15 August 2013 A-Level results: Discussion thread - results day is here!

haha going to be the normal average person here, I need BBC for my course. Feeling quite nervous but hopefully I can pull it off Good luck to everyone else with their results!

where?! You must tell me or link it to me!

Yeh I worry like that too. I'm always so worried about missing questions out so I always go through the paper twice and check every question I have answered and see if the marks add up to the total mark. If they do, then I have at least answered all the questions :P It doesn't help I do subjects which can be hard to tell how you have done. I do biology which is very picky about wording so I know i got at least 90% of answer right. If i worded them correctly and used the correct terms, i hope so, but thats where lots of people falter and I just tried my best. I wish we could get the results sooner to save all this worrying

Ah yes, that's another worry with biology - what you write may be correct but it may not be on the mark scheme (they change the mark scheme each year for standard questions that reappear to stop students learning them).

To make it worse, my teacher said that the examiners marking the biology scripts don't even have to know anything about biology! Apparently all you need to mark biology papers is to be a teacher of any subject. So whoever is marking your script might have no clue what any of the words mean so sometimes you can't paraphrase from the mark scheme. (on OCR anyway)

Ah yes, that's another worry with biology - what you write may be correct but it may not be on the mark scheme (they change the mark scheme each year for standard questions that reappear to stop students learning them).

To make it worse, my teacher said that the examiners marking the biology scripts don't even have to know anything about biology! Apparently all you need to mark biology papers is to be a teacher of any subject. So whoever is marking your script might have no clue what any of the words mean so sometimes you can't paraphrase from the mark scheme. (on OCR anyway)

Smells like bull****.

Edexcel mark schemes have been released?

I think it's true actually!

4 of them were resits. 2 were STEP. And the rest were the result of trying to do further maths in 1 year.

i'm not just nervous for myself, i'm really nervous for my friends too.

I really want them to get in as well. I don't think I could really feel like celebrating next week if one of them was really upset

anyone else feel like this?