All the best, Hollie, good luck :)
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All the best, Hollie, good luck :)
Don't worry about it; this boy on my bus did about an hour's revision for History and got a C. If you have a sources paper it's pretty easy to blag. It's surprising how much the sources remind you of too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hollie-x
Yeah i'm feeling okay about the sources one, but we recently changed exam board and so we have another one to do which is completely different. i revised for aggggges for our mock and ended up being able to answer one question cos my mind went completely blank!
but we've been doing exam techniques and that is class so i should be okay this time!
I must have been the only one who hated exam technique in class
oh my days, boring much?!
our history teacher is so funny and he goes the other day; of all the time i've spent teaching you i'd say you are finding today the most boring lesson ever!
we was like omg yeah!
i hateeeee it. and they was trying to get me to go to this exam technique presentation thingio tomorrow afternoon but i went to our KS4 head and told him i wasn't going 'cos i didn't wanna miss our two hour session of science! i find it sooo pointless
Good luck to all who are sitting exams over the next few weeks.
good luck hollie and anyone else doing their gcses :)
I'm not that keen. And Economics data response technique in classQuote:
Originally Posted by Abbie
:ninja:
First exam on friday - for drama. and i'm not nervous in the slightest, last year i would have been but taking drama has helped in my confidence soooo much. and other people have noticed it too :D.
well, Good luck :)
Good luck Hollie. I'm sure you'll be fine.
How did it go Hollie?
Really well thankyou :D
i wasn't even nervous which is realllly not like me! although i nearly didn't make it to school; got in the car at 20 to 9 and it wouldn't start, the battery had gone! so got a taxi and got to school at 5 to but luckily we didn't have to start till half 9 and we were on first so it was all good :D
RE and maths on monday. Fun times!
Eek, hope your school isn't too far away.
Don't forget to take a protractor to your Maths exam like I did! They had to lend me one of those 180 degree ones and I can't use them for the life of me.
arent the 180 degree ones the normal ones? :confused:
I use the 360 degree ones lol.
oh right, even at school?
Yeah the blue full circle ones.
Yep, don't forget your calculator either. If it's anything like my maths GCSE you'll finish it in 20 mins.
Good luck, glad they've been ok so far. Do your best, don't stress, exams aren't the end of the world.
Are you going to do A levels after?
Yeah, I think Maths is actually the only subject they give too much time for. I finished 10-15 minutes early and I never usually have time to check anything and sometimes don't even finish.
No luckily my school is quite near.
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Originally Posted by Abigail
yeah, i'm doing a level human biology, psychology, socialology + ict :D
Good luck with A level biology :p If you do Edexcel there's a lot of course content. Keep on top of it or you'll not understand some of the later modules and A2 work. I passed it at AS but failed at A2. I hated it.
I have noooo idea which exam board it's gonna be with yet, hope fully not that one ha. I get on really well with my biology teacher at school and she's said if there's any times that I can't get to see my teacher when i'm doing at college i.e we're on holiday but school is still open then I can go see her anytime I want which i'm extremely grateful for! Cos she's done a levels and a degree in it :D.
Plus I really enjoy doing biology and i find that in the lessons I love I do get good grades, but maybe it'll be different at college :/ I hope not!
Biology at GCSE is completely different to at A level :D I'm not trying to put you off, just giving you a heads up that it's not easy.
Yep I do it and its hard you need to work a lot
No, i'm glad you have told me! At least it gives me some idea of what to expect. I got a letter through this morning about a new student day on June 25th but i've just realised that I can't go because it's the same day as promQuote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
:( and I need all day cos i've got appointments booked and that. Plus on the letter it has what subjects i've chosen and it says if they are wrong or you have changed your mind to cross them out and write what you actually want to do and it says:
AS Human Biology
AS Biology
AS Applied ICT
AS Psychology
I was like :O noooooo not both biologies lmao. would be pointless anyway so i dunno how they've got mixed up. and i've changed the applied ICT cos i did actually put just ICT on my application and at my interview she wrote applied ICT for some reason :S
Thats odd that they do both biologys, my college only does the one
Some schools/colleges only do Applied courses in some subjects. The ICT is applied at my school, and I do Applied Business because they don't do normal business. Other than having crazy amounts of coursework there's not that big a difference.
Ooo, i'm glad N+CC do both, I absolutely hate all the parts about plants and that in biology; one word - BORING. well for me anyway lol.
Ahh i've just checked in the college prospectus and they do both, it says that the applied ICT is more on the media side and graphics and that which I do have an interest in but i'd rather do just ICT.
Spending all day today revising for our first RE exam which is tomorrow; got an email off my RE teacher with some stuff she was sending me to revise from and i'm glad she did because i've just read it and didn't know half of it before. We've had loads of disruptions with our lessons since year ten, our proper teacher Mrs Thompson went on maternity leave last March and only came back this march, then the teacher we had this year instead of Mrs Thompson got pregnant but she went into early labour and the baby died so she's had loads of time off, so through no fault of anybodies we've missed quite a lot of stuff; thank god for study leave is all I can say, we're going in on the days we would normally be timetabled for that lesson so we can get back on track! And with being at a Catholic school we he have to have 3 hours of RE a week so we've got a lot to do!
I did the one with plants *falls asleep* Transpiration, phloem, xylem, parenchyma, companion cells... couldn't have been more boring.
The first module on Edexcel is cells. Right down to micro organelles, ATP synthesis, ADP and loads of other stuff that I never understood :p
It's not an easy subject.
Ohh sounds fun lmao.
Ahh i'm into the cells part :D is the ATP in that something-triphosphate? about energy. i remember doing something about that with the equations in anaerobic and aerobic respiration and that
Yeah I did the same at Abigail
Im resitting that first module on cells, I dont mind some of it :)
yeah you do that in the second yearQuote:
Originally Posted by Hollie-x
Adenosine tri phosphate. It's an amino acid with three phosphate molecules (I think, don't quote me on it :p).
Have a look at the modules for all the exam boards.
That's the one lol I never ever can remember the first word lmao. They were the first things we did this year, but obviously not in as much detail as you will have done lol.
Ahh thanks for that link :D
i always found french was a subject they gave way too much time for, i always finished in about half the time!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim
glad your drama exam went well hollie and good luck with the rest :) and like abbie and abigail have said be prepared to work hard in alevel biology it is so difficult and such a huge step up from gcse
RE exam today was fair easy :D although went to see my RE teacher at the end of the day and she said it was the hardest one they'd had in 8 years - so I then thought I might have done it wrong, but I told her most of my answers and they were right! phew. Luckily all the stuff she was emailing me with yesterday wasn't on it and she came over to me twice during the exam and asked how if I was okay which I thought was ded sweet and also possibly not allowed lmao.
Maths - i'm doing foundation anyways which really winds me up seeing as I was in set one last year - but I found that eeeeeeeasy. started at 1:35 and finished at 5 past one - with nearly an hour left.
English Lit + ICT tomorrow ):
I take it you mean 5 past 2 lmao!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hollie-x
ooooops. lmao yeah I did ha.
English lit today was okayy, although our teacher went it's time you moved onto the poems now - i hadn't even compared the second story! So I had to rush through that. Then ICT this afternoon was easy, I finished with an hour to spare so I was just sat there laughing because we got told yesterday that the teachers all play a game with the invidulators and that where they say a question to each other eg, who has the best hair, who is most like to.... and then they have to go and stand next to that person! So I just laughed today whenever someone stood next to someone for ages.