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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: noodleplugerine on August 23, 2007, 12:19:08 PM
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I know a few members on here have just got them back - And I also know that they're totally irrelevant and don't matter, etc - But anyway, how have results been - And what A Levels or GNVQs/BTecs etc have people applied for?
Mine were 6 As, 3 Bs, and a C - Respectively As in the subjects I'm good at, and cared about, Bs in the irrelevent subjects - Including Music :p, and a C in the subject which mattered the least imo - English Lit.
I managed to get into the Uber prestigious Further Maths class in my school even though I only had an A in maths and would normally need an A*, so I'm pretty happy about my results - Also doing Chemistry Physics and Philosophy A levels next term.
Now Sambo - Your turn! :D
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Chimstry, Pysics and Maths A Levels......choice of champions :wink:
Well done dude.
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Nice one Noodle
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Nice one. Maths+Phys+Chem the best combo :twisted: Good job getting into Further Maths too. Just a bit concerned though, Further Maths moves very fast so if you didn't find GCSE Maths a breeze, there's a chance you may get left behind. Especially as you're taking 3 more subjects which means you won't have much free time. Good luck! :)
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Congratulations.
my turn next year :(
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Nice one. Maths+Phys+Chem the best combo :twisted: Good job getting into Further Maths too. Just a bit concerned though, Further Maths moves very fast so if you didn't find GCSE Maths a breeze, there's a chance you may get left behind. Especially as you're taking 3 more subjects which means you won't have much free time. Good luck! :)
I know - It's a pure ego trip - Which is why I want to do it.
I'll be able to come out of it and laugh at the lesser men.
Muahahahaha. etc
On a serious note - Yeah, I know it's the best combo - Which is just why I took it =D
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Congratulations Noodle. Best of luck with the future studying too.
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Congrats to any who get their GCSE's
Andy!
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Nice one man!
I got a very similar set of results.
6 A's
4 B's
2 C's
i think... give or take a couple i cant remember haha. (slightly intoxicated at the moment).
The entire GCSE course pissed me off as i ended up doing about 12+ in the end... our school forces you to take half-courses e.t.c. so i did all the standard choices and manditorys, as well as French, Statistics, P.E half course, R.E half course. e.t.c.
anyway, I had a 6th form interview and got secured a place doing my favourite subjects (i'm the opposite end of the spectrum to you- very english based and not too keen on the Sciences).
so my A-Levels will be something like:
English (of some combo)
Politics (i don't care- i love it)
final two places of History, Geography, Biolgy, Maths. a combo of those.
I'm rambling.
anyway- i admire you guys with the whole Maths + Chem + Physics thing... there's no way i could hack that.
I know someone who intends to be a doctor/surgeon doing Maths + all sciences though. Ouch.
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I remember when GCSEs used to hard...
but back then we didn't have wikipedia and the internet cost per minute
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2 JDC:righteousindignation: That's the most bollocks I have ever read.
GCSEs have gotten no easier - if anything they are harder than when they were instated. The reason for the increased higher pass grades is that the papers don't run on set mark boundaries but there are a set number who have to get a certain grade so 5% will get an A* for example. These boundaries make it so that the board can rate their papers for difficulty and amend them for the next year. Exams are not easer, they are more balanced.
secondly Wikipedia is not the preferred source for exam cramming you may as well use uncyclopedia.:/righteousindignation/:
I really feel shafted by the system - I got a D in music despite having all my work fully notated and arranged ad completing the work half a year before anyone else in the group - causing me to spend a long time doing absolutely nothing for the rest of the year so that the bloke I was doing my ensemble piece with had time to finish his coursework and even then he forgot his part 10 minutes before we were set to record.
I consistently topped the exams and only several people in the group were really likely to do any better than me.
I have an interview for my sixth form application and I am really going to push for music as I put twice the effort into that than I put into any of my other grades.
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the thing is its easy as adults to look at GCSE's and say they are easier now. I didnt get any A's when i did mine but i am fairly sure i could easily get a's at almost all the subjects now. Thats not because they are easier, its because i am more focused than i was when i did my GCSE's. If i choose to do a course now it receives a lot more focus and energy than the stuff i was made to do at school!
