Wow evevryones doing so well! I'm doing my GCSE's this year too, I've done half of my RE exam, my science module tests and lots of coursework. I've got my mocks in December, quite nervous about them.
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Wow evevryones doing so well! I'm doing my GCSE's this year too, I've done half of my RE exam, my science module tests and lots of coursework. I've got my mocks in December, quite nervous about them.
Same as me clo.
Already done loads of my science modules, am in the middle of coursework and revising for mocks at the moment :angry: Its horrible and so hard!
ooo me too and i have my last one this month, so how have you done on them so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by ~ Clo ~
well im in yr 10 ao im not actually taking my exams this year but did youse do half of your science in yr 10 as on the 22nd november we have a test and it goes towards our final grade but we havent really learnt anything to be tested on
Neither have we. We have two modules on that day, one after the other. We have this massive text book though.Quote:
Originally Posted by samantha nixon
our teacher doesnt bother teaching us at all, but as far as i know we only have one
What level did you get in your SAT? As far as I know, everyone that got level 5 or upwards is doing 2. Does your school do dual award science?Quote:
Originally Posted by samantha nixon
I need to go and revise but my friends keep saying I'm putting my GCSE's before them, and I've had enough of GCSE's already.
i think i got a level 6 and i dont know whether they do dual award science we aint been told what we doing
and im bored of gcse's aswell, as 2 of my teachers are rubbish and dont teach the only class i actually like is drama and pe
but dont let your mates stop you from revising as you will do well and et good results at the end of it, and they will regret that they didnt revise aswell
I'm just going to have to sign out and risk it at this rate. I need to revise loads as I get really nervous in exams, my target grade is an A, and I need to get as high as I can to minimise the effect of controlled coursework; I know I'm going to mess it up. Do your teachers use an e-science thing on interactive whiteboards? What module is everyone doing?Quote:
Originally Posted by samantha nixon
I've got a C on them so far, but I'm one mark off a B so I'm re-sitting them in November, don't know if I'll do any better though, they were so hard last time! :oQuote:
Originally Posted by abblette
If you're doing dual award the first year (year 10) exams are all multiple choice and you choose which level (higher or foundation) you do when you get into the exam.
Its easier to get a C on higher than it is on foundation, you need something like 80% to get a C on foundation and around 20% I think to get a C on higher (don't quote me on those exact figures but it is a lot lower on higher).
Year 11 exams are much harder, 2 90min papers that have some really long questions in. If you do well in year 10 and on your coursework I shouldn't worry too much about the final exams, just revise the bits you're not sure on more.
Another thing, if you're a few marks off the next grade on a modular exam theres no point in resitting it as the scores are agregated and then averaged. So if you did very well in one module (say a few marks off an A*) but rubbish in another (just over a C) and the rest were fairly consistant, the high and low score will even out when its averaged (they kinda cancel each other out and you get a mark somewhere in the middle) if you get my drift, can't really explain what I'm trying to say lol.
I did my finals in june this year, I don't know if any of this has changed much. I resat a couple of my modulas because I was ill when I took them the first time and I don't think it made much difference to my overall grade.
Anyone else doing the 2nd piece of maths coursework. Argh is all i can say.
Hate GCSEs got mocks coming soon. Argh.
I have done my 1st piece of maths coursework, gotta do the second one in January when my mocks are! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Layne
I did mine last month. Hate coursework, especially Maths. Glad it's over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Layne
I'm doing them again this year. I did them last year and got appalling grades (two D's). I simply didn't revise so it was my own fault. I started revising for the re-sits last week. I'm very nervous about the whole GCSE thing, but I just have to revise hard and try my best, and try not to panic. lol - I get incredibly nervous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
The thing that annoys me more is the coursework. I was furious to hear that it will be axed in the next few years - I think it's unfair. I'd find it much easier if I just had to concentrate on my exams rather than worrying about coursework deadlines. I realise it's essential in some subjects like ICT and Ebnglish, but in other subjects like Maths it just isn't needed - it's absolutely pointless. I fear that the Maths coursework will drag my grade down. I'm, currently on a B for the two exams I did last year, but I'm not hopeful about the exams.
