5614 Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 yea, 99% on Physics exam. Woot!Only 99%, aint that a fail? Yeah, got exams everyday this week, everyday next week so I'm busy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 i have seen the term "GCSEs" used here, but i don't know what it means. is it a british thing or something?General Certificate of Secondary Education. Its what we (in britain) take at age 16, when leaving compulsary school. Good luck to everyone taking exams ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 ive had My chemistry exams 2day. introduction to organic, and foundation physical and inorganic. I've got Statistics tomorrow wich should be ok, providing i can do the perms and combs! This time i had: Biology: >Making Use of Biology Geography: >Core concepts in physical >core concepts in Human > geographical skills Mathematics: >Core (pure) 2 >Probability and Statistics 1 Chemistry: >Introduction to organic >foundation to physical and inorganic. for my GCSEs there were about 100 in my year at school, and about 3 invidulators depending on the amount. At sixth form there was about 50 doing chemistry and 2 invidulators not from school plus head of chemistry and two people who orgainse the exams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulderMan Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 got gcse statistics in a few weeks time aswell as 3 science modules - maintainance of life, metals and electricity. modules are easy though as for one its only gcse and other it is multiple choicle colour in the cirlces knida thing... in some perspective gcse's can be harder for the more intelectual types as they have to revert back to "basic" knowledge rather than terminoligies and things they know day-to-day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severian Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 yea, 99% on Physics exam. Woot! I remember coming home with exam results one time and telling my Dad I had 99% for my exam. His reaction was 'What happened to the 1%? Work harder next time!'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 i agree mulderman, when i did my GCSEs they were all a bit boring, because they werent very taxing. i remember doing my science modules! they were such fun! lol! Good luck with all your exams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulderMan Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 just finished my gcse statistics exam, hard work i suppose as it doesnt really interest me... atleast ill never have to hear of spearmans rank correlation coefficant!! also i dont see why they have it 2h 30m, most were done in a hour, i hate waiting for a exam to finish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 i totally agree with you! In my GCSE stats exam last year i asked to go to the toilet to waste a bit of time from it! we didnt even do anywork for the exam, my maths teacher just put me in for the exam. not bad saying i got an A! but damn no A*! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Oh... I came to this thread to ask if anyone else found that Edexcel Stats paper extraordinarily easy (hmm, maybe!) and if anyone else finished the 2.5hr exam after about 1.5hrs (yes!). Anyway, did anyone do AQA Electronics??? If so you know that flow diagram with the lift being called from ground to 1st floor with the 'is person in door' check; does anyone know why that flow diagram (say no more than 5 boxes excluding those provided) was a 10 mark question (plus another 2 for quality)??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulderMan Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 yes yesterdays stats paper was very easy - there was only a little bit of what most people would consider "real maths", the rest was more like an english exam. yea almost everyone finished it within a 1h/1h30m. wish our school would offer electronics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Our school offerred it to 3 people one term into year 10... only 2 people accepted it (me and one other!), we never really had a proper teacher, there are two "tech" (ie. resistant materials) teachers, only one of them has ever taught electronics before and he was teaching the resistant materials I'd just left. The other teacher knows a bit, but not really enough to teach the advance side (or troubleshoot not working circuits). But hey it was good fun and I'm hoping (and its a very realistic hope) for an A*. When people get your grades post em here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 25th Aug is my GCSEs and 18th My 1 AS level. When do you guys get results back? My bro graduated with a 2 2 in environmental management from brum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulderMan Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 25th for my one statistics. what was your AS in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 Science For Public Understanding. I am now slightly annoyed that our school didnt do a stats AS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 ok well, GCSEs tommorow , people with A-Level reults allready, get posting. Yeh, 5614, if you wanna discuss the electronics paper, im me on here or messenger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I can hardly remember any of the papers, I remember stats was the easiest exam I've ever taken and everyone agreed and that french wasn't so good, otherwise can't remember much. About electronics I remember there was a flow chart worth like 6 marks which had about 3, 4 or 5 boxes and the 2 of us taking electronics in my school (plus teachers) couldn't work out why it was worth so many marks. Anyway, did well in the coursework so hoping for good grades. Everyone post your results! I've applied to do: Physics, Chemistry, ICT, Maths, Further Maths for AS & Alevel, should get into that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 yes, i remember the question. I could remember the flow chart from IT revision. How i did? Tommorow we shall see btw, you get to do further maths instead of GS? 1 person in my school is allowed too [/envy] but the collage still maintains youre not allowed to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 What's GS??? We can, within reason, do whatever we want. It's a 6th form, not college, so they teach every subject, not just sciences. btw, 6 people from my school got into Oxbridge this year, hope I do in 2 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 GS = general studies... I went to a tertiarry college it sucked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 That's what I thought it'd stand for... but I dunno what "General studies" is either! We just chose what AS levels we are doing and that's all we do (except we have to do PE and religious studies, but that's not an Alevel, just the classes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 So I got: Electronics: A* ICT: A* Science: A* A* (Double Science counts for 2 grades) (374/400 in the finals) Maths: A* (300/300 in the final) English Lit: A English Lang: A Religiousy stuff: A French: B Statistics: B# Now what does B# mean??? It means I missed part of the exam, weird, because I certainly didn't. In addition everyone in my school who took statistics got the same # so there must be a problem somewhere! After an A* in stats coursework and mocks and a very easy exam I expected an A*, hopefully this # will be sorted out and the B will go to an A*. (Subjects which don't have an actual score next to them I didn't get a mark!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 5A*s 5As and an A in AS Science. W00t. But im too tired to care now....... [/yawn] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severian Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Science? You have GCSE's in 'Science'? What ever happened to Physics, Biology and Chemistry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 We're not allowed to do, Sepreate sciences. Unless you are referring to my AS level, which is Science for Public Understanding; http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/pdf/AQA-5401-W-SP-07.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Science? You have GCSE's in 'Science'? What ever happened to Physics, Biology and Chemistry? Sad isn't it! I suppose at least this way my physics/chem can boost my bio enough to get the A* You can actually do "Triple science" where you take each part individually, however very few people actually take it. When tables come out tomorrow with GCSE's I'll look to see if it gives single/double/triple science seperately and how many people take them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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