Sevenoaks School Sixth Form??

Hi guys,

I took the standard and higher level mathematics exams a few days ago, and will be taking the English and Physics ones on Monday, so if you have any questions, I'll try to answer them I'm not going to tell you what the exact questions were though, so please don't ask me that. :/

Thircultureteen

Hey there

Yes, I'm an overseas student. I'm assuming you are as well? Where are you currently studying?

Haha I'm the most nervous about English because I'm not sure about what they'll test us on. But for math, you don't really need factual knowledge. My school doesn't offer that either, because we don't do GCSE, but I'm taking an Honors course for Mathematics (highest level).

The questions are all rather simple, essentially. They can be a bit tricky, but once you figure out the solution, you'll think that it's super easy. Mostly, they just want to test you on your ability to manipulate numbers and such. They're designed so that you can answer them with the math you have already learned at school, even if you have not seen those questions before.

I couldn't figure out three questions during the exam, but I got them in like the last ten minutes when I started thinking more simply. One important thing is that you need to be careful. I realized afterwards that I got one question wrong because of my carelessness

Oh and btw you can't use a calculator in the higher level exam.

Ooh you live in England! That's so awesome!

Oh the standard mathematics test was quite alright. The questions were all pretty straightforward so the main thing to worry about would be carelessness.

I have the English on Monday O.o so I haven't had much time to prepare (I've mostly been preparing for physics because you guys learn different things from us in IGCSE). I think I'll be writing about the texts I've been reading in class, which would involve ancient Greek literature and some rather obscure war-related novels. What books do you think you'll write about?

I just took he sevenoaks tests a few days ago. I took math, math HL paper, English and economics. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them too! Like the first person, I won't tell the exact questions as well, but I'll do my best to answer the question

Hey there!

If you took the exams already, then I'm guessing you're an overseas student? If you don't mind my asking, where do you currently study? (I'm really curious as to where most of the overseas applicants come from )

Also, would you mind telling me about how the English exam was? Were there many passages for you to read? Was it in multiple choice format? Is there enough time? Do you think that there's any way to prepare for it? Oh and did you need to comment on many books that you read (that's what it said on the preparation sheet) on their own or was it more of a compare and contrast thing?

Lol sorry, I seem to have bombarded you with questions...

You're doing the same HLs as me! How did you find them? Were they very difficult?

It wasn't THAT bad, quite average!

What kinds of questions were there in the Economics exam? Was it multiple choice?

And also did you have to comment on books you read in the English exam?

The economics test was testing logic, it was multiple choice. Reading widely will suffice as preparation for the English test

Ok, thank you!

What SLs are you going to do?

I was planning to do physics, geography and mandarin b for SL subjects!

High 5 for Mandarin B! Not sure if Sevenoaks will let me though. Have you spoken to them about it? How long have you studied Mandarin?

Ooh same here for history! Virtual high five!

Uh no not really. What I meant was because I've been studying Chinese for around ten years, they might not let me take it as language B.