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Discussion: A-Levels & GCSE 2016
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A year 10 on ATRL.
That was me last year though (And I joined ATRL in year 9, kii).
My exams are going okay. I got an A in English Lit already last year. Hating the idea of units 2 and 3 of science.
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Originally posted by ELECTRAHEARTPOP
A year 10 on ATRL.
That was me last year though (And I joined ATRL in year 9, kii).
My exams are going okay. I got an A in English Lit already last year. Hating the idea of units 2 and 3 of science.
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I joined before I even started Year 8
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Originally posted by B'Day
I think you get most marks for analysis and i went IN nn but I got a C last year. I can't resit babe off to uni in Oct! I did really good just misread the character's name but at least I only screwed up on the resit. Not 25 exams sis good luck!!!
And if you do it on the computer, you go to a separate computer room. You can't be in the exam hall as the sound of a computer keyboard tapping would bother people. What the heck is 9-1? The system gets shitter the younger someone is
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It's a really ****** system, basically 9 is an A** then it goes down from there but they kind of overlap too.
I think they're gonna put me in 'yellow base' which is the special needs room but it's really loud in there
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Originally posted by Kim Kardashian
I'm in Y10 right now, no exams this year but I have 25 next
Does anyone know what happens if you do your exams on a computer?
Like are you in the exam hall or do you have to go somewhere else?
Glad your English went well sis.
We're not doing Of Mice And Men since we have the new GCSEs (the ones that are graded 9-1 instead of A-F) and we have to do English authors.
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In my school in the mocks they sat at the back of the hall, but in the real things they just sit at the top of the P block (where there are separate rooms) and do it there. You don't need to be in the room, you don't even need to be in the school, there just has to be an invigilator to make sure you don't have internet.
Oh God poor you apparently you don't even get blank texts in the exams, I have no clue how you're gonna survive. At least the grade boundaries should be low.
If I have some advice it's that GCSEs are really easy. Mocks were awful but the actual exams are so spread out it's barely even work as long as you do fine in Controlled Assessments and pay attention you'll do fine. And I expected the invigilators to be much stricter but they don't even care, people keep cheating and they don't clock. And someone's phone went off in German and they were like 'yeah that's fine just turn it off'.
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AS Politics in a couple of weeks
I'm so stressed/depressed at the moment I really can't be bothered to revise for it properly at all
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Originally posted by ELECTRAHEARTPOP
My exams are going okay. I got an A in English Lit already last year. Hating the idea of units 2 and 3 of science.
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Ugh tell me the f*** about it. I know nothing of C3 and Biology is generally not the tea so P2 is gonna be my magnum opus, save me.
Also Maths is literally not even an exam - it's so fun and I always get A*, Thursday is gonna ****.
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Originally posted by Diarrhoea
In my school in the mocks they sat at the back of the hall, but in the real things they just sit at the top of the P block (where there are separate rooms) and do it there. You don't need to be in the room, you don't even need to be in the school, there just has to be an invigilator to make sure you don't have internet.
Oh God poor you apparently you don't even get blank texts in the exams, I have no clue how you're gonna survive. At least the grade boundaries should be low.
If I have some advice it's that GCSEs are really easy. Mocks were awful but the actual exams are so spread out it's barely even work as long as you do fine in Controlled Assessments and pay attention you'll do fine. And I expected the invigilators to be much stricter but they don't even care, people keep cheating and they don't clock. And someone's phone went off in German and they were like 'yeah that's fine just turn it off'.
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Luckily I only have controlled assessment in 3 subjects since I hate it. Geography (which is easy as ****), Science and Computing.
Yeah we don't, I have no clue how i'm gonna remember everything.
I'm counting on the grade boundaries being low (especially since English is my worst subject) but they're supposed to be a lot harder and 'raising standards' and since my year is essentially a test run for the government/exam boards i'm scared they'll **** it up for us.
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Originally posted by Diarrhoea
Also Maths is literally not even an exam - it's so fun and I always get A*, Thursday is gonna ****.
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I feel the same way about Maths.
Gonna revise so hard and try get an A** to piss off this annoying bitch in my class.
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Originally posted by Kim Kardashian
Luckily I only have controlled assessment in 3 subjects since I hate it. Geography (which is easy as ****), Science and Computing.
Yeah we don't, I have no clue how i'm gonna remember everything.
I'm counting on the grade boundaries being low (especially since English is my worst subject) but they're supposed to be a lot harder and 'raising standards' and since my year is essentially a test run for the government/exam boards i'm scared they'll **** it up for us.
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Stan for Computing! Our coursework was 60% and I got full marks so I can literally take a **** on my exam and get a C and if your Science teacher doesn't help you cheat in the ISAs then they're doing it wrong, report them.
Both my parents are teachers and apparently the government are ******** bricks so I would expect it to be low tbh.
Re: English: Do you learn a language? Just learn the different types of verbs forms (conditional, volitional, preterite, participles, etc) and use that instead of the word 'verb' in your explanation. Then make sure you use 5 different types of verbs and bam, A*. Also your explanation can have nothing to do with the quote and they'll just give you the mark. And feel free to make up any context you have to do, they don't check. This got me from a B/C to a solid A* in a year.
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Originally posted by Diarrhoea
Stan for Computing! Our coursework was 60% and I got full marks so I can literally take a **** on my exam and get a C and if your Science teacher doesn't help you cheat in the ISAs then they're doing it wrong, report them.
Both my parents are teachers and apparently the government are ******** bricks so I would expect it to be low tbh.
Re: English: Do you learn a language? Just learn the different types of verbs forms (conditional, volitional, preterite, participles, etc) and use that instead of the word 'verb' in your explanation. Then make sure you use 5 different types of verbs and bam, A*. Also your explanation can have nothing to do with the quote and they'll just give you the mark. And feel free to make up any context you have to do, they don't check. This got me from a B/C to a solid A* in a year.
