GCSE Results Thread - 27th August 09

[Racheya]

Oh yeah... sorry this is kind of offtopic but did anyone take RS gcse? Cos I'm doing it (it's compulsory :x ) and... what's it like?

 

 

 

Well, I found it pretty dull, Some theory needed but the test is easy enough. Just read the questions before deciding what questions to do if VERY VERY important.

 

That's true. I remember RS being one of the exams I wrote the most in, probably just as much as in my English exams. I was writing to the very end. MANAGE YOUR TIME WELL. The work is pretty easy, it's just getting out in a coherent form.

[dusqi]

Bless I remember doing GCSEs. Good luck everyone.

 

 

 

Don't be scared though, Sixth Form is better than Secondary, believe me.

 

 

 

Yeah I'm really looking forward to it.

 

 

 

...and then college is better than sixth form, and grad school is even better :D So you have good things to look forward to! :thumbup:

[Skully]

Bless I remember doing GCSEs. Good luck everyone.

 

 

 

Don't be scared though, Sixth Form is better than Secondary, believe me.

 

 

 

Yeah I'm really looking forward to it.

 

 

 

...and then college is better than sixth form, and grad school is even better :D So you have good things to look forward to! :thumbup:

 

 

 

You can't do college AND 6th form can you? I'm gonna go straight to uni afterwards, and I dunno what grad school even is? Unless you mean the same things in different terms?

[Jeffwilson99]

Bless I remember doing GCSEs. Good luck everyone.

 

 

 

Y'know though - GCSEs are easy compared to AS/A-level work. I managed to pass all my GCSEs with at least a C, mainly A's and B's, but for my AS results I only got a B,C,D,D :|

 

 

 

Don't be scared though, Sixth Form is better than Secondary, believe me.

 

 

 

Yeah I'm really looking forward to it. What subjects do you do?

 

Psychology, Sociology, English Literature and ICT.

 

 

 

I'm hopefully doing Psychology too, but tell me. Is it really as interesting as it sounds? I'll probably be the only boy in there too. :wall:

 

You'd be surprised. Psychology is probably slightly more popular with the girls but it's a very popular subject and you do get boys :P

 

 

 

Some of it IS interesting, we did Autism, Gender, Social Facilitation, Conformity, Memory & Forgetting and Research Methods in our first year. Research methods is the most boring drivel ever. Especially if you did statistics at Secondary. They're like the same thing T_T

 

 

 

 

 

Can you do Psych at school in the UK? Or are you at Uni? Cos I'm doing Psych, Geography, Sociology and Philosophy at Uni, the only one I could study as a subject at school was Geography.

[PhaperPlane]

Getting mine at 10 O'clock today :D So basically I have one hour to go before I get them :P I'm not looking forward to it at all. I had dream last night where I opened the envelope and all it said was "FUDGE" :|

 

 

 

Good luck everyone!

[Boris5000]

Getting mine at 10 O'clock today :D So basically I have one hour to go before I get them :P I'm not looking forward to it at all. I had dream last night where I opened the envelope and all it said was "FUDGE" :|

 

 

 

Good luck everyone!

 

 

 

Im getting mine at like 12. Lucky you. But I have time to do my hair :3

[Fat_Slug]

2 of my kids get their results today.

 

My daughter gets her final exams(she took several gcse's last year and passed those and has already been accepted to do a-levels at local colledge). todays are just bonuses as such

 

 

 

My son took 3 exams, 2 years early, so its his first experience at these exams. He's more nervous than my daughter is(but he won't admit that)

 

 

 

Good luck to all and i hope you get what you want :pray:

[dusqi]

Bless I remember doing GCSEs. Good luck everyone.

 

 

 

Don't be scared though, Sixth Form is better than Secondary, believe me.

 

 

 

Yeah I'm really looking forward to it.

 

 

 

...and then college is better than sixth form, and grad school is even better :D So you have good things to look forward to! :thumbup:

 

 

 

You can't do college AND 6th form can you? I'm gonna go straight to uni afterwards, and I dunno what grad school even is? Unless you mean the same things in different terms?

 

 

 

Apologies, I was using American terms, which was silly since this is a thread about British people and I am British myself. Bad internet habit.

 

 

 

College in America = University in UK

 

Grad school in America = Doing a postgraduate degree (masters, PhD, etc.) at university in the UK

[Racheya]

Bless I remember doing GCSEs. Good luck everyone.

 

 

 

Y'know though - GCSEs are easy compared to AS/A-level work. I managed to pass all my GCSEs with at least a C, mainly A's and B's, but for my AS results I only got a B,C,D,D :|

 

 

 

Don't be scared though, Sixth Form is better than Secondary, believe me.

 

 

 

Yeah I'm really looking forward to it. What subjects do you do?

 

Psychology, Sociology, English Literature and ICT.