What people forget is that GCSE's are designed to test 16 year olds, i am sure we all remember how distracting life was when we were 16! For me i waass more interested in girls, guitars and music than i was any of my GCSE's
OK, so why have GCSE's results got better.
1. Better teaching (I have to say that!!)
2. We put far too much stress on children to do well at their GCSE's -so we end up with better reuslts than i ever got, but also more stressed 16 year olds that are not always emotionally mature enough to deal with that stress.
GCSE's dont really matter that much but we dont tell you that till you are at least 17 :P Even if you get bad results schools and colleges are legally bound to provide FE courses for you - its actually a discriminatory offense if they dont! In that way entry requirements can only ever be used as a guide and not a legal requirement for course entry.
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congratulations, guys!
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Nice one man!
I got a very similar set of results.
6 A's
4 B's
2 C's
i think... give or take a couple i cant remember haha. (slightly intoxicated at the moment).
The entire GCSE course pissed me off as i ended up doing about 12+ in the end... our school forces you to take half-courses e.t.c. so i did all the standard choices and manditorys, as well as French, Statistics, P.E half course, R.E half course. e.t.c.
anyway, I had a 6th form interview and got secured a place doing my favourite subjects (i'm the opposite end of the spectrum to you- very english based and not too keen on the Sciences).
so my A-Levels will be something like:
English (of some combo)
Politics (i don't care- i love it)
final two places of History, Geography, Biolgy, Maths. a combo of those.
I'm rambling.
anyway- i admire you guys with the whole Maths + Chem + Physics thing... there's no way i could hack that.
I know someone who intends to be a doctor/surgeon doing Maths + all sciences though. Ouch.
lol i'm guessing you were at the FC party last night then?!
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The entire GCSE course pissed me off as i ended up doing about 12+ in the end... our school forces you to take half-courses e.t.c. so i did all the standard choices and manditorys, as well as French, Statistics, P.E half course, R.E half course. e.t.c.
For us, the RE course was a full course and it was optional - A couple of my mates took it - PE was also a full course, and again, was optional.
French was also an optional for us, we were all forced to do a language though - Either Spanish French or German - I did Spanish.
I think we did statistics, but I don't have any results from that - It was just some work that was given to us during our maths classes - We couldn't differentiate from what was "Maths" and what was "Statistics".
In our school we weren't forced to do any subjects other than Maths, English and Science - Although we were forced to do categories, ie, 1 Language, 1 technology, 1 creative subject, and 1 humanity, and then 1 extra subject of our choosing.
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The entire GCSE course pissed me off as i ended up doing about 12+ in the end... our school forces you to take half-courses e.t.c. so i did all the standard choices and manditorys, as well as French, Statistics, P.E half course, R.E half course. e.t.c.
For us, the RE course was a full course and it was optional - A couple of my mates took it - PE was also a full course, and again, was optional.
French was also an optional for us, we were all forced to do a language though - Either Spanish French or German - I did Spanish.
I think we did statistics, but I don't have any results from that - It was just some work that was given to us during our maths classes - We couldn't differentiate from what was "Maths" and what was "Statistics".
In our school we weren't forced to do any subjects other than Maths, English and Science - Although we were forced to do categories, ie, 1 Language, 1 technology, 1 creative subject, and 1 humanity, and then 1 extra subject of our choosing.
yer see we got done over! lol... pretty much every other school i know had loads of optionals, whereas we were forced to do them.
oh and statistics- yer there is a portion of the maths course which covers statistics, but our school- being the arse that it is, made us do a full GCSE in Statistics alone as well as the maths course.
and Joe- i was gonna go to the FC party but didnt in the end. long story haha.
oh and Wez makes some very good points!
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Got a distinction in my Higher Diploma in Electric Guitar Performance... I'm well chuffed!
