Results Day

[Bryan]

English (B) Media (B) Film (B) Critical Thinking (C)

Could have gone to Bournemouth after all, but I've made my decision now so might aswell stick to it.

Bry thats fab, Southampton here you come

Yup, are you ready for me?

[Abi]

I didn't do too badly. Not great, but not amazing. I did well in most my modules, then buggered up on a few, which brought my grades right down. So i'll be doing a few module retakes in Jan to bring my grades back up.

Geography= (A, C, D) so C overall.
Politics = (B, B, D) so C overall.
English = (B, C, C) so C overall. 6 marks from a B
ICT= (A, A, C) so B overall. 4 marks from an A

So my plan is this: Drop geog, because i would have to gain 12 marks to get a B overall. I'm gonna retake my English coursework, so i can bump it from a B to an A. That will take my grade to B. I'm gonna retake my Electoral systems and voting behaviour in Politics, to get up to a B. And i'm gonna retake one of my ICT units. I only need 4 marks to get an A.

So basically, do 3 retakes, and end up with ABB.

Really, i'm not sure what to think about my exams. I wanted to drop ICT, because i hate it, but as its my best subject, i'm not going to. I like geog, but the coursework saved me, and next year we dont do any, so theres no point me doing it, because i'll just fail A2.

So yeah, BCCC, but i'll get it up to ABB. Trust me ;)

[Siobhan]

That is great abi.. you shouldn't be hard on yourself. you did well Girl!!

[Bryan]

I didn't do too badly. Not great, but not amazing. I did well in most my modules, then buggered up on a few, which brought my grades right down. So i'll be doing a few module retakes in Jan to bring my grades back up.

Geography= (A, C, D) so C overall.
Politics = (B, B, D) so C overall.
English = (B, C, C) so C overall. 6 marks from a B
ICT= (A, A, C) so B overall. 4 marks from an A

So my plan is this: Drop geog, because i would have to gain 12 marks to get a B overall. I'm gonna retake my English coursework, so i can bump it from a B to an A. That will take my grade to B. I'm gonna retake my Electoral systems and voting behaviour in Politics, to get up to a B. And i'm gonna retake one of my ICT units. I only need 4 marks to get an A.

So basically, do 3 retakes, and end up with ABB.

Really, i'm not sure what to think about my exams. I wanted to drop ICT, because i hate it, but as its my best subject, i'm not going to. I like geog, but the coursework saved me, and next year we dont do any, so theres no point me doing it, because i'll just fail A2.

So yeah, BCCC, but i'll get it up to ABB. Trust me ;)

Well done on the grades Abi, and as you say a few resists and them grades will go right up.

A C in Georgaphy is really good, as it's such a hard subject to do, I know most of the students at our place that did Geography got really low grades overall as A2 is really tough.

It's best to stick to your other subjects and get the ABB that you're aiming for. One year down, one to go. Good luck!

[Abi]

I didn't do too badly. Not great, but not amazing. I did well in most my modules, then buggered up on a few, which brought my grades right down. So i'll be doing a few module retakes in Jan to bring my grades back up.

Geography= (A, C, D) so C overall.
Politics = (B, B, D) so C overall.
English = (B, C, C) so C overall. 6 marks from a B
ICT= (A, A, C) so B overall. 4 marks from an A

So my plan is this: Drop geog, because i would have to gain 12 marks to get a B overall. I'm gonna retake my English coursework, so i can bump it from a B to an A. That will take my grade to B. I'm gonna retake my Electoral systems and voting behaviour in Politics, to get up to a B. And i'm gonna retake one of my ICT units. I only need 4 marks to get an A.

So basically, do 3 retakes, and end up with ABB.

Really, i'm not sure what to think about my exams. I wanted to drop ICT, because i hate it, but as its my best subject, i'm not going to. I like geog, but the coursework saved me, and next year we dont do any, so theres no point me doing it, because i'll just fail A2.

So yeah, BCCC, but i'll get it up to ABB. Trust me ;)

Well done on the grades Abi, and as you say a few resists and them grades will go right up.

A C in Georgaphy is really good, as it's such a hard subject to do, I know most of the students at our place that did Geography got really low grades overall as A2 is really tough.

It's best to stick to your other subjects and get the ABB that you're aiming for. One year down, one to go. Good luck!

Thanks! Yeah, Geography was a hard one this year. English wasn't that much better. Apparently Biology was bad this year as well, not sure on the exam board for that though.

I cant stand these reports on the TV about the amount of A grades. They've twisted the stats so badly! Yes, a lot of people get A grades, but generally, the same people get them. So 1 person might get 3 As. The news makes it sound like everyone does!

And they dont pick the schools which are in average areas, do they? Come to my school, and if you get 1 A, its bloody amazing! Go to a grammer school, or somewhere rich, and of course you'll see hundreds of them!

[DaVeyWaVey]

Well done Abi - they are great results! Just watched the news and they said that a 1/4 of A level students this year got straight As.

[Bryan]

I didn't do too badly. Not great, but not amazing. I did well in most my modules, then buggered up on a few, which brought my grades right down. So i'll be doing a few module retakes in Jan to bring my grades back up.

Geography= (A, C, D) so C overall.
Politics = (B, B, D) so C overall.
English = (B, C, C) so C overall. 6 marks from a B
ICT= (A, A, C) so B overall. 4 marks from an A

So my plan is this: Drop geog, because i would have to gain 12 marks to get a B overall. I'm gonna retake my English coursework, so i can bump it from a B to an A. That will take my grade to B. I'm gonna retake my Electoral systems and voting behaviour in Politics, to get up to a B. And i'm gonna retake one of my ICT units. I only need 4 marks to get an A.

So basically, do 3 retakes, and end up with ABB.

Really, i'm not sure what to think about my exams. I wanted to drop ICT, because i hate it, but as its my best subject, i'm not going to. I like geog, but the coursework saved me, and next year we dont do any, so theres no point me doing it, because i'll just fail A2.

So yeah, BCCC, but i'll get it up to ABB. Trust me ;)

Well done on the grades Abi, and as you say a few resists and them grades will go right up.

A C in Georgaphy is really good, as it's such a hard subject to do, I know most of the students at our place that did Geography got really low grades overall as A2 is really tough.

It's best to stick to your other subjects and get the ABB that you're aiming for. One year down, one to go. Good luck!

Thanks! Yeah, Geography was a hard one this year. English wasn't that much better. Apparently Biology was bad this year as well, not sure on the exam board for that though.

I cant stand these reports on the TV about the amount of A grades. They've twisted the stats so badly! Yes, a lot of people get A grades, but generally, the same people get them. So 1 person might get 3 As. The news makes it sound like everyone does!

And they dont pick the schools which are in average areas, do they? Come to my school, and if you get 1 A, its bloody amazing! Go to a grammer school, or somewhere rich, and of course you'll see hundreds of them!

yeah georgraphy/geology/biology always seem to be the hardest to get a good grade in. anyone thinking of doing them please reconsider!

to be fair no subject is a walk in the park, i know a lot of people that worked damn hard to get their results, and all this news about A levels being easy really pisses me off, it's hard work, and it's all very well them picking results out and manipulating the evidence, but if they sat down and tried i'd like them to see how "easy" it is to get an A grade.

exactly, them ones they just had on the news were all from Kings, which is a well established college, and they all sounded posh as if they'd been to grammar schools. grrr the media annoy me sometimes!

[Jojo]

Well done Abi - don't be too hard on yourself as those are still fantastic grades

[Trinity]

Well done Abi - they are great results! Just watched the news and they said that a 1/4 of A level students this year got straight As.

No, what they said was that 25% of the results were As.

Apparently 'less than 10% of candidates' got straight As.

That said it is amazing, in my day you were lucky if 3 or 4 people in a year got straight As at Higher

[Bryan]

just got a text off my friend who got 4 As at AS level! wow, I'm shocked!