Official GCSE Results Day 2016 Thread (TODAY!)

The difference between it and normal GCSE. I've not heard of it since now. Is it frowned upon?

iGCSE is apparently harder and is mostly taken by people abroad (hence the international bit) and those that go to private schools

The difference between it and normal GCSE. I've not heard of it since now. Is it frowned upon?

I mentioned it earlier to a user.

The exam marking is different during June exams to say your school exams.

During the June exams, teachers are reminded to be a bit lenient and understand that nerves do take the better of you.
I thought it too last year during my GCSEs, where I thought I got a D in Spanish and B in D&T and C in RS but I got A*s in all my subjects.

In school, the marking is harsh because in the teacher's mind, they want you to do better.
In reality, it isn't really that harsh, believe me.
The grade boundaries do always reflect that.

So to those of you that are worried about the scaremongering and the fact that apparently teachers are harsh, they aren't. They are nice, pleasant people who took exams like you did once and also shared the same feelings as you did.

Nwmyname

P.S. if you have any questions, please do ask me on this forum by reply.

Is edexcel maths marked leniently as well?

Is edexcel maths marked leniently as well?

Largely, yes.
A lot of the time, you get lots of marks given for the way you're thinking to get to an answer.
Getting the wrong answer only loses 1 mark so even if you got every question wrong and lost 1 mark only for every question, but your thinking was brilliant, you could still get maybe an A* but definitely an A.

Well I think I got 77 in non calc and 91 in calc so 168 in total. Hopefully I got more that this cuz I really want an A*.

I mentioned it earlier to a user.

The exam marking is different during June exams to say your school exams.

During the June exams, teachers are reminded to be a bit lenient and understand that nerves do take the better of you.
I thought it too last year during my GCSEs, where I thought I got a D in Spanish and B in D&T and C in RS but I got A*s in all my subjects.

In school, the marking is harsh because in the teacher's mind, they want you to do better.
In reality, it isn't really that harsh, believe me.
The grade boundaries do always reflect that.

So to those of you that are worried about the scaremongering and the fact that apparently teachers are harsh, they aren't. They are nice, pleasant people who took exams like you did once and also shared the same feelings as you did.

Nwmyname

P.S. if you have any questions, please do ask me on this forum by reply.

I mentioned it earlier to a user.

The exam marking is different during June exams to say your school exams.

During the June exams, teachers are reminded to be a bit lenient and understand that nerves do take the better of you.
I thought it too last year during my GCSEs, where I thought I got a D in Spanish and B in D&T and C in RS but I got A*s in all my subjects.

In school, the marking is harsh because in the teacher's mind, they want you to do better.
In reality, it isn't really that harsh, believe me.
The grade boundaries do always reflect that.

So to those of you that are worried about the scaremongering and the fact that apparently teachers are harsh, they aren't. They are nice, pleasant people who took exams like you did once and also shared the same feelings as you did.

Nwmyname

P.S. if you have any questions, please do ask me on this forum by reply.

The difference between it and normal GCSE. I've not heard of it since now. Is it frowned upon?

Thank you! This has calmed me down a bit since in class my English teacher used to mark me quite low

Same, my teacher gave me a 12/24 in my mock question for Pride and Prejudice and I personally thought it one of my best pieces of work for that book -_- 😂

https://youtu.be/JPaV4Zrdp2Q

The first 3 minutes of this video stressed me out so much ffs now I'm so worried all my papers have been marked terribly

I personally find the IGCSEs much harder. I did the AQA ones for French and Spanish and since there were basically no resources or past papers, I used everything for the normal GCSE. In those papers I would consistently hit close to full marks whereas I got around 50℅ in the IGCSE papers
To make it worse, it's mainly taken by foreign people who speak that language or private school kids so the boundaries are stupidly high for such hard papers.
Basically, iGCSEs are meant to be closer to A Level than GCSE, and help "bridge the gap better" - sort of like how Admaths is harder than normal GCSE maths

I still don't get it. Who gets to do it?

I got rid of the spreadsheet so here is some info about the boundaries lol:

AVERAGE FOR A* & A (2013 - 2015) + PREDICTIONS FOR THIS YEAR

B1: 46, 37 --> lower, around 42 for an A* and 34 for an A
B2: 44, 37 --> about the same as average
B3: 42, 38 --> similar to average once again

C1: 48, 39 --> higher, around the 50 mark for an A*, 43 for an A
C2: 48, 38 --> same/similar to C1
C3: 44, 39 --> about the same as average, or maybe 2 marks higher (triple is mostly lower than other 2)

P1: 46, 37 --> similar to average
P2: 44, 36 --> lower, 40 for A*, 33 for an A (just because I don't think AQA are that nice )
P3: 44, 39 --> similar to P2