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  • čas přidán 15. 06. 2019
  • I heard the EdExcel Higher Maths GCSE is pretty tough stuff. Time to see if I can handle it and critique whether or not the UK's exams really ARE as rough as they say...
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  • @evan
    @evan  Před 5 lety +16419

    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

    • @alyssaax
      @alyssaax Před 5 lety +481

      How’d you find the gcse compared to SATs? - loved the vid btw thanks for doing it

    • @ceecie5776
      @ceecie5776 Před 5 lety +1600

      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.

    • @yazplatt
      @yazplatt Před 5 lety +546

      In English maths exams it’s on the equipment list and they can mark you down on diagrams if they’re not neat 😂

    • @felicitypenn-jones230
      @felicitypenn-jones230 Před 5 lety +352

      You should try an a level maths paper!!!

    • @emilyb7421
      @emilyb7421 Před 5 lety +372

      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*.

  • @ak-rv8rh
    @ak-rv8rh Před 4 lety +13635

    he.... he doesn’t- he doesn’t do curly x’s

    • @winnielewis1749
      @winnielewis1749 Před 4 lety +534

      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

    • @b0y0ne
      @b0y0ne Před 3 lety +156

      @@winnielewis1749 why did I read this as times and x

    • @Jack-sf9zo
      @Jack-sf9zo Před 3 lety +41

      I just used X as a times and x as x but yea I got a little annoyed at it as well lol

    • @shom924
      @shom924 Před 3 lety +30

      *to the ranch*

    • @TobyBanci
      @TobyBanci Před 3 lety +4

      😂

  • @jamalsafeer7405
    @jamalsafeer7405 Před 4 lety +4838

    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

    • @rosies4999
      @rosies4999 Před 4 lety +580

      You mean like 20 other exams! Fuck the British education system :(

    • @MrToymaster1
      @MrToymaster1 Před 4 lety +287

      I actually had multiple nervous breakdowns because of GCSEs

    • @arii8495
      @arii8495 Před 4 lety +50

      WaveyG 25 other exams*

    • @jimmyg1913
      @jimmyg1913 Před 4 lety +44

      The A Channel I had 28 😂

    • @mcmeme835
      @mcmeme835 Před 4 lety +4

      @@jimmyg1913 I'm gonna have more aww *fuck* man

  • @FrankFurther
    @FrankFurther Před 11 měsíci +2324

    You cannot compare American 'exams' to English. US exams might as well be a quiz on the back of a cereal box

    • @kaput_hodge
      @kaput_hodge Před 11 měsíci +77

      omd i forgot about cereal box quizzes!! that sparks memories

    • @lol-bg4wh
      @lol-bg4wh Před 7 měsíci +39

      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

    • @Ava_5411
      @Ava_5411 Před 7 měsíci +195

      ​​@@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.

    • @knittedplushie
      @knittedplushie Před 7 měsíci +140

      @@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

    • @kathrynhughes4518
      @kathrynhughes4518 Před 7 měsíci +31

      @@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.

  • @stevenpayne984
    @stevenpayne984 Před 2 lety +3849

    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

    • @oohhyyae6589
      @oohhyyae6589 Před 2 lety +1021

      ohhhhhh, you destroyed him.

    • @union_silver4858
      @union_silver4858 Před 2 lety +358

      damn, you got any tips for gcse higher maths then?

    • @User40919
      @User40919 Před 2 lety +428

      American students have it easy

    • @ace_reject
      @ace_reject Před 2 lety +490

      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?

    • @spookybanna1237
      @spookybanna1237 Před 2 lety +223

      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.

  • @sn00py25
    @sn00py25 Před 3 lety +11092

    Who’s going to tell him he would be scored zero cause he didn’t write it in the answer line...

    • @mmmtastyalidzie2435
      @mmmtastyalidzie2435 Před 3 lety +932

      and even if he got the answers right and on the line the method is so shit that he would get no method marks

    • @KamisatoElias
      @KamisatoElias Před 3 lety +18

      @impr0visati0n yes

    • @KamisatoElias
      @KamisatoElias Před 3 lety +115

      @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.

    • @wojciechs9129
      @wojciechs9129 Před 3 lety +41

      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

    • @jrdan5827
      @jrdan5827 Před 3 lety +76

      @@wojciechs9129 that only works in the sciences not maths unfortunately

  • @wez1402
    @wez1402 Před 4 lety +16304

    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

  • @emmaarmstrong3680
    @emmaarmstrong3680 Před 2 lety +961

    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’

    • @blu9856
      @blu9856 Před 2 lety +48

      GCSE markschemes are garbage

    • @justmonika3365
      @justmonika3365 Před 6 měsíci +10

      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

    • @Darrenlinkon
      @Darrenlinkon Před 6 měsíci +5

      Fr sometimes it's annoying since I got a question right but didn't have the right working put making me lose 3 marks

    • @smamy8861
      @smamy8861 Před 5 měsíci +1

      maybe its ur exam board but for the ones we do if u get the right answer u get full marks

    • @Amritss664
      @Amritss664 Před 4 měsíci

      @@smamy8861 is it AQA? OCR? or what?

  • @adambednarek2007
    @adambednarek2007 Před rokem +668

    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

  • @slothshyper4402
    @slothshyper4402 Před 4 lety +7180

    Who’s gunna tell him 15 year olds are doing this

    • @SH-ck1bd
      @SH-ck1bd Před 4 lety +232

      And that I'm 13 and I am doing this kinda stuff

    • @fionnagrant6636
      @fionnagrant6636 Před 4 lety +51

      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.

    • @slothshyper4402
      @slothshyper4402 Před 4 lety +50

      S H shut up you nerd

    • @tristanrowan5105
      @tristanrowan5105 Před 4 lety +42

      Literally did this exam earlier today whilst revising for my mock

    • @slothshyper4402
      @slothshyper4402 Před 4 lety +5

      BruhTV it’s a Saturday

  • @verity2667
    @verity2667 Před 4 lety +5023

    I’d just like to point out he has a degree in maths... and 16 year old children are supposed to take this

    • @jdc4316
      @jdc4316 Před 4 lety +47

      Are we children though?

