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What sets were/are you in?

at school everyone had sets , what were yours?

mine

Maths(Set 3)
English(Set 4)
Science (Set 9)
Spainish (Set 2)
History (Set 4)
Geography (Set 4)
Music (Set 4)
RE (Set 4)
Art (Set 4)
ICT (Set 2)

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Reply 1

avrinmoch1051

English (set 1, no idea why, I hate it XD)

Science (set 1)
RE (set 1)
Maths (set 3)
My other subjects are mixed classes :3

Reply 2

username1292215

English,Citizenship,RE same class set 1
Maths should be set 2 but they mixed set 1 and 2
Science set 1
My other subjects were mixed ability

Reply 3

TheInfiltrator

Only Maths and science were setted

maths - top set
Science -single

Reply 4

TheInfiltrator

Why are people's RE setted? RE was a piss about

Reply 5

Cal1999

English Language (set 1)
English Lit (set 1)
Science (set 1)
Geography (set 1)
History (set 1)
ICT (set 1)
Spanish (Mixed Ability)
Maths (Set 2)

Reply 6

liquidconfidence

We only has sets for 4 subjects so:
English (lit/lang) (set 1)
Science (set 1)
Geography (set 1)
Mathematics (set 2)

There were three in each but this is out of the accelerated group.
It went like this
Accelerated
Core
Progress
There were three sets in each group.

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Reply 7

German123

At my school we have sets 1-5(1 being the highest and 5 being the lowest) from year 7-11

In RE, i was in the lowest class which was ironic because i remember getting like a level 6 et the end of year 9 and came out with a B at GCSE.

People in the lowest sets in my school got to do the higher paper for maths, English and science if they did exceptionally well in their mocks.

Reply 8

c1s2

Maths - always 1
English - always 1
Science - always 1
Spanish -was in set 3(horrible) then moved up to set 2 for GCSE years
PE - always 1

Reply 9

German123

For got to mention, i was in set 2/3 in history which was ironic aswell because me and history did not get along all the way till year 11.

Reply 10

somethingbeautiful

We had bands and sets when I was at school.

Each band had 5 sets within it and there were 2 bands. So Band 1 had sets 1/2/3/4/5 and Band 2 had sets 1/2/3/4/5. Band 1 were academically strong. Band 1, set 1 were clever clogs and less so down the bands and sets. So for each subject we were 'band something, set something'. Everyone was in the same band for all subjects, and most people were in the same set for everything too but a few people were a set higher or lower for a couple of subjects.

There used to be a really good reason for being in lower sets....
I was in band 1 set 1 and band 1 set 2 for everything except Maths for which I was in Band 1 set 3. At the time Maths was tiered so you either did Higher, Intermediate or Foundation. If you were in Band 1 set 1 and 2, then you had to sit the Higher paper - you had no choice, the the rest of band 1 sat Intermediate and band 2 sat Foundation. The highest you could get in Higher was A, Inter B and Lower C and the marks you needed for a B were less on Inter than Higher and the marks you needed for a C were less on Foundation than Inter.

I was never going to get an A so I wanted a B. It was easier to get a B on the Inter paper than the Higher paper and the certificate didn't say which paper you sat.

You couldn't request to be moved up or down sets or bands - it was all based on your performance. So I started handing in terrible homework and classwork whilst in band 1 set 2 (Higher paper class) until I was asked if I'd feel better in a lower set. I got moved to a lower set on the basis that I found higher maths difficult (not a complete lie) and sat the Intermediate paper. Got my B at GCSE. Tactical set moving FTW. There were people in band 1 set 1 and 2 who didn't get an A on the Higher paper and they had to get more marks for their B than I did for my B.

I don't think you can do tactical set moving anymore since all the papers are the same now, but if you can I highly (or should that be intermediately) recommend it.

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Reply 11

cherryred90s

English - set 2 therefore P.E/R.E automatically set 2

Science - set 2 but got moved down to set 3 for GCSE so I ended up doing double science as opposed to triple

Maths (we had 8. Sets 1A to 3A did higher tier and 3B to 4B did foundation) I was in 2B but got moved up to 2A

Everything else was mixed ability.

Reply 12

username984585

We had colours in primary school and each table was a colour. Red was top followed by yellow, green and orange. Obviously I was on the red table for everything. :smug:

Then in years 7-9 we had sets. I was pretty much in set one for everything except French. I was in set two for that, I swear the French teacher had a grudge against me.

Reply 13

anonymouspie227

lol I was in set 2 for English and Science, but for Maths top set. Funnily I achieved higher in Eng Sci than Maths! This was for GCSE

Reply 14

AlphaDog0127

In middle school:
Humanities/ICT: 1
Maths: 1 (moved up in year 8)
English: 1
Science: 1
MFL: 1

high school:
RE/PE: 1
Maths: 1 (moved up in year 11)
English: 2
Science: not setted other than being in a group who did double science
MFL: we were the only set doing German so we were mixed ability

Reply 15

callum_law

I was set 3 or 4 across the board. C/D borderline.

Reply 16

avrinmoch1051

Original post by TheInfiltrator

Why are people's RE setted? RE was a piss about

My school have ability sets for RE because it's a core subject at my school (it's a Catholic school, so it has to be XD)

Reply 17

TheInfiltrator

Original post by Panda2199

My school have ability sets for RE because it's a core subject at my school (it's a Catholic school, so it has to be XD)

I suppose you weren't forced to learn about ****ing Islam then :p:

Reply 18

avrinmoch1051

Original post by TheInfiltrator

I suppose you weren't forced to learn about ****ing Islam then :p:

We are forced to learn about Islam believe it or not😂😂
We have to study Catholic beliefs and beliefs on any other main religion, so my school chose Islam😋