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"GCSE Exam fears..."

Who else is worried about their exams? Well, I guess that's pretty much every 15/16 year old around. Anyhoo, how are you all coping with the pressure? Revising whenever you can or taking it easy?

I know I'm smart enought to pass the ones that I want. Maths is a dead loss though ;0

Its just this annoying fear of failure crap!

Yeah I'm doing my GCSE's this year. I'm pretty confident I can get decent grades in all of my subjects and that's without revision. I'll probably revise to get rid of a few C's and gain a few A's. All I need to revise heavily for is maths, stupid school couldn't get us a teacher for the whole of year 10 so we ended up learning f**k all. And then the whole class failed the mock exam so they realised that we needed a teacher. Got a decent one now too but there's too much material to cover in such a short time.

Ah.

It's because when you go into 5th year in Scotland (Year 12 to you southerners), you can take either Intermediate 1, 2 or Higher.

Higher is the best, Int 1 being the worst.

I got 4 A's and a B at Higher.
The B was in Info Systems, but it was the day after the Physics exam, which I was told I was going to fail, and after a quick study session at like 4am before the Physics exam (After I finished watching the Great Escape), I was completely knackeredd.

I thought I'd aced the exam.

a B THOUGH!?

:-(

Ah well.
Only 9 people out of 210 got 5 A's, and they're all geeks who study.

I didn't study.

1 4m 73h 1337.

England.

My school took maths GCSE in Dec rather than June/July..only for the top 3/9 classes. As I was in the top I took it early.

There was a highter, intermediate and lower (I think it was lower). Only 9 people in my year took higher, only 8 got A's.

Puddin' wrote:
> I did my Maths exam early..my coursework was lame as..and my teacher
> put me into intermediate when I knew I should have been in Higher.
> Anyhoo..about 3 months before my exam we got told to do practice
> papers. I was the only one to do them and by the end i was doing them
> in 30 mins rather than an hour. I got the highest B in my year (B was
> the highest grade I could have got). I know I should have retook
> higher maths and got an A..grrr..

Wait, did you go to school in Scotland?
Either that or the English system is just a lot more similar to the Scottish one than I thought.

But if you did go in Scotland, how the hell did you manage to take your exam early?

We're not allowed (Punk-assed SQA, I could ace my Advanced Maths now, but I need to wait 2 months to take the exam.

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FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> I think (think, may be mistaken) they actually give you marks based
> on your answer to the questions.

I'm not sure how many marks extra, but yes they do.

I know for other subjects, 10 points are rewarded for spelling and grammar

I wouldn't worry about GCSE's, they really are nothing.

Well I turned my grade around in 3 months.

Ask you're teacher for practice papers and ask him/her to mark them for you..even of you only do 3, at least you can see where you are going wrong.

Chr1s wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Or that 0% of the exam is based around spelling and grammar.
>
> It's an English exam, of course it matters, especially if they can't
> actually read what I've written.

My handwriting sucks ass too, and I pwned them all.
And spelling and grammar counts as much in English as in any other subject.

I think (think, may be mistaken) they actually give you marks based on your answer to the questions.

May ish.

When is your exam?