Prelims

I'm pretty that most prelims are probably past paper questions or questions that are similar to previous exam but a particular part has been changed.

yeah I've seen that before,, sometimes theyre just random though maybe from really dated past papers

In my school it changes from subject to subject. In English and Modern Languages they buy them from P&N, Maths has three different ones and rotates them from year to year, sciences just tend to have one they repeat and social subjects make them up using examples from past papers and model papers because they mostly do a couple of 5 to 6 markers or whatever. Admin and It and PE tend not to do prelims at al for some strange reason. Technology is basically whatever the teacher feels like. Last year I felt as if my teacher couldn't be bothered to come up with anything good so he just made up some questions off the top of his head. So tbh i think it depends on what subject it is because they are al different and require different approaches. have you done yours btw?

This year, my English one has been made by the teachers, Maths has been bought from a company (Pegasus I believe), Chemistry is one of four that rotate each year, Physics is made of past paper questions and I have no idea what they have done for my Human Biology prelim so, as you can see, it changes between departments and schools.

Good luck with your prelims when they come or if you have already sat them then I hope you achieve what you wanted to! My first prelim is Higher Maths which is tomorrow and I'm freaking out a little


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Not yet first one is next Fri though and I'm worried
That sounds awful I hate lazy teachers especially when you want to do well. As much as I don't enjoy the prelims I'm grateful fr them as I think they're the best prep fr exams, are you doing nationals, highers or advanced highers?


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I finished mine last Thursday...biology. Getting results now so I'm a bit nervous but I know its gonna be alright. I'm doing highers the now- maths English French Chen bio ...but the new cfe ones :/ yeah same I hate them so much because I always think they are so much harder than the actual exams! Although they are brilliant for giving people a kick up the backside wbu r u nationals, highers of AHs??

Lucky you at least they're over

The only one I've done is physics, for seem reason we did that before Xmas hols

Thats def true it scares you into studying :P
Mine are AHs which is very scary I'll admit :P


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Yip I hate prelims so much though! They are just bleugh! Everybody gets so competitive for no reason and its annoying cos everyone keeps comparing themselves so intensely. U kno who's top dog who's second who lost their game. Aargh!

Ahh what AHs r u doing? Good luck btw that's some hard core **** from what I've heard thinking of crashing higher physics next year tho cos our school doesn't offer triple science but might be useful at uni. Is it hard to crash physics wld u say?

Urgh I know I hate that

Probably would be hard yeah but ppl do it evry year so no reason why you can't

I'm doing AH math, ah chemistry, ah physics, ah geography and higher biology :/





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Yeah might be worth the struggle. Also gonna do Ah Chen and bio then maybe French as well but dunno. R u cfe or old curriculum?

hope so
old curriculum wbu?

New cfe stuff and its not as bad as everyone makes it out to seem. I quite like it they've made it so there is less of a jump which I suppose its good. But the assignments are a bit of work. :\
I'm the first year to do it all as well so I think the sqa are quite 'understanding' when it comes to exams and stuff which is nice

Yeah we've had Pegasus before too
How did your maths prelim go? You tend to imagine them to be worse than they actually are so I'm sure you've done well
Are all of your prelims highers? Thanks mine haven't started yet so good luck with the rest of yours too


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