From deleting social media to doing more than 200 past papers: How UAE students prepared for their GCSEs

From deleting social media to doing more than 200 past papers: How UAE students prepared for their GCSEs

Students from the UAE shone with many schools marking a 100% pass rate

Published: Thu 24 Aug 2023, 2:52 PM

From deleting social media to being active to doing over 200 past papers, UAE students took several measures to ensure success at the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination.

For Henry Fliss, who scored nine grade 9s and one grade 8 in his GCSE exams, one of the most important things when preparing for his exams was focus. To help with that, he briefly deleted all his social media accounts. “The phone can be quite a distraction so during some periods when it got really intense, I deleted everything so I could focus,” he said.

The Brighton College Dubai student was one of the thousands across the country to get their GCSE results on Thursday. Students from the UAE shone with many schools marking a 100% pass rate.

Meanwhile for Kazakh student Dilmukhammed Galin of GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail, the most important thing during his exam period was to stay active and pray regularly. “I was doing boxing and wrestling classes at my gym all throughout my exam period,” he said. “It would be impossible for me to study every minute of the