 

 

 

I'm hopefully doing Psychology too, but tell me. Is it really as interesting as it sounds? I'll probably be the only boy in there too. :wall:

 

You'd be surprised. Psychology is probably slightly more popular with the girls but it's a very popular subject and you do get boys :P

 

 

 

Some of it IS interesting, we did Autism, Gender, Social Facilitation, Conformity, Memory & Forgetting and Research Methods in our first year. Research methods is the most boring drivel ever. Especially if you did statistics at Secondary. They're like the same thing T_T

 

 

 

 

 

Can you do Psych at school in the UK? Or are you at Uni? Cos I'm doing Psych, Geography, Sociology and Philosophy at Uni, the only one I could study as a subject at school was Geography.

 

Not usually at secondary school, but most Sixth Form Colleges do run Psychology courses at A Level.

[doomy]

I have to do AS maths (Pure maths) in a few weeks, and AS english I'm not sure if we're doing.

 

It's much harder then last years though.

 

 

 

But doing AS maths should make NCEA (NZ qualification thingy) a breeze :)

[Jeffwilson99]

Bless I remember doing GCSEs. Good luck everyone.

 

 

 

Y'know though - GCSEs are easy compared to AS/A-level work. I managed to pass all my GCSEs with at least a C, mainly A's and B's, but for my AS results I only got a B,C,D,D :|

 

 

 

Don't be scared though, Sixth Form is better than Secondary, believe me.

 

 

 

Yeah I'm really looking forward to it. What subjects do you do?

 

Psychology, Sociology, English Literature and ICT.

 

 

 

I'm hopefully doing Psychology too, but tell me. Is it really as interesting as it sounds? I'll probably be the only boy in there too. :wall:

 

You'd be surprised. Psychology is probably slightly more popular with the girls but it's a very popular subject and you do get boys :P

 

 

 

Some of it IS interesting, we did Autism, Gender, Social Facilitation, Conformity, Memory & Forgetting and Research Methods in our first year. Research methods is the most boring drivel ever. Especially if you did statistics at Secondary. They're like the same thing T_T

 

 

 

 

 

Can you do Psych at school in the UK? Or are you at Uni? Cos I'm doing Psych, Geography, Sociology and Philosophy at Uni, the only one I could study as a subject at school was Geography.

 

Not usually at secondary school, but most Sixth Form Colleges do run Psychology courses at A Level.

 

 

 

Sooo cfzd! Different systems in different countries....

[Mollerz]

Grats to everyone who got their results! I just got mine.

 

 

 

[hide=Results]A* in Maths (Did last year)

 

A in French

 

A in Geography

 

A in Science 1 } Double Scienece

 

A in Science 2 } 5 Exams (1 Biology, 2 Chemistry, 2 Physics rolled into two grades)

 

A in English Literature

 

B in English Language

 

B in History

 

B in Spanish[/hide]

 

 

 

Was expecting a B in both Englishes and a C in History but also I wanted A*s in science but that Biology let me down.

[issy2]

I'm so glad I did Maths a year early (IGCSE) and I got 98% and 94% in my papers so that was an easy A*. Now I just need As in Double Science otherwise I'm not really fussed what I get.

 

 

 

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

 

 

 

Tension D:

 

 

 

=D> Nice! Congratz : ) edit: and ca2, you did really well!

 

 

 

Thanks for the RS info guys. I wish I didn't have to do it though... I'm pretty philosophical already (IMHO, lol) and if I didn't have to take RS I'd get another option, so I could have taken Art as well. Which I really, really wanted to. But you can't have everything I guess!

[Residua]

I did a lot better then I was hoping:

 

 

 

2 B's

 

6 A's

 

2 A*'s

 

 

 

Very pleased with my results, what about everyone else?

[Wongtong]

I have to do AS maths (Pure maths) in a few weeks, and AS english I'm not sure if we're doing.

 

It's much harder then last years though.

 

 

 

But doing AS maths should make NCEA (NZ qualification thingy) a breeze :)

 

How come you have to take AS maths/AS english?

[PhaperPlane]

My results are awful. :(

 

ICT: CREDIT (B Grade in other words)

 

History: C

 

Drama: D (1 FREAKING MARK FROM A C. Now I can't do this subject in Sixth Form.)

 

Design and Tech: C

 

Religious Studies: B (HELL YES)

 

Physical Eucation: D

 

Maths: C (Really happy about this, I was doing Foundation paper)

 

French: E (Tre's difficile!)

 

English A: C

 

English Lit: C

 

Science B: D

 

Additional Science: C

 

 

 

So yeah, that's mine.

[Fat_Slug]

Well my daughter has come away with

 

a's: 8

 

b's:4

 

c's:6

 

 

 

no idea on my son as of yet.

 

but i am a proud mother today :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Skully]

ICT: C + D

 

Media Studies: B

 

Religious Studies: D

 

Maths: C ([bleep] yeah! