22 August 2013 GCSE results: Discussion thread

i found it ok too, i felt like it wasn't really geography more like opinions don't you think? like most questions you couldn't have revised for and had to rely on your onthespot thinking skills. it's risky tbh but i hope i did ok

they were quite easy , but I was resitting , I did them in year 10 , then resat them in March

Everyone did the core exam in year ten, we're one of the few schools who attempt it!

Glad we did, because I got full UMS which means I around 129/200 UMS already (if I dock one UMS from coursework) with the last exam being /70.



Geography

Anybody else going to stay up to view grade boundaries? I know I probably shouldn't because they'll just make me feel worse but I don't think I've got the self-control not to look at them!

it took our school the whole of year 10 and half of year 11 to do the 2 controlled assessments, we had 3 or 4 months to learn the content and i didn't bother revising cus i felt like all hope was lost i hope it all goes well though

Exam board?

1 day 16 hours 20 minutes

Who else is collecting theirs at 10am?


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That sucks!!

We did coursework over year ten summer to year eleven half the year...

Then covered unit 2 after


WJEC A

1 day 16 hours 20 minutes

Who else is collecting theirs at 10am?


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is that exam board easy? we did ocr but im not sure if theyre all equal or different difficulty.

Well ours can't be easy if the full UMS boundary is like 75/90, people fail it miserably.

fair enough, theyre probs all the same

Well from hearing the grades you have so far I think you have a very good chance of getting in and doing well with other results

I think mine was set by sats as well, because I didnt care about the sats so my Maths target was a C and my teacher predicted me an A* in year 9 and I got an A* in March this year.

I'm lucky in that I have never ran out of time for a GCSE exam I completed my Further Maths Paper Calculator in 50 mins and there was 2 hours to complete it and I checked through each question as I was doing it.However, I always ran out of time for the Maths Challenge exams but they weren't really designed for you to complete them all in the time given and those exams were much harder than the GCSE or Further Maths I only ever got a Bronze in the 4 times I did it.