Resitting GCSEs

hey, at my college my sis who is there now is doing gnvq health n social care but with it she's also re-sitting her maths and english, and for people doin AS and A Level's there was an evening class for re-sitting maths and english. Have u tried hot courses.com it might be able to tell you on there a nearby course

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blondevalkyrie

hey, at my college my sis who is there now is doing gnvq health n social care but with it she's also re-sitting her maths and english, and for people doin AS and A Level's there was an evening class for re-sitting maths and english. Have u tried hot courses.com it might be able to tell you on there a nearby course

I've heard about how you can do re-sits at college but usually its alot easier if you take GNVQ/BTEC courses to resit a GCSE. The GCSEs you can resit at college tend to be limited as they usually only offer english and maths and occasionally single science. I might have a look on hotcourses.com as i've never had a look on their before. I rang up a company which specialise in doing GCSEs privately and they told me for one GCSE I would have to pay £360. :eek:

My local college is limited in what it offers. :rolleyes:

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omg 360 quid! what are you hoping to re-sit anyway op?

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blondevalkyrie

omg 360 quid! what are you hoping to re-sit anyway op?

Yeah I certainty don't have that sort of money to spend on one GCSE. I was hoping it would be more like £30 - £40 not £360. :eek:

I'm not sure yet all depends on what I end up getting when my GCSEs are over. If I get a few C's I may resit them to get my grade up to a B or an A. Seems to be hard to find places that let you do resits though.

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buttons_andbeads

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at my college you can resit a gcse along with your AS's, so it is just like another subject.
I think it just depends on your college/sixth form really!
Unless you do really bad I wouldn't advise it though as AS's are alot of work especially if you're relearning your gcse syllabus at the same time.
good luck! :smile:

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aww honey! I'm sure if you put the work in you won't even have to consider re-sitting :smile:

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buttons_andbeads

at my college you can resit a gcse along with your AS's, so it is just like another subject.
I think it just depends on your college/sixth form really!
Unless you do really bad I wouldn't advise it though as AS's are alot of work especially if you're relearning your gcse syllabus at the same time.
good luck! :smile:

I'm hoping to go to a local sixth form in my area rather than college but i'm not sure how I will go about it if I go to another school. Its probably harder to resit when you move to another school. I want to get the best grades possible and fear that I may end up with fairly average grades which to me I could do better on, there seems to be so much competition with grades these days aswell. :frown:

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SuperSam_Fantastiche

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If you get 5 A*-C's then it's not worth resitting anything, provided that you get good grades in whatever courses you do after GCSE.

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blondevalkyrie

aww honey! I'm sure if you put the work in you won't even have to consider re-sitting :smile:

Hopefully but I want to resit a science course I failed. :frown:

I did double science and I didnt do enough revision towards it and ended up with a D. :frown:

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SuperSam_Fantastiche

If you get 5 A*-C's then it's not worth resitting anything, provided that you get good grades in whatever courses you do after GCSE.

thats actually wrong, if your very worried concentrate on getting your english lit, lang, maths and science double award there the most important- trust me

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SuperSam_Fantastiche

If you get 5 A*-C's then it's not worth resitting anything, provided that you get good grades in whatever courses you do after GCSE.

I only have to get 4 now as I have a GCSE in Citizenship, but still I'd like to do something medical related (not doctor or nurse) and I know how competive the courses are.

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blondevalkyrie

thats actually wrong, if your very worried concentrate on getting your english lit, lang, maths and science double award there the most important- trust me

Yeah I want to get the core subjects!

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buttons_andbeads

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SuperSam_Fantastiche

If you get 5 A*-C's then it's not worth resitting anything, provided that you get good grades in whatever courses you do after GCSE.

Agreed. Unless you are planning to apply to oxbridge? it really doesn't matter so much other wise.
You have plenty of time, so stop stressing. If you start revising now you will definitely be able to boost your grades a couple of boundaries. I really wouldn't start panicking about retakes until results day in august, after that your college will be happy to help with any retake enquiries :smile:

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