Leaning Kanji don’t have to be overwhelming! Even though thousands of them exist, they are almost all some combination of the 214 radicals. Learn the radicals and you can learn the kanji. The process of learning the kanji will still be long, but there is a system behind them that can ...
“The last of the good guys” is what my drama teacher at school called me with a smile in my last lesson just before my GCSEs. I think I got a C in drama and did a lot better in English and English Literature as well as other subjects. My dad was an English teacher. He had ...
I felt this encapsulated the mental image of the negative voices in my head, and how they left me feeling. And when others were coining phrases for the voices in their heads, this is the one I settled on. It also helps with the analogy throughout the book of how to go about killing ...
She commented “I wasn’t too nervous this morning but when I got to school and saw everyone I felt the nerves come on. I’m so relieved to get my grades and going to study Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and Physics.” Bethany Fenn, who received 10 GCSEs at grades 8/9 or A*, ...
I have a GCSE in biology and I’ve been married for a long time. Of course, by the time I met my wife she had all of this sorted out, and neatly, privately hidden away. With my daughters, I was watching them learn how to manage for the first time. This time the mirror showed ...
The copious numbers of school parties around me in the stalls underlines its continued relevance and its established place on the list of texts for English Literature GCSE. George Rowlands shone as the young, troubled son Eric, a nicely observed and crafted portrayal, with admirable control....
Whoops, I have now realised why I got a D in maths atGCSEgrade. I said that I have lost 40lb to get to 15st 2lb and I have not. This is a shame but not the end of the world and it was a genuine mistake. I started at 17st 9lb and have thus lost 2 stone and 7 lb. I...
quotes that you normally hear such as ‘it’s not somebody you can live with, it’s somebody you can’t live without, there are some great quotes out there if you look hard enough. Just one for each speech as you don’t want it to become some sort of English Literature GCSE essay....
What about lost boys from a slightly better economic background? They end up incubating their sadness with technology, namely porn and video games. This anaesthetises them, it allows them to forget their lowly, drab existence and provides a false sense of achievement. In reality, they’re not...
Council-estate dwellers, Sun readers, people who didn’t get good GCSE results (which is primarily an indicator of class, not stupidity): they rose up, they tramped to the polling station, and they said no to the EU. It was like a second peasants’ revolt, though no pitchforks this ...