About gcse's

[HunterR]

For those who took them are they really as hard as teachers claim them to be? At my school the teacher said to do a minimum of 2 hours per day studying for the gcse's so are they REALLY this hard? ... I got like a box load of past gcse papers from 2003/04 and some 05 and they really aint that hard to do ...

no flaming please =/ thanks 4 any info.

 

[¤]´)÷¤--§îr Äürøñ--¤÷(`[¤]

ROFLMFAO. GCSEs, hard?

No. They're time consuming. GCSEs are a memory test, that simple. For A-level you need intelligence. Your teacher is trying to scare you.

 

[kud125]

like auron said, tbh if you revise well and remember it you will do well

 

[HunterR]

ROFLMFAO. GCSEs, hard?

No. They're time consuming. GCSEs are a memory test, that simple. For A-level you need intelligence. Your teacher is trying to scare you.

Well now im in the panic stage and im not sure why kinda like " you fool u messed about the whole year and done **** all". Although i got top grades for my coursework im kinda scared that i wont get 5c and above to do my a-levels

 

[Blaminator]

I didn't even get one A, and im still doing Physics, ICT, Sociology, Media Studies and IT Essentials run by Cisco and HP, worth 2 A levels, which i've already completed, four months in advance.

go me

 

[¤]´)÷¤--§îr Äürøñ--¤÷(`[¤]

I got a few A's, but getting pissed the night before, well, Hah.

Anyway, panic is the worst thing to do. Get a book, and start memorising. I messed about all year, did a few weeks (3 days) of crash-memorising, and walked away Ok. But then again, I can absorb knowledge like a sponge :P

What subjects you taking, anyway?

 

[Far]

i got almost straight E's in my mocks. didnt revise at all for em. revised abit more (since i thought they'd b as hard as my mocks), ended up with almost straight A's. they were so easy, especially physics.

now A levels, they were hard.

 

[Turin]

I will leave school with 16(not counting double awards) GCSE's because I took 4 of them early and got straight A's. My mock results (I posted earlier this year on forums) were mostly A*s/A's too.

As you can see I found them quite easy but I do have friends who got all below Ds in their mocks errm...

As for AS/A2 levels, well I'm doing History A Level at the moment, and I find it's a bit different than GCSE. The latter was all about learning lots of facts and then repeating them on paper... A levels a lot more analysings, possibilities and interpretation of history - a lot more depth and independant study.

I think I will be taking all Sciences (Physics, Human Biology, Chemistry, Math) for my college years (in short what I need to get into university for Medicine).

In any case, don't worry, personal advice is you should make a list of all your subjects...

Find your strongest and weakest, then prioritise your studies. Find subjects you might be on the borderline for passing (like D/E subjects) and try focus on getting them to a pass level, even 11 C's are better than 2 As and 7 Es for example lol.

Good Luck!
Turin

 

[HunterR]

I got a few A's, but getting pissed the night before, well, Hah.

Anyway, panic is the worst thing to do. Get a book, and start memorising. I messed about all year, did a few weeks (3 days) of crash-memorising, and walked away Ok. But then again, I can absorb knowledge like a sponge :P

What subjects you taking, anyway?

My chosen one's were (although i only got 1 that i wanted .... graphics)

History - Pure bullshet, we had a ace teacher in year 10 a RUBBISH teacher now cant teach to save her life, got predicted a B in year 10 and in year 11 with this teacher got predicted a D.
Graphics - The questions that they given me in the mocks seem repetitive? I still done 5/7 questions but i think i have my coursework that can back me up.
Music - Easy as hell, learn 2 songs 2 play on keyboard compose 2 = all your coursework which i have already done (my dad is a musician in his spear time). = 60% of my final grade
Maths , english = im ok with both of them english i really do not know what to study i just think its a case of are u good or not?. Maths in my mock test was quite easy because night before i took lots of test papers home done them when i went into the exam most of those questions or similar were in it.

For maths to get C or B do you need something like 40%? i done both of my courseworks and got A for both = 19-20% i think.

 

[>DMX<]

They get easier each year, teachers just make a fuss over them. Put it this way i aint clever and didn't revise once and passed them all getting my lowest grade as an E in art as i didn't hand in the coursework, the rest was C's and D's tbh. So imagine what you could get by revising.

 

[Stonehelm]

Honestly i did about a total of 3 hours revision and walked a way with:

GNVQ:PASS
4 B's
5 C's
1 D (welsh -_-)

and i regret that now because i could of done better if i revised more. Dont worry about it.

 

[RightGuard]

I did no coursework, no revision and I received horrific grades for it. I don't regret it solely because I'm still going to uni, but that's only because I got my act together.