    • @benc9155
      @benc9155 Před 4 lety +317

      H under 18 so yh

    • @jdc4316
      @jdc4316 Před 4 lety +32

      T .0 but we can get married, buy lottery tickets and leave school so doesn’t feel like it

    • @jesspalombo961
      @jesspalombo961 Před 4 lety +102

      H legally children

    • @meeps8456
      @meeps8456 Před 4 lety +23

      @@jdc4316 not in most countries tho

  • @Yasin_2312
    @Yasin_2312 Před 2 lety +498

    US Students: “School is soo hard and unfair”
    (Non-Uniform and Multitask Questions) am I a joke you?

    • @Vaul.
      @Vaul. Před rokem +7

      British students: “man, I can’t pay attention to the teacher because this room smells of rotting teeth”

    • @abyss3616
      @abyss3616 Před rokem +95

      @@Vaul. 1. noone says 'man' 2. u cant smell teeth 3. id rather 'smell rotting teeth' than get shot up lmao

    • @underscore2708
      @underscore2708 Před rokem +52

      @@Vaul. bro's mad his school systems easier 💀

    • @typlim
      @typlim Před rokem +6

      @@Vaul. huh

    • @chafikaziz
      @chafikaziz Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@abyss3616 "noone say 'man' yeah we do wdym

  • @robyn2791
    @robyn2791 Před rokem +133

    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.

  • @gablar_802
    @gablar_802 Před 4 lety +5625

    Mans got his smart watch on, you're disqualified mate

    • @leochen7607
      @leochen7607 Před 4 lety +287

      He also had his phone with him, on the desk and all ffs

    • @dcandmarvelclips360
      @dcandmarvelclips360 Před 4 lety +273

      @@leochen7607 and his speaking in the exam 🤣😂😂

    • @Beth1602
      @Beth1602 Před 4 lety +81

      I had to take my Fitbit off during my GCSE’s lmao

    • @Channel-ro3cr
      @Channel-ro3cr Před 4 lety +33

      And he’s talking

    • @adamribbans811
      @adamribbans811 Před 4 lety +86

      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”

  • @Kaiji...
    @Kaiji... Před 4 lety +9829

    “Why don’t you like maths”
    Everyone in the UK:

  • @tomhewings6613
    @tomhewings6613 Před 11 měsíci +369

    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.

    • @DrFuzzyaka-atomic
      @DrFuzzyaka-atomic Před 6 měsíci +20

      Fax, calculator papers often harder tbf

    • @Grey0730
      @Grey0730 Před 6 měsíci

      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.

    • @BananaWasTaken
      @BananaWasTaken Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@DrFuzzyaka-atomicdepends on the person. I’d say paper 2 is easiest of the 3 and paper 3 is the hardest

    • @mymumoverwaterstheflowersd8071
      @mymumoverwaterstheflowersd8071 Před 2 měsíci +2

      ​@@BananaWasTakendepends each year imo

    • @SlumberousSnorlax
      @SlumberousSnorlax Před 2 měsíci +2

      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).

  • @false746
    @false746 Před rokem +96

    Not me just watching this instead of revising for my GCSE Maths exam hahaha

    • @Alys-may
      @Alys-may Před 2 měsíci +4

      Same 😂😭

    • @strawberry_sweetner_278
      @strawberry_sweetner_278 Před 17 dny +3

      @@Alys-may me too.. its tomorrow and i dont know anything

    • @ballsack426
      @ballsack426 Před 17 dny

      ​@@strawberry_sweetner_278 Literally hunched over writing on an exam paper right now i should be asleep 😭

    • @lukejackson2493
      @lukejackson2493 Před 2 dny

      literally me

  • @darkbluegriever3813
    @darkbluegriever3813 Před 4 lety +18704

    Anyone else from Britain cringe every time he said points instead of marks

    • @mahnoorrehman8327
      @mahnoorrehman8327 Před 4 lety +130

      I m a Pakistani but got cringe,,

    • @donpingus
      @donpingus Před 4 lety +60

      How can you cringe to a word?

    • @lstintrsltn
      @lstintrsltn Před 4 lety +325

      DonPingus because in Britain it’s marks not points lol

    • @donpingus
      @donpingus Před 4 lety +84

      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

    • @hannahj7290
      @hannahj7290 Před 4 lety +13

      OH MY GOD YESSS

  • @emeraldfraser5223
    @emeraldfraser5223 Před 5 lety +3430

    Laughs in British for all of those marks he lost for putting the answer in a box not on the given line

    • @evan
      @evan  Před 5 lety +367

      IN AMERICA WE BOX OUR ANSWERS

    • @TKDDLJ09
      @TKDDLJ09 Před 5 lety +152

      In Denmark we put two lines under the answer. Honestly thought the whole world did that. 😂😂😂

    • @rachelsingleton2023
      @rachelsingleton2023 Před 5 lety +43

      I do the same as the Danes. Underline answer twice. But I also went to uni in Germany as well as England.

    • @abcxyz-cx4mr
      @abcxyz-cx4mr Před 5 lety +28

      Rachel Singleton - British uni exams are very different to GCSE and a level exams though

    • @rachelsingleton2023
      @rachelsingleton2023 Před 5 lety +49

      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!!

  • @zuhahumera7610
    @zuhahumera7610 Před rokem +79

    12:08 BRO STARTED USING THE STRAIGHT LINE GRAPHS FORMULA FOR SIMPLE SHAPE TRANSLATIONS!

  • @imalfie7079
    @imalfie7079 Před 2 lety +46

    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.

