Current Year 13 thread Mark I (2014-2015)

I'll do all the vowels:
A is pronounced like in cat (short) or in man (long - at least how I say it)
E is pronounced like in pen (short) or in bear (long)
I is pronounced like in tin (short) or in clean (long)
O is pronounced like in song (short) or in sore (long)
U is pronounced the same as I down south, or like German ü or French u up north
W is pronounced like in book (short) or soon (long)
Y is pronounced the same as I when it is in the last or only syllable, and like a cross between sun and book elsewhere (and in the words y, yr and yn)

Combinations of vowels:
AE, AI and AU are usually pronounced like in time (although they may be pronounced like EA, EI and EU below)
EA, EI and EU are usually pronounced like in game (although they may be pronounced like AE, AI and AU above)
OE, OI and OU are pronounced like in toy
WY is pronounced like a cross between "oo-ey" and "oi"

Did anyone else's year group as a whole not do particularly well? I did fine in my results but a lot of my year seem to have done much worse than expected :/


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I'm actually going to save this post somewhere for future reference.

As a whole from what I've seen we've done decently. But as a private school. I have to admit the people who did really well worked hard/are quite smart.

There were less A grades I think, and certainly a drop at A2!



Woo there are slight variations

Aha I'm a private school too, I think some people in my year probably became complacent tbh


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Did anyone else's year group as a whole not do particularly well? I did fine in my results but a lot of my year seem to have done much worse than expected :/


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Explains the Mandarin!

I swear it seems there's like a handful who did really really really well...

And then the rest were mediocre/below average, so I don't know what to think

Exact same seems to have happend to the majority of my year with most of them missing their predicted grades by a mile.

Lincolnshire :-D

Did anyone else's year group as a whole not do particularly well? I did fine in my results but a lot of my year seem to have done much worse than expected :/


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Yep exactly the same in my school, people who want to apply for med and a vet and the people who do further maths are the only ones with 4 As, everyone else seems to have majority Bs with a few people getting Cs Ds and someone got a U


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Yes. Most people including me did worse than predicted.


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The lowest I think so far is CDEE or something.

But then even TSR people's grades seem lower. However... Cambridge applicants

I know someone with bbcu and another person with BCDD

Yeah people either seem to have got As with high ums or had got much worse than they expected, weird


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I know someone with bbcu and another person with BCDD

Yeah people either seem to have got As with high ums or had got much worse than they expected, weird


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I know someone who got straight Us
I also know loads of people who missed their offers but still got their places and i know people who went into clearing :/ and the theres the cambridge for medicine with 4 A*s people -.-

Omg straight Us is a disaster
A girl from my school is going to do med at cambridge next year with her 3A*s -_- hahahah


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Aw no reckon they've made it harder this year then?

Rumours are going round that they have... And hearing other people's grades are making me agree.
Although one girl in my maths class got an A in every exam she sat, and she was acting like she was dumb all year and didn't understand anything. I don't know.


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It doesn't seem to have affected A2 grasses really, just ASs maybe they're trying to calm grade inflation? Still annoying though


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