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"GCSE's cumin up"

over my whole life span i have never, not once revised and i have passed a majoritory of my tests, for my GCSE tests do you think i should revise and go for thr B or even the A rarther than settleing for the C? according to my english teacher, if i actually did coursework, and performed for the test i could get a B! should I?

Thanks for that Chipseh, very helpful indeed. Right now I'm leaning more towards the AS level...but I'll decide when the time comes :)

Heh, I wouldn't go that far. :)

AS was quite enjoyable. Nice piece of coursework, and the two exams were Human and Physical Geography. A couple of models, a few case studies, it's not too bad.

A-Level, however, is evil. It starts off OK, you start doing Hazards which is interesting, and then tourism sneaks up and gives you lovely morsels of information, such as "Only 30% of waste dumped into the Mediterranean is treated". Yep, remember that next time you go swimming there, OK?

You also get another piece of coursework, but you get to choose what you want to focus on. I did a comparison between Hurricanes in LEDCs/MEDCs and it was fairly interesting.

Then you get near the end of the course, and get given a pre-release booklet. There's 9 topics or so, and they give you a random one. They are:

-Forests
-Fresh water
-Oceans
-Waste Management
-Energy
-Transport
-Landscapes
-Air Quality
-Soil


And, hurrah, we got soil. :/

If you do go and take it, be prepared to learn a load of case studies, that's all. :) I don't regret it, I just wish they gave us something else other than soil.

Lipe wrote:
> Bit like one of the African teachers in
> our school. He falls over a chair and then gets up going "I use
> tai-chi to break my fall!" but in a proper African accent.

Aha, brilliant. The best fall I ever saw was in a Spanish lesson. The cassette player was plugged in and a fat kid ran past, tripped over the wire, went completely horizontal in the air, and then fell flat on his face. Then the teacher moaned when everyone laughed.

So Chipseh, chipseh Geography A-Level is no good then? At all?

gamesfreak wrote:
> Chipseh - 20 case studies?

Yep, I have Case studies on Hazards, Tourism and Sustainable Development.

Did you know, Sea cucumber fishing is a major problem in the Galapagos islands, with a ban being imposed in 1992. You can earn up to £2000 a year from fishing them.

Oh, the joys of Geography.

> Oh well, good luck tomorrow.

Thanks. :)

JFH wrote:
> Best ever maths teacher is Mr. Patel, "Mr. Patel and calculators
> are not good friends." (in a proper Indian accent).

LMAO! That sounds so funny :P Bit like one of the African teachers in our school. He falls over a chair and then gets up going "I use tai-chi to break my fall!" but in a proper African accent. These two teachers should meet up.

Best ever maths teacher is Mr. Patel, "Mr. Patel and calculators are not good friends." (in a proper Indian accent).

JFH wrote:
> I had four different DT teachers in year 9.

I had 4 different ones in-between year 10 and year 11 for maths. So good, they give us crappy supplies when we have our major exams, yay. At least I made one of them cry.

And you want case studies?
Try doing Psychology for A-Level.

Have to learn bare (very bare) minimum of 80 studies.
And then in the exam ... we have to use 8 of them in total.

It's quite easily the worst-designed exam I'll ever have to take.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Lipe wrote:
> 20 case studies?! I have a hard enough time learning 5 or 6...maybe
> I
> shouldn't take geography for A-Level. And soil? Out of all the
> things
> in Geography they pick soil? :o
>
> Do the AS course if you want - it's a doddle.
> Just not the 2nd year. Everyone out of my old class has starting
> cutting themselves.

Looks like that's what I might do then (the AS course that is :P) And apparently in the 2nd year there's some £300 trip to Yorkshire which is compulsory...£300 to go to Yorkshire? My year went to France for less money.