800, along with so much more. you need to know EVERYTHING, but only 10% of what you’ve forced into your brain actually appears on the exams. you had to give up your mental health, time with friends and family and the allusive “blissful experience” of being young to memorise stuff that NEVER MATTERED TO YOU. time, money, energy gone to BARELY scrape a good grade in subjects that you never were interested in.
i realise that i’ve ranted but i hope people can see that gcses are hell. and it is almost non optional that you must do them. i am coming up to my exams now and every single day is a struggle to grasp on to my sanity while revising an endless list of topics. i now naturally stay awake until 3 am with stress, guilt and anxiety. and i know that my efforts in the long run amount to nothing as even if i got top grades i’d still be unlikely to find a job or a home.
gcses take so much from you and leave you with nothing. i know that most of my friends are struggling to get through each day too. we are all depressed and anxious and i don’t know anyone in my friend group who hasn’t hurt themselves since the start of these awful two years.
this is the effect of the british school system.
i’m sorry for ranting and getting personal.
thank u for saying this.
Bro GCSEs are not that deep….
@@MuaazIslam232 If you wanna live in your mum's attic for the rest of your life- although that's sounding more realistic these days
@@mad_6519 I mean they aren't that difficult. Revise and try your best.
okay mate they aren't that bad
Americans: Why are British teens so depressed
British education system: *I'm actually CEO of the company*
GCSE Math A* thresholds are 85%??? Thats very low tbh
@@omarfarooq7549 what?
@@zenvibes2358 nah I was just wondering, everyone in the comments is like Oh he got an 8 but he only got like 81%
@@omarfarooq7549 I'm still confused what are you talking about?
I'm just asking you if the thresholds for an 8 are really 80%?
The worst thing is that they make the GCSE’s harder every year
Edit: rip me class of 2020💀
RIP Class of 2023
I’m year 9 so I take mine in idk what year 😂
Rip me class of 2020
thfcalice _ you finish your GCSEs in 2022 because I’m year 10 and I’ll finish in 2021 i think..maybe
@@alice-xr3bk same 😂 we take it in 2022 good luck 😂
I’m triggered that he didn’t mark it in a different colour
Puahahahhahah XDDDDD
gReEn PeNs OuT
Same
@@felonii9315 "rED peNs ARe NeGATivE oN StUDEntS"
G R E E N P E N
For the record, since the recording of this video, it has gotten even harder than this since the minister of education likes to make gcse's even harder each year
5% or 10% harder each yr
This guy got a degree in Maths and yet he’s struggling with GCSE Maths
Imagine his reaction to A-Level Maths...
Skate Plays atleast there’s actually an option to drop A-level maths
@@tinx713 yeah😂that's why i dropped it
@@punisherjones6795 oh, good on you then 😋
I think he would have a breakdown
If your good at GCSE math, like really good you probably will take further maths which is like A-level maths
when he said “a 8 is okay” i flipped. DOES HE REALISE THATS AN A*
You people in England have it too easy, in Ireland you have to get at least a 9 to get the highest result.
@@lokkj8570 no we have a** aswell
Lily Dawson you have to remember he has a masters degree so an 8 is ‘okay’ to him
@@williamlayx an american masters degree.
@@Kassieq And hasn't touched the subject in 10 years. If you do not use it, you lose it.
British maths teachers running after him with a green and purple pen 😂😂
Don't forget the red pen😂
Also the pink pen! Lmao the teachers are colouring our books in rainbows
💀💀💀
Students use red pens to mark their own work. Teachers use green pens to mark our work. Students use purple pens on test review lessons.
@@shini4622 opposite for us. green = self-marked. red = teacher-marked.
idk about other schools but we were always taught, second half of the paper is the hard part so when revising, first revise the subjects YOU struggle with, then revise the subjects on the second half of past papers. i got a grade 9, idk what letter that equates to but its the highest possible grade u can get.
A star i believe
Who's gunna tell him he gets no marks for drawing graphs or diagrams in pen
or not using a ruler
Hahaha.
