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[askha]

I 'll be having my IGCSE English and Travel and tourism O level exam next year so can anyone tell me how can i prepare for them during my vacations because my aim is get A*'s ....Please Please Please guide me.
Another question is that my school's O level is for 3 years where as in some schools its for 2 years and my maths and other subjects exam is going to be in grade 11. But my school has launched a Maths gifted students program and had selected top 20 students in maths for this program including me .The purpose of it is to prepare us for the IGCSE Maths and all the 20 students will be giving there exam in 10 instead of grade 11 .
Need your advise if it is a good idea for me to go for it or not , if yes then how should i prepare myself for the exam next year ?

 

[RoaringInferno]

I 'll be having my IGCSE English and Travel and tourism O level exam next year so can anyone tell me how can i prepare for them during my vacations because my aim is get A*'s ....Please Please Please guide me.
Another question is that my school's O level is for 3 years where as in some schools its for 2 years and my maths and other subjects exam is going to be in grade 11. But my school has launched a Maths gifted students program and had selected top 20 students in maths for this program including me .The purpose of it is to prepare us for the IGCSE Maths and all the 20 students will be giving there exam in 10 instead of grade 11 .
Need your advise if it is a good idea for me to go for it or not , if yes then how should i prepare myself for the exam next year ?

I don't know about T&T, but completing Maths in 2 years instead of three seems a little difficult. Because the syllabus is just huge. That way you'd be studying nothing but Maths all day long if you want a good grade.
For a really good grade in Maths, you need to complete all the exercises of a particular topic in your book at least thrice before your exam. You also need to do the revision exercises (assuming you're using Oxford's Mathematics-D series), the workbooks, the past papers and even some add maths before you give the paper. Now this is where you ask yourself: can you do it in two years instead of three? Because, trust me, I can. So if you're confident in yourself and in your abilities, then go for it Best of luck.
English Language? Umm...I'd actually suggest sticking to comprehension first. Complete as many comprehension passages as you can before your exam from the past papers. This really shouldn't take too long, hardly a month or two at most. That way you'll be done with one entire paper
Composition is the tricky part. Now I know this seems like typical advice, but reading fiction novels, storybooks and even non-fiction articles (newspapers, wikipedia, etc.) are exceptionally important. The idea behind this is to get yourself acquainted with different styles of writing, and then either choose the one which appeals to you or a mixture of all of them.
Fiction books are endless...you could read J.K.Rowling, Dan Brown (you could learn a thing or two about flashbacks and creating suspense, CIE loves those ), Stephen King (suspense, more or less the same), Paulo Coelho, Christopher Paolini (for descriptive writing. His Inheritance Cycle has some exceptional descriptions of landscapes, people etc.). And, if you can, read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. It adds to your creativity.
Here's a tip for increasing your vocab for the paper. Every time you're watching a movie on tv, or hear about one, wikipedia it and read the entire article the next day. If you get into the habit of this, like I have, you'll notice that you can easily compartmentalize and switch between very coherent forms of formal and informal composition.
For reinforcement, again, stick to the past papers. Complete each and every composition topic. And get it checked by a teacher. Use a word processor, it's faster and easier to edit. Then file it in a folder and frequently check back to see how well you've progressed. Consult marking schemes as well. Annotate your mistakes. If you're done with all these past papers and STILL want to take on challenging persuasive writing, then check out A level English Language and particularly A level General Paper. There are some very good topics for you to try and tackle, and the marking schemes are more detailed. I know this seems very far fetched and others on the forum will disagree with me, given how easy English Language is for many of us, but still. It's better to be safe than sorry.
WOAH. I got carried away sorry. Hope that helps. And best of luck for next year. I hope you get A*s in all of your papers.

 

[arlery]

Or for the vocabulary part, just go through the SAT word list.

 

[askha]

Thankyou so much

 

[Spidey21]

I don't know about T&T, but completing Maths in 2 years instead of three seems a little difficult. Because the syllabus is just huge. That way you'd be studying nothing but Maths all day long if you want a good grade.
For a really good grade in Maths, you need to complete all the exercises of a particular topic in your book at least thrice before your exam. You also need to do the revision exercises (assuming you're using Oxford's Mathematics-D series), the workbooks, the past papers and even some add maths before you give the paper. Now this is where you ask yourself: can you do it in two years instead of three? Because, trust me, I can. So if you're confident in yourself and in your abilities, then go for it Best of luck.
English Language? Umm...I'd actually suggest sticking to comprehension first. Complete as many comprehension passages as you can before your exam from the past papers. This really shouldn't take too long, hardly a month or two at most. That way you'll be done with one entire paper
Composition is the tricky part. Now I know this seems like typical advice, but reading fiction novels, storybooks and even non-fiction articles (newspapers, wikipedia, etc.) are exceptionally important. The idea behind this is to get yourself acquainted with different styles of writing, and then either choose the one which appeals to you or a mixture of all of them.
Fiction books are endless...you could read J.K.Rowling, Dan Brown (you could learn a thing or two about flashbacks and creating suspense, CIE loves those ), Stephen King (suspense, more or less the same), Paulo Coelho, Christopher Paolini (for descriptive writing. His Inheritance Cycle has some exceptional descriptions of landscapes, people etc.). And, if you can, read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. It adds to your creativity.
Here's a tip for increasing your vocab for the paper. Every time you're watching a movie on tv, or hear about one, wikipedia it and read the entire article the next day. If you get into the habit of this, like I have, you'll notice that you can easily compartmentalize and switch between very coherent forms of formal and informal composition.
For reinforcement, again, stick to the past papers. Complete each and every composition topic. And get it checked by a teacher. Use a word processor, it's faster and easier to edit. Then file it in a folder and frequently check back to see how well you've progressed. Consult marking schemes as well. Annotate your mistakes. If you're done with all these past papers and STILL want to take on challenging persuasive writing, then check out A level English Language and particularly A level General Paper. There are some very good topics for you to try and tackle, and the marking schemes are more detailed. I know this seems very far fetched and others on the forum will disagree with me, given how easy English Language is for many of us, but still. It's better to be safe than sorry.
WOAH. I got carried away sorry. Hope that helps. And best of luck for next year. I hope you get A*s in all of your papers.

K.

 

[RoaringInferno]

K.

Lemme guess...Gulshan Cambridge?

 

[Spidey21]

Lemme guess...Gulshan Cambridge?

shoot me in the head...NO!!
why ask?

 

[RoaringInferno]

Nevermind.