Exams - GCSE/A Level

I notice a lot of us are doing GCSE's/A Levels this year so I was just wondering what exams everyone has and when.

Mine start tomorrow; General Studies Unit 1. We've been taught nothing of any use in lessons and some of the differences between the multiple choice answers are so subtle, I'm dreading it. I wouldn't have to go in until 11 if it wasn't for that exam Study leave doesn't start until a week Friday.

I am not doing GCSE's or A levels but i had three exams today all in a row computing, Politics and English

Politics That's not fair, down here I don't think we have to/get the choice to do it until 16+. I had 3 in one day when I did GCSE, it's evil.

yea

I hated english it was 2 hard for me i was just staring at the clock most of the time

Ronnielleno1fanforeva! wrote:

yea

I hated english it was 2 hard for me i was just staring at the clock most of the time

I've never stared at a clock in an exam but there was this Maths challenge that everyone in the top set was forced to do in Year 10. I fell asleep in it Needless to say I failed it haha

Oh shoot! tht reminds me i have a maths test next week and im really bad at maths really the teacher shouts at me when i get the anwsers wrong

Apparently I have a Media Psychology mock next week as well. We finished it at the start of April and it's the one thing I haven't started revising lol. The real exam's not until the 30th June and if I learned it all now I'd never remember it. That will be a fun mock, not.

i had 2 LLW Gcse Modules last week
A Physics one this week
And Maths and Business studies in 2 weeks time
and then internal term exams that week aswell

What's LLW? Are you Year 10 or 11?

General Studies was surprisingly good actually. Some of the questions were asking about Postman Pat's qualities lol. I got a bit annoyed on the last question as there was someone that did A Level Art, Photography and Textiles behind me so obviously she likes drawing and it sounded like she got bored as there was just this scratching of a pencil as if she'd started drawing on her paper. I kind of rushed the last question as I spent a bit long on the one before but I didn't have much more to say anyway lol.

I have the Science paper for General Studies a week tomorrow. I haven't done Science for two years haha. Worried I'm going to mess that up now and bring my whole grade down.

LLW is learning for life and work
im in year 11 but im in N.Ireland
i think thats the english equivilent to year 10

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2 hour exam for a short course Some of the timings on exams are ridiculous. I have four more, but there's less exams at A Level if you sit some in January. I feel for you having 13 more, I remember having 17 when I did GCSE.

you can do 13 && 17 GCSEs??

9 is the max we are allowed and we have like no subjects to choose from

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lol i realised that after i posted lol
im a bit dosey on it 2day :L

lol that would be hell if i had to do 17 diff subjects

Lol yea

How many are you doing?

fabfriend7 wrote:

you can do 13 && 17 GCSEs??

9 is the max we are allowed and we have like no subjects to choose from

You can do as many GCSE's as you want, or that your school says you can do. There's more than one paper for some GCSE's. I did 10 GCSE's which was the limit at my school, but there were so many papers for them. In Year 10 I did a Science GCSE and had 6 papers for that. Maths was 4 papers with 2 in Year 10 and History, English Language, Additional Science and RE also had more than one paper. Geography there was a module in the January as well. The number of papers you get depends on the subject and the exam board.

My friend at a different school however had to take 12. I think schools make a judgement as to whether they want to focus on the quantity or quality of passes when they decide on the number that they say to take.

in our school they try to get you to do a min of 8 && a max of 9

It all depends wether your taking the 'vocational route' or occupational route'

in other words if you do an extra subject or go to tech

but we dont have that great a range of subjects cause ccea (the NI exam board)
dont provide enough courses && the school doesnt have enough teachers

That's what's good in England. We have 3 different exam boards and my school even teach a course on WJEC (Welsh exam board.)

i think one of the courses (child development) im doing is AQA but im not sure :S

but the AQA science seems to be alot higher than CCEA but maybe im wrong :S

I did Science and Additional Science on AQA. Did loads of revision for the first one (back when I actually liked Science) and hardly any for Additional. I got 2A's so I do think Additional Science is a lot easier. The other is multiple choice and some of the differences between the possible answers are so subtle which makes it harder. The controlled coursework is the hardest part I think, but I don't know if they have that on CCEA.

yea im doing double award science, higher tier

Ive got the Biology && Chemistry Mods done and got B in both
Im doin physics now on thursday

We are starting the coursework after that

Oh and i found a pretty good revision site

http://getrevising.co.uk/

they have alot of good stuff,
but theres the odd bit of rubbish

I'll have to try that tomorrow, thanks It just took me ages to find the Economics section lol. Trust me to pick subjects that fewer students do; they hid it pretty well.