Durham Applicants 2008 Thread

Can't find anyone who does our freaky module in any local schools and seeing as my history teachers failed to mark any essays when I was at school, unlikely they'll be of any use now. I have an incredible amount of resentment for them still too... haha. The day of the exam is going to be SO fun if they're having to supervise it.

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Reblet

Can't find anyone who does our freaky module in any local schools and seeing as my history teachers failed to mark any essays when I was at school, unlikely they'll be of any use now. I have an incredible amount of resentment for them still too... haha. The day of the exam is going to be SO fun if they're having to supervise it.

Ouch. It could be amusing if they have to supervise it. At least you didnt have to do modules with no teacher whatsoever as I did...

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As in in the exam or for the subject. Because to be fair this module is the same as having no teacher for it as our teacher didn't teach us a thing or mark any essays or even give us any books... deep loathing. Lucky I even got a B really I suppose. It would have been fine for any other subject but History is just SO annoyingly subjective you need someone to tell you what the AOs are and what the examiners are looking for. Still don't know, so may still **** it up. Grrr I wish you could sue schools for mucking up your life! haha

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Reblet

As in in the exam or for the subject. Because to be fair this module is the same as having no teacher for it as our teacher didn't teach us a thing or mark any essays or even give us any books... deep loathing. Lucky I even got a B really I suppose. It would have been fine for any other subject but History is just SO annoyingly subjective you need someone to tell you what the AOs are and what the examiners are looking for. Still don't know, so may still **** it up. Grrr I wish you could sue schools for mucking up your life! haha

The subject, I taught myself 3 modules of a further maths A-level. Somehow I ended up with an A.

As for the AO's, arent they clearly published in the specification and all the revision guides. Asides, I am sure you wont make the same mistake twice.

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If the mistake is not having someone teach me then I am making it allll over again. We'll just have to see how it goes, I just need 7 extra marks so could fluke it I guess.
My friend taught himself further maths but only came out with a C, but he did try to do cram it in about a month.

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Reblet

If the mistake is not having someone teach me then I am making it allll over again. We'll just have to see how it goes, I just need 7 extra marks so could fluke it I guess.
My friend taught himself further maths but only came out with a C, but he did try to do cram it in about a month.

Well, blaming the lousy teachers is going to get you nowhere, its all in the past now. I am pretty sure you (or the board) slipped up somewhere, and it will get fixed this time around.

As for FM, for those 3 modules I did about a weeks work. Somehow I managed it (though extra time and a formulae book give stacks of help...)

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It may get me nowhere but it still aggravates me. And it won't have been the board, it will be the fact I wrote an essay that was sub-standard due to said lack of teaching. This magical idea everyone seems to have that it will magically all come together this time is sadly mistaken. I won't exactly have an OCR epiphany and know how to write the perfect synoptic history essay. If I don't get the A this time I am screwed. I can't be arsed to do modules in June only to be disappointed again so I'll just pack in the whole uni thing and put it down as fate hinting I shouldn't go down that path.

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Reblet

It may get me nowhere but it still aggravates me. And it won't have been the board, it will be the fact I wrote an essay that was sub-standard due to said lack of teaching. This magical idea everyone seems to have that it will magically all come together this time is sadly mistaken. I won't exactly have an OCR epiphany and know how to write the perfect synoptic history essay. If I don't get the A this time I am screwed. I can't be arsed to do modules in June only to be disappointed again so I'll just pack in the whole uni thing and put it down as fate hinting I shouldn't go down that path.

Exams tend to aggravate me as well. I have gotten C's before, and retaken them into an A. The chances are you just got a crap examiner, especially knowing OCR's total incompetence. Did you get the paper back and the like the first time around? Remark as well?

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Nah I never bothered because I knew I was going to flunk it. Wish I could blame OCR. Didn't ask for the paper back as I wasn't going to retake, now I wish I had. I got As in my other modules with barely any revision, yet I put all my eggs in one basket for this module, read everything, asked everyone for help, did everything I could and it still wasn't enough. Almost feel like writing to OCR and asking them what I need to do! haha. Or stapling a fiver to my exam paper... either or.

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Reblet

Nah I never bothered because I knew I was going to flunk it. Wish I could blame OCR. Didn't ask for the paper back as I wasn't going to retake, now I wish I had. I got As in my other modules with barely any revision, yet I put all my eggs in one basket for this module, read everything, asked everyone for help, did everything I could and it still wasn't enough. Almost feel like writing to OCR and asking them what I need to do! haha. Or stapling a fiver to my exam paper... either or.

