GCSE Results day March 8TH - What did you get.

Exactly, so I'm correct in my thinking aren't I? I got 92% of the UMS marks but taking into account the adjusted grade boundary (which increased from last year for Physics Unit 1) then I actually obtained 71%.

Very few people will post here who were disappointed, it's just an excuse for people to show off.

Very few people will post here who were disappointed, it's just an excuse for people to show off.

I did a re-take of Language Unit 1. To cut along story short we had a very, very bad teacher for Year 10 who subsequently fled to Spain at the end of the year after enough complaints were received.

I believe that exam is the hardest of them all. Unless you were one mark off an A* I would really not get it remarked.

WJEC English Language Unit 1 - A
AQA Business Unit 1 - A*

These are bnoth retakes.

DiDA (Digital Applications) UMS score 54. "C" for Credit, which is a B I think? See more about this in my topic...

I did Lang Unit to (argue/persuasive writing) and got 34UMS, 2 off an A*, still worth it? and ya, mine was a re-take as well , got a B last time so still really happy
btw, can i still get an A* over all? (got 71/80 on cousewrok (1 off an A* again)

Yea that's how i thought yesterday!

However i got my results today instead and got:

Core resit (got an a at first) a* it said 98
Additional p3 b3 c3 a* 97
Mice and Men English resit (got an b at first) a* 60/60

Sooo happy about the English, tries to do what the mark scheme wanted eg mostly context. Also happy that the sciences turned out well as i had to cram in their revision haha!

I'm not sure, I've only learnt about how UMS works today lesson 5 for Business. I studied the UMS boundaries for my ICT cock-up tonight.
But for English I don't know. We should have taken Language Unit 2 in Year 10 but due to the whole school getting those crap makes thanks to the teacher we're all a month or so behind and still have to do Lit 1 and Lang 2.

We are doing mice and men exam this summer, could you care to tell me how you got an A*, 60/60?

Thanks! I'm one of those people who always gets a few marks off the next grade argh!!

The main thing is context- if you are doing OCR (which is where i went wrong previously)! They say they want literary analysis. However, tie it in with what you are writing about context, rather than make a seperate point on devices etc, literally only make a couple of brief points on it too.

For my resit (Jan 2012) it was on Curley's wife, so i guess she's slightly less likely to come up this time round, but don't hedge your bets!
I used the Gcp revision guide which tended to make intresting context points too. Everyone knows the basic American dream, women's treatment, Dustbowl etc, so try and expand a little further.
I linked the reference of "old Suzie's" to women's treatment as a running theme not exclusive to Curley's wife in the book.
Also; how Lenny is an animal himself, from his strength to his ununderstood "innocence". Therefore in this 30's set novel, people do not want, or even need to understand him as we might now eg mental health.

You would expect the hard lives all of them have experienced to make them more sympathetic to eachother. However it's the opposite; living in a tough world in turn toughens them up to other's feelings and predicaments. Eg how the "tough" ranch hand guy kills Candy's dog (soz can't remember his name).

Everything Stienbeck wrote he did for a reason i suppose.


You probably know, the exam is only 45 mins long so make your best points only!
Btw i did the (easier for me) passage question, so you can do well on both types of questions.

Good luck for the exam and appologies for the ramble- i do try to make sense!!