Glad I'm no longer an IGCSE student. Maths was torturous.
or working out in pen
In Scotland your only allowed to use pen, no pencils 🤔
Anyone else cringing that he’s marking his test without a red pen 😖
The Turnip l YES! The purple pens 😂
We use green
We use red to mark our own and green is just for teachers marking 😂
Purple pens if we mark it ourselves lol
Elli O yeah the ones with like 5 different colours? Those were great 😂
Even harder when ur doing it at the age of 16 and for 10 other subjects
Edit: thanks for the likes. Also to everyone commenting when they did there GCSE's and what they got good for u but I was just trying to say that people in england have it harder than people in america and maths is one of the easier ones for us.
Alexkhan823 and 3 papers
Alexkhan823 swearr down
piss ez
Just get good at maths. Also when you get your results DO NOT go on UA-cam all you see is fucking girls saying „omg I got 5 8s and the rest 9s but I didn’t do that well“ Trust me I did it last year
@@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken all school's do but ur final exams are in year 11
All this plus:
Romeo and Juliet
A poetry anthology
A Christmas Carol
Three separate sciences
Two years' worth of religious education
A photography project
A drama set text
The entire French language
The whole history syllabus
Americans: why are British kids so depressed
The British education system: whooop I did it again
A tough maths test is better than being shot in the face
Tony Montana, above*
@@felonii9315 he meant below the original comment genius
@@felonii9315 a yEaR 8 iS cORrEctiNg yoU
Andy Walton, he could also mean below, so he needs to specify
1. Get that smart watch off, you would be disqualified for that.
2. It's MARKS not POINTS
3. This is why we are depressed
4. Dude, you're an adult. I'M 15! I'M DOING THIS EXAM IN 6 MONTHS TIME!!
5. You can't do all of it in pencil, once again you would be disqualified (also, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!!!)
6. There are also 2 more papers to make up the grade
You're Welcome
They're not all that bad, Spanish is way more awful especially considering how much of a useless qualification it is
Good to see a fellow year 11 around here
Imagine doing french and German for GCSE 😞👊
Did my GCSE's in 2015, it seems daunting now but you'll realise in a years time that one: they're incredibly easy compared to a levels (seriously do a btec, I regret it every day of my life) and two, after you've started college not a single person will care about them unless you're applying for a part time job during college.
R u doing foundation?
The number of marks he’s losing just for not writing the answer on the designated line is honestly funny to me
Omg yes 😂
You don’t need to put it in a line, there are no lines and they look at the worrking mostly😩👍
Thats all I could focus on the whole video. That and how he writes .6 instead of 0.6 an examiner isnt going to give him the mark because they're going to think its 6 instead of 0.6.
@@dronevideos1752 your clearly not British
In Britain e have a line that we have to write the answer on otherwise it's invalid
@@ninjashyper9059 such nonsense......... whyyy I'm from Ireland btww imm only in secondary junior cycle exams nxt yrrr we are already preparing
Watching you do the question 16 was so funny you were so stressed and did it in the most complex way possible😂
He was on question 9 with 1 hour and 10 minutes left... I would have already had 2 mental breakdowns, 4 tantrums and stormed out of the exam hall in the same amount of time.. tf
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Bruh
Well u wouldn’t
Cause ur dumb or dislexic or u have ADHD
Maths is easy
I wanna see an average American do this because you are actually smart
I think you mean you DON'T want the average american to do this
Dear god my friend what sort of mark do you expect from an individual that has a LEGITIMATELY DECENT CHANCE of not accepting that the world is round?
The Radioactive Player, *No chance*
It's not an intelligence thing. It's a 'have you done this math recently' thing.