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My Biology teacher is helping us cheat, my Chemistry teacher is nice so I think she will.
My Physics teacher is so slack that i'll probably just use my phone while I do it or do it at home
Thanks for the English advice, i've had shockingly bad teaching and progressed very little since Year 6
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I'm an outsider to this but I'm wondering why yall take like 30 exams at the end of the year?
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Originally posted by Diarrhoea
Ugh tell me the f*** about it. I know nothing of C3 and Biology is generally not the tea so P2 is gonna be my magnum opus, save me.
Also Maths is literally not even an exam - it's so fun and I always get A*, Thursday is gonna ****.
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I have actually not been taught P2 because my teacher is basically a 45 year old woman that looks like Harry Styles (not cute on a female) so I'm banking on P1 Thursday. I find Maths pretty easy to get an A in, a B on a bad day in mocks, I've actually worked really hard in it though lol.
I'm a B in Art which I'm done with, a Distinction* in Health and Social, Geography should be okay tomorrow though I haven't really revised but **** it and I've got an A* in coursework and another exam after half term, and my sciences should all go pretty well and Biology is a breeze.
English Language you actually can't ****ing revise for and my entire class has been getting As in mocks for months.
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Originally posted by Dessy Fenix
I'm an outsider to this but I'm wondering why yall take like 30 exams at the end of the year?
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Well we get qualifications for each subject we take (A-Levels & GCSEs) which consist of multiple exams each & usually some coursework/controlled assessment (basically work done in class).
For example, Biology has 3 exams. B123, B456 & B7.
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Originally posted by Dessy Fenix
I'm an outsider to this but I'm wondering why yall take like 30 exams at the end of the year?
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It's actually like 30 exams at the end of 5 years of secondary school which sums up our entire 12 years of education thus far. A stupid education system that only seems to be getting worse. Glad I'm out of the new GCSE system too, I'm so lucky to have been born when I was cause I'm feeling so bad for Kim Kardashian rn.
Btw girl, I did a test paper for your English Language on the new spec, and that at least will be an absolute breeze since it's just sources and little to remember. It's even easier than our exam we do on this specification - the first few questions are multiple choice.
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English was my most boring subject lmao, hated OMAM
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Originally posted by Kim Kardashian
Well we get qualifications for each subject we take (A-Levels & GCSEs) which consist of multiple exams each & usually some coursework/controlled assessment (basically work done in class).
For example, Biology has 3 exams. B123, B456 & B7.
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Originally posted by ELECTRAHEARTPOP
It's actually like 30 exams at the end of 5 years of secondary school which sums up our entire 12 years of education thus far. A stupid education system that only seems to be getting worse. Glad I'm out of the new GCSE system too, I'm so lucky to have been born when I was cause I'm feeling so bad for Kim Kardashian rn.
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Alright thanks for the brief insight!
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sissss omg thank u for this if u dont mind me asking what did u get for art history??? u made me feel much better and ur hilarious!!!!
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Well I'm pretty sure I failed/BARELY passed the Art History exam :rip but because it is only a segment of the total Art exam, my grades were brought back up by my practical Art exams. (My practical work was SCALPING Sisterns left and right tbh)
We can't find out the individual results per segment but overall I got a B3, which is a 70% equivalent. My teacher said I would have got around a 90% for practical which is worth 65% overall and then the History would have to have been around 40% which is worth the other 35% of the overall .
Do you do Art?
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Originally posted by ELECTRAHEARTPOP
It's actually like 30 exams at the end of 5 years of secondary school which sums up our entire 12 years of education thus far. A stupid education system that only seems to be getting worse. Glad I'm out of the new GCSE system too, I'm so lucky to have been born when I was cause I'm feeling so bad for Kim Kardashian rn.
Btw girl, I did a test paper for your English Language on the new spec, and that at least will be an absolute breeze since it's just sources and little to remember. It's even easier than our exam we do on this specification - the first few questions are multiple choice.
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I'm looking at them right now for revision and i'm pleasantly surprised at the Language papers.
It's the English Lit i'm dreading since there's more to remember.
I'm just lucky i'm doing my GCSEs this year.
Only my English & Maths are on the new spec and Maths is one of my easiest subjects.
I feel bad for my little brother since he'll have all of his exams on the new spec.
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My English language assessment was basically us having a conversation, my teacher just gave us all A's I loved ha
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Did you do IGCSE? At my school some people do Edexcel and some do IGCSE, it's so unfair the IGCSE coursework is piss easy and one of the tasks was literally 'having a normal conversation' I can't meanwhile I've had to do so many controlled assessments and I have to do an OMAM language assessment as well which is just like the Animal Farm one
What did y'all think of poetry? I'm terrified that I'll get a poem from that Indian poet, we always do practise exams with them and I never have any clue what it means I got a U in it last time (and still got A* overall )
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Like every single paper at my school is AQA apart from Maths which is Edexcel and Geography which is WJEC B (we're not even in Wales and that's a Welsh spec but whatever )
We did OMAM and An Inspector Calls for our English Lit last year, and then OMAM again for a Language controlled assessment.
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Well I'm pretty sure I failed/BARELY passed the Art History exam :rip but because it is only a segment of the total Art exam, my grades were brought back up by my practical Art exams. (My practical work was SCALPING Sisterns left and right tbh)
We can't find out the individual results per segment but overall I got a B3, which is a 70% equivalent. My teacher said I would have got around a 90% for practical which is worth 65% overall and then the History would have to have been around 40% which is worth the other 35% of the overall .
Do you do Art?
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I don't know what exam board you took for Art but I've literally never done a written Art exam in my entire life.
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