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GCSEs are an utter joke

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In my GCSE IT exam one of the questions was:
<--------->
<---->
Which line is longer?

No joke.

Actually neither are lines. They're both a series of hyphens beginning and ending with greater than and less than signs respectively. Bet most people got that one wrong.

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username852165

Original post by Sabster

I could have done Maths GCSE at the age of 8 and French/Spanish/Latin at 11.

could have…but didn't. Why is this?

If they're, according to you, so easy, why did your teachers not think you capable of sitting your GCSE Maths exam 8 year earlier than expected?

I mean, come one, you'd been in formal education for at least 3 years by this time!

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Reply 122

aurora_dawn

Lol GCSE's can stay "easy" until I finish them then they can be made harder.

Reply 123

E.M.C(^2)

GCSE'S aren't a total joke. Okay, OCR science is pretty much memorization, but GCSE's are made in consideration of the overall ability of the nation. Yes, there are some people who will have more aptitude, but the majority will not. Also, remember that GCSE's are just the next step from Key Stage 3 work. It couldn't just get very difficult. Work difficulty needs to be progressive.

And those who say they have more aptitude, I actually think that you have more exposure. Why do middle class children make up the majority population of uni's like oxbridge? Since they grew up in an environment of educated people, with sufficient resources, they were able to study better, and more thoroughly.Working class people aren't less intelligent. They just have less exposure.

For those who say they turn up the night before, and still can get an A*, I think that you're INCREDIBLY arrogant, and a liar.

Reply 124

c3ntury

Original post by Bellissima

you sound like you have fun

Oh god I lol'ed.

Reply 125

hothedgehog

Original post by SophiaKeuning

So what did you write your essay on? Pretty sure for even GCSE lit you needed quotes...

You can take an unmarked copy of the book in with you so that is what I did for quotations. At most I'd read a few chapters which we'd read in class but I honestly, still to this day, have no idea what happens at the end of the book and have no desire to read it and find out. I think we were given pointers as what to write about for each chapter but to be honest, you could bs your way through most of the essay.

Reply 126

senz72

Thank you for making me feel even more stupid. :frown:

Reply 127

IamBeowulf

Original post by hothedgehog

what exam board is this, I had to memorize loads of quotes :mad:

Reply 128

Reaffy

Original post by IamBeowulf

what exam board is this, I had to memorize loads of quotes :mad:

The nonexistent one.

Reply 129

hothedgehog

Original post by IamBeowulf

what exam board is this, I had to memorize loads of quotes :mad:

AQA... to be fair, this was back in the day in 2006! (I feel old :tongue:

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Reply 130

Henwin

Why do so many people end up with Es then?

Reply 131

SophiaKeuning

Original post by hothedgehog

Oh! I wasn't allowed to take a book in with my exam board. So you had to learn quotes.What book was it?

Reply 132

hothedgehog

Original post by SophiaKeuning

Oh! I wasn't allowed to take a book in with my exam board. So you had to learn quotes.What book was it?

Learning quotes seems like such a waste of time. I don't understand why on Earth it's considered the norm.

Anyway, the book was Pride and Prejudice... dire.

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im so academic

Original post by OvertSpecialist

GCSE English need not be harder (it's hard enough already). GCSE Science is fine. If they make GCSE science any harder A level Science will become half redundant. GCSE Maths is fine (it's easy for some but that's because they do their work properly).

Utter bull****.

Science is too easy.

Google around and you'll see that actually it's not "fine". Just because you found it hard it doesn't mean it is hard.

Reply 134

TimmonaPortella

Original post by Henwin

Why do so many people end up with Es then?

People get Es because they don't do any work.

I'd've thought that obvious.

Reply 135

OvertSpecialist

Original post by im so academic

Utter bull****.

Science is too easy.

Google around and you'll see that actually it's not "fine". Just because you found it hard it doesn't mean it is hard.

What are you trying to say? I bet I'm smarter than your sorry wiseass, I have A* in the Sciences, it's not too hard but it has the right content. If it had more content it wouldn't be harder, it would just have more content. What crap are you on?

Also you can't refute that English is hard, I'm an A* student and even I know it's hard enough. Maths is fine, if you think you're pro then do AS maths in Year 11.

Lool people like you just dissect the odd exam papers from weird exam boards like WJEC and cry that GCSE's are too hard.

Reply 136

OvertSpecialist

Original post by HowlingMadMurdz

People just being idiots again. Yes, some people do know GCSE level maths at that age. But if you know it, your parents and teachers will damn well know it too.

This is b/s. That person probably knew basic KS3 maths at best, to go on and claim that he/she could do the GCSE exam at that age but didn't

Reply 137

nmudz_009

Original post by Pn94

Just goes to show how detached TSR is from real life. Maybe the OP is true for a select elite of students, but for the vast majority, it really isn't.

This!!! I got my GCSE results in August 2009 and they would have to have gotten wayyy easier to be anything like what people are describing. There is defo some exaggeration going on. OP, stop posting in GCSE forums when you're clearly an AS/A2 student :rolleyes:

Reply 138

im so academic

Original post by laura130490

I took my GCSEs about 6 years ago, certain GCSEs were pretty easy back then, like R.E, but you never could have gone into an exam with 0 revision and got an A*. Not unless you were a genuis who had memorised all their lessons. If people really are going to exams with no preparation and revision and coming out with A*s in things like science, maths and english then the system does need to be looked at.

If anything RS is probably THE subject you could do that. I rest my case.

Reply 139

im so academic

Original post by diving_queen

I know this is a student forum. Therefore you are all students. (I used to be...really should get off here at some point! But.so.addictive).

But I need to say something....

GCSE's feel like the most important thing in the world when you are 15/16. They are not.

A-levels feel like the most important thing in the world when you are 17/18. They are not.

University feels like the most important thing in the world when you are 18-23. Well it is pretty important depending on what you want to do...but ultimately it is not.

The society we live in dictates that everyone must have these three things to be deemed intelligent. This is not true.

So yes, while GCSE's are p*ss easy compared to A-levels which are p*ss easy compared to a degree. But just remember to enjoy life. And stop worrying about them. Do the best you can.

And no. You cannot casually stroll into biology/maths GCSE with no work and get an A*. Just no.

I know this post is not entirely relevant to the OP bar the end. But seriously people. I wish I realised all this at 15. I thought GCSE's were the most important thing in the world. They really are not...