AS/A Level Results Day March 8th Megathread
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadThey did that for our GCSE science modules(Original post by confused dot com)
My teachers are complete sadists! They put everyone's grades on the SMART board and colour code it (green=good, amber=satisfactory, red=bad) then leave it for the whole of lunch/break time for us to come and get our grades.
Now at college we have them on the intranet from 6am *shudder* before getting the slips handed to us in tutor. We then have one to ones with our teachers and tutor 
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadOh, they do it wrt your predicted grade i.e. if you got a B and your target was a C it would be green. Still an awful way of doing it, awkward for everyone regardless of how well/badly you did!(Original post by Besakt)
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th Megathreadi agree...we've had this in a few of our classes for mocks etc...its unfair really(Original post by confused dot com)
Oh, they do it wrt your predicted grade i.e. if you got a B and your target was a C it would be green. Still an awful way of doing it, awkward for everyone regardless of how well/badly you did!
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadSomebody could just come in and mess it all up.(Original post by confused dot com)
Oh, they do it wrt your predicted grade i.e. if you got a B and your target was a C it would be green. Still an awful way of doing it, awkward for everyone regardless of how well/badly you did! -
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadI wasn't aware that the exam boards have ever done this. What do you think are the chances of them doing that this year?(Original post by Alex Bampton)
Ah that is a shame, how did you find your exams?
Well done, I know what you mean my physics is a bit of a joke!
Out of interest does anyone know if exam boards like OCR are going to reveal their grade boundaries the day before results day again. (I have a feeling this won't be a good thing!) -
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadLocked computer, and a frozen Smart board means they can't do anything.(Original post by Besakt)
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadDepends how good you are with computers.(Original post by tehforum)
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadAah I know like I made mistakes on the stupid "two reason" questions as I didnt have a second reason, and some others...(Original post by confused dot com)
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And then the activation energy stuff and the graph :O I hate drawing graphs and this was SO time consuming haha -
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadYes here is the thread from last year, both OCR and Edexcel published their raw mark grade boundaries the day before:(Original post by adamcusirinzon)
I wasn't aware that the exam boards have ever done this. What do you think are the chances of them doing that this year?
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show....php?t=1567372
I would imagine that they would do it again but I don't think that has been confirmed. Very mixed feelings about the idea to be honest! -
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadAh true - I try to play it down because I'm not enjoying this coursework(Original post by Alex Bampton)
60 UMS is 20% of AS which is 2 grades so every mark counts. 89% is very credible, you can concentrate on the A2 exams for the A* knowing that it would take some doing for you to drop to a B average wise.That sounds quite horrific ha-ha, I shall stay away from that one when it comes to it!Other past spec sites are quite a good call actually.I will be thanks for that, I think it is quite important to relate it to the "sensors function" in mine but I will certainly be looking for lots of improvements
(With some BS for good measure ;-) )
Hopefully - I need A*AA for my uni offer, with AAB as an absolute minimum, so I need to make sure I don't cock anything up
There's a list of suggestions, but I found that story interesting and decided that I should do it - my teacher okayed it so I thought it would be ok. Not really much out there other than speculation though, which I can't cite.
I don't really know too much about your topic, potential dividers are not my thing and I've pretty much forgotten all of G491/2's stuff
Improvements, uncertainties and BS - that's all you need
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th Megathreadhaha yes good luck!(Original post by ikz94)
omg same boat as you for psychology i soent a month or so cos i only had 2 psychology exam would mind a B but A would be so nice to equal with the amount of time i spent for it
awwwh so anxious wna know! hope we bothj get our grades!
we have a parents evening the night of when we get our results... so if we are too scared of telling the 'rents our results, the teachers will! :O -
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadLol my school decided to do the same thing(Original post by megfashion)
haha yes good luck!
we have a parents evening the night of when we get our results... so if we are too scared of telling the 'rents our results, the teachers will! :O
But we might get our results whilst we're with our parents, which scares the hell outta me
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th Megathreadoh man, thatd be worse! no thinking time then about how "everyone else got the same grade" etc... stuff!(Original post by 4mar_ar5en4l)
Lol my school decided to do the same thing
But we might get our results whilst we're with our parents, which scares the hell outta me
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th MegathreadHmmm yh and no time to think of a good excuse either(Original post by megfashion)
oh man, thatd be worse! no thinking time then about how "everyone else got the same grade" etc... stuff!
do you think you got your A?
Hmmm im not sure for most subjects, but for decision 1 (maths) im pretty certain on it.
What subjects are you doing? whatd u think you got?
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Re: AS/A Level Results Day March 8th Megathreadoo. well good luck when it comes haha. and yes happy saturday to you too... last weekend till school though(Original post by 4mar_ar5en4l)
Hmmm yh and no time to think of a good excuse either
Hmmm im not sure for most subjects, but for decision 1 (maths) im pretty certain on it.
What subjects are you doing? whatd u think you got?
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n media, english (lit n lang), music and psychology... only had psychology and english this jan. i know ive got about an E or a D in the english exam... heh... but that was because i jst drifted through the course due to family issues... so decided to f that and jst go on with psycho :P
did you find the psycho exam ok though? ive lost a few silly marks bt oh well
Now at college we have them on the intranet from 6am *shudder* before getting the slips handed to us in tutor. We then have one to ones with our teachers and tutor 
someone nice on the internet 
suprising! lol joking! 
(With some BS for good measure ;-) )
Hopefully - I need A*AA for my uni offer, with AAB as an absolute minimum, so I need to make sure I don't cock anything up 
awwwh so anxious wna know! hope we bothj get our grades! 
