GCSE & Exam revision tips!

Hello to you!

As you may know, I am currently in year 10 therefore I am currently doing some of my GCSE's. In my school, we started some of our GCSE's last year - weird, I know. So far I have currently done exams and controlled assessments in English, French, Science, History, Art, Hospitality BTEC and Drama. (The reason I only have Hospitality at BTEC is because I did it last year and BTEC was the only option. Catering GCSE is available for people this year and I put it as my first choice, but it was a very popular choice so I am doing Art this year instead...i'm not very good at Art, but it has actually been quite good so far! Anyway, i'm going off topic very quickly. I'm going to give you some tips for mostly 5 core lessons.

English

Now in English, you tend to write essays and controlled assessments. In my past exams I have gotten A's and A*'s, and i'm not quite sure how to be honest! All I can say is if you are allowed a plan (which you are in most essays/controlled assessments), make sure you only use the key things you will need as you cannot make it too detailed. In our school we use PEEE (take a moment to laugh at that), which stands for Point/Evidence/Explanation/Exploration. (*Your main point*...we know this because...this shows...this ALSO shows...etc etc.) Basically just try to make sure your plan is understandable to you! Also in the exam, make sure you make everything detailed and analyzed without going off subject too much. ALWAYS RELATE BACK TO THE QUESTION!

Science

With science, it's pretty straightforward. Make sure you think of key words and learn the definitions, use kerboodle, samlearning, BBC Bitesize...(sorry I realize these websites won't be very useful if you don't live in Britain). I watched a lot of science based youtube videos as they were like tutorials for learning about the specific subject you were stuck on! (I.E. osmosis, velocity and time graphs, organelles, etc) Keep flashcards for writing down equations, make booklets with each specific subject to a page...just write down as much info as you can!

French

For essays and assessments, this is easy. Learn it sentence by sentence. This may sound boring and ridiculously slow, but it works! Take each paragraph and break it down sentence by sentence, and highlight each part you find hard to remember. This means in the exam, you will be able to remember the words you keep forgetting and you will have slowly started to remember the order of sentences! If this doesn't work, think of what you say in English (obviously not long and complicated sentences, keep it simple) and write it down in French! Hey presto, better grades.

History

3 things for history. Structure your draft essay, back up every point with evidence, and always relate what you write back to the question. If you do this with your draft or plan, your grade will increase easily. Just remember, structure/evidence/relate back to question! If you keep that in your mind during the exam, you're sorted!

So I hope you found this useful! If there are any other lessons you need revision tips in, let me know in the comments and I will either update this post or write it up in the comments! Thanks for reading, hope this will help you with your exam revision, and good luck!

xo

MUA Eyeshadow Palette Review - Glamour Days

Hello to you!

I would like to apologise in advance as I am aware the photo quality is shocking here - unfortunately I don't have my camera/iPhone on me right now, so I had to take these pictures with my iPod. I'm sure you'll get the idea of the colours and such anyway!

Today i'm reviewing the MUA 'Glamour Days' Eyeshadow Palette. I bought this a while back for £2 I think, and you can probably tell it's a bit used up! I promise to take some better pictures as soon as I can. I'd like to point out that I am very disorganised and a while back I lost the eyeshadow brush that came with this palette, so I am using a much smaller one in its place. Woops.

I love this eyeshadow palette as it has a mix of bright to neutral colours, and they are all very pigmented. It's really easy to apply and the colours last pretty much throughout the whole day! Very rarely do I find an eyeshadow palette which I will want to buy again, but with MUA, I think it's really good quality for a bargain price!

Although it stays on for most of the day, it is fairly easy to remove which I like. This is really useful because if you change your mind a lot, you can switch between colours really quickly and simply!

Overall, I really like this eyeshadow palette and I will definitely be trying out some more from the MUA collection. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed this quick review! If you like any other products from MUA or want to see another review of their products, let me know in the comments! :)

xo

My Bucket List

Hello to you!

So in the past few days I have been having a quarter life crisis as I am already about 1/5 through my life yet I don't feel I have done anything remotely different to anyone else. This got me thinking about what I want to have done by the time I die, so I made a list of over 100 things that I would like to do! Some of them I have already 'ticked off' using this: /

So here is my bucket list ladies and gentlemen, I hope it will give you some inspiration to start one yourself - or add some more to your list! (If you really don't know what to do for your own list, feel free to copy and paste mine and tick off what you have done so far!) Obviously mine is personalised to me so they will be different from your own, but it should give you some thoughts about it. Enjoy!

My Bucket List:

My plan is to write all of these down in a notebook, and take a picture when each thing happens!

