G.C.S.E's

I am in year 10 now. I took my graphics GCSE early (last year) and I'm taking that again this year as an extra. I chose French, art, geography and history for my options.
We started our English/English Lit. course at the end of last year, and we started our first piece of coursework then (an autobiography), which we've just completed. It was annoying, though, 'cause we had to write it out (it was one of our three written pieces of work), but it was such a pain in the tooshie. Mine was eight pages long! Eight bloody pages!
We've just started our second piece, which is an essay about the dramatic techniques used in J.B. Priestley's play, 'An Inspector Calls'. That is REALLY annoying, I'm finding it so hard, I just can't get into the flow of it for some reason. I'm so behind. I can tell already that it's gonna be VERY long! At least we can type this one out, though.
As for art, since every piece of work we do is coursework, we've done a lot. We had to fill in a whole book with drawings and stuff stuck in over the summer holidays, which was hard 'cause I don't do much in my hols! Just relax! We've done about half of another book since then, stuff every lesson, and a piece of homework is set every week. All of it counts.
We've just done our first piece of coursework in French, which was a letter about our school - the rules, lessons, uniform, building, a trip and our future plans. That was really easy, since it's basically just copying out the work we had in our books from the few weeks before. The only hard part is fitting it into 200 words! I've just gotta copy it out tomorrow (after school :mad:), and then it's done.
We haven't done any other coursework.

I found german coursework easy, we just copied the phrases out of the text book. Came out with an A* for my coursework (I did stick a few of my own phrases in there). All my courseworks ran over the minimum of 300 words - usually to 500 to get all my tenses etc in.
An Inspector Calls is possibly the worst English coursework. We had to watch the video of it and, my god, it was boring. I can't remember what my coursework was on but it was pretty boring.
Do you still have to do maths coursework? I know that it was getting scrapped but I dunno when. Ours wasn't that bad actually. We did a GCSE in Maths and and another in Statistics. The coursework we did for maths we used for stats so that cut down on the load.

i quite like writing about An Inspector Calls as its all there in the text, but i agree the video was pritty boring
and i think we are still doing maths coursework

It's getting scrapped next year.

I'm really worried about the science modules now; we've been told we can't choose to resit, the teacher does that. I'm the type to get so nervous in the exam that I can't think straight.

Your teacher should discuss it with you if you need to resit it.
I did the AQA modular exams, they were all multiple choice so even if you get stressed you still have a 1/4 chance of getting the right answer.

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Originally Posted by Kim131

It's getting scrapped next year.

I'm really worried about the science modules now; we've been told we can't choose to resit, the teacher does that. I'm the type to get so nervous in the exam that I can't think straight.

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They're only module exams. If you failed one, then its not exactly the end of the world. You seem to be putting a lot of pressure onto yourself to do well in something which you are bound to do well in. If you fail, then it doesn't matter. And if you pass, then all the better!

The exams i did in July were so much better then i thought they were going to be. The teachers just try to force you to do well- just ignore them! :D

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Originally Posted by jelly_belly

I found german coursework easy, we just copied the phrases out of the text book. Came out with an A* for my coursework (I did stick a few of my own phrases in there). All my courseworks ran over the minimum of 300 words - usually to 500 to get all my tenses etc in.
An Inspector Calls is possibly the worst English coursework. We had to watch the video of it and, my god, it was boring. I can't remember what my coursework was on but it was pretty boring.
Do you still have to do maths coursework? I know that it was getting scrapped but I dunno when. Ours wasn't that bad actually. We did a GCSE in Maths and and another in Statistics. The coursework we did for maths we used for stats so that cut down on the load.

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Yeah, mit French was 310 words to start with (when I was trying to keep it short), but it can't be very many more than 200 words - about 225 words at the very most. But the teacher even said to me that there was no logical way to cut it down, 'cause it was all relevant, so I had to have just over 250 in the end. I don't know what my grade was.
And I hate 'An Inspector Calls'. I wouldn't say it was all there in the text, as there is a lot of analysing to be done, but I'm just a perfectionist.. :D I dread to think what my grade will be.
My autobiography was pretty hard to write, especially since I was writing about something sad, but I got there in the end. With this, I just can't seem to get my brain into gear.

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Originally Posted by laurouski

Yeah, mit French was 310 words to start with (when I was trying to keep it short), but it can't be very many more than 200 words - about 225 words at the very most. But the teacher even said to me that there was no logical way to cut it down, 'cause it was all relevant, so I had to have just over 250 in the end. I don't know what my grade was.
And I hate 'An Inspector Calls'. I wouldn't say it was all there in the text, as there is a lot of analysing to be done, but I'm just a perfectionist.. :D I dread to think what my grade will be.
My autobiography was pretty hard to write, especially since I was writing about something sad, but I got there in the end. With this, I just can't seem to get my brain into gear.

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There's so much coursework for english, we did 5 pieces plus 3 oral.
I was really worried about failing English, its my worst subject. I almost collapsed with shock when I got 2 A's in the summer, especially as I hadn't been to english for almost a year.
I would hate to have to write an autobiography, I don't like writing things like that and I wouldn't want anybody to read it.

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Originally Posted by jelly_belly

There's so much coursework for english, we did 5 pieces plus 3 oral.
I was really worried about failing English, its my worst subject. I almost collapsed with shock when I got 2 A's in the summer, especially as I hadn't been to english for almost a year.
I would hate to have to write an autobiography, I don't like writing things like that and I wouldn't want anybody to read it.

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Well, I didn't.. :o
Congrats on getting the A's!

We did an Inspector calls way back when in year 9, i reall enjoyed it :p

I hate French coursework, we had to do the written piece which had to be spoken therefore we had to memorise it :rolleyes: and now we have just done 2 more written pieces, which i found hard.
Little tip guys who are just starting with the coursework, keep on top of it and get it in on deadlines, otherwise you'll end up like me behind and stuck and speaking all (okay well most) of your time catching up! x