u/Certain-Top7545

I have spent 12 hours yesterday revising for English, and it has drained me so much, and I just about finished 2 themes in Macbeth, and now revising for other subjects just feels like a reward.

I absolutely loathe revising English, it genuinely makes me suffer, and when doing tests, I am stuck on a grade 5 and I just want to give up. I am a very slow writer and have got little improvement since year 1, and my mind becomes completely blank 60% of the time and when I think I've done well, I just perform worse, especially with poetry. I can't even plan 1 full paragraph in 15 minutes and think of a good thesis and point for a character or theme. At most, I can identify techniques and make basic comments, and that's just about it. I just want a grade 6 at this point, as it is now impossible for me to get an 8, making no major improvements at all.

Almost every time I look at this sub, I have seen people post apparently leaked papers on discord servers. These are very fake and can be easily seen by typos/misspelling, covering of exam code, different barcodes, or the code under barcode takes you to a paper of a different year by googling it, or poorly formatted text. However, some people have fallen in this trap, and the problem may be escalated further as their exams may be disqualified (potentially for the whole exam board.) due to searching for these leaked papers, regardless if it is fake or not. Furthermore, these sellers may not even be doing A-Levels/GCSEs and are just profiting by selling these papers; and even if you did hold access to a real paper, sharing it would lead to huge trouble, which shows these sellers have a lack of understanding of the regulations set by Ofqual regarding leaked papers.