OCR are a joke. Seriously. Edexcel are just as bad, one time I got a paper back and they had neglected to mark an entire page. If you had requested a remark, my suspicion is that you would have got in.

As for bribery, the invidulators are better targets. Or you could just hide a book under a ceiling tile in the toilet cubicles. No one would catch you...

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Well if it goes tits up again this time I'll get a remark.
If my invidulator is my history teacher I'll be lucky if they remember to bring the exam paper! I knew of one girl who wrote all the info she needed for an AS Chemistry modules on the top of her thighs so when she sat down and moved her skirt up she could see the answers. God knows how she got away with that one. I wish I had the lack of morals to cheat :frown:

It would make it so much easier. Anyway, I know the books off by heart. The facts are set in my brain but every time I write an essay I write an English Lit one, not a History one so it doesn't really work... Wish I could sneak somebody in who rocked the exam, but the only person I know who took it and got a decent mark in it is a boy... So that wouldn't really work...

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Reblet

Well if it goes tits up again this time I'll get a remark.

Obviously. But needless to say at the same time reenter yourself in for 3 modules. And get the paper back!

If my invidulator is my history teacher I'll be lucky if they remember to bring the exam paper!

Which means they go on TA's Hopefully it will get you the 7 marks..

I knew of one girl who wrote all the info she needed for an AS Chemistry modules on the top of her thighs so when she sat down and moved her skirt up she could see the answers. God knows how she got away with that one.

The school want people to cheat. In the same way they put the desks nice and close together in an exam.

I wish I had the lack of morals to cheat :frown:

It would make it so much easier.

Cheating isnt necessarily immoral. Especially as the competition mostly cheat too.

Anyway, I know the books off by heart. The facts are set in my brain but every time I write an essay I write an English Lit one, not a History one so it doesn't really work... Wish I could sneak somebody in who rocked the exam, but the only person I know who took it and got a decent mark in it is a boy... So that wouldn't really work...

Lol, the boy could wear a nice wig :p:

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Our school put our desks miles apart. It was horrific. There'd be about twenty of us in the gym and we'd be scattered about. I hated that, made me feel really alone. I don't think many people cheat though, there's no real reason to. Fact-learning is easy enough and cheating can't help you write a decent essay or figure out a calculation or chemical reaction.

The boy is over six foot and I'm only 5ft7. I think they might guess :frown:

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Reblet

Our school put our desks miles apart. It was horrific. There'd be about twenty of us in the gym and we'd be scattered about. I hated that, made me feel really alone. I don't think many people cheat though, there's no real reason to. Fact-learning is easy enough and cheating can't help you write a decent essay or figure out a calculation or chemical reaction.

The boy is over six foot and I'm only 5ft7. I think they might guess :frown:

I have done an exam a few times in a room on my own. Its quite weird doing it.

As for cheating, if you can see someones answer, you can keeping fiddling with numbers and the like until you find the method. A lot like the "show that" questions in maths...

They havent seen you in a few months, you may have grown up a bit...

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Ongels

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Reblet

I knew of one girl who wrote all the info she needed for an AS Chemistry modules on the top of her thighs so when she sat down and moved her skirt up she could see the answers. God knows how she got away with that one. I wish I had the lack of morals to cheat :frown:

It would make it so much easier.

Ugh, so many people in my school cheated! That skirt one was popular, or putting notes in the toilet and then pretending they needed it once they'd seen the questions. Funny, though, that the ones who cheated were the ones who came out with the worst marks. Can't have been very good at it!

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apotheosis

Ugh, so many people in my school cheated! That skirt one was popular, or putting notes in the toilet and then pretending they needed it once they'd seen the questions. Funny, though, that the ones who cheated were the ones who came out with the worst marks. Can't have been very good at it!

Did no one tell them the graphics calculator trick, where you load in the textbook, and programs. The calculator can then proceed to do the exam for you...

Not that I am advocating that anyone does that, of course.

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Ongels

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Hopping Mad Kangaroo

Did no one tell them the graphics calculator trick, where you load in the textbook, and programs. The calculator can then proceed to do the exam for you...

Not that I am advocating that anyone does that, of course.

Ah, well, none of my exams involved calculators (or anything vaguely mathematical) so we wouldn't have been allowed to randomly have them. Having said that, my boyfriend at the time told me he was planning on doing that until I threatened him out of it. At least, I assume he didn't because he still got 3 grades lower than he needed :rolleyes:

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Being the only one in my exam is going to make it very tough to cheat methinks... Plus unless I have cleverly drafted essays of every single question they could ask me... it won't really help too much. Wonder if I can do a module in something I'm more likely to pass instead...

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