GCSEs

drakan90 · #1 06-10-2005, 01:11 PM

Out of interest, who's doing their GCSEs at the moment?

Rich · #2 06-10-2005, 01:40 PM

I've done a 25% science exam. Are you in year 10 or 11?

Oddish · #3 06-10-2005, 01:48 PM

I got one on 29 of June, maths.

drakan90 · #4 06-11-2005, 02:43 AM

Well, year 11, obviously.
I mean like all your GCSEs, not those ones you do early (Like Business studies or ICT)

Rich · #5 06-11-2005, 03:06 AM

No, I am year 10 so I have year 10 exams this year, not GCSEs. But I have done a science exam that counts 25% towards the mark. My year 10 exams are coming up in a few weeks.

Hobo · #6 06-11-2005, 03:21 AM

I'm doing mine. My higher maths paper was impossible, and my french ones have been annoying, but everything else i believe i have succeeded in so far

Godlesswanderer · #7 06-11-2005, 07:47 AM

I've been doing mine over the past few weeks. My most recent one was an English test, poems from different cultures. But the last question was to describe a nightmare world. It was the best test question I've ever had. Very enjoyable

drakan90 · #8 06-11-2005, 11:37 AM

"My higher maths paper was impossible"
That is SO encouraging. Thank you for that. :-) lol

"the last question was to describe a nightmare world"
Hey, yeah, I did that one yesterday.
What was your nightmare world like, then?

Godlesswanderer · #9 06-11-2005, 03:17 PM

Long, twisty roads. Corpses scattered around, mauled and dismembered. A deserted village with a cloaked figure holding someone over a well, shortly before dropping them.

You know, the usual.

drakan90 · #10 06-12-2005, 01:26 AM

Mine was a village/town too.

Hobo · #11 06-12-2005, 01:30 AM

Mine was actually a big ass world and i just discribed it a lot with evil and schtuff.

I found the third english exam a lot harder than the other two, which were stupidly easy in my opinion. Tsk!

drakan90 · #12 06-12-2005, 01:46 AM

You thought the thrid one was the hardest?
No way man, creative writing is so much easier than analitical writing

Hobo · #13 06-12-2005, 01:51 AM

The literacy exam for OM&M was too easy though. Lonliness? Come on..

drakan90 · #14 06-12-2005, 02:17 AM

...The what now?
lol

We did one on the book we'd done (To Kill a Mockingbird) and two poems (By Armitage and Duffy)

One on two sources (One about cars, and one about americans being fat), with a persuade, argue, or advise question at the end.

And the last one on Poems from different cultures, and the describing or writing a letter (Nightmare world, Yeah!)

Hobo · #15 06-12-2005, 02:19 AM

We studied Of Mice And Men. And did a little question on that. Too easy.

drakan90 · #16 06-12-2005, 02:22 AM

Oh yeah. I hear thats weird...
About Hilly-Billy miners or something? lol

Hobo · #17 06-12-2005, 12:13 PM

Yeah, close enough

drakan90 · #18 06-13-2005, 06:19 AM

Ours is all about racism, and social status, and America...and stuff...
Ergh, maths, chemistry, and maths again from wednesday onwards...

Rex Tirano · #19 06-13-2005, 10:56 AM

I've done a few exams [year 10 though] I did my 25% science. My 20% Mathmatics. And I'm currently doing my 6 hour practical drama coursework worth 20%. Fun.

Next year's gonna be hell...

drakan90 · #20 06-13-2005, 01:08 PM

I dont think I had any 20%-early kind of exams...
Well, not including Coursework.

Hobo · #21 06-22-2005, 09:12 AM

Finished my exams today. Major w00t with beer!

Rich · #22 06-22-2005, 01:20 PM

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Finished my exams today. Major w00t with beer!

Damn you, fool! I hope you did ok

I have year 10 exams next week, wish me luck.

Hobo · #23 06-22-2005, 01:25 PM

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Damn you, fool! I hope you did ok

I have year 10 exams next week, wish me luck.

Good luck little man! They're easier than you think. If you work!

Rich · #24 06-22-2005, 01:31 PM

I think the only hard one will be higher tier maths, which is always a fucker.

Kimon · #25 06-22-2005, 01:42 PM

Sorry to be a typical American idiot, but what are GCSE's? I gather they're like some kind of formal country-wide exam, right? For college, high school, what?

In America we have Regents Exams and SAT's.

Rich · #26 06-22-2005, 02:17 PM

GCSE's are taken over 2 years of high school. They are courses that end in examinations. These courses begin when you are 14/15 and end when you are 16. I am doing the halfway exams now while Hobo has just finished the final big ones.

Godlesswanderer · #27 06-22-2005, 03:01 PM

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while Hobo has just finished the final big ones.

As have I, my last one was today. Higher tier Physics, the hardest of the Science tests. If anyone is doing OCR Higher Physics, I advise you revise a lot.

Kimon · #28 06-22-2005, 05:08 PM

Oh, okay. So you'd take a GCSE Physics course for a semester and then you'd have an exam?

I think that's simliar to AP courses in America then.

Hobo · #29 06-23-2005, 12:09 AM

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As have I, my last one was today. Higher tier Physics, the hardest of the Science tests. If anyone is doing OCR Higher Physics, I advise you revise a lot.

Yeah, i thought it was pretty ok for physics. I guessed everything, but i've been doing that in physics for years.

Chem and bio were miles easier though.

And i did absolutly bugger all revision for anything. WOO!

Godlesswanderer · #30 06-23-2005, 05:13 AM

Same here. I kept thinking to myself "I've got to revise!" But when the time came to revise, I'd just put it off for another time and I ended up not doing it. The only revision I ended up doing was for my History test and it turned out I revised the wrong things.