Yeh we call it modular science cos thats what it says on the papers :p lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Katy
I loved my english today I wrote like 4 pages for my first question
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Yeh we call it modular science cos thats what it says on the papers :p lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Katy
I loved my english today I wrote like 4 pages for my first question
A* in first piece of History coursework, yay. Maths module on the 18th... I know... nothing! Whatever I get will be more to do with my mate than my teacher, lol. Science the following Monday, and it's Physics; great, not.
Had french listening this morning and found it really really easy
I had French listening today too, and I found it pretty easy too. I did the Foundation paper, what paper did you do?Quote:
Originally Posted by Abbie
I also had French Reading but I did Higher for that - I found it quite hard, but i think I may have possibly done ok..i will just have to wait and see!
I did Foundation
And I have my reading paper next friday
I did French Higher listening and it was hard :rolleyes:
And then had history this afternoon, went okay, apart from the fire bell being set off :angry: And i kind of rushed the last question but yeh was okay :)
The fire bell went off!!!
So did you have to leave the exam or anything?
No, because people at our school find it funny to set off fire bells, so if it goes off in an exam, then we stay there and a teacher goes to check if its real or not, if it ain't we stay were we are.
Some stupid year 10 did that during my AS English exam, Layne. We all knew it was fake, it always is, so we just carried on working. They gave us 10 minutes extra because of it. Not really the point though, its pretty pathetic to do it in any exam, let alone A Levels and GCSEs.
People like to do that at my school, as well. Only they would get us all out. In one exam, the inviglators let them carry on, because they knew it would be fake, especially as the new fire alarms don't even have the glass panel on. So the site manager found out and had a go at the person who first said everyone could stay there, and now we have to go outside.
I just hope it doesn't happen to me. Even if you do stay in there, it must put you off.
Got the Literature oral back today, I got an A :eek: Also was told about one of my Media coursework pieces, which was 2 marks off of full marks :eek:
People in our school have never set of the fire alarms, Im glad nothing has happened to disturb our exams, I panic enough as it is with the time limits
Yeah, people do that at my school aswell. 3 in one afternoon once, must be a some sort of record.
Glad all your French went well today :) I had History, was OK, easier than I thought it was going to be, bit rushed for time though. Only 3 left :D
Only 2 more GCSE exams to go for me, yay! The majority of my exams i think i've done ok in (apart from French Reading!) just got Business Studies and one more science module left to do and then i'm done!
Had science today...so hard! only foodtech to go now! On the 22nd! so I've got...hmm...like two weeks till it haha...but still, Yay :D
Had science today, it was okay and now I just have one more exam left :D
it seems everyones finishing there exams, A2s have quite a while. All feel sorry for me. Exam on my 18th Birthday.
We had a german listening and some plank legged it down the corridor screaming it was pretty funny seeing how much commotion he caused the teachers were going bananas.
We also had to spend 4 hours on the tennis courts and playing fields during the GCSE period when i was in year 9 due to someone who didnt want to sit there exam phoning up and saying there was a bomb in school. It was like something out of the bill. There plan didnt work, they all moved into the school next door and had to sit it there, while we had a mass football match on the field. It was great,
I know that really isn't funny but at least its original :rotfl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Katy
I have my last exam on birthday which is my 16th birthday
haha, so did i i. My Graphics GCSE was on my 16th and My Law A2 was on my 18th. What a conincidence, well not really just unlucky.
At least its the last one though Abs, party time afterwards.
My last exam tomorrow :D I'm so happy! Wasn't too impressed with Science today though, got a bit stuck on some parts. Hopefully History will be ok tomorrow then its all over :D Hope everyones exams are going okay :D
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Originally Posted by Layne
lucky for you you didnt have to go outside but i bet it must have been distracting! people always used to set the fire alarms off in my school and when i was in about year 8 it was set off in an exam, i remember all the people sitting the exam standing on the field really apart from each other lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Layne
3 exams left. Wooooooo :)
Had history paper 2 - which went rather well
& Business Studies - which again was okay
today.
My exams are finished!!! :cheer: I'm so happy! I'm just going to be nervous until results day now lol.
I had History Paper 2 today, which was better than I thought it was going to be, we seemed to have a couple of the questions that we'd had on our mocks so it was ok.
I had my final exam today. I'm so glad my exams are finished! I just have to nervously await the results day in August now!
FINSHED - YAY :cheer:
Last one today and it was a written drama one, i felt it went okay, i love drama so i tried :p!!
