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"My GCSE Results"

Right, this is what I've been told is the status:

B = Very high grade
C = High grade
D = Average
E = Below average
U = "A corpse could score more!"

The reason there isn't an A is because it's the intermediate one.

Result Stuff
Test number 1 (i & ii)
Taken on the 7th Nov 2006
Result on the 18th Jan 2007: B (66 marks)

Test Number 2 (i & ii)
Taken on the 8th Mar 2007
Result (Can't remember dateor marks): B

Test Number 3 (i)
Taken on the 4th June 2007
Result: TBC

Test number 3 (ii)
Taken on the 11th June 2007
Result: TBC (Along with overall result)

I will update when necessary.

I just got my mock results back.

English: A
History: A
Maths: A
RE: A
Science: A
Science: A
Art: D

I guess I did ok huh, I'm a lil disappointed with my art result.

You guys proud of me? ;P

Der Nazi wrote:
> Smedlos wrote:
> I found the step up from GCSE's to A - Levels was massive for
> me
> and I really struggled, however I thought the first year at
> University was easier than A - Levels with the second and
> especially the third years being really tough.
>
> Isn't that due to the fact most courses don't have much (if
> any?) work that you're assessed on? Still, it sounds good to me,
> having a year that sin't wuite as bad before things really heat
> up!

For my first year subjects we had exams and coursework for just about all the modules.

I think the reasoning behing it was that if you have to do coursework you learn the subject as you do it and are therefore better prepared for the exams rather than just dossing and trying to cram it all in in the last few weeks.

Quite a few of my exams were open book as well, all the law ones were as instead of having to learn cases you have the learn how to apply past cases to a scenario in the exam.

For example you'd get the background to a case and you'd have to give reasons and reference past verdicts in similar cases to say why you think the person(s) are guilty or not guilty. You also didn't get marks for the "correct" verdict as there usually wasn't one, you scored the marks from your past case references and reasonings.

I always found coursework to be pretty much the same work as whats in the exam only you dont have the pressure of it being in timed conditions.

Geffdof wrote:
> Coursework is great. You can boost your overall mark by doing
> well in coursework and you have a lot longer to do it in
> comparison to an exam so have more time to check over it.

Or your overall grade will suffer because you are made to do it.
Guess it differs from person to person. I'm the king of bluffing through exams.

Geffdof wrote:
> Fair enough, but whoever told you is wrong. C is always the
> average mark. Thats just the way it works.

Unless I'm missing something, that's working off the assumption that 11 year olds will average the same as 16 year olds.

I used to hate coursework at A level and GCSE but at uni I much prefer it. Exam results are so temperamental, especially in some of the subjects I do; you take one exam and get a great mark but had the questions been slightly different you would have been lucky to pass. And vice versa. Maybe slightly exaggerated but the point is there.

Coursework is great. You can boost your overall mark by doing well in coursework and you have a lot longer to do it in comparison to an exam so have more time to check over it.

Thanks, Geffdof... Oh, and Matt. :)

Alfonse wrote:
> Anyone else hate coursework alot more than they hate exams?

Good news and bad news, apparently they're getting rid of coursework, and this is the last year for it.

Bad news because it means you still had to do it. Good news because it means when I'm a year 11 I don't (even though I've done some this year)

Anyway, you got a B which is fabulous so well done and good luck with the others.

Fair enough, but whoever told you is wrong. C is always the average mark. Thats just the way it works.

For those of you who said D isn't average, look:
> Right, this is what I've been told is average for a year 11...

Happy?