22 August 2013 GCSE results: Discussion thread

Well, I was originally on the Modular course, however I messed up the exam in January 2012(Only got a B) and a majority of the class fail anyway. The papers are quite weird, the first 2/3rds of the paper is usually fairly easy then BAM they hit you with 3 or 4 tough 6 markers. The school hardly helped my case for an A*/A by waiting until the last minute to sit the exam rather than let us have a pop in January/November and allowing us to re-sit if needed.

I found P3 the hardest out of them all, but Chemistry and Biology are my two best subjects so I found them great. Good luck to you on thursday!

I found the physical geography paper a lot easier than the human geography paper! One question in the human paper was silly... it went something like 'List 2 external factors that will affect tourism' what did you do for that? (if you remember.) If my memory serves me well I put weather and advertisements. Also, the case study about a country whose development has been hindered by a natural hazard was a stupid question!

In my enrollment information pack it says that you don't have to take your parents so maybe you could go without your parents and choose the subjects you want to do.

are you gonna go to school to get them?

Did anyone do the Edexcel triple science exams or the AQA Geography exams? If so, how did everyone find them?

You almost read my mind
I'm just going to pick the options I want and tell my parents as I'm an external student coming into the school, I didn't get into some of the subjects (that I didn't want to do) as they prioritized their students choices over mine

I did Edexcel Triple Science

B3: Good Paper! I really liked that one
C3: Harder than B3, some challenging questions, but doable
P3: I thought it went awful! The equations were horrible. I could have cried coming out of that exam!

How about you?

I did Edexcel Triple Science

B3: Good Paper! I really liked that one
C3: Harder than B3, some challenging questions, but doable
P3: I thought it went awful! The equations were horrible. I could have cried coming out of that exam!

How about you?

I felt the exact same way

What subjects you want to do compared to what your parents want? If that's okay to ask

B3: That was the best paper out of all the summer exams! The majority of the questions were simple and straight forward... just one question! It was something about the behaviour of an animal and I put 'innate!' ;c Glad it was only a 1 mark question!
C3: I agree it was doable, but some questions were extremely challenging.
P3: I found that awful! The calculations and equations were A-level standard! E.G. Find the speed of an electron travelling at 23x10 to the power of 23 or something... Ridiculous!

I'm so glad I only need an E grade in the triple science exams to come out with a B grade in Chemistry and Physics!

Yeah i am, gonna just take them and open it in private somehwere

I have this horrible feeling of failing

Don't, your mind does this to you as you come up to results day, it makes you think you done crap

And for some reason it reminds you of all the small mistakes you made....
Happened to me last year as well!

Terrible feeling!

I'm thinking of that too, are you taking Further Maths at A level?

Guys, I need your help and have a question which might benefit others.

What is a polite way to tell
1) friends
2) other people
3) teachers
that you don't want to tell them your results?


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