    • @wxfx.x6281
      @wxfx.x6281 Před 2 lety

      I’m doing my mocks in a few days as well I have no idea what I’m doing , but it’s fine. I hope all goes well with your exams !! :)

  • @sophies2350
    @sophies2350 Před 4 lety +3061

    Being a British citizen hearing him call them ‘points’ is getting on my nerves

  • @ra21k40
    @ra21k40 Před 4 lety +3173

    ‘Use black ink , this is maths ,the pencil’
    Fam we gave up on pencils in year 6

    • @NANO2459
      @NANO2459 Před 4 lety +93

      Its pens for writing and pencils are only used for drawings

    • @g0406
      @g0406 Před 4 lety +17

      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 :) )

    • @felonii9315
      @felonii9315 Před 4 lety +14

      GPretzel 14245, wtf, I think your living in the wrong era. It’s 2020, not the Victorian Era.

    • @izloves8784
      @izloves8784 Před 4 lety +17

      վɑӏӏ ςɑղ ɾҽӏɑեҽ uh yeah I didn’t do all that work for that pen license for nothing..

    • @g0406
      @g0406 Před 4 lety +1

      felonii obviously not completely serious :) lol

  • @julielmorris
    @julielmorris Před 2 lety +52

    Evan, I teach GCSE and A Level, and no offence intended at all, you are hilarious! And this is brilliant.
    1. Your enthusiasm is brilliant. Maths is fun because it challenges us and god it’s satisfying when we get it right!
    2. Everyone needs to remember how quickly maths skills can be lost, if you’re not doing them every day. Irrespective of him having a maths degree, because I guarantee much of the complex maths he did would not regularly use these concepts. ( I took 2 years off from uni to teaching and forgot about 6 years of maths in that time)
    3. Coordinate geometry and circle theorems are some of the hardest concepts for students to learn, so I’m not surprised they messed with you!
    Well done, I can’t wait to watch your A Level paper…… if only to show my students 😂

  • @dustedshelf
    @dustedshelf Před 3 měsíci +10

    3:22 that pound sign made me have an aneurysm

  • @thefrogmonarch4404
    @thefrogmonarch4404 Před 3 lety +4762

    Are we not going to talk about how he should be disqualified because you have to do the exam in silence?

  • @mirilondondrift
    @mirilondondrift Před 4 lety +2682

    Why did I just watch some random guy do a test wtf

    • @froggy2311
      @froggy2311 Před 4 lety +4

      Hxmuza same

    • @ewanmcc01
      @ewanmcc01 Před 4 lety +14

      this is exactly what i was thinking, at 1:26am

    • @ewanmcc01
      @ewanmcc01 Před 4 lety +1

      aka i love you

    • @lydiachard6882
      @lydiachard6882 Před 4 lety +1

      same.

    • @Saad.S15
      @Saad.S15 Před 4 lety +2

      Hxmuza it’s 12 35 here in England and I fucking can’t go sleep 😢
      I need help 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @parker4621
    @parker4621 Před rokem +18

    Now imagine being 15-16 and having to do all that

    • @susman5804
      @susman5804 Před rokem

      Jee advanced is way harder than GCSE(both for 16 year olds)

    • @parker4621
      @parker4621 Před rokem

      @@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

    • @user-hh6xp9dv8c
      @user-hh6xp9dv8c Před rokem +1

      It's kind of lightweight to be honest, you have 2-3 years to learn and practice all the content.

  • @spo0pti918
    @spo0pti918 Před 2 lety +68

    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.

    • @mcinnit
      @mcinnit Před 2 měsíci +1

      thank u for saying this.

    • @HumanitysStrongestHomelessman
      @HumanitysStrongestHomelessman Před měsícem

      Bro GCSEs are not that deep….

    • @mad_6519
      @mad_6519 Před měsícem

      @@HumanitysStrongestHomelessman If you wanna live in your mum's attic for the rest of your life- although that's sounding more realistic these days

    • @HumanitysStrongestHomelessman
      @HumanitysStrongestHomelessman Před měsícem

      @@mad_6519 I mean they aren't that difficult. Revise and try your best.

    • @kanan597
      @kanan597 Před 27 dny +1

      okay mate they aren't that bad

  • @LucA-lw2bm
    @LucA-lw2bm Před 3 lety +11022

    This is what a 15 year old takes😂 this person is an adult with maths degrees

  • @lucacolucci4446
    @lucacolucci4446 Před 4 lety +2733

    Who going to tell him that this was the easier paper out of the three

    • @moony7945
      @moony7945 Před 4 lety +120

      Luca Colucci *Laughs slowly turning into tears*

    • @anakinskywalker3777
      @anakinskywalker3777 Před 4 lety +42

      I hate paper 1, paper 2 is faaaar easier and better

    • @sbeve4323
      @sbeve4323 Před 4 lety +18

      Pasta Italiana nah paper 1 is easier unless your dumb af and don’t just abuse the calculator

    • @themafia3119
      @themafia3119 Před 4 lety +3

      Nope. It's actually a higher tier paper.

    • @riouxe8455
      @riouxe8455 Před 4 lety +12

      Yunkoe
      Paper 1 is non-calculator
      Paper 2/3 are calculator papers
      Or atleast they were for me

  • @arbee1958
    @arbee1958 Před 2 lety +12

    Fantastic video - it would be great if more students saw videos like this showing the shortcuts , thought processes , handy shorthand etc that allow you to tackle these problems

  • @Megan-ws3fr
    @Megan-ws3fr Před 2 lety +12

    “Renee you have a problem” okay but you can’t deny we all say this in our heads even when taking proper GCSEs

  • @zenvibes2358
    @zenvibes2358 Před 3 lety +3985

    Americans: Why are British teens so depressed
    British education system: *I'm actually CEO of the company*

    • @omarfarooq7549
      @omarfarooq7549 Před 3 lety +13

      GCSE Math A* thresholds are 85%??? Thats very low tbh

    • @zenvibes2358
      @zenvibes2358 Před 3 lety +47

      @@omarfarooq7549 what?

    • @omarfarooq7549
      @omarfarooq7549 Před 3 lety +5

      @@zenvibes2358 nah I was just wondering, everyone in the comments is like Oh he got an 8 but he only got like 81%

    • @zenvibes2358
      @zenvibes2358 Před 3 lety +30

      @@omarfarooq7549 I'm still confused what are you talking about?

