G.C.S.E's

[Katy]

I hated science module tests as i always got E and Us, but got C C in the final exam so basically anything is possible. Coursework helps alot plus in my science on two results were discarded as like Bad ones, i dont know whether that still happens but i assume it does.

[Kim]

hiya
is anyones school doing the new science course where you take the exams in yr 10 and if so do you have your results back yet as we took 2 in november and i got my results today and i am not happy lol i got a b and c and at least wanted 2 b's and is it possable for me to still get an a overall now or not

also is anyone who takes child care doing their gcse a year early as we are so we now have to cram in a year and a halfs work in 6 months im never gonna remeber all of it

You mean you do science modular tests, coursework and a final exam?

i have no idea what im doing abbie i only know the tests we have already done will actually count and i think each of the tests are 5% of it
and there is no channce of me gettting an a or a* in one of the tests lol i hate science
and kim you did really well in the tests and after yr 10 are you getting to choose whether you want to do forensic sciene, sport science or some other choices cant remeber what they are

I'm really not sure on that one. In our option booklet it said we had to do a certain Science GCSE and then we got to choose the other one, but no one has mentioned any choice yet. We have been told the exams are different and that we have to do an ISA next year to put towards it, even though we have done one and are in the middle of another one. Someone mentioned we just get a different book, (we do a whole GCSE this year and another one next year,) but I hope we do get to choose, then I will stay away from Physics as I will be lucky to get B's in those modules.

[laurouski]

I am doing the new science course (I go to the same school as Samantha Nixon), and as I've mentioned before we only got told about it something like the week before, so I didn't get a chance to do any revision at all.
Some teachers said it was worth 25%, others said 5%! So I had to get the teacher to explain the course to me properly, and don't forget, Sam, that if you're happy with all of your other science results, you can re-sit the two we've just done, anyway.
If I get the best that I'm capable of in the other tests, I think I'll re-sit the two that we've already done, since I was only 3 marks in one and 5 marks in the other away from the next grade up!

[samantha nixon]

I am doing the new science course (I go to the same school as Samantha Nixon), and as I've mentioned before we only got told about it something like the week before, so I didn't get a chance to do any revision at all.
Some teachers said it was worth 25%, others said 5%! So I had to get the teacher to explain the course to me properly, and don't forget, Sam, that if you're happy with all of your other science results, you can re-sit the two we've just done, anyway.
If I get the best that I'm capable of in the other tests, I think I'll re-sit the two that we've already done, since I was only 3 marks in one and 5 marks in the other away from the next grade up!

ooh i forgot that you could re sit them how many can you resit or can you do all of them

[Kim]

I am doing the new science course (I go to the same school as Samantha Nixon), and as I've mentioned before we only got told about it something like the week before, so I didn't get a chance to do any revision at all.
Some teachers said it was worth 25%, others said 5%! So I had to get the teacher to explain the course to me properly, and don't forget, Sam, that if you're happy with all of your other science results, you can re-sit the two we've just done, anyway.
If I get the best that I'm capable of in the other tests, I think I'll re-sit the two that we've already done, since I was only 3 marks in one and 5 marks in the other away from the next grade up!

The modules are 12.5% each. The Science Course that the current year 11's are doing is the one where each module carries 5%, because they have a terminal exam at the end of it. We have 6 modules totalling 75% and the other 25 an ISA, so that's why a teacher would have said 25, because two modules were covered. My Chemistry teacher said that we don't choose whether we resit, they do. I got majorly muddled with the grid when I was doing the Chemistry one, so if I hadn't of got messed up, I think I could have got A*, which is annoying, 'cause I don't think I'll ever get to resit. It's 5 marks between each boundary, so that's annoying.

[samantha nixon]

hopefully my teacher will choose to let me resit again then and i liked having the grid things as i didnt really know any of the answers, so least i could guess them and have a 1 out of 4 chances of getting it right

[Kim]

You got a 6 in your SAT, so unless you didn't do too well on your CATs, they will at least let you resit the one you got a C in, 'cause if you don't get a B it will look bad on them.

[samantha nixon]

when would we have done out CAT's lol cant remeber them

[di marco]

My Chemistry teacher said that we don't choose whether we resit, they do. I got majorly muddled with the grid when I was doing the Chemistry one, so if I hadn't of got messed up, I think I could have got A*, which is annoying, 'cause I don't think I'll ever get to resit. It's 5 marks between each boundary, so that's annoying.

i think whether you get to choose if you resit or not depends on the school. my school for alevel let us choose if we wanted to resit our exams but my sis school wont let them. therefore even though at kims school the teachers choose, samantha at your school it might work differently so you should ask your teacher about it

[Abi]

I think its because the school has to pay for them. You could probably re-sit outside of your school, no problem, and pay the cost of the exam. But your school might not want to pay for everyone to resit, because it means they wont be able to spend the money on other things. And if you got a good grade (Which you did!) then they might not see the point in spending their money on resitting you, when they could spend it on other things...

My school makes you pay half of it, if you want to resit. And thats with any exam.