AS/A Level Results Day March 8th Megathread

The next day i have 3 lessons of chemistry and the teacher will hate me as i probs got a U. so most of the lesson i'm going to sit there listening to him going on and on about how i'm not going to get into a uni with U's.
ergh hate results day
my exam technique is terrible. and i panic so write complete crap even though i know the answer

So I am waiting on 6 results this March and hoping my technique was right this time around so I don't have to resit all over again! Actually dreading opening the results so I have asked my friend if she will do it for me - I sat Psychology A unit 1 & 3, Sociology unit 2&3 and Business unit 2&3

You have to remember that, certainly at degree level, geography is a 'social science'. I don't think unit 2 went disastrously for me, or least I hope not, but nevertheless, it was my first AS exam, so a crushing defeat wouldn't be too motivational ahead of May.

Someone was telling me that you can get this spray (i think) that calms your nerves down and its not illegal or anything; I was literally like WTF?

Completely irrelevant but i thought id share

Rescue remedy?

You may well be pleasantly surprised!

As for exam technique, I agree. This is the case especially for History A Level I find.

Is that the name? :O
The spray thingy sounds pretty good, but its probably more effective pschologically, rather than actually being effective as a spray, if that makes any sense.

I really hope so - In June I came out of every exam really happy because I really thought I did great, and I knew all the content I could have possibly known. My grades come back and sure they're nothing to be sad about but wow at the time it was like the world was ending in my eyes and I said to myself "how could I possibly do better this time around when last time I knew all of the content and still didn't get the grades" - spoke to my teachers and they said my elaboration is really poor. Why did they not tell me that before I sat the exams This time around I included a lot of detail and evaluation ect.. fingers crossed!

Essay based subjects are the worst 24 mark Psychology essays make me want to hurt people

! Actually dreading opening the results so I have asked my friend if she will do it for me

Someone was telling me that you can get this spray (i think) that calms your nerves down and its not illegal or anything; I was literally like WTF?

Completely irrelevant but i thought id share

*hi 5*

sometimes psych just makes me want to drill my biro into the back of my hand...

I've had to do exactly the same thing Not looking forward to 8th March. Will just drive home if my results are bad

My teacher makes us do 8 paragraphs per essay, 30 mins each, 8 psychologists for each over and over again! The essays always feel like a little mini arguement with yourself..

i wish i had that structure! my teachers just give us the title and a week to do it, and leave it to us. then when they mark them, they mark them down without telling you why, so its just guesswork when it comes to improving on them

oh its still guesswork with us - we all do basically the same thing but I will tend to get an A and my friend next to me a C and we wrote ours together! We think my teacher marks based on who she likes the most

I am not sure if that is the name but this stuff comes it a liquid which when taken calms you down (supposedly). Yeah most of it is prob psychological

I'd be a bit dubious of anything with sedative properties. I'd rather go in with 30,000 thoughts flying through my head, 29,000 of which are anxiety monologues than go into an exam half asleep. No matter how nervous I am; at least I'm still thinking at the very least. Some sedatives almost knock me out.

But if you tested it beforehand; that's ok. One of the biggest disasters I had in my GCSEs was taking the advice of a friend and started drinking coffee every morning. It worked fine for him; he said it woke him up, helped him to focus. But for me I pretty much emulated the squirrel from Over The Hedge (not in a good way), I remember in one of my English papers, I wrote something like 15 pages of A4 in 2 hours. And a lot of it was probably garbage. My body wasn't used to caffeine, and as a result I did worse. Perhaps caffeine may have worked for me had my body been used to it beforehand. So, spur of the moment ideas during exams or any period of assessment is a big no-no in my opinion.

I'm in year 13 and awaiting results in HB2 Biology re-sit, C2 Maths re-sit, BY4 Biology, CH4 Chemistry and G484 Physics.

How about yourself?