Exam results

[BDC]

GCSE results are tomorrow (for me anyway). Really not looking forward to this one bit...

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

6 A*s, 5 As. What'd you get BDC?

[thrashaholic]

8 A*s, 2 As and a D for me. One of the As and the D were in GCSE short-courses for RS (the A), and ICT (the D).

On to A levels now....

[BDC]

5 A*s, 3 As and 3 Bs. Did well considering I was seriously ill whilst I was taking them (even went to the doctors for the first time in years!). Great fun that was...

AS Levels. Yay.

[Divine Wind]

Very well done fellas. Excellent results...you did the .org proud!

I hope u had a nice celebration to finish it all off. I remember the pressure that came off my shoulders after all that had ended! A nice feeling

[Sjakihata]

grades suck, be a girl look pretty and dont know who germany's allies were during ww2 and get top grades....

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

be a girl look pretty and dont know who germany's allies were during ww2 and get top grades....

I know that girl! She was in my class. Seems some things are the same worldwide...

[BDC]

grades suck, be a girl look pretty and dont know who germany's allies were during ww2 and get top grades....

Well all the girls I have spent summer chatting up have done better than me too. Gah.

I shall avoid brainy public schoolgirls in future. I feel stupid next to them.

[JAG]

Got A in politics, A in philosophy and B in economics at a level - First year. Second year next, what fun.

[BDC]

Got A in politics, A in philosophy and B in economics at a level - First year. Second year next, what fun.

Cool. Now I see why you argue so much here. Coursework!

ABA

Hehe.

[JAG]

I won't deny it hasn't helped, because it really has. It was like active revision, was great.

[BDC]

Meh, I'm doing sciences. Debates won't help at all.

Except with Critical Thinking... :)

[JAG]

critical thinking is bs, at my college they made us do it because the govt gives extra funding if it is done. You know what I did? Skipped the exam! I do what I want to do, thank you very much. It is VERY simple and VERY easy btw, and uni's don't regard it very highly ;p

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Man, picking A-levels is going to be hard...A couple of months ago, I was sure I wanted to be a biologist, but now I've got no idea what I want to do...

[Matt Deckard]

Man, picking A-levels is going to be hard...A couple of months ago, I was sure I wanted to be a biologist, but now I've got no idea what I want to do...

Think of the band, man! Would John Paul Jones be a biologist? Would Jaco Pastorius be a biologist? Oh, and i'm not thinking of excuses so i don't lose a good bassist... honest.

Anyway, I got 1 A, 4 Bs, 6 Cs and 1 U. The U was for religious studies. Instead of doing the paper, i drew a cool dragon tatoo on my arm. The only reason i turned up was because i didnt want to have to shell out £20 as a fine for missing the exam. I even forgot what subjects we were supposed to have studied over the 2 years...

[JAG]

Biologist? Ewwwwwwwwww, be something else, blimey!

Take courses you ENJOY, not neccesarily what you think you are good at - or what you are good at. I had to retake my first year at college because I took courses I didn't enjoy but thought would be a good idea career wise and courses I could struggle through, boy was I wrong. I couldn't cope with the sheer boredom I had when studying, so my grades, attendance and attitude slipped, at least that has been sorted this year. Anyway gl!

[Somebody Else]

Be a chemist if you want to be a scientist - then you know you're in the dullest subject (except, possible, physics). Otherwise, take the sensible option, and go off to study an arts degree. Besides - it's so much harder to be thrown out of university for an essay subject.

[eadeater]

How unlucky you are. I breezed through the GCSEs (8A* 2A) and thought I could do the same with the A levels. How wrong I was. Whatever you do, DON'T do maths A level. Even if you think you are amazing at maths (I thought I was). ONE module is as long as the whole GCSE course, and you have to do 3 for your AS in one year! Take physics - it's by far the easiest subject I did this year.

[Somebody Else]

One maths A-level is hard work? Try three... Three full maths A levels. That's 18 modules. Including the hardest paper on the entire A-level syllabus (assuming an equivilent amount of preparation etc. etc.)

