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Official AS & A2 Results Day 2016

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Original post by jamestg


Bath



Waheyyyy, Team Bath, cha cha cha. :rave: :bath:

Original post by fefssdf
hmmm i guess just go to your local pool and experiment a bit and if you drown then the lifeguards will help you.... floating may be an issue though but try to improve cause you never know when you could end up like in a river


I've done that loads of times, I think I'll have to look into learning properly on the weekends or something, because you're right.. but I dunno, I can't really learn it myself unless I google how to and stuff.
Original post by SeanFM
Waheyyyy, Team Bath, cha cha cha. :rave: :bath:



I'm so excited for the open day in September! :biggrin:
Original post by SeanFM
Waheyyyy, Team Bath, cha cha cha. :rave: :bath:



I've done that loads of times, I think I'll have to look into learning properly on the weekends or something, because you're right.. but I dunno, I can't really learn it myself unless I google how to and stuff.


maybe you could try and go to adult classes like cause then will be less awkward or even hire some private person for lessons if you struggle cause you might need some speicialist help ...


you don't want to end up drunkingly falling into the bath lake and not being able to get out
Original post by fefssdf
maybe you could try and go to adult classes like cause then will be less awkward or even hire some private person for lessons if you struggle cause you might need some speicialist help ...


you don't want to end up drunkingly falling into the bath lake and not being able to get out


I don't have learning difficulties :tongue: apart from when it comes to driving, I suppose.. maybe I am just slower than other people, but ya know.. normal distribution and all of that. I've never properly had lessons at a suitable age. But I'll look into it and see how it goes, I can just talk to the guy or girl who does it and they'll organise or recommend whatever is most appropriate, you know :tongue:

Yes... fat chance of me ever getting that drunk. The real danger in Bath is the river in the town - sadly people have lost their lives that way, and there's like a procedure that you have to follow if someone falls in involving emergency alarms around the river and stuff like that.
Are you AS or A2?
A2

Subjects:
Maths, Further Maths, Economics, Chemistry

How did exams go
Mixed bag, Chemistry went Ok but I lost stupid marks as usual. Economics its hard to say, I thought I have messed up my essays but maybe not. Maths C3 and C4 went fine. Further maths - messed up FP2 and m2 but s3 and fp3 was great and I think I have done enough for the A*

Which Uni
MORSE at Wawrick

How are you feeling for results day
I am looking forward to it a lot

Anything else to add
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!! Also anyone that is doing the same subjects as me and wants advice - feel free to PM ME :smile:
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Original post by SeanFM
I don't have learning difficulties :tongue: apart from when it comes to driving, I suppose.. maybe I am just slower than other people, but ya know.. normal distribution and all of that. I've never properly had lessons at a suitable age. But I'll look into it and see how it goes, I can just talk to the guy or girl who does it and they'll organise or recommend whatever is most appropriate, you know :tongue:

Yes... fat chance of me ever getting that drunk. The real danger in Bath is the river in the town - sadly people have lost their lives that way, and there's like a procedure that you have to follow if someone falls in involving emergency alarms around the river and stuff like that.


god thats really horrible to think about :/
Original post by SeanFM
I don't have learning difficulties :tongue: apart from when it comes to driving, I suppose.. maybe I am just slower than other people, but ya know.. normal distribution and all of that. I've never properly had lessons at a suitable age. But I'll look into it and see how it goes, I can just talk to the guy or girl who does it and they'll organise or recommend whatever is most appropriate, you know :tongue:

Yes... fat chance of me ever getting that drunk. The real danger in Bath is the river in the town - sadly people have lost their lives that way, and there's like a procedure that you have to follow if someone falls in involving emergency alarms around the river and stuff like that.


i bet you won't be as bad as me if i ever learn to drive cause i hardly ever go in cars cause my parents don't own one so idk anything about them like road signs and stuff or gears... it sounds so complicated !!
Original post by jamestg
I'm so excited for the open day in September! :biggrin:


:woo: hopefully you get to have time off.. and that it's a sunny day.

Campus will be fairly empty too unless it's late, late, September :tongue: but have fun!
Original post by fefssdf
i bet you won't be as bad as me if i ever learn to drive cause i hardly ever go in cars cause my parents don't own one so idk anything about them like road signs and stuff or gears... it sounds so complicated !!


