PiXl maths 9-1

Nobody knows yet until PIXL release them: we get the results on the 13th September (when we go back)

I did Eduqas English which I found awful but we didn't get our results back because English is subjective and so the marks could change drastically; I also did Edexcel maths (I got 77,78 and 80 - not in that order) which were down to stupid mistakes - such as I lost a mark on the standard form question (ordering one) because I wrote 0.68^2 rather than 0.68x10^2 which is still annoying me. I got 3/4 on the paper 3 vector question because I proved it but not clearly stated the relationship: little things like that. And I don't think it's that they aren't listening, it's that a) they haven't experienced problem solving questions and b) all of the content wasn't covered and it it was, it was likely to be a rushed lesson. And we were told not to revise for these mocks: I did anyhow.

Well done on your results by the way, they're very very good especially with 10 months to go until GCSE.

I'm just praying the English grade boundaries are very low, because I think I did okay, not the best I could've done though. Although it was quite nice to actually do a full English language practice because we haven't looked at reading comprehension much.

I did Eduqas English which I found awful but we didn't get our results back because English is subjective and so the marks could change drastically; I also did Edexcel maths (I got 77,78 and 80 - not in that order) which were down to stupid mistakes - such as I lost a mark on the standard form question (ordering one) because I wrote 0.68^2 rather than 0.68x10^2 which is still annoying me. I got 3/4 on the paper 3 vector question because I proved it but not clearly stated the relationship: little things like that. And I don't think it's that they aren't listening, it's that a) they haven't experienced problem solving questions and b) all of the content wasn't covered and it it was, it was likely to be a rushed lesson. And we were told not to revise for these mocks: I did anyhow.

Well done on your results by the way, they're very very good especially with 10 months to go until GCSE.

I'm just praying the English grade boundaries are very low, because I think I did okay, not the best I could've done though. Although it was quite nice to actually do a full English language practice because we haven't looked at reading comprehension much.

I've actually got 2 less exams than everyone else doing triple science. That is only becuase I do drama ( I'm disgraceful) and have one exam for that in March. At my school, you do Further Maths during some of the normal maths lessons so there shouldn't be a problem with the timetable but I must say that the workload will be intense. I could try drop IT only because my teacher lost my work by deleting my personal files. He's a proper [can't use the word here] and I don't want to be starting my coursework all over again. The teacher who sorts out the timetable won't be tooo thrilled but hopefully he will understand.

You can restore your files? Talk to your ICT technician: he should be able to restore any deleted files if they were in your area and so you'd get it all back. I do ICT too and the coursework is just ugh - the exam is easy as hell ,though thankfully, only activity 3 and 4 to do next year! Tbh I would only suggest dropping ICT if you're desperate because it's a really easy high grade.

I talked to the technician before the holidays and he tried but couldn't do it. The thing is that I only had Activity 4 left to do and my teacher said that I was on track for an A/A*.

That would actually kill me: I wouldn't mind having to do it again if it was actually "fun" but it isn't. I took ICT because I enjoyed it in year 9 and I probably wouldn't have if I know how boring it would actually be: in exam conditions doing a PowerPoint, then you peer assess, teacher assess, improve, do activity review and then repeat for another project - it just takes so long. And, activity 4 was okay I suppose (we started activity 4 by evaluating activity 1 and 2) but that took me a good few hours at home (it's the only piece of work you can do at home) basically writing the same thing for each product and, currently, it comes to 10 pages excluding activity 3. The subject is easy, it just takes a lot of work...like a lot.

I agree. Very long and boring but it doesn't take too much brainpower. Just write anything and you succeed

I wrote 10 pages of waffle for the evaluation and my teacher said it was good - it wasn't but oh well. The exam doesn't even take much brain power, especially with grade boundaries usually being under 60/80

2014 grade boundary was 50 for an A* for Edexcel I think. My brother did that exam and got 80/80 so he got his B in his coursework (he did no good work in it) up to an A overall. The amount of work he put in makes him deserve an F. He put no prep into it. Must be easy.

The highest the boundaries have ever gone is 61/80 for an A* for the exam which is really low considering what the papers are like: they start 3-4 tick box questions of reading a table, some basics like features and functions of devices and then it begins to get harder...well not that harder if you've learnt it. I think the grade boundaries are quite low because the 3-4 markers are really specific and they only allow one answer which has to be linked. Apart from that, it's quite easy because you'll have learnt everything on the test (or you could guess for quite a few questions) Although, we did do an assessment in class on the second to last week of term, and it was really hard - it was only hard because we hadn't done a lot of the stuff on the test so I'm dreading P5 on the first day. The grade boundaries for our test were like 42/50 or something like that.

And, to get full UMS, you only need about 4-5 over the boundary.

IT can be really unpredictable. Some tests have really low grade boundaires though. Hopefully the exam boards will have low grade boundaries for us next year.