The Pantophile

A Guide to Smashing Year 10 Dear readers and fellow lovers of things, I go to a school in England in which my GCSE course began officially in Year 10 giving me the chance to pursue subjects that I had selected myself alongside those that were necessary. Year 10 appealed to me as the year when things would ‘get real’. The year when my responsibilities as a student would heighten, the year that yearned for more work and revision and the year in which I would do what I love, the subjects that I loved and any extracurriculars that I already had loved. The latter appealed to me the most but I was very happy to enter Year 10 knowing what to do, or at least having an idea of what to do. Year 10 has had its challenges, as every year does, but I hope to pass on some lessons that I have learnt in the past few years that may guide you in the future. This blog post is a bit long but it essentially covers these points: 1. Build good foundations before year 10. 2. Revise. 3. You don’t have to be the...