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congratulations noodle and sambo, and anyone else who's been doing GCSE's
I got
A* in maths
A in music
and Bs in everything else, cause i'd given up by year 11
I'm doing a music BTEC next year cause i'm seriously board with anything vaigly academic
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congratulations noodle and sambo, and anyone else who's been doing GCSE's
I got
A* in maths
A in music
and Bs in everything else, cause i'd given up by year 11
I'm doing a music BTEC next year cause i'm seriously board with anything vaigly academic
Sounds like me.
My A level subjects are:
Music
Graphic Design
Media Studies
French
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A level music is goddamn boring!
I'm off to college doing a BTEC national diploma in Music after a failed AS year haha!
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A level music is goddamn boring!
I'm off to college doing a BTEC national diploma in Music after a failed AS year haha!
Where you going to do that course Joe?
I done the same course a couple of years ago now at Oaklands College in Welwyn Garden City. My playing improved 10 fold within the first 6 months of being there, though some of the tutors I had were lazy ar*eholes who lost my work
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A level music is goddamn boring!
I'm off to college doing a BTEC national diploma in Music after a failed AS year haha!
Where you going to do that course Joe?
I done the same course a couple of years ago now at Oaklands College in Welwyn Garden City. My playing improved 10 fold within the first 6 months of being there, though some of the tutors I had were lazy ar*eholes who lost my work
Not Welwyn, though I heard Welwyn has one of the best music courses in Hertfordshire or something. I would have gone there but i doubt i would have got there in time every day haha. I'm doing it at North Herts College in Hitchin and the tutors there have been recommended by my brass teacher and guitar teacher and said they are awesome players. I'm intending on working this time though (unlike sixth form where i was lazy and did nothing) so that i can try and get myself a career in the music business as i'd hate to throw away pretty much my biggest talent, though i know it's extremely hard to get a good paying job doing music. I am now relying on my guitar playing though as after about 8 years of trumpet and euphonium playing i finally quit to concentrate on guitar because i enjoy it a lot more.
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A level music is goddamn boring!
I'm off to college doing a BTEC national diploma in Music after a failed AS year haha!
i have the privilege of knowing someone who made that mistake for me, so i don't have to wast a year of my life getting board doing AS levels
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Try doing a HND in South Manchester for 2 years in music performance, (with tendonitis) that really is hardcore! I got many distinctions, congrats on your results, there are many more challlenges ahead though. Don't mess your A levels up! they're far more important than GCSE's. what career are you heading for?
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Try doing a HND in South Manchester for 2 years in music performance, (with tendonitis) that really is hardcore! I got many distinctions, congrats on your results, there are many more challlenges ahead though. Don't mess your A levels up! they're far more important than GCSE's. what career are you heading for?
If you're asking me then it's between Shred-god, Engineer, 3d Modelling/animation/rendering, or getting a Physics degree and choosing my pick of office jobs.
Had first lessons today - Further maths was hardcore, I think the teacher is trying to split the men from the boys, I've never been so nervous in my life. I was honestly shiteting myself - Never been in such a horribly tense situation. Even my exams were more laid back...
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Try doing a HND in South Manchester for 2 years in music performance, (with tendonitis) that really is hardcore!
Substitute '2 years' for '1 year' and 'tendonitis' for 'tinnitus' and you have my course in a nutshell.
And yeah, that was hardcore!
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I know a few members on here have just got them back - And I also know that they're totally irrelevant and don't matter, etc - But anyway, how have results been - And what A Levels or GNVQs/BTecs etc have people applied for?
Mine were 6 As, 3 Bs, and a C - Respectively As in the subjects I'm good at, and cared about, Bs in the irrelevent subjects - Including Music :p, and a C in the subject which mattered the least imo - English Lit.
I managed to get into the Uber prestigious Further Maths class in my school even though I only had an A in maths and would normally need an A*, so I'm pretty happy about my results - Also doing Chemistry Physics and Philosophy A levels next term.
Now Sambo - Your turn! :D
congrats on getting into further maths, my college wouldn't let me do it in my first year, so i ended up dropping another couple of subjects and taking it all in one year... [not recommended]