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Mocks are wb 21st November and 6th February. We've had 7 of the exams confirmed for November and 5 for February so far. Getting quite worried that we haven't had a timetable for the November ones tbh.
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We got our PIXL Mocks back! I got:
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English Lang: 7 (13 marks til 8). The paper 1 and the first part of paper 2 was a disaster, but I got 36/40 in the writing for paper 2 because the topic was brilliant and I had loads of points and actual statistics to use, as well as real life examples etc. Unfortunately I doubt something that great will come up in the exam so I still really need to work at that regardless
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Maths: 9 A good way into a 9 as well...only thing was that it was 57.5% for a 9 so totally not realistic. I got An average of 68% or so over the papers, which really needs to be improved but I'm sure nonw that we've covered a lot more of the significant topics the November mocks will find me a better result.
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We're now finished the Blood Brothers unit. It was actually a really great book and I'm not looking forward to starting Macbeth now because we've done little bits of that before and also I hate Shakespeare becuase I just find it boring.
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We've done our biology ISA, hopefully marks will be back next week, and we'll be doing another one once we've done some of B3.
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Progressing well through P3 and C3 now I think after mocks we'll be going back into ISAs because we've nearly done half of both of these units
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Computing is very manic. The deadline is the 4th November, but my last day doing extra work will have to be Tuesday, and I still have a fair amount to do so it will have to be a long session to get it finished.
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Business is also manic. We're finished off our final controlled assessment then we have a whole new unit to learn.
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History is surprisingly calm. We've just finished our controlled assessment booklet and now we're doing source work. Then we'll plan and write it up. We have another unit to do as well, but apparently a term will be enough to do it...I'm not convinced but I have the ability to learn it by myself so I may spend some time over Christmas doing some of that.
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Electronics is currently ok. We are making our circuit boards atm (the best bit of the CA) then we'll be moving on to case work which is less fun, but still ok. I'm working on my designs, but I need another idea, which will most likely be the one I do, because the ones I've thought of so far don't fulfil all the points on the specification which we wrote (those I suppose I could rewrite it lol)
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The first one is really difficult to get there, and I didn't particularly like it for several reasons so I'm not planning on applying there, however their deadline is the 24 April so plenty of time to change my mind
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The second one was rushed around because I had to be somewhere else, but I did really enjoy it, and the applications close on the 6th so I'm definitely applying.
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The last one is my school, which I will apply for as there is a chance that I don't get into interview for the second one (it's done by random allocation). My school is good, not brilliant, but I'd be quite happy to go there (and it would be better lie ins if nothing else!).