Yay I finished on friday I found the french reading hard but I could stop smiling cos it was my birthday and I think my happy good mood help me get through the exam :p
Results day next week! Anyone starting to panic? I'm so nervous, evertime someone mentions it I get butterflies! Good luck to everyone whos getting results :)
I am getting quite excited actually...excitement mixed with nerves, i'm just curious over what i have..i've been thinking of it more and more over the past few days...on the day, i think i'll be a bag of nerves though. What does everyone think they are gonna get? Good luck to everyone else getting results too! :)
I get my AS results this Thursday. I'm so worried, as my target grades are so high (three Bs). I completely failed my Jan exams (one E and two Us) so I'm really scared that I've failed this time.
I shouldn't worry much about GCSEs. I missed most of year 11 and didn't revise much and I still got top grades (I have no idea how I managed that, wish it would work for AS).
Good luck everyone and remember, it's not the end of the world if you don't get what you hoped for. As long as you know you did your best in the exams then nobody can ask anymore of you.
Good luck Jelly Belly - can't you resit your AS anyway if you don't do as well as expected?
I can resit AS either one module in a subject which wouldn't be too bad or the whole course which means that I won't be able to do the A2 in September. I know I'm going to get a low grade in Business because I got an E in Jan and didn't resit it in June. And I'll be shocked if I get anything above a D inQuote:
Originally Posted by DaVeyWaVey
Biology, I just don't understand any of it.
Question to fellow SBer's who have passed thier GCSE's..
1)Do you remember what you got in you mocks (especially Maths) and then what you got for the real thing?
2)How did you achieve your grades and how did you study?
3)Did you go tution?
4)Did you go for extra classes within school?
Thank-you :)
1) C and C
2) I have no idea and I didn't :p
3) no
4) no
1. I got the exact same grades in my mocks and in my real GCSEs. I got a C in Maths.Quote:
Originally Posted by .:SpIcYsPy:.
2. I studied by looking at my exam timetable and revising a week before my exams (about 1-3 hours a day leading up too it)..and I revised by making notes and looking through exercise books, looking through past papers. (rereading my set texts for English). I rarely used any revision guides.
...and no to the last 2 questions.
1. I didn't do my mocks but I got my target grades. My friends who did mocks got on average two grades higher in their real exams.Quote:
Originally Posted by .:SpIcYsPy:.
2. I didn't bother revising.
3. No
4. Yes, about three.
1) I got mainly B's in my mocks, if i remember correctly. I got DD in science, because i failed the Physics part. And i got a C in maths. In the real thing, i got 6 As and 5 Bs (BB in science, A in Maths). So i did a lot better in my real thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by .:SpIcYsPy:.
2) I got my grades by working hard in lessons towards the end of the year, and asking lots of questions. I barely revised at home.
3) No, its too expensive for what you get. Not worth it.
4) No
1) I got like just a C in my mocks and I mean barely a C and then I got an A in the real thingQuote:
Originally Posted by .:SpIcYsPy:.
2) I just went over and over the stuff and really paid attention in class :p I did a lot of past papers and at home when through my revsion guides and remember the key points on certain methods and subjects. In the exam if there was a question when I wasnt sure I just tried anything I could think of that was realvent to try and work it out.
3) No
4) Not really but when we were on study leave I did go to the extra maths classes where we did past papers and then before the scond paper we had a class as we could work out what would appear on the paper
1) erm got A* for maths in both and i think i got pretty much the same in my mocks as i did in the real things (apart from for RE, which went up from a D to an A!) in the real thing i got 2 A*s, 7 As and 3 Bs and got roughly As and Bs in my mocks i thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by .:SpIcYsPy:.
2) didnt really study much, did the past papers and exercises in class, and started revising for the real thing a day or 2 before if that!
3) No
4) Only once for statistics cos that was an extra thing and we hadnt learnt it in class, only stayed for about 10mins though!
although saying this, its different for everyone. i might have done better if id actually revised properly and went to extra classes but i just couldnt be bothered at the time! also remember that your final grade is made up of your cw marks as well as your exams so your grades will probably differ from those you got for your mocks cos of this
After you have done your GCSEs and moved on to A levels nobody asks you what grades you got at GCSE. As long as you got at least a C in English and Maths nobody is bothered about the rest. Just make sure that you pass in English and Maths and don't stress too much.
I only have five GCSEs. I missed the whole of year 11 and did no revision at all and got 2 As and 3 Bs. Nobody has ever asked me about them since I started my A levels.
that isnt strictly true. to get my place at uni, i had to have 5 gcse at grade A - C, 3 of those had to be english, maths and science. also (i think i said this in another thread) some of the top unis, especially oxbridge, will look at your gcse and they will be looking for all As at least. and youd normally put your gcse on your CV so although employers will look at your other qualifications first (ie. your degree and/or alevels) they will still know what your gcse were so obviously the better the grades the better. so yes if you do really badly in your gcse its not the end of the world but obviously its best to work hard and get good gradesQuote:
Originally Posted by Abigail