    • @omarfarooq7549
      @omarfarooq7549 Před 3 lety +1

      I'm just asking you if the thresholds for an 8 are really 80%?

  • @icecold_tea
    @icecold_tea Před 4 lety +8340

    Evan: do I have to write all the steps?
    Every uk kid: DO YOU WANT THE WORKING OUT MARKS OR NOT!?

    • @jadkins6500
      @jadkins6500 Před 4 lety +219

      I get so angry when i vote the answer right but i don't get any marks cause i didn't work it out.

    • @icecold_tea
      @icecold_tea Před 4 lety +114

      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-

    • @valkyrie8721
      @valkyrie8721 Před 4 lety +121

      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!!!!

    • @agirlnamedbunbun
      @agirlnamedbunbun Před 4 lety +29

      @@jadkins6500 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.

    • @PixelYouTube
      @PixelYouTube Před 4 lety +50

      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

  • @zoesmay
    @zoesmay Před 2 lety +8

    this paper was my mock paper last year, somehow got a decent mark, watching evan overcomplicate it is really funny

  • @frankiej1637
    @frankiej1637 Před 7 měsíci +10

    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.

    • @Neepeta
      @Neepeta Před 2 měsíci

      A star i believe

  • @lily-gx2es
    @lily-gx2es Před 4 lety +5337

    my teacher would be screaming cos he doesn’t do curly x’s

  • @skateplays8880
    @skateplays8880 Před 4 lety +2411

    This guy got a degree in Maths and yet he’s struggling with GCSE Maths
    Imagine his reaction to A-Level Maths...

    • @tinx713
      @tinx713 Před 4 lety +49

      Skate Plays atleast there’s actually an option to drop A-level maths

    • @punisherjones6795
      @punisherjones6795 Před 4 lety +5

      @@tinx713 yeah😂that's why i dropped it

    • @tinx713
      @tinx713 Před 4 lety

      @@punisherjones6795 oh, good on you then 😋

    • @Blitz0009
      @Blitz0009 Před 4 lety +3

      I think he would have a breakdown

    • @tanisha5161
      @tanisha5161 Před 4 lety +17

      If your good at GCSE math, like really good you probably will take further maths which is like A-level maths

  • @christopherpackham732
    @christopherpackham732 Před 2 lety +13

    I took advanced GCSE maths over 20 years ago. Was "lucky enough" to be selected for the higher stream to take it a year early. I got a C. I can honestly say I have forgotten nearly everything I ever learnt in any of my maths classes, and it has not for one moment held me back either personally or professionally. What would have been more helpful in GCSE maths would be far more emphasis on finance, since I had to teach myself almost entirely from scratch.
    Great video.

  • @fxggzy
    @fxggzy Před rokem +4

    Watching you do the question 16 was so funny you were so stressed and did it in the most complex way possible😂

  • @grace5780
    @grace5780 Před 4 lety +28899

    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

    • @leopaveley
      @leopaveley Před 4 lety +432

      yh :'(

    • @Charlie1056x
      @Charlie1056x Před 4 lety +302

      yuppp ;-;

    • @juanlim85
      @juanlim85 Před 4 lety +820

      And if you’re doing humanities :/:/

    • @juanlim85
      @juanlim85 Před 4 lety +239

      I’m just happy it’s over

    • @Adam-hi4mg
      @Adam-hi4mg Před 4 lety +364

      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.

  • @abbeysutton926
    @abbeysutton926 Před 4 lety +5690

    Americans are so lucky all they have to do is fill in circles

    • @brumav9779
      @brumav9779 Před 4 lety +256

      wtf really

    • @Hunterakhi
      @Hunterakhi Před 4 lety +73

      U Lucky bois

    • @itsShade
      @itsShade Před 4 lety +52

      Really?

    • @mlee6050
      @mlee6050 Před 4 lety +84

      it as they struggle like some words they not use proper english ;)

    • @DeadBore
      @DeadBore Před 4 lety +13

      it's not easy ...

  • @itsbillie1968
    @itsbillie1968 Před 2 lety +2

    This is helping me so much rn for GCSEs 😭😭 Thankyou

  • @MrMagicMarble
    @MrMagicMarble Před 2 lety +1

    Ive gotten really bad sets in everything besides maths and modern languages so im watching videos like this for each subject when ever i get home

  • @cephzs
    @cephzs Před 4 lety +2963

    school : dEpReSsSiOn aNd anxiEty iS cAUsEd bY sOcIaL mEdIa
    English education : enjoy 20-30 gcse papers

    • @user-cg6wo2fw7k
      @user-cg6wo2fw7k Před 4 lety +240

      AlL oF yOu ArE cApAbLe Of gEtTiNg 9's!

    • @brandonbrown8215
      @brandonbrown8215 Před 4 lety +54

      AdamW5As literally every teacher

    • @mypenisisunbelievablysmall7227
      @mypenisisunbelievablysmall7227 Před 4 lety +14

      AdamW5As meanwhile I’m here with my 7’s and 8’s :(

    • @BenjieWinney
      @BenjieWinney Před 4 lety +27

      My penis is unbelievably small, but stfu

    • @boy4103
      @boy4103 Před 4 lety +30

      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.

  • @katieabram6296
    @katieabram6296 Před 4 lety +2345

    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

    • @iamsabz364
      @iamsabz364 Před 4 lety +15

      OMG I THOUGHT IT WAS THE ONLY PERSON

    • @katieabram6296
      @katieabram6296 Před 4 lety +2

      sabha imran
      Don’t worry, you’re not alone here

    • @sienna.6654
      @sienna.6654 Před 4 lety +21

      People saying points makes me feel like it's a game

    • @katieabram6296
      @katieabram6296 Před 4 lety +9

      Dog Paw
      And for anyone who’s done an exam, you know it’s not a game

    • @sienna.6654
      @sienna.6654 Před 4 lety +3

      @@katieabram6296 I know it's just cos where I live in school it's marks and games are often counted in points

  • @hqs9585
    @hqs9585 Před 2 lety +8

    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.

