G.C.S.E exams

[Doofay]

Just for us young 'uns :p

How have you all been finding your exams so far? Which exams have you done and how well do you feel you did at them? Which are you most worried about and which don't you think will be a problem?

I've done my German listening, both Geography exams, an English exam, a D&T exam, a maths exam and a biology exam.

Of the lot of them i think i'm around C\B standard, but i am worried about my maths, due to having had so many teachers over the past 2 years that we haven't learnt anything properly. However, i think my English will easily pass.

Interested to hear how you lot are finding it.

Duffy

[Lil Laura]

S.T.U.D.E.N.T. forum Adam. :(

[paperBprincess]

i'm standing on good ground cos i worked my little socks off in my coursework.
ict was real good, music was horrible, maths was horrible, drama was amazing, science was so so as was french and eng lang. english lit got owned :D

[Doofay]

Originally posted by Lil Laura
S.T.U.D.E.N.T. forum Adam. :(

None of the GCSE folks go in there though - and the exams are important so we need some reassurance and stuff blah blah.

:p

[ShyBoy]

so far none that bad. french listening was so piss though :D. I've actually had a little trouble with the English papers, even though everyone else has been saying they were easy. Maybe I'm just not satisfied with myself? :confused: I seem to run out of things to write you see. Anyway, science was a complete pile of piss :), maths was a bit icky, but paper 2 in both those subjects are next week. Think that's about it.

None especially hard, humanities was ok! :)

[Lil Laura]

Originally posted by Doofay
None of the GCSE folks go in there though - and the exams are important so we need some reassurance and stuff blah blah.

:p

Pfft. GCSEs come second only to SATS in the list of least-important-exams-in-the-world-ever. :(

:heart: :p

[ShyBoy]

Originally posted by Lil Laura
Pfft. GCSEs come second only to SATS in the list of least-important-exams-in-the-world-ever. :(

:heart: :p

What about those obscure tests you have to do in tutor time? :confused: Can't even remember the name of them....

[*raver*]

Originally posted by Lil Laura
Pfft. GCSEs come second only to SATS in the list of least-important-exams-in-the-world-ever. :(


Peraphs in a few years time when applying for jobs your GCSE results will not mean anything but they do affect what further education courses you can take. If you don't have 5 A-C's you can't get on most of the higher level courses or A-levels without putting a lot of extra effort in.

[Olive]

Originally posted by Lil Laura
Pfft. GCSEs come second only to SATS in the list of least-important-exams-in-the-world-ever. :(


did you ever do richmond tests? we had to do them for the last few years of primary school. they were so incredibly pointless.

they'd be like 'you got 131'. and you'd think, what the hell does that mean?

[Lil Laura]

Originally posted by kaffrin
did you ever do richmond tests? we had to do them for the last few years of primary school. they were so incredibly pointless.

they'd be like 'you got 131'. and you'd think, what the hell does that mean?

:no:

I do remember some tests in primary school though, the questions were all read out and it was like -

'Which of the following is the odd one out: Dog, cat, horse, watermelon.'

I loved those. So piss easy. Ok, I stand corrected. Meanies. :(

[Doofay]

Originally posted by TheShyBoyInTheCorner
What about those obscure tests you have to do in tutor time? :confused: Can't even remember the name of them....

Like the cognative ability tests (C.A.Ts). We didn't even get to get our scores :(

[Olive]

Originally posted by Lil Laura
'Which of the following is the odd one out: Dog, cat, horse, watermelon.'


:lol:

nah, these were harder than that, but still not overly stressful. in year 6 i would have got 100%, but i didn't know what 'conflagration' meant. bastards. will never forget it now :(

[Godders]

English lit went terrible! All the other tests have gone ok.

Apart from the english exam today which went suprisingly well.
Got german reading and writing tomorrow and im not looking forward to that.:(
But then iv only got 5 exams left!:D hehe

[Lil Laura]

Originally posted by kaffrin
:lol:

nah, these were harder than that, but still not overly stressful. in year 6 i would have got 100%, but i didn't know what 'conflagration' meant. bastards. will never forget it now :(

They expected you to know what that meant when you were 11? That's just nasty. :(

[Doofay]

Originally posted by curiouslad
English lit went terrible! All the other tests have gone ok.