1. Reach 100 subscribers on youtube
2. Bungee Jump
3. Skydive
4. Go to Africa and do volunteer work
5. Get a saturday job
6. Go to 3 new festivals
7. Stop biting nails
8. Go on TV /
9. Meet Ed Sheeran /
10. Contact a youtuber /
11. Write 100 blogposts
12. Get an A* in school /
13. Go to University
14. Buy a macbook
15. Buy a fancy camera
16. Be part of a flash mob /
17. Learn more makeup techniques
18. Inspire somebody
19. Create a happy jar
20. Get another piercing
21. Buy new makeup online
22. Buy something from Dollybowbow
23. Make a cheesecake by myself
24. Raise £100 for charity
25. Go deep sea diving
26. Have children
27. Dye my hair 5 different colours
28. Hit 1000 followers on instagram
29. Do the splits again /
30. Get hair extensions
31. Learn to juggle /
32. Make a mermaid tail
33. Overcome 3 fears
34. Grow fruit/vegetables
35. Write a letter to my idol
36. Make a scrapbook
37. Tell the truth for a whole day
38. Own a pet /
39. Meet Lianne La Havas
40. Meet Lauren Aquilina
41. Customise my own clothes
42. Go to New York
43. Buy my own house/flat
44. Get a job in medicine/media
45. Get braces
46. Spend time in Italy
47. Get "Life" top. Hand out lemons.
48. Read "The fault in our stars"
49. Ride a hot air balloon
50. Give out free hugs
51. Write a song
52. Learn to play guitar
53. Go to Vidcon
54. Complete a New Year's Resolution /
55. Contact Chris Lilley
56. Read 100 books in a year
57. Sign an autograph /
58. Live in my dream interior design
59. Be vegan for a week
60. Meet Jenna Marbles
61. Jump into a pool fully clothes
62. Learn to drive
63. Own more than 10 bags
64. Stay up all night with friends /
65. Write to Carrie Fletcher
66. Get a tattoo (?)
67. Have epic water fight
68. Have a bath in a bin /
69. Say yes to everything for one whole day
70. Go paintballing /
71. Pour milk on Oreos
72. Meet Nina Nesbitt
73. Have a silly string fight
74. Go on an awesome rollercoaster
75. Get drunk /
76. Complete a loyalty card /
77. Stick with a bucket list
78. Vlog a video of my whole day
79. Live with a best friend
80. Build a blanket fort
81. Get talent spotted /
82. Buy grocery shopping myself
83. Learn to drive
84. Go on the radio
85. Learn 10 new recipes
86. Own whiteboard 'To Do' list
87. Have a least 5 piercings
88. Pass my maths GCSE
89. Get in a fight with someone /
90. Buy 3 of the same beauty products as Zoella
91. Have a university packing list put into action
92. See Madness live /
93. Donate blood
94. Grow out shaved hair side
95. Go to an art exhibition
96. Pass all GCSE's with C's and up
97. Eat an entire pizza
98. Play spin the bottle
99. Knit a scarf
100. Go a whole day without screens
101. Adopt a turtle
102. Buy a homeless person a full meal
103. No TV for a week
104. Have a picnic in the park
105. Audition for BGT in front of Simon Cowell
106. Make my own earrings
107. Go on holiday with friends
108. Milk a cow /
109. Print out instagram pictures
110. Make a birthday cake for a best friend

So I hope you enjoyed reading my bucket list and maybe learning a bit more about me, maybe in the future I will do an updates version of this list! Yesterday I came across my old bucket list on a scrumpled piece of paper ripped from a school book, so I will make sure inread that later and see the similarities. Let me know what you thought about my list, and tell me a few things you want to do in the comments!

(p.s, help me complete number 1 on the list by subscribing to my youtube channel! - http://m.youtube.com/user/LottieRa2197?feature=guide yay!)

Thanks for reading!

xo

Why I Am Still Immature...

Well hello to you!

Lovely weather today, isn't it?

Wrong. It's frickin freezing. Anywaaaay, today I realized how immature I actually am.

"Whaaaat," I hear you shout from the back row of the cinema?

Well. I already knew I was immature, but after hearing stories about the 3 year old my mum works with sometimes...I realized how similar to that child. Except from the fact I am 15 years old...oh dear.

WELL the main point of this post wasn't to talk about my similarities to a 3 year old, it's about this:

Why is being immature a bad thing? Technically I am not even an adult until i'm 18 (or 21 for all you sexy Americans out there) and once I am an adult, I can no longer get away with the socially awkward things I do every day! Just to name a few...

