Current Year 10 Thread (2011/2012)

I thought January was the first sitting of the exam for year 10s?

You can sit exams in November, January, March or June. It's up to the schools when they enter you.

EDIT: AQA released the grade boundaries for the November exams. It's 46/54 for an A* in Maths :l

85% sounds more than reasonable or an A*, what has it been in past years?

You can sit exams in November, January, March or June. It's up to the schools when they enter you.

EDIT: AQA released the grade boundaries for the November exams. It's 46/54 for an A* in Maths :l

the grade boundaries are very high this year because it was 42 in june and luckily thats when i sat it.

The new specification starts January 2012

What are OCR thinking with these Science Exams? The previous exams have included lots of tick boxes, I think I was presented with like 3 questions on tick boxes. This year there is much more ''Explain why this happens, the English you use will be judged etc'' yet we still get a hour. Writing = Takes longer than ticking boxers, we needed much more than a hour to do it, really annoyed me.

Anyway, 20 minutes past and I had completed B1 and think I did well, so I moved onto C1 and thought that I do okay on their too, then came P1. I really struggled and didn't think I got any right on P1, I regret spending so much time revising the other ones and neglecting the other ones now.

This next week will be fun, I thought the revision for the test I had just done was bad, but now I need to start all over again starting tonight, but this time revise for a maths test on Thursday too. So I have another Science exam on Wednesday (B2, C2 and P2) Then a Maths exam the day after that. Jesus Christ.

Do you do OCR Gateway?

Does anyone do OCR Gateway?

I got an A* in my maths exam!
And 28/30 in my Spanish speaking
and 39/40 in my English presentation

I'm very happy, but the biology exam was nerve-racking.

Nope, OCR 21st Century. I think its a good course though.

Oh it's just gateway sounds like it's meant to be a "gateway" to the real science for the less..."gifted". I suppose it doesn't make much difference but I don't want to be unprepared for A-Level Physics. I mean, I hear the jump is big anyway, I don't want to be even more behind.

I'm in year 11 mate and gateway isn't for those who aren't as clever. They're just two specifications A and B given to the two of them, and they also gave them fancy names as most specifications have a name. They're both of equal difficulty.

And I can assure you, that you won't be behind at A-level for physics or any of the other sciences for that matter, since (well i do triple science) and if you do triple, you are essentially doing half of the AS material. You just build on it more at AS. Like with any triple science course, it will make you fully prepared for AS. Don't worry!

Haha yeah I was never too worried, but still, 21st century sounds cooler

21st Century is a good course, just so aslong as you're not learning about Nanotechnology