Apart from the english exam today which went suprisingly well.
Got german reading and writing tomorrow and im not looking forward to that.:(
But then iv only got 5 exams left!:D hehe

:eek: i thought you were older!

[Godders]

Originally posted by Doofay
:eek: i thought you were older!

I do qualify as 18 anywhere!;) :D

[Simba T Lion]

so random question what does gcse stand for? and why must you take these tests?

[Godders]

Originally posted by my_name
so random question what does gcse stand for? and why must you take these tests?

General Certificate of Secondary Education. They are what you do when you finish compulsary education. So the grades can get you to further education or a job etc.

edited cos kaff got it right.

[Olive]

Originally posted by my_name
so random question what does gcse stand for? and why must you take these tests?

general certificate of secondary education.

same reason you guys have high school diplomas and stuff.

[Young and sexy]

English Lit. was okay, but I never know whether I'm answering the question or just blabbering on and repeating myself. Same with the English Lang. today, although that one I think was alright. French listening was hard, reading wasn't so bad. Science have gone pretty easy so far, still got loads more science to do though.

I hate being on higher tier for everything :(

Drama went brilliantly though, our play got the best response, and it was so fun to do! :D

It's hard to judge how you've done though, I really couldn't say. :/

[burningwings]

erm, they're going rubbishly!!
-PE was okay,
-English literature was hard because the questions were on minor scenes of Romeo and Juliet and Great Expectations, which we hadnt studied and didnt feature in the revision guide,
-Biology was okay, but didnt include much biology in my opinion, as it had nothing to do with plants, the heart, respiration (etc),
-maths non-calc was murder and so incredibly hard i will be lucky to get anything!! I wanted an A so I revised and I still didnt understand the exam. Dammit.
-Product Design was all arty stuff and nothing to do with properties of materials or manufacturing processes like I'd learnt, and I basically ran out of time so had a rubbish card design,
-French listening and reading was half easy and half difficult (but I only wanted a B in that anyway)
-and English language I probably did all wrong but I really enjoyed it!!!

I'm worried about religion tomorrow because I hadnt done any revision until today and I did 8hrs solid cramming!! Lol.. I think I know Judaism pretty well now but apparently you need 95% or something to get an A*??? Dammit..

[paperBprincess]

Originally posted by burningwings
I'm worried about religion tomorrow because I hadnt done any revision until today and I did 8hrs solid cramming!! Lol.. I think I know Judaism pretty well now but apparently you need 95% or something to get an A*??? Dammit.. on ours its at most 86%
just be clear with the essay question!

[*TiNK*]

Mine are going ok atm. Science went crap though, have to say, fuckin awful! :( but got another science on monday so im gona try and make it up! :)
I made a stupid mistake in my maths.. whats a 5 sided shape... pentaon *thinks* crosses out an writes hexagon :banghead:
Got r.e at one, in hoping to do well in this, i was 2 marks off a B in my mock exam, and that was from not revising, and ive revised this time so *fingers crossed*

Anyone know the actual date we get the results back? :confused:

[paperBprincess]

i think its the 26th august. but it might be the 24th.

[*TiNK*]

Originally posted by paperBprincess
i think its the 26th august. but it might be the 24th.

Kewl. Ive got it written down somewhere, but not sure where :chin:

Good Luck to you all with the rest of your exams! :D

[Psycho_Smurf]

I've had some english, maths, science, citizenship (ugh), IT. I've just had health and social care and I found it pretty easy which was good :D I've still got food, 2 history ones, english maths and science left.... Shame I find all the modules in the second science exam harder... :rolleyes:

[Doofay]

How'd those of you who did R.E today find it?

I did 8 and a half pages for the essay questions, mostly babbling on about crap but hopefully i'll get an A in that, as it's one of the only things i really can. The questions were easy, although the St. Peter's vision one [christianity] i basically rewrote as MLK's dream lol.

[paperBprincess]

we did a different paper i think.

it was about abortion and poverty.
i think i did pretty well actually, i know i screwed up a few cos i made bits of the teachings of the church of england up... (always my speciality)

[Doofay]

Originally posted by paperBprincess
we did a different paper i think.

it was about abortion and poverty.
i think i did pretty well actually, i know i screwed up a few cos i made bits of the teachings of the church of england up... (always my speciality)

Mine was about the whole moral issues abortion and poverty thing, but i think we get different papers for different religions and things...

Although, was your last question one about whether the most important christian issue is the environment?

And the ripping the perforated paper.... that distracted me so much in the first exam :mad:

[lucifer devil]

Originally posted by Doofay
:eek: i thought you were older!

i thought you were older (doofay i mean)!

[Doofay]

:eek: I seem to get that a lot for some reason lol.

[burningwings]

omg..i did religion (judaism) and the 10hrs of solid cramming i did paid off and the subjects i knew came up and i wrote 9 pages of tiny writing and god i am so relieved..i was so panicky and it's ok.. now a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. :)
it asked about food, the family, and sukkot..happy happy happy day!!!!! :)

[Young and sexy]

Originally posted by Doofay
How'd those of you who did R.E today find it?

We had some facts to start off with, which tbh, we'd never really discussed in class, so I doubt I did well on those. The rest were the essay like questions, and for each section we got the choice of 2 questions. I reckon I did okay, like remembering different beliefs about abortion etc, although I think I made up some facts about the teachings of God. :p

[*TiNK*]

Originally posted by Doofay
How'd those of you who did R.E today find it?

I did 8 and a half pages for the essay questions, mostly babbling on about crap but hopefully i'll get an A in that, as it's one of the only things i really can. The questions were easy, although the St. Peter's vision one [christianity] i basically rewrote as MLK's dream lol.

I did the same one as you, and i compleatley messed up on the whole environment section cuz i was ill when we did that in school so i didnt know anything about it! :(

[swank]

*gone*

[paperBprincess]

Originally posted by Doofay

Although, was your last question one about whether the most important christian issue is the environment?

And the ripping the perforated paper.... that distracted me so much in the first exam :mad: i chose to do the question on poverty so i dunno.

and yes the preforarated paper! so so much fun!


grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrripppppppppppppppp

[luckystar69]

Ive had spanish- listening, reading and speaking...i messed up my speaking but the others were a piece of piss! my strong subject languages though!Saying that though i found french listening quite tricky :nervous:

Had one maths paper- omg!!! how hard was that!?!!!! almost half the paper i havent even answerd it was that hard i couldnt even think of answers to make up!!

Biology was ok i think last question were a bitch though! oh done both R.S papers too now christianity were pretty hard but religion and life were a piece of piss! yay!

English has been ok so far we do welsh board so we have 3 papers :eek2: they were ok i wrote a steamy love story! hahaha!
Anyone else do weslh board and do you know whats on tha third paper?

[paperBprincess]

so so scared about second science exam, history and maths calc.

arghh! wish i'd started revision earlier!

[Psycho_Smurf]

Originally posted by paperBprincess
so so scared about second science exam, history and maths calc.

arghh! wish i'd started revision earlier!

Me too! I've got all them ones this monday and tuesday. Sucks that they squashed all the hard ones that need a lot of revision together :rolleyes:

[Luce]

Yeah, i thought Doofay was older as well. Like, 26.

[Young and sexy]

I'm so glad I took my maths last year, it's out of the way now. (although I've got statistics, so yah i probably still drew the short straw :impissed: ).

I thought science went ok today actually, only got one more lot of science left now, thank fuck! :D

Hmm...better get ready now so I'm not late for English Media.

[Lil Laura]

Is Media a seperate English paper then? What exam board is it?

[Young and sexy]

Originally posted by Lil Laura
Is Media a seperate English paper then? What exam board is it?
Yeh it is. We do Literature, Language, and Media.