  • @WeeklyDoseOfCeleste
    @WeeklyDoseOfCeleste Před 5 měsíci +7

    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

  • @francinep2880
    @francinep2880 Před 4 lety +2446

    it stresses me out that you do x like a multiplication symbol, not a curly x that everyone uses in algebra

  • @LJ-vm9rn
    @LJ-vm9rn Před 4 lety +2558

    The worst thing is that they make the GCSE’s harder every year
    Edit: rip me class of 2020💀

    • @Stefan-bc9gm
      @Stefan-bc9gm Před 4 lety +109

      RIP Class of 2023

    • @alice-xr3bk
      @alice-xr3bk Před 4 lety +54

      I’m year 9 so I take mine in idk what year 😂

    • @benprocter2541
      @benprocter2541 Před 4 lety +52

      Rip me class of 2020

    • @hannahbatt3802
      @hannahbatt3802 Před 4 lety +42

      thfcalice _ you finish your GCSEs in 2022 because I’m year 10 and I’ll finish in 2021 i think..maybe

    • @nozrul4170
      @nozrul4170 Před 4 lety +15

      @@alice-xr3bk same 😂 we take it in 2022 good luck 😂

  • @alexn4914
    @alexn4914 Před 2 lety +2

    yo thanks for the revision. great way to make me actually practice some maths! also if u think this is bad wait till u see the ocr add maths content. seriously look it up

  • @samyunishtala
    @samyunishtala Před 6 měsíci +1

    mocks this week this was actually so fun to watch now I have to struggle myself

  • @adamribbans811
    @adamribbans811 Před 4 lety +2814

    World: why u British so miserable
    British education:

    • @jorja4234
      @jorja4234 Před 4 lety +70

      Adam Ribbans and the damn weather

    • @adamribbans811
      @adamribbans811 Před 4 lety +3

      Yah😂😂

    • @thomaswilson1107
      @thomaswilson1107 Před 4 lety +9

      Adam Ribbans World except for USA: depressed
      USA: shooting up schools.

    • @noemiebastow719
      @noemiebastow719 Před 4 lety +6

      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😰

    • @someone-dh1zy
      @someone-dh1zy Před 4 lety

      Also middle eastern people and Egyptian

  • @harveyharriss8887
    @harveyharriss8887 Před 3 lety +11457

    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.

    • @callumcandy4153
      @callumcandy4153 Před 3 lety +97

      @@jamiemarshall6832 IKR, I have mine this summer :(. Well technically not GCSEs but CAGS

    • @tw6rn
      @tw6rn Před 3 lety +72

      @@callumcandy4153 tf is a cag?

    • @RahimAli-lu6jx
      @RahimAli-lu6jx Před 3 lety +19

      @@callumcandy4153 and your exams got cancelle

    • @UnemotionalBandit
      @UnemotionalBandit Před 3 lety +84

      @@tw6rn centre assessed grades, what you do if your exams get cancelled because of covid

    • @galactusthehungry2681
      @galactusthehungry2681 Před 3 lety +41

      Further math gcse is tough, I remember struggling on it xD

  • @fatima_krana
    @fatima_krana Před 2 lety +1

    I have my GCSE Higher maths paper tomorrow - and I am looking at your journey LOL!

  • @jerryjohnson6810
    @jerryjohnson6810 Před 2 lety +1

    i swear i think this is the FIRST "math class" i've enjoyed lol
    good job dude you are very funny

  • @morganhester4536
    @morganhester4536 Před 3 lety +3161

    Can we keep in mind us British people do this when we are 16 years old.

    • @toppy4525
      @toppy4525 Před 3 lety +313

      I’ll do it at 15 😭

    • @foundingtitann
      @foundingtitann Před 3 lety +86

      sometimes when we’re even younger

    • @chonkman
      @chonkman Před 3 lety +16

      Not only Brits im giving it too ;-;

    • @chonkman
      @chonkman Před 3 lety +26

      Some questions are kinda fun tho or that might be because I like maths lmao

    • @Geddeez
      @Geddeez Před 3 lety +8

      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

  • @edwardsheppard5943
    @edwardsheppard5943 Před 4 lety +2026

    Just to let you know, 'higher' maths is just normal maths for most people in the UK

    • @Ben.N
      @Ben.N Před 4 lety +9

      These are a levels right? Further maths is so damn hard.

    • @edwardsheppard5943
      @edwardsheppard5943 Před 4 lety +178

      @@Ben.N no it's GCSEs

    • @bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963
      @bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963 Před 4 lety +80

      ArduinoBen
      Nah these are the GSCEs lmao. A levels come 2 years later.

    • @navjotsingh2251
      @navjotsingh2251 Před 4 lety +47

      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.

    • @usermimii
      @usermimii Před 4 lety +23

      ikr in our school no one teaches or does foundation

  • @shreya...007
    @shreya...007 Před 2 lety +31

    One thing I've gotta say for Evan
    The 15-16 year olds who take this exam spend the entire year studying for this. Evan hasn't done this for years

    • @crazyfriend50
      @crazyfriend50 Před rokem +12

      Hes a maths degree person whatever
      He should know this maths

    • @shreya...007
      @shreya...007 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@crazyfriend50 People with maths degrees learn maths which is way different from high school level maths. He is definitely capable of these easily, I'm just saying he probably forgot most of this.
      Hell, ask me to remember the interest formula I learnt 2 years ago I can barely do it and I passed with 100% in maths. He can do it, he just forgot it, that's all.

  • @hydros5020
    @hydros5020 Před 2 lety +3

    He makes it fun and I learn stuff at the same time… niceee

  • @JP-dj3ty
    @JP-dj3ty Před 4 lety +2717

    Who's gunna tell him he gets no marks for drawing graphs or diagrams in pen

  • @TechLifeYT
    @TechLifeYT Před 4 lety +3332

    This madlad really just took GCSE Higher Maths WILLINGLY.

    • @UwaisPlayz
      @UwaisPlayz Před 4 lety +99

      and got an 8 on his first attempt ?! i can barely get past a 4.