• Tripping over a cone with the same foot about 4 times before falling down
• Attaching spoons to magnets in restaurants
• Walking into doors
• Dancing in the school corridors when you think nobody is watching
• Singing in class
• Making faces at myself in the mirror

Um, yeah. I probably sound like I am 'special' now...would you believe me if I told you I used to be the smartest person in my class?

Didn't think so. I actually was, and I am still in all the top groups in year 10 but I still haven't grown up! Is there something wrong with me? Or do I just act how other people wish they could without being judged? I guess i'll never know. I mean, there are girls in my year with loads of piercings, wear ridiculous footwear and spend hours on their hair, boys that get drunk every weekend and smoke weed, and i'm just sat here like CATS LOL

What is my life though?! I find myself saying this about 40 times in a lesson while scrolling on tumblr under the table and fangirling over Danisnotonfire and Amazingphil in suits. To be honest, I quite like the fact that I am still so immature..I think I get away with it more than most people would because I am small, and easily mistaken for a 12-13 year old. I AM 16 THIS YEAR BUT I STILL CAN'T EVEN GET INTO 15 MOVIES AT THE CINEMA! How depressing.

Does anyone else feel the same way as me? Is anyone else reading this and totally relating? I'm almost 1000% sure I am not the only person who thinks like this.

I would just like to add, even though I am immature I still have those deep philosophical thoughts in my brain about the universe and everything...just because I am immature doesn't mean I am stupid! :)

Hope you liked this post, please let me know if you feel the same way - if you do then HI, join my blog and we can have awesome discussions on this! Ok, this page feels kind of empty so i'll leave you with a cat picture and a quote. 

 LOL

xo

A quick vegetarian recipe!

Ok, I don't normally post recipes and cooking stuff but this is probably the simplest recipe in the whole world. It's a vegetarian tomato sauce for pasta! You could probably use the sauce for other things as well, but I eat a ridiculous amount of pasta so it seemed rather appropriate for this recipe. So this is what you do:

What you need

Tin Chopped tomatoes
Tbsp Tomato Puree
Pinch of Salt
Tsp Herbs
(Tsp Sugar optional)
One Onion (chopped)
Splash of Olive Oil

 Salt (This is a herb salt - just being fancy, any kind of salt will do)

 Herbs - Basil/Parsley/Rosemary or even black pepper - whatever you have available to you!

 Tomato puree - ketchup will do if you don't have any.

A tin of chopped tomatoes!

Garlic or onion - whatever you have or what you prefer :)
Equipment

A pan
A spoon
Knife
Grater


Steps

1. Heat olive oil in pan and add chopped onion. Cook until soft, not burnt.

 2. Add chopped tomatoes to pan.

 2.5. This isn't necessarily a step, just a good tip. Fill about a quarter of the empty tomato tin with water, swoosh around and add to the tomato sauce. Cleans the tin and adds to the sauce!

 2.5a. It doesn't matter if you add a bit too much water - it will evaporate away when you boil it.

 3. Add tomato puree/tomato ketchup. About a tablespoonful depending on how much flavour you want to add.

 4. Add cup of herbs to sauce.

 5. Yum yum yumsies.

 6. Add a pinch of salt to sauce.

 7. Yum yum yumsies x2.

 8. Stir and bring to the boil - once it is boiling, lower the heat and keep it simmering.

 9. If you have an electric oven, turn it to about 2. Otherwise, just keep it on a low heat. :)

10. Stir again, and put lid on to make sure the sauce doesn't dry out.

11. Keep the sauce cooking for as long as you like, the longer you leave it the more the flavours will be brought out! I would suggest around 20 minutes if you want the taste but don't want to wait around for ages.

The thing that is great about this recipe is you don't have to worry about timings. Don't rush to put on the pasta or sort things out, just relaaaaaax for as long as you like! When you think the sauce is cooking nicely, cook the pasta and grate some cheese. Once the pasta is cooked, add the sauce and mix until it looks delicious. Sprinkle some cheese on top and BAM you have a simple but delicious meal ready! :)

I love this recipe so much because you barely need any culinary skills to do it ;) I would definitely recommend to anyone and everyone, unless you have a tomato allergy...if you do then please don't try this! Also, if you don't wanna hang around waiting for it to cook, this is the best part - you don't have to. Once all the ingredients are together, you can serve it straight away! The only reason you might want to leave it for longer is because some people like all the flavours blended together, but it doesn't really matter that much.

Thanks for reading! Have you ever tried this recipe before? What are YOUR favourite recipes? Comment or leave a link below, I would love to read some!

xo