Laurie then a grade 10 American (year 11 in UK when take GCSE) and take the average of multiple classes and ranges of schools ( due to some being better then others)
still, i did all of this in September, got a 7 and I legit think i would get a 4 or 5 now because it's all just outta my mind. All you really need when you stop doing maths is like pythagoras, trigonometry, logarithms and all of the basic shit so the overwhelming majority just forget it all, so yeah
World: why u British so miserable
British education:
Adam Ribbans and the damn weather
Yah😂😂
Adam Ribbans World except for USA: depressed
USA: shooting up schools.
thats so true, but u should try going to french school.
first of all we have 9hour long days.
second of all, the presentation has to be PERFECT if not you loose 2/3 of the points, so he would have completely failed
and then u have USA with multiple choice answers😰
Also middle eastern people and Egyptian
showing your working out is a pain in the arse but you get some marks for showing working out even if the answer is wrong. (not on all questions and papers)
You have to use black ink because the papers are scanned and they don't pick up other coloured ink very well
I want to see him try and take a Biology / physics or chemistry paper 😂
they're easier than maths lmao and i did triple
@@bahar1082 not necessarily science exams might be easier for you but other people will find the maths exams easier it depends what your strong point is
@@kermitthefruitsalad6445 true but its because science is mainly learning things off by heart and for maths you have to be more logical, and maths comes more naturally as well
Omg yes triple physics higher
@@bahar1082 Most of physics and quantitative chemistry is basically maths so if you're good at maths you should get at least a decent grade in physics
He’s done a degree in maths and kinda struggled in this paper. Imagine American kids aged 15-16 doing this... they would be crying😭
RBD I’m crying and I still have 2 years before my GCSE’s
Fantom Fox23 fuck my gcses in 1 year I don’t know what IM DOING
I do GCSE in May/June. I still have no clue and spend my time in class pissing around. Imma fail
Kawaiicat 141 ahaha ggs only
Kawaiicat 141 Same and I’ll probably fail the November mocks aswell
The best comparison I’ve seen for American vs British exams is that in America they say leave your answer in terms of pi but in the uk they say use pi =3.14
I'm taught to leave it in terms of pi on non calc and or give the exact calc answer to whatever degree of accuracy the question says. Idk what you are talking about with using pi = 3.14 thats not something people really do (unless for non calc on some ultra specific question).
Am I the only one who got annoyed at the fact he wrote y=mx+b instead of y=mx+c 😂
lol I would have written mx+n haha
Phillip Gerecke you are what we call a monster
Yuuuup
@@phillipgerecke4299 that is sacrilegious
There's so many tiny differences between English and American maths! It's really interesting
who else is watching this when they should be studying for their ACTUAL gcse's
also who's gonna tell him about the fact that we do MULTIPLE tests for subjects and science does 6 tests?
yusra abdul I take all three sciences… I’m also higher English. What have I done
@Katrina Blackwood omg literally I took the exact same.
Literally got my maths exam tommorow
Hold on 6 TESTS??
@@aa9skillz871 good luck my friend, you'll do well
Most 15 year old British students: *would rather do anything else but do this maths paper*
Evan: *takes it for fun*
Me last week
I mean i'm 14 and from a different country and i easily did foundation for like 90% with spare time
Also took it for fun
GBK Games I hate to say it but your a fucking nerd dude
@@Thecoldest-y7l a nerd that fails all math tests?
huh
@@imranmohammed279 im from another European country, just im not saying from where
oh my god
it's not x to the 0, it's x degrees
Hi, sorry to break the news to you but I was a maths and physics examiner for this exam board for a number of years and your final score on this exam would have been 52, not 61.
This equates to 65%, which in that year would have given you a grade 5 (possibly 6) which is equivalent to a grade 'C' (possibly B) on the paper for 16 year olds.
You have given yourself a few marks here and there which would almost certainly not have been given (unless you had a VERY sympathetic Examiner).
Your point about incorrect grammar was correct - I have fed this back to the Subject Officer for maths at Edexcel / Pearson.
Points to note:
1) You should use a ruler for graphs (It does say you require one on the front of the paper) and your working is set out in a chaotic manner which makes it difficult to follow.
2) When it says 'show your working' you need to set out each step logically and in order, top to bottom, and not keep jumping around in the answer space. You need to DEMONSTRATE your working, not merely provide it for the Examiner to go looking for.
3) You should use 'x' for multiplication signs, not '.' (which can be misinterpreted as a decimal point).
4) Your numbers are unclear....you should take care that your numeric 4's cannot be mistaken for a 'Y' or the greek letter 'Gamma'. You should also note that your '6' looks like a 'b' and vice versa, and that on question 19 your 'x' looks like a 'y'.
