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About 2% of the coursework is acknowledged? How do you mean? If any coursework appears to be missing, then I'd contact the exam board. IIf you mean your teacher has marked your work incorrectly, and your mark is far less, unfortunately that is the fault of the teacher, and you can do absolutely zilch about it. If you're exaggerating how little coursework counts for: I'd argue against that, most courses entail at least 15-20% coursework, and that's a pretty sensible figure tbf.
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"and only just get a pass" - I'm going to assume you mean a good pass, a C. The new GCSEs haven't even been instated yet. They may be harder, but to what extent we don't yet know. Now to address the core point, a good pass normally denotes average performance, usually going up to maybe the 60-65th percentile. If everyone finds a test hard, the grade boundaries will not be as such that most people would be getting a C.
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"you probably got the same question wrong even though you know how to do it , your just rubbish under tests" - exam stress is a tough topic, and is ultimately inevitible for some. But, at the end of the day, there needs to be an assessment like GCSEs, to determine which candidates are suitable to proceed to higher education, ie. A levels or otherwise. If you struggle under tests, that is a huge problem, and you should seek ways to avoid it, maybe meditation or similar, or just making sure you're sufficiently prepared to do as you wish, performance-wise, in tests, then you're rarely going to get exam stress.
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"Then you can't get in to the uni you wanted cuz of the one question you got wrong in the GCSE" - Failing to get a good pass in a GCSE, a) typically is not down to one question, it is down to the performance in the paper as a whole. There are few subjects, including English Language, where maybe one question may determine the grade to a significant degree, with a 16/24 marker. Otherwise, questions that determine progress like that are rare, to say the least. b) You can retake English Language and Maths at your sixth form college, if you need to. If not, you can retake as a private candidate. It really is not the end of the world.
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"But yeah , you don't need to know the a2 + b2 = c3 for this job and uni you want" - it really depends what job you're going into. i get what you mean, about some teachings being irrelevant, but just bear with it. Maths grade boundaries are quite low, with the old spec requiring around 35/100 in both papers for the C, so relatively little complex knowledge, ie. pythagoras, is required to get a good pass.
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About 2% of the coursework is acknowledged? How do you mean? If any coursework appears to be missing, then I'd contact the exam board. IIf you mean your teacher has marked your work incorrectly, and your mark is far less, unfortunately that is the fault of the teacher, and you can do absolutely zilch about it. If you're exaggerating how little coursework counts for: I'd argue against that, most courses entail at least 15-20% coursework, and that's a pretty sensible figure tbf.
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"and only just get a pass" - I'm going to assume you mean a good pass, a C. The new GCSEs haven't even been instated yet. They may be harder, but to what extent we don't yet know. Now to address the core point, a good pass normally denotes average performance, usually going up to maybe the 60-65th percentile. If everyone finds a test hard, the grade boundaries will not be as such that most people would be getting a C.
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"you probably got the same question wrong even though you know how to do it , your just rubbish under tests" - exam stress is a tough topic, and is ultimately inevitible for some. But, at the end of the day, there needs to be an assessment like GCSEs, to determine which candidates are suitable to proceed to higher education, ie. A levels or otherwise. If you struggle under tests, that is a huge problem, and you should seek ways to avoid it, maybe meditation or similar, or just making sure you're sufficiently prepared to do as you wish, performance-wise, in tests, then you're rarely going to get exam stress.
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"Then you can't get in to the uni you wanted cuz of the one question you got wrong in the GCSE" - Failing to get a good pass in a GCSE, a) typically is not down to one question, it is down to the performance in the paper as a whole. There are few subjects, including English Language, where maybe one question may determine the grade to a significant degree, with a 16/24 marker. Otherwise, questions that determine progress like that are rare, to say the least. b) You can retake English Language and Maths at your sixth form college, if you need to. If not, you can retake as a private candidate. It really is not the end of the world.
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"But yeah , you don't need to know the a2 + b2 = c3 for this job and uni you want" - it really depends what job you're going into. i get what you mean, about some teachings being irrelevant, but just bear with it. Maths grade boundaries are quite low, with the old spec requiring around 35/100 in both papers for the C, so relatively little complex knowledge, ie. pythagoras, is required to get a good pass.
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went from 3s to 9s with (literally) night before revision - ask me anything59
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went from 3s to 9s with (literally) night before revision - ask me anything59