    • @crustytoes4433
      @crustytoes4433 Před 4 lety +5

      @@UwaisPlayz same lol

    • @lucasg2216
      @lucasg2216 Před 4 lety +17

      UwaisPlayz I got a 2 in foundation hahahah

    • @ikrammunye6723
      @ikrammunye6723 Před 4 lety +8

      Crazy IK!!!! I have to do the higher paper and I'm stressing out. I'm only in YR10

    • @mylittlefurry8076
      @mylittlefurry8076 Před 4 lety +9

      Got a 3 in foundation man like me 😎

  • @HowToHay
    @HowToHay Před 2 lety +6

    I sat my GCSEs over 13 years ago and I have forgotten basically all of this!
    I used to love maths but now I look at these and just think there is no way I'll be able to help my daughter when she sits her exams 😅

  • @tasnimmiah3645
    @tasnimmiah3645 Před 2 lety +5

    there's this thing called error carried forward, and it's where you can still get marks if all your working out is correct. but i think thats only if the mark scheme says ecf

  • @jesse2436
    @jesse2436 Před 4 lety +2438

    Americans: why are UK kids so depressed?
    UK Education: *it was me*

    • @jayyoudeeee9096
      @jayyoudeeee9096 Před 4 lety +29

      Jesse they have literally never said that lol

    • @Tafara7
      @Tafara7 Před 4 lety +27

      @@jayyoudeeee9096 lmao I've seen many MANY Americans ask that not only online but in real life. You must not know a lot of Americans

    • @Anna-ts4lg
      @Anna-ts4lg Před 4 lety +3

      there’s me who’s doing their 2 hour maths hw atm 😂

    • @rhys8049
      @rhys8049 Před 4 lety +7

      Why are Ameican kids shooting each other 🤔🤔🤔🤔

    • @christophersanchez5613
      @christophersanchez5613 Před 4 lety

      Last I checked us education taught me this easy math

  • @Oli-xc4tm
    @Oli-xc4tm Před 4 lety +847

    Who's gonna tell him we're not allowed to talk at all

    • @finthefish2525
      @finthefish2525 Před 4 lety +42

      U think he’s just going to sit there for 50 minutes without talking

    • @Oli-xc4tm
      @Oli-xc4tm Před 4 lety +18

      @@finthefish2525 yes

    • @finthefish2525
      @finthefish2525 Před 4 lety +9

      MrMag do you realize how boring that would be

    • @youtubelife921
      @youtubelife921 Před 3 lety +20

      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

    • @TobyBanci
      @TobyBanci Před 3 lety +1

      😂

  • @poppywilliams3660
    @poppywilliams3660 Před 4 měsíci +3

    1=fail
    2= fail
    3= fail
    4= C
    5= C/B
    6= B
    7= A
    8= A*
    9= A**

  • @tylerschofield
    @tylerschofield Před 10 měsíci +1

    Yeah, there is a reason why after living in chicago from ages 10-15 that when i got back to the UK i was nearly 2 full years behind the curriculum! And that was despite being in AP classes or whatever they are called in the USA! I had to go back a whole year and work my arse off for my gcses. Luckily i still got all A’s with the advanced/higher papers but still.

  • @kjford587
    @kjford587 Před 4 lety +1861

    Him : "y = mx + b"
    Me : g e t , o u t

    • @adyeeti
      @adyeeti Před 3 lety +481

      Y =mx + c gang wya

    • @bingovalue
      @bingovalue Před 3 lety +24

      @@adyeeti c ganggg

    • @randomgirl67
      @randomgirl67 Před 3 lety +43

      Isn't it y=mx+c help me 😂

    • @jimmy0361
      @jimmy0361 Před 3 lety +2

      @@randomgirl67 yes it is

    • @randomgirl67
      @randomgirl67 Před 3 lety +1

      @@jimmy0361 Thanks even though i go to a British school and should know this information 😂

  • @lilydawson6866
    @lilydawson6866 Před 4 lety +2228

    when he said “a 8 is okay” i flipped. DOES HE REALISE THATS AN A*

    • @lokkj8570
      @lokkj8570 Před 4 lety +36

      You people in England have it too easy, in Ireland you have to get at least a 9 to get the highest result.

    • @robingroom5967
      @robingroom5967 Před 4 lety +292

      @@lokkj8570 no we have a** aswell

    • @williamlayx
      @williamlayx Před 4 lety +138

      Lily Dawson you have to remember he has a masters degree so an 8 is ‘okay’ to him

    • @Kassieq
      @Kassieq Před 4 lety +59

      @@williamlayx an american masters degree.

    • @w8stral
      @w8stral Před 4 lety +31

      @@Kassieq And hasn't touched the subject in 10 years. If you do not use it, you lose it.

  • @bloody_sais
    @bloody_sais Před rokem

    Got to love the fact that when he's marking the paper the bottom shot was obviously done afterwards

  • @JoshuaMattless
    @JoshuaMattless Před 3 měsíci

    Having just done my last paper 3 mock before my real exam this made me feel alot better

  • @linky8038
    @linky8038 Před 4 lety +2183

    whos gonna tell him this is the easiest paper

    • @IBZGaming
      @IBZGaming Před 4 lety +35

      Paper 2 is the easiest

    • @freddymathews
      @freddymathews Před 4 lety +48

      @@IBZGaming Nah, in terms of knowledge of paper 1 is the easiest.

    • @kny_fe
      @kny_fe Před 4 lety +20

      @@freddymathews It is I did all 3 papers for mocks, paper 1 was easiest imo

    • @louie_barwood2479
      @louie_barwood2479 Před 4 lety +13

      Lemonylimecat I done all 3 and got my lowest on paper 1. :/

    • @lukedavison3994
      @lukedavison3994 Před 4 lety +4

      @@louie_barwood2479 there is always the further maths paper

  • @Linda-uh7ry
    @Linda-uh7ry Před 4 lety +2552

    I was 15 when i sat my maths GCSE had over 20 more exams to do also . British education system is evil

    • @mothturtle7897
      @mothturtle7897 Před 4 lety +142

      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.