5) You actually had 90 minutes for the paper but only used 60, making it difficult to predict what your final score would have been if you had used the full allocation of time.
Based on this you would be borderline for acceptance on to an 'A' Level course (16 to 18 year olds) in most UK schools, and would probably need to rely on a good score on Paper 2
ohhhhhh, you destroyed him.
damn, you got any tips for gcse higher maths then?
American students have it easy
Epic burn! He was way too cocky for my liking, and a lot of his workings were really chaotic to follow. It’s a long time ago now, but I feel like when I did GCSE Maths, we used to number each step down the page?
This comment freaked me out, if his paper is equal to a 6 or 5 i am well and truly screwed i probably won't even scrape a pass.
You forgot the stress of being 16, no talking, another 23 exams and people watching everything
Not to mention the essay subjects too, ughhhh what a pain that was :(
Omg yes !! It's so much harder than people give it credit for
jessica gerrard wait till y’all get to A Level enjoy your freedom whilst you can
Mairead Hudson literally a levels have RUINED ME
I think a couple people watched me do this
Imagine doing this when your 15/16 , have over 25 other exams to revise for and despise maths 😑
tegan harmer and there are 3 maths papers to do
In my country we use the British learning system, that's what we do and to us its normal
I had 24 exams to do for my o levels. I was 16 at the time and they included Maths ,Additional Maths, chemistry, biology, physics, english, french, computer science.
Living that right now
You might have done bad on both maths and English since you still use the wrong you’re despite the fact you do exams this difficult
46:39 Hey there! 9s and 8s are actually A* and 7s are an A. So good job!
Who's gonna tell him that he was suppose to put the answers on the dotted lines
I Do AQA and I believe that if you don't you the answer line, if the answer is clearly marked, it's an answer and can be marked as such.
Euan Worth it depends on the examiner. Most will allow it but some times if your exam gets ‘checked’ to make sure it’s correct marked, you’ll lose marks for not putting it on the line, because apparently ‘if you don’t respect the exam enough to use the line then [they] don’t have to respect you enough to use give you the benefit of the doubt’. Direct quote from an exam checker talking to the head of maths at one of my schools lmao. But if it’s not formally checked you’ll probably get away with it
Euan Worth this is edexcel and they are hella strict
olivia edexcel is exactly who I’m talking about, so yeahhh. Aqua might be nicer about it?
CharleyWarley aqa might let u off
To all year 10s and younger who are commenting about their fear of gcses:
1. As someone who has just finished, the lead up to the exams (jan to May) was a lot more stressful than the exam period itself. I built up this huge fear of the exams that when they started, they were almost a pleasant suprise and I actually preferred exam period to the months before hand. They aren’t as bad as you expect.
2. DONT LEAVE REVISION UNTIL THE NIGHT BEFORE. I can’t stress this enough. But don’t over work either. 1-2 hours a night from January onwards is by far enough.
3. Mocks aren’t as important as teachers make out. The week before the mocks our teachers made out they were so important, and i found them so stressful and they seem important at the time. However a week later they are completely forgot about and meaningless. If anything they are just there to show where you are going wrong so you can improve for the real thing.
I think that’s everything tbh but yeah I saw some year 9’s and 10’s commenting so i thought I should this. Anyway my final exam is Tomorrow (further maths) so I better go revise
EDIT: ‘mocks aren’t as important as teachers make our’ oops this didn’t age well 😂 sorry if anyone listened to my advice lollll
Maisy Smith good luck!
Good luck with further maths! I do CCEA and so have my last 2 furthermaths exams this week (along with 2 German and 3 science unit 3s😅)
100% agree
I've got further maths and also German,,I'm actually terrified as I've not revised either,,,it's going to be great,,,
Maisy Smith just wanted to add, the thing about the exam build up is the same for a levels too. i just finished my exams and as stressful as they were, definitely not as bad as i thought and having 9 exams instead of 20+ at gcse really helps
You can also imagine this guy in the exams just talking aloud and everyone staring at him 🤣🤣
he’d be taken out and all marks taken off😭
_You must now follow the regulations of the examination_
Black Cat Fandom the Invigilator with squeaky shoes comes over and rips up his paper...