I'm the same, my parents can both drive from tests a while back but don't have a car of their own. A friend was telling me that that, combined with the fact that learning to drive in London is a lot different to where he learnt (in a very rural part of England, population in the 10s of thousands) so it puts me (us, if you live in a big city too :tongue:) at a disadvantage so ya know.. some consolation, I suppose :redface:

But road signs you get used to.. some are just what they say on the tin ya know, and you can take your theory before learning how to drive.

Gears are confusing too but.. you get used to it again :tongue: me though, I struggle to do two things at once... :hide:
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Original post by SeanFM
I'm the same, my parents can both drive from tests a while back but don't have a car of their own. A friend was telling me that that, combined with the fact that learning to drive in London is a lot different to where he learnt (in a very rural part of England, population in the 10s of thousands) so it puts me (us, if you live in a big city too :tongue:) at a disadvantage so ya know.. some consolation, I suppose :redface:

But road signs you get used to.. some are just what they say on the tin ya know, and you can take your theory before learning how to drive.

Gears are confusing too but.. you get used to it again :tongue: me though, I struggle to do two things at once... :hide:


ahh at least I'm not the only one whose parents don't drive- feel like I'm living in the dark ages sometimes when I'm walking everywhere... and yh i guess as long as i get a good teacher then it won't be that hard but i can see myself making silly mistakes and also i want to drive really fast but thats not really safe
Original post by jamestg
Are you AS or A2?
AS

What subjects are you taking?
Maths, Politics, History and Biology

How are exams going?
Maths:
C1 - :frown:
C2 - :smile:
M1 - :smile:

Politics:
Unit 1 - :frown:
Unit 2 - :smile:

History:
Germany - :frown:
Italy - :frown:

Biology:
Paper 1 - :frown:
Paper 2 - :smile:

To which university are you hoping to go?
Looking at Durham, Bath, Exeter, Surrey...

To study which subject?
Economics

How are you feeling about results day?
Dreading it, really do not want it to happen. I just know I'm going to be gutted but hey ho, at least I will have a 'platform' to work off next year!

Anything else to add?
I reiterate @Firenze26, low grade boundaries please! Even for exams I was really happy with!


Do you think there's a chance grade boundaries will be lower because it's a new system and they'll want to prove that it works (even though the new system was to combat grade inflation)?

We can dream :redface:
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Original post by fefssdf
ahh at least I'm not the only one whose parents don't drive- feel like I'm living in the dark ages sometimes when I'm walking everywhere... and yh i guess as long as i get a good teacher then it won't be that hard but i can see myself making silly mistakes and also i want to drive really fast but thats not really safe


Walk everywhere? Reasonable if everything is like 20 mins away I guess.. no buses? :tongue:

Funny you should say that, one of the things my instructor said to me was that I put too much pressure and had too high standards and that it was okay to make mistakes as long as I was learning. Having said that, I made the same mistakes over and over again (not being able to stop at the right point of traffic lights/junctions etc.. bloody annoying. :s-smilie: but anyway, don't have too high standards of yourself :tongue:
Original post by SeanFM
Walk everywhere? Reasonable if everything is like 20 mins away I guess.. no buses? :tongue:

Funny you should say that, one of the things my instructor said to me was that I put too much pressure and had too high standards and that it was okay to make mistakes as long as I was learning. Having said that, I made the same mistakes over and over again (not being able to stop at the right point of traffic lights/junctions etc.. bloody annoying. :s-smilie: but anyway, don't have too high standards of yourself :tongue:


haha but i just really want to have like a ferrarir or something some day cause that just seems so fun like driving down country roads going really fast... and yeh i literally walk everywhere but my school was ( speaking about school in the past tense makes me emotional oh god ) 20mins away but i always ran cause i was constantly late lol and then work is 20 mins away as well and the only place i go which is far would be this shopping centre ' bluewater ' dunno if you've heard of that but its like 45 mins on the bus but buses just annoy me - i always think I'm gonna catch rabies or something
Original post by fefssdf
haha but i just really want to have like a ferrarir or something some day cause that just seems so fun like driving down country roads going really fast... and yeh i literally walk everywhere but my school was ( speaking about school in the past tense makes me emotional oh god ) 20mins away but i always ran cause i was constantly late lol and then work is 20 mins away as well and the only place i go which is far would be this shopping centre ' bluewater ' dunno if you've heard of that but its like 45 mins on the bus but buses just annoy me - i always think I'm gonna catch rabies or something


There's a summer idea, go karting or something :tongue: or an F1 experience or something like that.