    • @scottsutton7
      @scottsutton7 Před 4 lety +44

      @@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

    • @Horrid57
      @Horrid57 Před 4 lety +9

      it isnt that bad

    • @professorharvey9783
      @professorharvey9783 Před 4 lety +3

      @@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.

    • @professorharvey9783
      @professorharvey9783 Před 4 lety +3

      You only really need 1 math A level on a cv oppose to a lib art degree + c grade gcse in math

  • @mirshathmohamed2814
    @mirshathmohamed2814 Před 2 lety +4

    46:39 Hey there! 9s and 8s are actually A* and 7s are an A. So good job!

  • @jinx2100
    @jinx2100 Před 2 lety +2

    Ooo... ... I think i did this maths paper as practice. The actual GCSE Paper 2 is tomorrow as well.
    Also the Higher paper 1 final question for this year was infamously difficult.

  • @Roseyyy748
    @Roseyyy748 Před 5 lety +4336

    When the dude with a Degree in maths is calling some bits challenging...feel sorry to the 15-16 year olds in England.

    • @CreevesPaladinsGuides
      @CreevesPaladinsGuides Před 5 lety +181

      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.

    • @thatguyben7754
      @thatguyben7754 Před 5 lety +62

      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

    • @vksepe
      @vksepe Před 5 lety +88

      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

    • @chelskaf
      @chelskaf Před 5 lety +19

      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💀😂

    • @TeddyBear-dh5tz
      @TeddyBear-dh5tz Před 5 lety +68

      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

  • @karinagalloway7125
    @karinagalloway7125 Před 4 lety +1957

    Anyone else cringing that he’s marking his test without a red pen 😖

  • @cheadamsthegoat4878
    @cheadamsthegoat4878 Před 2 lety +1

    The question at 13:00
    You can add up the ratios then do 72/the added ratios which is 12 so 72/12 = 6 then multiply all the ratios by 6

  • @dnataliesmith2209
    @dnataliesmith2209 Před 2 lety +2

    This brings back memories of my 11 year old nephew and 16 year old niece from the US visiting and when hit on different years and being shocked into thinking they were stupid kids. Guyanese school methodology is advance so at 11 my son was doing maths similar to this and drawing the brain, writing about the endocrine system. My niece had came to experience Guyana which meant going to high school. She'd already written SAT and gained over 2000 points but couldn't keep up in math class.

  • @crypt0g0ul75
    @crypt0g0ul75 Před 4 lety +683

    Then he realizes, he was sopposed to be silent when doing the exam otherwise they will rip your future in half.

    • @moonpriest8016
      @moonpriest8016 Před 4 lety +19

      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

    • @Josh-wp5tm
      @Josh-wp5tm Před 4 lety

      Supposed*

    • @crypt0g0ul75
      @crypt0g0ul75 Před 4 lety +3

      @@Josh-wp5tm fuck off grade 9 student

    • @andrewmccloud8581
      @andrewmccloud8581 Před 4 lety +1

      @@crypt0g0ul75 'soposed' holy shit mate

    • @ollie-ev8zm
      @ollie-ev8zm Před 4 lety

      Soposed.

  • @cli9941
    @cli9941 Před 4 lety +1596

    Americans: why are British kids so depressed
    The British education system: whooop I did it again

    • @Vivacomunismo
      @Vivacomunismo Před 4 lety +4

      The guy who commented below is right I went from Spain to English from the bottom of my Spanish maths class to the top of my English maths class it's so different

    • @QWERTYOP80
      @QWERTYOP80 Před 4 lety +4

      A tough maths test is better than being shot in the face

    • @felonii9315
      @felonii9315 Před 4 lety

      Tony Montana, above*

    • @MinecraftAndrewLoves
      @MinecraftAndrewLoves Před 4 lety +4

      @@felonii9315 he meant below the original comment genius

    • @woof1495
      @woof1495 Před 4 lety +1

      @@felonii9315 a yEaR 8 iS cORrEctiNg yoU

  • @addisonjudah
    @addisonjudah Před 2 lety

    Thank you CZcams for recommending me this, a few months before my maths GCSE. big selfconfidence boost 😅

  • @bananabrains4890
    @bananabrains4890 Před rokem

    i was looking at the questions in this and i had some of them in my mock last week

  • @lilac_rainclouds
    @lilac_rainclouds Před 4 lety +1455

    The number of marks he’s losing just for not writing the answer on the designated line is honestly funny to me

    • @bradiefuell9905
      @bradiefuell9905 Před 4 lety +16

      Omg yes 😂

    • @dronevideos1752
      @dronevideos1752 Před 4 lety +29

      You don’t need to put it in a line, there are no lines and they look at the worrking mostly😩👍

    • @crazyday3175
      @crazyday3175 Před 4 lety +52

      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.

    • @ninjashyper9059
      @ninjashyper9059 Před 4 lety +35

      @@dronevideos1752 your clearly not British
      In Britain e have a line that we have to write the answer on otherwise it's invalid

    • @crazygreenpotatoes53
      @crazygreenpotatoes53 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ninjashyper9059 such nonsense......... whyyy I'm from Ireland btww imm only in secondary junior cycle exams nxt yrrr we are already preparing

  • @rbd6290
    @rbd6290 Před 4 lety +1134

    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😭

    • @anthonystaines5849
      @anthonystaines5849 Před 4 lety +33

      RBD I’m crying and I still have 2 years before my GCSE’s

    • @clowd1e449
      @clowd1e449 Před 4 lety +23

      Fantom Fox23 fuck my gcses in 1 year I don’t know what IM DOING

    • @kawaiicat1416
      @kawaiicat1416 Před 4 lety +41

      I do GCSE in May/June. I still have no clue and spend my time in class pissing around. Imma fail

