The Super Juicy CURRENT YEAR 11 (2012-13) THREAD Mark V

You've asked many times... Us no get declared

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Finished art GCSE now! (well I'm handing my book in on Monday)

Not too shabby considering I made it myself (the design and drawings)

I'll upload a pic when I'm home

So it's better to get a U than a D or E, basically?

Exactly, hence me asking whether I should "lose" all my art coursework... And not do the exam and get 0.

But I'm so glad I didn't, I might get an A overall now!

1) My final exam piece (Coursework = 64/80, B... Predicted a B overall)

2) Candidate B (Coursework = 37/80, D... Predicted a C overall)

3) Candidate C (Coursework = 76/80, A... Predicted an A/A* overall)



Most surprising is the D grade coursework, I mean that painting is so good, shame he didn't do that standard in coursework...

Out of curiosity, how did you all come up with your usernames? I mean mine's my name, so it was easy.

Yours is missing

Seeing as this is a board about school and exams, I though of the username which best summed up my attitude to those things

Anyway, good luck with exams everyone who has them today! I have a day off so am gonna be revising physics for my first physics paper next Tuesday.

Really?

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Excuse the fudged up arms

Larger syllabus with "harder material".

I don't think so.

I did all IGCSEs and they were pretty easy, I hardly did any work at all... mostly just revision a day or two before the exams. GCSEs would have to be incredibly, mind-bogglingly easy for there to be any significant difference.

Plus there's no coursework or controlled assessments involved (for the ones I did), so it's arguably less work.

The only thing is that they're linear rather than modular, so have one bad day and you're pretty much ****ed for the subject you were doing on that particular day (happened to me for Biology ).

I'm becoming concerned that I do actually have to declare Us and Fails on UCAS

Bored, In ICT, so I decided to make a TSR account. Was stuck on what to name myself so I looked out the window and named myself according to the first thing I saw.
An Elm Tree

swastika mug

1) My final exam piece (Coursework = 64/80, B... Predicted a B overall)

2) Candidate B (Coursework = 37/80, D... Predicted a C overall)

3) Candidate C (Coursework = 76/80, A... Predicted an A/A* overall)



Most surprising is the D grade coursework, I mean that painting is so good, shame he didn't do that standard in coursework...

Well I would say GCSEs are worse then compared to IGCSE - if I did a test on everything rather than loads of coursework i would have preferred it - some of the coursework is just unreal in terms of how much there is to do. Exams, meh - not usually that bad

Yeah, the only thing is the content really. I know that maths IGCSE is more difficult than GCSE, because there's more content and way higher grade boundaries - the raw marks required for an A* for the exam I did, for instance, was 188/200. This probably due to the fact that it's mostly asians doing the paper, which I know is a stereotype, but it is one that generally holds for (I)GCSE and A-level maths where hard work alone can get you very far regardless of aptitude.

However, I'm not too sure if we covered more content for other subjects compared to GCSE.