:lol: you were late when your journey takes a fairly consistent amount of time each day :borat:

Yeah.. I don't think you will :tongue:
Original post by SteamboatMickey
Do you think there's a chance grade boundaries will be lower because it's a new system and they'll want to prove that it works (even though the new system was to combat grade inflation)?

We can dream :redface:


There's a greater chance the boundaries will be lower than higher IMO
Original post by jamestg
There's a greater chance the boundaries will be lower than higher IMO


Well I hope you're right! I might have a chance at doing okay :s-smilie: I'm so scared about results day tbh I feel like I didn't work as hard as I should've for English Literature... hm...
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Hey guys!!! I'm AS - minimum predicted AAAB and actual predicted AAAA. Quite worried for results day and I really hope I didn't flop haha
-I'm doing AS. I've taken Further Maths, Maths, Chemistry, French & Psychology as well as compulsory General Studies.
-I'm hoping to go to Durham, Warwick, Birmingham, York or ICL to study Chemistry/Maths.
-Well, for Chemistry: AAA-AAA*, AAB-ABB & for Mathematics: A*A*A-A*AA (A* being for Maths).
-I don't remember my predicted grades for AS but ideally I'd like an A in at least one of my subjects. Nothing lower than a grade D.
-I think General Studies & Psychology went well. French Listening was quite hard (Edexcel) especially the last part but the rest of French was good. Further Maths went OK, Maths was alright actually- OCR Core 2 Maths was hard, the trig questions at the end were impossible! Chemistry, however, one of the hardest papers EVER (Unit 1 was an absolute joke!) so I'm hoping for low grade boundaries.
-I feel nervous for this results day-don't know what to expect in terms of grades, I could be really surprised or really disappointed so I'm hoping that my exams went well and that I get the grades I deserve in order to carry on onto A2.
Original post by SH0405
Laila, in my opinion, religious holidays/festivals shouldn't get a special status when it comes to exams. If Fred can't get his exam moved because of his uncle's birthday, or Katie isn't granted mitigating circumstances for a family barbecue, then I'm afraid Jewish holidays are no different.

I would try and work around the religious holidays. Imagine if people saw an issue with exams around scientifically - rather than religiously - important events, such as the transit of Venus, a monarch butterfly migration or a solar eclipse. It just doesn't cut it I'm afraid.

I would be genuinely interested to see what others think about this. Good luck with your exams.




There is a large difference between someone's uncles birthday to a religious holiday, how dare you even compare the two. How do you expect a person to concentrate in an afternoon exam when they have been fasting the whole day, no food, water. What rubbish with your scientific events and a f***ing butterfly, we live in the real world not on Venus... What if the exam boards placed an exam on Christmas or a religious holiday you celebrate if you even have a religion or "scientific" belief ( which I doubt)


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Original post by lailapianai
There is a large difference between someone's uncles birthday to a religious holiday, how dare you even compare the two. How do you expect a person to concentrate in an afternoon exam when they have been fasting the whole day, no food, water. What rubbish with your scientific events and a f***ing butterfly, we live in the real world not on Venus... What if the exam boards placed an exam on Christmas or a religious holiday you celebrate if you even have a religion or "scientific" belief ( which I doubt)


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Don't religions teach that your education and your future is more important than adhering to religious holidays that could 'harm' your ability to succeed to your potential? Counts as special circumstances or something?

I know people that did not observe religious occasions during exam times, as it counted as being 'harmful' if they did follow them, and then caught up with them after :dontknow:

If it meant doing well in an exam, I'd forget about my Uncle's birthday, I'd not partake in Christmas, and I'd catch up on something like a fast at a later date. I care more about my future, and hence this exam, than I do about most other things. But that's just me :dontknow:

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