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  1. Aay's Avatar
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    Re: Standard Grade French!
    Right heeeeellloooo.

    I found that reasonable, was hard at points but hopingi have passed.

    for the one about the guys diet, i wrote cant eat sugary/sweet things and eats foods rich in protein.
    For the one about how many times he trains i wrote 4hours a day ? and something about an athletics comp once a week but thats defos wrong.

    For the girl, i wrote a tour of the pretty gardene because i thought joli meant prety. I wrote she wanted to go to the museum because she is doing a project '''on the history of cars'''?

    Someone wanna discus answers i feel depressed now:mad:
  2. -Neuro-'s Avatar
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    (Original post by chelsealawson_)
    I said he eats a protein-rich diet and doesn't eat sugary foods?
    I also wrote he hopes to win 3 medals and make his parents proud!
    Not sure if thats what everyone else got?
    Sweet Mother!!! I got that!
    BAZINGA!

    :dance:


    (Original post by nerd434)
    Did you guys get ¨Going to the Museum of Transport¨ for ¨A history project on cars for school¨ .. ?
    Yay, got that as well!
    Didn't go as bad as I expected.


    (Original post by nerd434)
    How many more exams do you have? When is your Maths exam?
    I have 4 more exams and my maths exam is on the 21st.


    :2012:
    Screw you London 2012, making our French exams harder!!!

    It came up for a question in the physics paper didn't it?
  3. jamieguitar101's Avatar
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    I think everyone needs to chill out about standard grades as they are relatively pointless if you are doing highers
  4. cherryrose's Avatar
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    (Original post by nerd434)
    Listening - Grade
    Reading - Grade x 2
    Speaking - Grade x 2
    Writing - Grade

    Then you add them together and divide by 6 to find your overall grade!
    If for instance one got 1.66.. as a total, would that go up to a grade 1 or down to a grade 2!?
  5. MySchoolIsAFailure's Avatar
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    Oh dear haha. I think the Credit reading was easier than the general. So i was pretty confident...then the listening came. I answered them all but I know I got them wrong (most of them anyway) I think overall I might of scraped a 2 (reading) 3 (listening) or 2,4

    What about everyone else?
  6. chelsealawson_'s Avatar
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    (Original post by jamieguitar101)
    I think everyone needs to chill out about standard grades as they are relatively pointless if you are doing highers
    In order for us to be allowed to TAKE the higher course, we MUST pass it at standard grade. And i'm sure when you did your standard grades, you were probably just like us. :goaway:
  7. XxKingSniprxX's Avatar
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    Re: Standard Grade French!
    what do you guys mean by "Standard exams".

    Im in UK so do you mean something equalivent to GCSE's?

    Btw "Highers" = AS-A2 -> A Levels?

    Im doing GCSE French atm reading is easy but memorising words over the last couple days wont work. Reading my favourite takes time to learn the "Mot a mot" but you'll get there eventually. Writing takes practice especially grammer like subjunctive mood, superlative, conditional etc but its dependent on reading skills(words)

    Speaking takes ALOOT practice + confidence imho and its dependent on your listening skills I.E if your good in listening and are able to understand the gist of it and the accents you should have an advantage at speaking.

    Languages are rather progressive unlike some subjects where you can cram it all in couple nights before.
  8. scottishstudent462's Avatar
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    standard grades are the equivalent to GSCE's
  9. jamieguitar101's Avatar
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    (Original post by chelsealawson_)
    In order for us to be allowed to TAKE the higher course, we MUST pass it at standard grade. And i'm sure when you did your standard grades, you were probably just like us. :goaway:
    Well obviously you have to pass the ones you want to take at higher, but if you want to take them then obviously you will show academic prowess in that subject and should have no bother passing. What i was saying before you came out with his - to put it bluntly - pointless response, was that if you aren't taking the subject at higher then don't worry about your grade because chances are they wont affect you in any way in the future.

    And for he record i am currently sitting my standard grades and just trying to spread some calmness in this hostile enviroment :cool:
    Last edited by jamieguitar101; 10-05-2012 at 20:43.
  10. nerd434's Avatar
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    Re: Standard Grade French!
    (Original post by cherryrose)
    If for instance one got 1.66.. as a total, would that go up to a grade 1 or down to a grade 2!?
    1.66 would go to a 2 unfortunately, I think..

    I may be wrong but that's how it seems to work for other subjects..
  11. nerd434's Avatar
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    (Original post by Aay)
    Right heeeeellloooo.

    I found that reasonable, was hard at points but hopingi have passed.

    for the one about the guys diet, i wrote cant eat sugary/sweet things and eats foods rich in protein.
    For the one about how many times he trains i wrote 4hours a day ? and something about an athletics comp once a week but thats defos wrong.

    For the girl, i wrote a tour of the pretty gardene because i thought joli meant prety. I wrote she wanted to go to the museum because she is doing a project '''on the history of cars'''?

    Someone wanna discus answers i feel depressed now:mad:
    \

    You're right about the cars/museum as well as the the diet one! You only need 10/25 to pass normally (that's how it's been the past 5 years..), sure you'll pass!
  12. SneakyDoug's Avatar
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    For the one about what they were doing in london, did anyone else get seeing the play "Oliver"? for 1 of their points?
  13. jamieguitar101's Avatar
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    (Original post by MySchoolIsAFailure)
    Oh dear haha. I think the Credit reading was easier than the general. So i was pretty confident...then the listening came. I answered them all but I know I got them wrong (most of them anyway) I think overall I might of scraped a 2 (reading) 3 (listening) or 2,4

    What about everyone else?
    Exact same thoughts, all my French class has done for the last year is memorise vocab from previous past papers so i was quite confident as they were all based around the same sort of questions - then it turned out to be about the olympic games :confused: May have scraped a 1 for reading and a 3 for listening 'hopefully'
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    (Original post by nerd434)
    How many more exams do you have? When is your Maths exam?
    I have 4 exams left, and I did maths on the 2nd of may
  15. Aay's Avatar
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    (Original post by nerd434)
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    You're right about the cars/museum as well as the the diet one! You only need 10/25 to pass normally (that's how it's been the past 5 years..), sure you'll pass!
    Thanks for replying appreciate it !!
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    (Original post by jamieguitar101)
    Well obviously you have to pass the ones you want to take at higher, but if you want to take them then obviously you will show academic prowess in that subject and should have no bother passing. What i was saying before you came out with his - to put it bluntly - pointless response, was that if you aren't taking the subject at higher then don't worry about your grade because chances are they wont affect you in any way in the future.

    And for he record i am currently sitting my standard grades and just trying to spread some calmness in this hostile enviroment :cool:
    Oh sorry for making snap judgement! Its just so many people at highers always say that people doing standard grade always make a massive fuss but they were the exact same. Aw I seeeee
  17. TheTeaTheory's Avatar
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    The reading went pretty well but I did not do the listening particularly well. The biggest thing I am annoyed about is on that question where it asked "What was Mark (or whoever it was) hoping for during the Olympics?" I wrote "He hoped to get three medals during the Olympics and make his parents proud." then I changed the "To make his parents proud" part of the answer. Now I know that was actually the right answer and now I feel like like I just wasted a mark.
  18. pinkmascaragirl's Avatar
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    i thought it was really hard,not going to lie
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