GCSE English Mock Exam - Self-Evaluation Form for Learners

Many learners do a mock exam, receive their grade and react accordingly. The reaction, however, is often short-lived and they quickly move on to something else. This form has been designed to encourage a period of self-reflection on their GCSE English mocks. I developed it because I found that although many of my students could answer the question “Why do we do mock exams?”, a large number of them could not fully answer this one: “How will you use your mock exam to improve your future performance?”.

In other words, I got the impression that many of them thought that mock exams were wholly or solely a tool for teachers. This form, I hope, encourages learners to reflect more on their mock exam performance and to use that reflection to move towards doing better next time.

As such there are rather a lot of questions – and I am quite happy for you to adapt this form to suit your own learners. I hope it’s “good to go” for most English GCSE situations.

Plus, if you are reading this as a student, hope that you could even use it independently of your teacher in order to create an overview of how you did and what can be improved.

The questions are split in to three sections – before, during and after the exam. In this way I hope I have caught the three important processes for successful exam performance. However, as I have indicated above, please feel free to adapt. I would be grateful, if you do, to indicate any changes in the comments below – these will help me to reflect on the form itself and to improve upon it.