Well done Layne :D
And well done Stars :D
Awww shame your gonna drop philosphy, I loved our chats :lol: :D
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Well done Layne :D
And well done Stars :D
Awww shame your gonna drop philosphy, I loved our chats :lol: :D
Quick question for those that have already been through this before I go to get the bus; will I be told what happened to the person who stole my coursework? I'll be appalled as will my mum if he's actually got a grade in the subject, but by the looks of it they were actually entering him as he started kicking up a fuss about being moved down to Foundation. Should he actually have been disqualified?
I doubt you will be told. It will all be confidential between the school, boy and exam boards. He may have been disqualified if the exam board thought it warranted disqualification.
Just to boast about my eldest, he is a wee genius!! 4 x A*'s and 2 x B's. He obviously takes after his Mum - NOT!!
One proud Mum here!!!
Well done Moonstorm you must be so proud.
Congrats to Moonstorms son what great results, you must be so proud.
To everyone that have got their results, well done and all your hard work has paid off.
Really pleased about some of them but disappointed with a few.
Additional Science - A (How?! Was expecting C at the best!)
Business Studies - A (:crying: A* in mock and I thought I'd done better this time.)
English Language - A (:D Can't believe I managed to get it up to that because I'm rubbish at the speaking assesments; hate speaking in front of people.)
English Literature - B (:crying: Thought I'd done better in that than in Lang.)
Media Studies - A
Core Science - A
History - A
Maths - A (I thought I'd scrape this if I got it at all. Needed 480 and got 505 :eek: :D :D )
RE - A
Geography - A :eek: :D
Bit of a dilema now.. as it's my only B I'm not sure about Lit; I prefer it to Lang but on the basis of my results I'd consider switching to Lang only I can't as it's in the same block as Economics. Can't believe I got A's in Geography and Additional Science when I hardly put any effort into them and then got a B in Lit.
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeez! :eek:
Well done Kim!! You should be super duper luper yuper proud of yourself.. that's amazing!!
Well done you :D:thumbsup: :cheer:
What fantastic results there \kim, you must be really proud of yourself. Well done you:thumbsup:
well done to your son :)Quote:
Originally Posted by moonstorm
well done kim :) you should be really pleased with those results, a B in english lit and an A in business studies is really good. and im sure you can still take english lit if you want toQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
I can but I just think it'd be better to take stuff I got A's in considering I got so many of them. I really want to do an English though and everything else I was considering clashes with stuff. Going to go into school and speak to the 6th form director about it.
Congratulations Kim! An excellent set of results - all that worrying for nothing! You should be proud of yourself. :thumbsup:
Well done to your son as well Moonstorm - getting so many A*s is very impressive!
Well done Kim! :cheer: :cheer: :D
Well done Kim - amazing set of results :D :)
And congrats to your son Moonstorm :)
8 Radio 1 DJs took Higher Level Maths GCSE. 1 person got a C, the rest got Us!!
WATCH
Funniest thing :rotfl:
:lol: I thought I did some silly stuff in mine, at least I still got an A. Can't believe it was only like 26% for a C.
Kim ya did amazing...i told ya that ya wouldnt have anything to worry about :D well done :cheer:
Well 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:
Kim wow how can you be disappointed with any of them marks!!!!
If I got A's and B's I'd be buzzing! Makes me feel thick :p.
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
Maybe they did IGCSE, which is said to be a lot harder and would therefore be likely to have lower boundaries. This year coursework still formed an element of the GCSE, which I don't think they'd have done as they all said they didn't prepare for it. Unless they just submitted nothing and got 0 for that part of the course. It has very little weighting so potentially they could still pass with a 0 in coursework.
Thanks Trinity. Yeah, I was talking to my mum about the way the media constantly say that our exams are getting easier and she said she never had to learn some of the stuff I did, and likewise she probably had to learn something that I didn't. You're going to think it's easy if you were taught it and the grading probably changed accordingly according to how hard the topics on the exam were considered to be.
If the presenters took the course over one year then it could be a different type compared to the standard GCSE.
Maths coursework was scrapped last year so anyone starting the maths GCSE course in September 2007 wouldn't have a coursework element.
Trin I'm one of the old foggy gang. When I left school in 83 it was O'grades and I got 5 A's and 2 B's in today's standards. I doubt I would pass 1 exam today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trinity
Well done on you're results Kimmey. You're a star babes. Keep up the great work, don't let anyone put you down.
Excellent results you two had too. My mum got the equivalent of 1D and the rest E's. My dad doesn't have any. I swear I took after my uncle instead of my parents!
Thanks Kath, still can't believe some of them! I had more I was pleased with than disappointed with so that's good.
Wow you must be really pleasedQuote:
Originally Posted by moonstorm
Wow well done Kim, those are like amazing resultsQuote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Okay, i gto my results today and just got back from enrolling again :)
I got them in the post which was good :)
Drama: B (4 marks off an A)
Geography: B
English language: B
Biology: C ( which im really pleased with and again 4 marks off an B)
Wow well done Abbie! They're brilliant! :cheer:
Well done Abbie :D
Well done Abbie :):D
Btw was the Biology a typo? Are you dropping a subject when you go back or continuing all 4?
well done abbie :) and you must be a genius to get that in biology lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Abbie