    • @clowd1e449
      @clowd1e449 Před 4 lety +2

      Kawaiicat 141 ahaha ggs only

    • @nathanielgiovanni9220
      @nathanielgiovanni9220 Před 4 lety +9

      Kawaiicat 141 Same and I’ll probably fail the November mocks aswell

  • @Stuck-In-aPlate
    @Stuck-In-aPlate Před 2 měsíci +3

    I love how he's taking a British GCSE, then complaining about the grading system. Like come on... America isn't the world standard and any deviation from that isn't "weird"

  • @abdullah_azzam
    @abdullah_azzam Před 29 dny +1

    Never thought I’d see my exams on a CZcams video like I would just joke around with myself so something like that but now it’s a reality….lol

  • @jennywood311
    @jennywood311 Před 5 lety +3444

    You forgot the stress of being 16, no talking, another 23 exams and people watching everything

    • @loulunaloopy6698
      @loulunaloopy6698 Před 5 lety +220

      Not to mention the essay subjects too, ughhhh what a pain that was :(

    • @jessgerrard9641
      @jessgerrard9641 Před 5 lety +92

      Omg yes !! It's so much harder than people give it credit for

    • @maireadhudson6523
      @maireadhudson6523 Před 5 lety +66

      jessica gerrard wait till y’all get to A Level enjoy your freedom whilst you can

    • @anaismiddleton5327
      @anaismiddleton5327 Před 5 lety +24

      Mairead Hudson literally a levels have RUINED ME

    • @evan
      @evan  Před 5 lety +89

      I think a couple people watched me do this

  • @hawradatoo6272
    @hawradatoo6272 Před 4 lety +2300

    Imagine someone like him struggling and then expecting us 15 and 16 year olds to do this😭

    • @user-ff8ty9yd1z
      @user-ff8ty9yd1z Před 3 lety +19

      hes not struggling he got an 8

    • @jonahfernandes3345
      @jonahfernandes3345 Před 3 lety +144

      @@user-ff8ty9yd1z hes a math major

    • @alexsmart2058
      @alexsmart2058 Před 3 lety +33

      He should try further maths lmfao

    • @Miracle643
      @Miracle643 Před 3 lety +38

      Add in rona and missing so many lessons and we r fucked😭😭

    • @alexanderodonnell988
      @alexanderodonnell988 Před 3 lety +10

      So much pressure for me cos I am supposed to be doing the higher paper for math

  • @squid16
    @squid16 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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

    • @gabriql
      @gabriql Před 4 měsíci

      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).

  • @user-ro7kt4te6p
    @user-ro7kt4te6p Před 2 lety

    Keep making videos !

  • @lewispage5937
    @lewispage5937 Před 4 lety +2783

    Put the answers in the bloody allocated areas!

    • @locketbrown2206
      @locketbrown2206 Před 3 lety +96

      I thought the same!! and he didnt write the units either!!!

    • @emmacheese6107
      @emmacheese6107 Před 3 lety +58

      In my school, if you don't it counts as if you didn't answer it

    • @groggers
      @groggers Před 3 lety +9

      ahahaha I was watching fuming

    • @thepage226
      @thepage226 Před 3 lety +3

      Fuck you

    • @thepage226
      @thepage226 Před 3 lety +2

      In the ass

  • @jamesmeekin3949
    @jamesmeekin3949 Před 3 lety +4671

    The GCSEs are way too difficult
    A-levels : allow me to introduce myself

    • @pumseyraid586
      @pumseyraid586 Před 3 lety +175

      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

    • @claraishungry501
      @claraishungry501 Před 3 lety +48

      @@pumseyraid586 I'm doing a levels in a few months. come on r they that bad :(

    • @cameronreay7154
      @cameronreay7154 Před 3 lety +71

      hunhungry compared to A-Levels, GCSE is a walk in the park. the ones i did are anyways

    • @hazzison1494
      @hazzison1494 Před 3 lety +74

      @@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

    • @eabhasheehan1994
      @eabhasheehan1994 Před 3 lety +6

      @@hazzison1494 Try the Leaving Cert 😫 Just had my maths Paper 1 today

  • @imSpirit_
    @imSpirit_ Před rokem +2

    Oh my god - this is the exact paper I sat for my 2018 GCSEs. I wouldn't know how to answer a thing now lol

  • @isabellerobinson7203
    @isabellerobinson7203 Před 2 lety

    Coming back to watch after getting my GCSE results

  • @nagitoez2532
    @nagitoez2532 Před 4 lety +830

    American: american tests are so hard
    British person: *hold my pen-*

    • @Isa_Mara
      @Isa_Mara Před 4 lety

      Nah but they are hard because they are from America like ppl in Spain find things easier in the UK they find the things that we find hard if yk what i mean

    • @nagitoez2532
      @nagitoez2532 Před 4 lety +22

      @@Isa_Mara ummmm i dont really understand what u just said

    • @tigersharkgaming8597
      @tigersharkgaming8597 Před 4 lety +18

      @@Isa_Mara you make 0 sense the education systems are different that's why if one country was to do another countries examination they will either struggle or succeed depending on how good the education system is

    • @mollie8108
      @mollie8108 Před 4 lety +5

      Tigershark Gaming 👏 THANK 👏 YOU 👏

    • @mrkidshot9927
      @mrkidshot9927 Před 4 lety +3

      Allow me to introduce indian tests

  • @oisinmcalinden6187
    @oisinmcalinden6187 Před 3 lety +7168

    God I wish this man was marking my tests, he was giving himself extra marks all over the place

    • @chocopieyoonie
      @chocopieyoonie Před 3 lety +55

      🤣

    • @alistairsanger3111
      @alistairsanger3111 Před 3 lety +300

      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.

    • @oisinmcalinden6187
      @oisinmcalinden6187 Před 3 lety +150

      @@alistairsanger3111 yes it takes away the real strictness of how the actual exams are marked

    • @navdhakumar7627
      @navdhakumar7627 Před 3 lety +69

      Agreed he gave himself extra marks everywhere

    • @theoneabovemost7865
      @theoneabovemost7865 Před 3 lety +15

      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

  • @hqs9585
    @hqs9585 Před 2 lety +2

    problem 19> Slope of perpendicular line is 2/3 (negative inverse) so b = (2/3)a +2.