Ensure your coursework is not only done, but done well, and revise hard before the exam and you'll do fine... there are no trick questions and they won't bring up subjects you haven't learnt, everything you need to know is pretty much taught and re-taught in year 11, it will be alright on the night.. Unless you're Jamis? In which case shoot yourself in the face because you're really not a nice person.

/Saywell

 

[¤]´)÷¤--§îr Äürøñ--¤÷(`[¤]

My chosen one's were (although i only got 1 that i wanted .... graphics)

History - Pure bullshet, we had a ace teacher in year 10 a RUBBISH teacher now cant teach to save her life, got predicted a B in year 10 and in year 11 with this teacher got predicted a D.
Graphics - The questions that they given me in the mocks seem repetitive? I still done 5/7 questions but i think i have my coursework that can back me up.
Music - Easy as hell, learn 2 songs 2 play on keyboard compose 2 = all your coursework which i have already done (my dad is a musician in his spear time). = 60% of my final grade
Maths , english = im ok with both of them english i really do not know what to study i just think its a case of are u good or not?. Maths in my mock test was quite easy because night before i took lots of test papers home done them when i went into the exam most of those questions or similar were in it.

For maths to get C or B do you need something like 40%? i done both of my courseworks and got A for both = 19-20% i think.

English, just revise the literature side. Remember, insight in ANY form will open up the higher grades.

Maths, don't fall into the trap. Maths is actually an unpredictable exam. If you're doing the higher paper, focus on indicies and linear equations.

Oh, and for the love of god, don't use the calculator unless you absolutely HAVE to. I've heard of plenty of morons who on the calculator paper punch everything through the calculator, and it chews into their time massively. Remember, the human mind is far more powerful than your £5 calculator.

 

[HunterR]

English, just revise the literature side. Remember, insight in ANY form will open up the higher grades.

Maths, don't fall into the trap. Maths is actually an unpredictable exam. If you're doing the higher paper, focus on indicies and linear equations.

Oh, and for the love of god, don't use the calculator unless you absolutely HAVE to. I've heard of plenty of morons who on the calculator paper punch everything through the calculator, and it chews into their time massively. Remember, the human mind is far more powerful than your £5 calculator.

I find calculators helpful, although in the calculator test i didnt do so well as i did in the non-calculator one purly because i forgot my compas and protactor(sp?) in my bag forgot to take it out and there was some gay questions where i had to draw the % on a circle and techers said they dont have any =/.

Any of you done gcse for history or graphics? How was it .. ?

 

[Nero]

if u wanna do well, lock ure PC away and throw away the key >.>

 

[Stonehelm]

Also another thing i have to say is sleep. Sleep is your friend, if your rested you will do much better compared to if your tired because you spent the night masturbating.

 

[DarkXXX]

I find calculators helpful, although in the calculator test i didnt do so well as i did in the non-calculator one purly because i forgot my compas and protactor(sp?) in my bag forgot to take it out and there was some gay questions where i had to draw the % on a circle and techers said they dont have any =/.

Any of you done gcse for history or graphics? How was it .. ?

Thats one thing, after 3 Maths Modular exams, i haven't had to use, a protractor or a compass =/. Due to their being nothing on the papers that needed these, so are you sure you did actually need to use them? and that it wasn't just equation work using the figures that were already there?

Most of the time teachers are only there to scare you into revising more, as they know that the results you get determine other peoples views on how good of a teacher they are. I did odd bits of revision for my mock exams and i think i did pretty well, apart from my Economics which i found extremely difficult and would be surprised if i even passed.

Main thing is not to worry, only makes things worse, as for 2 hours of studying each day thats just going to make you fed up after a couple of weeks and you'll stop revising all together, atleast i know i would.

 

[HunterR]

Also another thing i have to say is sleep. Sleep is your friend, if your rested you will do much better compared to if your tired because you spent the night masturbating.

lol .....................................

 

[HunterR]

Thats one thing, after 3 Maths Modular exams, i haven't had to use, a protractor or a compass =/. Due to their being nothing on the papers that needed these, so are you sure you did actually need to use them? and that it wasn't just equation work using the figures that were already there?

Most of the time teachers are only there to scare you into revising more, as they know that the results you get determine other peoples views on how good of a teacher they are. I did odd bits of revision for my mock exams and i think i did pretty well, apart from my Economics which i found extremely difficult and would be surprised if i even passed.

Main thing is not to worry, only makes things worse, as for 2 hours of studying each day thats just going to make you fed up after a couple of weeks and you'll stop revising all together, atleast i know i would.

yeah it was on the non calculator test, and we only had 2 tests 1 calculator and a non -calculator one.
There was 2 questions where i needed that equipment one of the question u had to calculate then draw the percentange (as they already drawn a circle and done the 1st bit for u). Cant rember the 2nd question >.>