Edexcel, btw.

[paperBprincess]

5 to go now science and english are out the way - found both ok, nailed the last two questions on media, creative writing :D what a god send

[Young and sexy]

Originally posted by paperBprincess
5 to go now science and english are out the way - found both ok, nailed the last two questions on media, creative writing :D what a god send
Yeh, especially the 2nd question :thumb:

Still got one more lot of Science though :(

[*TiNK*]

Science i thought went really well. I bummed out on the first science paper so im hoping the one i did today and cw brings the grade up! English i also think went well, i chose to write about a holiday place, god i could have written about it for ages, good job i have extra time cuz i didnt do it in an hour and a half either.

Maths tomorrow.... easy cuz its foundation ;) lol.

[paperBprincess]

Originally posted by *TiNK*
Maths tomorrow.... easy cuz its foundation ;) lol. lucky! the higher paper is disgustingly difficult

[*TiNK*]

Originally posted by *TiNK*

Maths tomorrow.... easy cuz its foundation ;) lol.

i take that back, there was 2 questions on there which i found really hard. I always muck up the calculator one! and you think that would be the easiest! :(

[Psycho_Smurf]

Yeah, I know what you mean.... I found the calculator one harder than last weeks one.

[paperBprincess]

ohmygosh history :heart:
that is all.

[Psycho_Smurf]

It was good for you then?
We hadn't studied some of it, but oh well :rolleyes:

[paperBprincess]

ohh yeah. it was like all the stuff we studied really in depth

[Psycho_Smurf]

ah, that's good then.
At least there's not as much to revise for next week's one!

[burningwings]

I'm not sure if my exams are going ok or not.. today was def the worst day of my timetable, and maths was ok for the first half but gradually got harder (edexcel), and history...cold war and ww2...well i only started revising that last night, as i tried a few weeks ago and had panic attacks and stopped and was too scared to try again. but it did stuff i half understood and i am thinking that a B or low A may be possible! Same for maths! yay. lol.
Christianity will suck I bet...i did good in the mock (93% or something), but i have forgotten stuff, and noone gets that! Lol!! Eek..
FRENCH tomorrow..i hate french.......i am only aiming for a B though. i'll be happy with that despite my friends getting A*s... no chance...best i'll get is a low A...need sleep...

[Doofay]

Originally posted by Young and sexy
Yeh it is. We do Literature, Language, and Media.

Edexcel, btw.

Actually i'm with WJEC [Welsh Joint Examining Commitee].

Which is good because Edexcel are so shit :p

[paperBprincess]

Originally posted by Doofay
Which is good because Edexcel are so shit :p :yes: hate edexcel

[*TiNK*]

One more exam to go!! Next week, its media, and then done!! :D:D:D:D:D

[Young and sexy]

Originally posted by Doofay
Actually i'm with WJEC [Welsh Joint Examining Commitee].

Very nice, but she asked which examining board I was with. :p

Originally posted by Doofay
Which is good because Edexcel are so shit :p
I'm so offended. :p

[Godders]

Just got history left. My left test was history last tuesday. it was so easy. Defo got an A* in history.:cool:

The maths calculator paper was easier than the non calc.

[paperBprincess]

finished!!!!!!!!!!

[Doofay]

Just about to go off for my [wjec :p] media exam then all done :D

[Young and sexy]

Had my last science ones yesterday :D
And a 2½ hour Sociology exam. :(

Ive still got an exam on friday...STATS :(

[*TiNK*]

Originally posted by Doofay
Just about to go off for my [wjec :p] media exam then all done :D

lol i just had that! wot u think?

All my exams are over!!!! :D:D:D:D:D

[Godders]

Had history today! A piece of piss!

Im a free man! hehe

[Young and sexy]

I FINISHED TODAY! :thumb:

[Doofay]

NO MORE FUCKING EXAMS!!!!

[lucifer devil]

Originally posted by Doofay
NO MORE FUCKING EXAMS!!!!

Until AS/A-levels. :p

That's if you're doing them. (: