Results Day

[Kim]

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.

[Abigail]

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.

[Chloe O'brien]

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.

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.

Well done on you're results Kimmey. You're a star babes. Keep up the great work, don't let anyone put you down.

[Kim]

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.

[Abbie]

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!!!

Wow you must be really pleased

Really pleased about some of them but disappointed with a few.

Additional Science - A (How?! Was expecting C at the best!)
Business Studies - A ( A* in mock and I thought I'd done better this time.)
English Language - A ( 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 ( 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 )
RE - A
Geography - A

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.

Wow well done Kim, those are like amazing results

[Abbie]

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)

[Kirsty :]]

Wow well done Abbie! They're brilliant!

[StarsOfCCTV]

Well done Abbie

[Kim]

Well done Abbie

Btw was the Biology a typo? Are you dropping a subject when you go back or continuing all 4?

[di marco]

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 A)

well done abbie and you must be a genius to get that in biology lol!