He would get a U on all of his exams lmao
The fact he started using angles to work out what the triangle would look like from the front they're literally the easiest marks ever
When the dude with a Degree in maths is calling some bits challenging...feel sorry to the 15-16 year olds in England.
It's honestly not too bad, just finished doing mine. I mean Maths is one of my favourite subjects but most of my friends as well as myself don't find it *too* bad, but I guess it's all we have ever known for the past 5 or so years so who knows haha.
He did also miss the last 30 mins of the paper (there are a few more questions, I am 100% sure as I remember this paper very clearly) that he didn't do.
I mean, maths is quite easy. If you have the brain for numbers you can easily get 90% consistently. Just need to pick up the skills
I dont know about the others in these comments. But I was in the first year to do the new maths GCSE our grade boundaries were so low that my 30% to 60% accuracy in my maths tests equalled an A/7
eh not tht challenging we r used to doing most of those type of questions allllll the timeeee like in practise papers n stuff so💀😂
the grade boundaries for maths shows how hard it acc is. And just did this years maths gcse and people were calling paper 3 near impossible even maths teachers were struggling to do the questions
He's an adult with a degree, and the paper isn't even the hard paper out of the three and he got 61/80. Bruh.....
@@aldohorn1704 Are you silly? Maths hasn't changed since it was created. It's all the same, plus he has a degree in it and this is what 15 year olds in the UK are doing for their graduation exams.
@@ddfinest MATHS IS MATHS!
Speaking as a former mathematics major - the maths you do in a degree at university is very different from this, and it's very easy to forget if you haven't done it in several years.
@@KasiaGoclowski I agree, I did an Honours Degree in Metallurgy. That contained a lot of maths, mechanics, physics, chemistry, crystallography, quantum mechanics. Admittedly, I would have had difficulty with some of this - and it’s not the hard paper - and I did an exam harder than this when I was 16.
@@sonofcy this is the hardest compulsary maths exam tho
The GCSEs are way too difficult
A-levels : allow me to introduce myself
fucking true, I started A levels in September 2020 and holy shit... they... are the worst. GCSE doesn't prepare you for A-levels at all
@@pumseyraid586 I'm doing a levels in a few months. come on r they that bad :(
hunhungry compared to A-Levels, GCSE is a walk in the park. the ones i did are anyways
@@claraishungry501 I’m doing A levels atm (got a maths exam in 3hrs 😳). Trust me GCSE is piss easy compared to A levels. I went from getting 8s to a D in my A levels
@@hazzison1494 Try the Leaving Cert 😫 Just had my maths Paper 1 today
This dude has a degree in maths, I now feel less crap at my barely pass in maths that I did at 15 and 16 at Nat 5 and higher
17:06
Evan: "x to the 'o' power"
Anyone who's ever seen an angle: "degrees"
You should get a 15-16 year old American to do this it would be so funny to watch them struggle 😂
My american friends cant understand the GCSE system, and i always joke they should do a transfer over here for a mont h and their response is always "NO, I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO THINK" theyre a yr above me equivelant and IM having to teach one of them history for his summer school, the stuff i did in sep yr 10 😂
Please yes!!! 🤣
@@greenyd4438 the history taught in the US is basically propaganda as well so be prepared lol. Eg. Whenever 1812 gets brought up, Americans always say that the US won… they also seem to think they’re not a democracy because the US is a ‘republic’, and a bunch of other incorrect things
@@tacosmexicanstyle7846 I’m an American and that is not true 😂. Why do you people always have to generalize us? The war of 1812 is taught as a draw between the US and Britain and the US is a republic that is just a fact
@@joshuawaide71
Are you saying that democracy and republic are mutually exclusive? Because that’s what people often get wrong. USA is both.
Im already so annoyed that he started writing in the middle and not on the left
I'm messy
Evan Edinger mad lad didn’t write his name in block capitals as well
@@TheAKA505 LISTEN
i do tht and i regret it so much i end up having no space to write a new working out🙄and i keep promising myself that i will write on the left but oh well