GCSE's are piss....

No that's advanced extension award, I tried the physics ones really challenging and good fun. THAT's how uni's should differentiate between the top students but they don't really...sad

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NickKK Wrote:
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> No that's advanced extension award, I tried the
> physics ones really challenging and good fun.


out get out! i did the maths one and got 15%

Don't even mention the maths one I only looked at it and said...nah can't do that. Aparently so did most people who did it. It is seriously weird and unwieldy, I couldn't even start so I just sat there :D

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2005 12:06PM by NickKK.

danm Wrote:
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> a levels do u up the arse compared to gcses.
>

And don't I know it.

*cries*



H E L L O



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2005 01:09PM by Daniel Knott.

Some AS and A-Levels are a big step up, but some aren't. I do Sociology at AS and A level, and it's dead simple really. But then History, which was probably my second best subject at GCSE (although when you get 7 A*s and 4As, there's not much in it really - sorry, ahd to put that in just incase Mini Maestro messes up!!!) was a massive step. I had been getting full marks at GCSE, and then was getting like C's at AS.

But I agree that most are too formulaic. The exception for me would be History at A2 especially. One exam is just an essay. And you can do it in so many different ways. That's what I think all exams should be like.

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In all honesty i actually found as levels a piece of piss, especially maths. but A2 was alot harder.

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Which college Chris? I've got an offer to do Law at Queens.

never studied in the UK so im just wondering...the GCSE's are the equivalent of grade 10 final exams? Like ICSE or SSC board exams in India at the end of 10th

You do GCSE's in Year 10 and 11. The main exams are sat at the end of year 11, in May/June. Most people are 16 by then, but a few are 15. Then you go to 6th form, which isn't compulsary. You do AS levels in the first year, and then you generally carry on 3 of the 4 subjects to A2 level. The AS level is a stand-alone qualification, but if you take it onto A2 level, it counts as half of that. It's a really stupid system, becuase it means you do 3 consecutive years of major exams (and then uni!), but the AS year is so rushed that you don't feel like you've properly leanrt anything. All you do is work to the exam. Beofre 2000, there was just the final A-Level exams at the end of the 2years of 6th Form. Much better IMO

Yeah with the old system you didn't waste a whole term in year 1 revising and preparing for exams you could get on with work and of course only one year of exams instead of two...not that AS was any presure in terms of revision but still.

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I did a GNVQ, and my A-levels mates used to joke that it stood for "Generally not very quick and "going nowhere very quickly".

doesn't matter, i still got into uni and now have a degree.

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RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael

i do Business Studies at A level, and its generally pretty easy. i got an A in A/S and an A in the january exam. got my last exam in it on thursday

however, i do computing and english lang and lit, and they have been pretty hard and i have struggled at times. finished my exams in them today. i got a C in AS for those, hoping for same at A level.

i feel a bit left out now cause every 1 i talk to seems to go to uni straight after sixth form. im takin a different route and getting an apprenticeship and will maybe go to uni after i have finished the qualification i get with the apprenticeship in three years time. depending on the options i have avaiable to me. hope it works out 4 me.

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I am in Year 9, and have recently chosen what I am taking for GCSE next year. English Literature, English Language, Maths, Single Science, PCHE, Citizenship, Religious Studies, ICT and Single PE are all compulsory. I have chosen Double Science, Buisness Studies, History and German as my options.

Wirah Wrote:
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> I am in Year 9, and have recently chosen what I am
> taking for GCSE next year. English Literature,
> English Language, Maths, Single Science, PCHE,
> Citizenship, Religious Studies, ICT and Single PE
> are all compulsory

single pe, citizenship and religious studies are all compulsary? thats extremely wierd - im guessing its an independant school?

Wirah Wrote:
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> I am in Year 9, and have recently chosen what I am
> taking for GCSE next year. English Literature,
> English Language, Maths, Single Science, PCHE,
> Citizenship, Religious Studies, ICT and Single PE
> are all compulsory. I have chosen Double Science,
> Buisness Studies, History and German as my
> options.


business and history?
you have to be prepared for a bucketload of writing !! and the last mark on the business higher paper is awful...12 marks on the vaguest of questions!

Actually the Intermediate GNVQ I did for ICT was pretty demanding (well for year 10 at least) we had to produce a lot of work to a high quality and we were laughing at all the gcse IT people when they had to switch course coz they knew nothing about IT at all

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