Wow, I can't believe I just posted that. Anwyay. :rotfl:
I've did my 1st one last month, it was a nightmare. Our teacher tried to help us and got it all wrong :mad: Apparently the next ones really, I'm dreading it :( I haven't got it till January though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Layne
Next week we are finishing our first peice of maths coursework and this term we are doing our second.
We've started ours, it's a nightmare. My teacher is more or less trying to force us into doing a certain hypothesis; so he can mark us down, in my opinion. It took ages to even get a sample as he was making us share the laptop, and then I had to go and do mine at home! I've been doing some graphs and tables for it today; they took ages! Now I have to do my Geography coursework zzz, so much for not having loads of coursework to do at the same time!
awww i love my geography coursework, i just find it easy to right about and explain cos its more or less just like our 1st piece
I got left on the coach because of my disability, and they never gave me the notes from, or explained the work that they did, at the places I didn't get to go to. So I'm almost guessing on parts of it.
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.
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim131
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by jelly_belly
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.
There's so much coursework for english, we did 5 pieces plus 3 oral.Quote:
Originally Posted by laurouski
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.
Well, I didn't.. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by jelly_belly
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
Too late! I'm already behind! :rotfl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Layne
Art is a killer.
:lol: Well try your up most hardest to try and keep on top. And i know the teachers say it and its annoying but otherwise it will just keep piling up, it won't go away, believe me i have tried.Quote:
Originally Posted by laurouski
Maths,English and Science are the big ones, make sure coursework id done for them
Art is hard and from what i understand its quite alot of work! Just try your best! x
Same...well im writing up the topics. Was it the one it myself and family, where i live, school, ect..? cause if it is :mad:. I asked my teacher for the begining of one sentance and they wont even tell me it, i only asked because im not 100% sure its the way i think it is. I know its to do with its independant work but it was only like two words i asked for...Quote:
Originally Posted by Layne
I was doing music for GCSE but gave up 5 weeks into it so now im doing ict.
Those grids they give you in the science modular exams are like the worst things ever. There's so many circles all over the place; in half an hour I just fell to pieces. I find it hard to coordinate things, so I wish you could just write out the answer you think it is, instead of trying to find the correct box! After getting the marking screwed up, it's obvious I'm going to end up losing marks because of the silly things. I did the wrong box in both a few times, so I'm really annoyed as I actually knew the answers. I got a B and a C; considering I got a 7 in my SAT I'm not hopeful that I'll do well next week :angry:
Im really happy at the mment cos im gettkng some results bcak which im please with cos i got and A in my paper 1 geography exam and A in eng lit.
I had a mock exam today in Science in one of my modules that i am sitting in January, i think i did rather bad in it, i did revise but half the stuff didn't come up. Some of the questions were easy, while others were a bit more difficult but i tried my best in answering them. Plus the mock was in class, and we didn't get given the full hour in the exam, we should have got an extra 10 minutes but we didn't, everyone else finished but i ran out of time!!
Oh well, it's only a mock i suppose!
On friday we went on our geography trip to get out data for geography coursework and it was soooooo cold, im going back to get more data in a few weeks.
We had a biology mock.. :hmm: can't remember, week before last I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by daveywavey
We've got the chemistry one tomorrow, and the modular exam on Wednesday.
We've got the worst teacher ever! :crying:
I got some of my results back from my science module today, well my biology marks and part of my paper for biology was out of 16 and i got 6..so that's pretty bad, but everyone else in the class did bad and it was only a mock and thankfully not the real thing!
And i did my drama performance today (a crimewatch show to do with the Stephen Lawrence murder and i had to play Stephen Lawrence in the reconstruction) and i got 36/40 which was an A! :cheer:
:confused: So when you say modular exam do you mean the exams with the confusing boxes that you have to circle to answer?
LOL, well done! :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by daveywavey