FAO: GCSE students
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My sister's revising for hers at the moment, so I'm marking her practise papers for her. In the science papers, at least, I can give the following advice:
Read the questions, then read them again. Almost all of the answers are in the questions, if you know what you're looking for. A little bit of rudimentary knowledge and logic will get you the rest of the way.
Read the questions, then read them again. Almost all of the answers are in the questions, if you know what you're looking for. A little bit of rudimentary knowledge and logic will get you the rest of the way.
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My advice: Lap up the GCSE's, A-Levels are the hardest exams you'll sit!It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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thekickingmule wrote:My advice: Lap up the GCSE's, A-Levels are the hardest exams you'll sit!
I agree, I did a reasonably hard degree, but nothing compares to A'level Maths or Physics....but then again I worked my aris off for my degree and did bugger all in sixth form.Santa Cruz Chameleon
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I agree - I did 'A' level maths and physics, then a maths based degree. The maths in the 'a' level was much harder.0
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I'd agree with that actually as well. I'm doing a physics degree, and one of the first semester modules was skills, which basically taught us methods to make all of these horrible things we'd struggled with in A levels incredibly easy. Things like dimensional analysis which mean you essentially don't need to remember any formulae... If I'd known how to do all of that during my A levels, I'd have flown through them.thekickingmule wrote:My advice: Lap up the GCSE's, A-Levels are the hardest exams you'll sit!0 -
thekickingmule wrote:My advice: Lap up the GCSE's, A-Levels are the hardest exams you'll sit!
hence why i took "easy" subjects, such as media studies, film studies and english
speaking of which i finished my A level exams yesterday 0 -
lawman wrote:thekickingmule wrote:My advice: Lap up the GCSE's, A-Levels are the hardest exams you'll sit!
hence why i took "easy" subjects, such as media studies, film studies and english
speaking of which i finished my A level exams yesterday
Congrats dude!
DO they actually give UCAS points for media studies anymore??
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arent media studies and film studies just excuses to carry on living at home?0
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ey they do indeed
need 240 points (so 3 C's) to study media at abersytweth, although i did apply for a place in cornwall that wanted just ..... 80 points 0 -
lawman wrote:ey they do indeed
need 240 points (so 3 C's) to study media at abersytweth, although i did apply for a place in cornwall that wanted just ..... 80 points
Go to Aber, bloody briliant place!
And it is ridiculous that physics and maths get the same points as media etc. Fair play to you for doing them, because it means you get to go to a decent uni. Hate the game, not the player, yo!
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sheepsteeth wrote:arent media studies and film studies just excuses to carry on living at home?
now lets not start another education debate here
tbh i would have done a proper A level in journalism if i had the chance, but i didnt so media and film were the next best thing. plus as most have found out, most other subjects have made them all pull their hair out 0 -
thanks for that... a full day late!
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Am quite nervous about A-Level Physics, even though it is 5 years away Doing German and General Studies / possibly higher Physics early (next year), so to get those out of the way will give me less to do in college :P (sound like a right nerd, am not though ) 0
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GCSE exams are getting each year anyways
Not like when I were a lad when they were hard as nails... looking back maybe I should of put some effort in and actually revised!! Still managed 2 B's and 5 C's though..0 -
GCSEs are a piece of piss. I guarantee I could walk into the exams now with no revision and get decent grades.
A-Levels are a massive step up. Physics was ok but Maths is a whole different beast!
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Yeah GCSE's are stupidly easy. I don't think they are a good thing at all, as I did no work or revision for GCSE and got 1 A*, 7 A and 2 B. This made me go into 6th form with the [wrong] assumption that I could get top grades without doing anything. As such I got mediocre A levels.0
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Pretty much the same thing happened to me. Did nothing for GCSEs, got something like 7 As, 2 Bs and 3 Cs. Went to college, got 4 As and a B in my first year (AS level), again with little work. Got to A2 level, and holy crap, what the hell happened there? I suddenly couldn't do anything, and had to spend a few years (a repeat of my A2 year plus a foundation year at uni) teaching myself how to actually do work effectively.A.Palmer wrote:Yeah GCSE's are stupidly easy. I don't think they are a good thing at all, as I did no work or revision for GCSE and got 1 A*, 7 A and 2 B. This made me go into 6th form with the [wrong] assumption that I could get top grades without doing anything. As such I got mediocre A levels.0 -
Whoa! You did A2s? Try doing the old school A-Levels, where you do nothing for two years and then panic cram for the last month before H-Hour. :shock:0
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Yup my grades made me think sixth form was worth ago. I lasted about 8 months and thought fuck this and got an apprenticeship as a fabby.0
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Higher maths- sort of A levels only better- was the hardest exam I've ever done. I failed it 3 times Way harder than anything I did on my degree. Uncompromising extremist0
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What's a fabby? An extra in the TV show 'Absolutely Fabulous'? Someone who fabricates stories for tabloids? A fan of 90's Italian footballer Fabricio Ravanelli?0
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None of the above
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alexj2233 wrote:and one bottom bracket tubey thing
Thats the one!0 -
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thekickingmule wrote:My advice: Lap up the GCSE's, A-Levels are the hardest exams you'll sit!
Rubbish - depending on what degree you went onto at uni 0 -
Not rubbish! A-Levels (the old ones anyway) were much harder than uni!0
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GCSE's = piece of cake!
Though A-Level,s.... doesn't help when your Geography question has no relevance to the Geography at all. What has Taxing and Subsidizing got to do with it?
Worse case, I wait 2 years, gain MORE UCAS points then apply again to Abber."If I Was Falling, YOU BETTER FREAKING CATCH ME!!!"
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