Kim they are bloody amazing grades, seriously i think id be shouting from the rooftops right now if id of got anything like that haha! well done to everyone else aswell! :) cant believe its been 3 year since i got mine, dunno where the times gone!
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Kim they are bloody amazing grades, seriously i think id be shouting from the rooftops right now if id of got anything like that haha! well done to everyone else aswell! :) cant believe its been 3 year since i got mine, dunno where the times gone!
thanks for that, that was so funny! cant believe one of them didnt get anything right!Quote:
Originally Posted by Abi
yeh they do change cos i think they can only have a certain amount of people that got the high grade. in my year it was 20% for a C and 80% for an A*, cant believe this year it was only 65% for an A*, i didnt realise the grade boundaries changed that much!Quote:
Originally Posted by AbigailWell done :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Grade boundaries change every year depending on how people did on the paper. I think it was 25% for a C when I did my maths GCSE. The paper wasn't that hard though :hmm:
same, i cant believe its been 4yrs since i did mine. i wonder how much i can actually remember from all my subjects lol?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris_2k7
you should do the subjects you enjoy the most and that you want to do rather than the ones you got the best grades in. obviously it wouldnt be a good idea to do a subject that you got a really bad grade in but your lowest grade was a B so you could pick any of the subjects to do. i got 2 A*s in my gcses, 1 in maths and 1 in business studies, i only took maths for alevel and not business studies cos i didnt want to do business studies. if you wanna do english lit then do it, youre more likely to get a good grade in a subject you want to doQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Don't worry about that! I did 3 A2s, and...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim
English - GCSE (A), A Level (B)
Politics - Didn't do it at GCSE, but in History i got (A), A Level (B)
ICT - GCSE (BB), A Level (A)
So the two i did better in the subject i got an B in, lmao!
It wasn't 65%. I did Edexcel B Spec and it was out of 600. We were told the boundaries before the exams so that we'd know how many UMS we needed from the final papers to get a particular grade. 560 was an A*, so that's 90%. Which makes sense, as when you took it they wouldn't have had D grade questions in higher. No idea where the 26% came from for the radio DJ's to get a C; I looked up the boundary for C on the syllabus I did and it was 360/600.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marcoyeh they do change cos i think they can only have a certain amount of people that got the high grade. in my year it was 20% for a C and 80% for an A*, cant believe this year it was only 65% for an A*, i didnt realise the grade boundaries changed that much!Quote:
Originally Posted by AbigailWell done :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Grade boundaries change every year depending on how people did on the paper. I think it was 25% for a C when I did my maths GCSE. The paper wasn't that hard though :hmm:
Thanks Abi, I think I will do Lit. Minimum requirement in my school is BB and I got an A in Lang so it's not the bare minimum or anything. If I gave up Economics to change to Lang then it wouldn't necessarily mean I'd do better and it's my least favourite of the two, and I'd have to find something else to do for the other subject.
Well done to everyone.
Please don't be offended by the old fogies who say that GCSEs are not as hard as 'O' levels that we all sat back in the day.
I did Scottish 'O' Grades in 1981 and got 7 As and 1 B (with very little work).
I have looked at the course work that my son has done over the past 2 years for his standard grades and the work is very different, particularly in Maths, Biology and Physics. The way subjects like history and English are taught has also changed.
This seems to be mainly because the subjects have moved on. There are things I did in 'O' grade physics that are now in higher, but likewise there are other things that are studied at standard grade that were not even thought of in 1981! The subject has much more 'applied' physics than the more theoretic subject I studied, and it isn't easier at all - just different.
History is no longer taught as a dry facts only subject - you have to know why, how and what the consequence were. I.e. you are expected to think and not just remember.
Well done to all of you adn good luck with your chosen future courses.
i was just going by what they did on that radio thing, on their slip it said 65% was an A* which i thought was quite low, obviously different exam boards have very different grade boundariesQuote:
Originally Posted by KimIt wasn't 65%. I did Edexcel B Spec and it was out of 600. We were told the boundaries before the exams so that we'd know how many UMS we needed from the final papers to get a particular grade. 560 was an A*, so that's 90%. Which makes sense, as when you took it they wouldn't have had D grade questions in higher. No idea where the 26% came from for the radio DJ's to get a C; I looked up the boundary for C on the syllabus I did and it was 360/600.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marcoyeh they do change cos i think they can only have a certain amount of people that got the high grade. in my year it was 20% for a C and 80% for an A*, cant believe this year it was only 65% for an A*, i didnt realise the grade boundaries changed that much!Quote:
Originally Posted by AbigailWell done :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Grade boundaries change every year depending on how people did on the paper. I think it was 25% for a C when I did my maths GCSE. The paper wasn't that hard though :hmm:
thats exactly what my mum said about it being different rather than easier. she said you cant really compare it to when she was at school cos the teaching is so different. and also she said it probably helps that at primary school now you learn a lot more stuff than she did, she works at a junior school and she said that the kids are being taught a wider range of stuff in mathsQuote:
Originally Posted by Trinity