22 August 2013 GCSE results: Discussion thread

Hey guys! I'm doing Edexcel A-Level Maths Statistics, and was wondering what exams do you do in the first year out of these options?
• 4 Units in Core Mathematics
• 2 Units in Statistics
• 1 Unit in Decision Maths

Basically I'm asking can you choose any three options or is there a specific one you have to choose?

Thanks!

In your first year you do Core 1, Core 2 and one applied option, so one of either statistics or decision, in your second year you do Core 3, Core 4 and another of the applied options

Ah cool! Do you have to do D1, or can you just do both S1 and S2? Thanks

Hmm.. I'm sorry to say this but I don't see how you will get an additional 21 ums marks. Is this edexcel? So 270 for an A*? I was in a similar situation in yr 10, I got 262 so 8 marks from an A* and I lost most of my marks in unit 1; the reading and writing cw, but my teacher said I did well in it. In the exam I got an A* as well as in the spoken language unit-unit 2. My school said they won't re moderate the cw because then they would be admitting they marked it wrong. Did you get an A* in lit? Is the A* needed for a specific course? The only one I can think of is Birmingham uni for medicine. But even Birmingham say they give preference to candidates with A*s in either english, so if you get one in lit it's ok.
I know how it feels, getting a grade you didn't want, but you should be happy that you got an A! Congratulations! Best of luck!

Congratulations about your results! And with history our school has the EXACT same problem - so many people got marked down for edexcel A - my friend, who's fantastic at history, got 100% on two of the units, 90% on the third and 60% on the fourth which pulled her down to an A, she's getting a remark

We got 100% A*-B in Lit at our school, and quite a few A*. But we have a fantastic English department (I somehow managed full UMS which I would not have been able to do with a different teacher). Our problem subjects were English Language and History. I think only a couple of people got A* in history in our year of 100...

It would seem quite concerning, but Language is more important than Literature at GCSE to unis. Are we talking 'most people getting As and Bs' or 'most people getting Ds and Es'?

At least twenty people, including myself. We did AQA, by the way.

Different schools have different rules, but the exam boards have no regulations

Edit: Except that you can't do S2 without having done S1, of course.

Yeah, I did - what texts did you do? Also, for some unknown reason, I too was predicted an A* in Biology and ended up getting an A, but I got an A* in Chemistry lol. I genuinely found Biology the easiest, and yet I got lower than what I was predicted :/ I got an A in Physics though, which I was happy about because I thought I had failed the second paper. What examining board were you with for the sciences?


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Congratulations! I'm doing similar A-levels to you! Bloody well done on that A in art in particular - know so many people who've gotten Cs and Ds in it, it's a ridiculously hard subject. And German! Christ!

I somehow managed full UMS in English Literature, but that's only because a) it's the subject I love most in the universe and paid the most attention to, b) we had a beyond epic teacher, and c) getting extraordinarily lucky in the poetry exam. English Lang matters far more anyway

That's perfect thank you! I want to avoid the weird postman if I can What grades did you get?

Oh my! I only got 1.5 A*s, 5 As and 3 Bs (Two of these grades are like 5 UMS and 9 UMS away from an A grade - that's like 2 RAW marks and 5 Raw Marks. I could have gotten 1.5A*s, 7As and only 1B.) I know these are quite bad. How did you DO IT?? Oh and WELL DONE

They're not bad at all! Miles above average. And yeah that went the other way with me, I was only 2 UMS into the boundary for two of them, only 1 UMS for another and exactly on the boundary for another! So basically one less raw mark for each and I would have 5A*s 6As And having no social life helps haha

Thank you I'm taking biology, psychology, philosophy, maths and english lit here's hoping AS goes as well for us as yesterday did!

Really? What is the average then? And aw that's the same for Spanish for me - 2 UMS into an A grade, so just scraped. Did you ever remark/retake?

Wow, 100%, that's incredible. Is this a private/selective school we;re talking about here? Because of of the whole year, everyone achieving a B or higher in English Literature is insanely good.

I'm not sure about our History results, but I'd imagine they were slightly better that that.. I think there was quite a wide variety of grades, a fair few A's and a fair few more D's...

Congratulations on your full UMS mark by the way! I came close