Bloody nightmare!

I think I got about 30/40 % on that paper.

Fortunately the others acted as a crutch.

[BDC]

critical thinking is bs, at my college they made us do it because the govt gives extra funding if it is done. You know what I did? Skipped the exam! I do what I want to do, thank you very much. It is VERY simple and VERY easy btw, and uni's don't regard it very highly ;p

Yeah, it's two lessons a week, has no coursework, little homework, and is basically arguments. Plus it's with people I know. So basically it isn't too bad. Now, if they made us do General Studies, I would skip that.

[zelda12]

Congratulations all, good luck on the A levels.

I've got my G.C.S.Es this year and seeing what you guys got I'm really thinking I'm gonna fail miserably. Chances are I'll only get two or three A*s seven A's and one B.

[eadeater]

One maths A-level is hard work? Try three... Three full maths A levels. That's 18 modules. Including the hardest paper on the entire A-level syllabus (assuming an equivilent amount of preparation etc. etc.)

Bloody nightmare!

I think I got about 30/40 % on that paper.

Fortunately the others acted as a crutch.

ALL 18 MODULES!! You are mad. Did you do any other subjects? and how long to do all 18? And how DID you bring yourself to learn all the differentiation and integration rules in P2/P3/P4?

[Somebody Else]

P2, P3 and P4 were easy stuff...

P5 and P6 on the other hand... were not.

Then came M3, M4, M5 and... horror of horrors... M6

[Somebody Else]

*For some reason, the previous post cut itself off...*

The stats papers were pretty easy comparitively - just boring learning of formulas etc.

That said, learning formulas is pretty much half of what you need to do in maths, the rest is being able to work out which one to use.

I reckon, from hardest to easiest, the papers are M6, M5, M4, P6, P5, M3, P4, P3, S5, S4... then the others, which are much easier.

In case you were wondering, maths isn't all I did. Chemistry and biology too.

You wanted to know how long this all took? At my school, we take AS modules at the same time as A2 modules... we who did triple maths were an exception, in that we took eight modules at the end of lower sixth. (Of course, I did have to retake two modules - didn't get above 95%... A friend of mine had to retake all but one... meaning he had 17 maths exams, as well as 12/13 others in physics and chemistry)

[eadeater]

So you did 18 modules of maths, full physics and chemistry a levels, all in two years?
Mate, you are INHUMAN. I did 4 maths modules, as well as the AS modules in chemistry and physics and history and russian, and thought I was hardcore. People did like 6 modules in maths in one year, and I though they were amazing. Rah, so now you are oxford uni I take it?

[Somebody Else]

First - I didn't do physics - biology instead - much easier, not as boring.

Inhuman? Maybe, but I had a friend who did the chem/phys/3 maths thing and an AS in French as well. It's just a case of applying oneself. Being a space alien does help...

And yes, as a matter of fact I am at Oxford.

*And not too rah, I hope...*

[BDC]

First - I didn't do physics - biology instead - much easier, not as boring.

Inhuman? Maybe, but I had a friend who did the chem/phys/3 maths thing and an AS in French as well. It's just a case of applying oneself. Being a space alien does help...

And yes, as a matter of fact I am at Oxford.

*And not too rah, I hope...*

A secret government organisation will kidnap you for being too brainy.

You go to a public school or something? Can't imagine you could do that at a state school.

[Somebody Else]

Believe me - there are cleverer out there.

You've caught me, I did go to public school. Please forgive me.

[eadeater]

NO way is it possible to be brainier, you've got to be the great brain controlling all of us - to do all 18 modules of maths - most to 95% standard as well! AND two other A levels all in two years is insane - that's five A levels, and three of them are maths. Is everyone this brainy at Oxford? (please say no )

[Somebody Else]

Okay... I didn't get 95% in all my papers, I just needed to get that in the easy papers so that I could scrape by in the other papers and still get the grade I wanted.

Not everyone did this many A-levels, admittedly, but there are people much more intelligent than I at Oxford. There are some who aren't all that bright as well...

Brain controlling you all? Hmm... there's an idea...