About your revision schedule for HIGHERS 2010!

Well, to be fair, for Geography that is rather disgusting haha, Geography is mostly common sense except for the formation and case study examples which you have to memorise.

I'm sure you get very good other grades though right?

English-91%, Maths-87%, Chemistry-90%, Physics-92%, and before you ask i know were not even supposed to find out the band never mind the marks but our teachers disagreed

Damn nice, any tips for English? lol

Did you see the other person on here who is going to Aberdeen for Medcine too?

Absolute idiot...

Look at Scottish university websites, look at law, look at their entry requirements, they range from ABBBB to AAAAA at highers, that means if someone has that they get an UNCONDITIONAL. If they are predicted that, then they give them A CONDITIONAL, and if the candidate gets those grades, they will be accepted, if they don't they reapply next year.

Example: Fred is in S5 and has applied to Glasgow University for Engineering even though he hasn't sat his Higher exams yet. He is sitting five Highers.

Wow, you wrote all that. Haha, I think my way was just as clear and effective.

Calm down. You're ranting and raving over, what, a simple misunderstanding?

The fact that I have never heard of anyone getting a conditional offer when their highest level of school completed is Standard Grade does not mean you can cast aspersions on my intelligence. It simply means that it never happens at my school, nor has it happened to anyone I know.

And don't pull out old threads and use them against me. That was not a simple Maths problem- given by the fact that next to no one else in the class was able to get that correct besides me. Again, looking up the word "draught" in Wikipedia does not mean I'm an idiot. Please stop being petty. You can think that I'm an idiot and don't deserve to be a straight A-1 student all you want. It doesn't change anything.




And thus we have identified the source of my confusion! At my school, no one ever applies, and ever does apply, in S5. Therefore, besides the medics, everyone gets Unconditional offers for all their applications to Scottish universities; the only Conditional offers going to medics and applications to English universities. And having all these people running around with Unconditional offers makes Sixth Form... interesting




You can't possibly think that, surely? You can call me stupid all you want, but you have a lot to learn if that's how you go about explaining things.

English-91%, Maths-87%, Chemistry-90%, Physics-92%, and before you ask i know were not even supposed to find out the band never mind the marks but our teachers disagreed

Calm down. You're ranting and raving over, what, a simple misunderstanding?

The fact that I have never heard of anyone getting a conditional offer when their highest level of school completed is Standard Grade does not mean you can cast aspersions on my intelligence. It simply means that it never happens at my school, nor has it happened to anyone I know.

And don't pull out old threads and use them against me.




And thus we have identified the source of my confusion! At my school, no one ever applies, and ever does apply, in S5. Therefore, besides the medics, everyone gets Unconditional offers for all their applications to Scottish universities; the only Conditional offers going to medics and applications to English universities I think. And having all these people running around with Unconditional offers makes Sixth Form... interesting

Thank you for explaining that clearly. I genuinely did not know that.




You can't possibly think that, surely? You can call me stupid all you want, but you have a lot to learn if that's how you go about explaining things.

No problem.



Wait, what?

No problem.



Wait, what?

Haha, this guy is English.

Sixth form, A-levels... jesus man.

I knew it!
Unless of course his school is weird..

Everyone just wants to be Scottish.

Where do you get off being that condescending towards me? I wasn't aware of one thing you consider general knowledge- and I provided an adequate reason for why.

Apparently we don't view knowledge in the same way. For me, the pride in knowledge comes from searching and acquiring it. For example, this simple interchange on this thread, culminating in me finding out that people do apply to unis is S5 made me feel good; as however insignificant it is, it is still new knowledge, and there is pleasure in acquiring it (to an extent).

Therefore, being hostile towards people for lacking certain pieces of knowledge, even if you consider it obvious, is a highly destructive attitude to hold. A simple, calm correction and the world is better place as a result. Can't you see?

I shall illustrate an example of this attitude with you. Below are two people who are unaware of Sixth Form. Being that there is a Sixth Form at my school in Scotland, I would consider it obvious knowledge that Sixth Forms are available, and am similarly confused as to how they could be "aware" of that. However, unlike your angry, childish approach, I shall take the appropriate approach (I think that was just the perfect amount of arrogance in that sentence ) Watch and see:




Well, all the schools in my area have a Sixth Form at least ... when do you guys do Advanced Highers if you don't have a Sixth Form?

Where do you get off being that condescending towards me? I wasn't aware of one thing you consider general knowledge- and I provided an adequate reason for why.

Apparently we don't view knowledge in the same way. For me, the pride in knowledge comes from searching and acquiring it. For example, this simple interchange on this thread, culminating in me finding out that people do apply to unis is S5 made me feel good; as however insignificant it is, it is still new knowledge, and there is pleasure in acquiring it (to an extent).

Therefore, being hostile towards people for lacking certain pieces of knowledge, even if you consider it obvious, is a highly destructive attitude to hold. A simple, calm correction and the world is better place as a result. Can't you see?

I shall illustrate an example of this attitude with you. Below are two people who are unaware of Sixth Form. Being that there is a Sixth Form at my school in Scotland, I would consider it obvious knowledge that Sixth Forms are available, and am similarly confused as to how they could be "aware" of that. However, unlike your angry, childish approach, I shall take the appropriate approach (I think that was just the perfect amount of arrogance in that sentence ) Watch and see:




Well, all the schools in my area have a Sixth Form at least ... when do you guys do Advanced Highers if you don't have a Sixth Form?

Scotland does not, in general, have separate sixth form colleges (or, indeed, the same concept of the terminal two years of secondary education as being distinct from the other time spent there); as such, Scottish students who opt to remain in full-time education will typically remain in the same school for fifth, and possibly a sixth year (the equivalent to the English lower- and upper-sixth forms), studying Higher Grade and Advanced Higher qualifications.

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This isn't going to yield any good results. Leave it alone, folks.

Has anyone made up a revision timetable? If you have, how the hell do you stick to it...

Oh an apology. How nice

... If you have revision to get to, I won't stop you. It's not like I particularly want you to stay





Okay, I see the source of confusion! (Sorry for causing all this confusion on a revision thread by the way )

At my school, S6 and Sixth Form are the same thing. The area where the S6s go at break/lunch/all the time is called the "Sixth Form centre". The terms "S6s" and "Sixth formers" are used interchangeably.

S5 + S6 = Sixth Form?

Also, do you have to be 16 to be in Sixth Form, or can you be 15?

You don't You go and then walk away and do your own thing. Or at least that's me.
Not everyone yells at paper.