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Hey! I cant be sure if youre gonna see this..but I am giving my IGCSE eng tomorrow, math day after and on 16th..Any help or resource or site will be appreciated as you have got some great grades which I would die for..thanks

UCAS
----------2010---------- (Mechanical Engineering)
Imperial
Bristol - AAA [FIRM]
UCL - ABB [INSURANCE]
Manchester - AAB
Cardiff - ABB
----------2011----------
Bath (Computer Systems Engineering) - offer
Bristol (Computer Science & Electronic) - offer [FIRM]
Southampton (Software Engineering) - offer
Southampton (Electronic Engineering w/ Computer Systems) - offer
York (Computer System & Software Engineering) - offer [INSURANCE]

why did you change from mech to computer?

How on earth did you know I was on my 1000th post? Hahaa

Thanks .. you too (though it's a little late). Do you celebrate?

Your sig is clever and a turn on. Rep.

So that's the main reason why ... the modules thing makes people perceive that CIE is harder (excluding Maths, of course). That's also what makes the IB harder than A-Level right? The whole "if you fail one, you fail your whole certificate" thing.

I checked with my school; will be doing a bunch of boards, I think. Edexcel, OCR, AQA and other stuff I can't remember! Definitely not CIE though. I think CIE's trying to be a meanie this session

HEYY Sorry for the late reply. TSR never showed me the notifications up till now. I heard that CIE is rather difficult too. I'm still now sure how to weigh the different difficulties of individual exam boards though. Shouldn't they all be the same, since they should be testing for the same skills and abilities?

Yeah well, at least you managed to scrape pretty good marks from it all

You're right, I think. I highly doubt they'd be that cruel! Let's not talk about IGCSE for now, since I'm sure you find them easy compared with what you have to do now How did you find A-levels?

PSSSH IT was never my best subject anyway

Psh, that's just you speaking! Although I wouldn't mind if they changed the entire syllabus after my session I think they already are ... the style of the questions are very different, so I've noticed. ICT's practical paper was killer, and we had to do stuff we were never taught before. Their theory paper was set in the same style though, except with more recent technology (again, nothing that we've learned before).

You can say it's a little bit of a shock when we open the papers. Then again, they should lower the grade boundaries, shouldn't they?

Ooof ouch, the kidney We had to learn it, unfortunately.

YEAH! You guys got off easy, learning 20th century technology (in 2008 i'm pretty sure magnetic tapes were still in the syllabus ). My textbook deserves to be burnt to the ground. I quote: 'USBs, or pen drives, are now being increasingly popular. They range from 256 Mb, 512 Gb, and some even accomodate up to 1 Gb'.

I suppose i'm doing Single Award Science The other option is Double Award Coordinated Sciences, right?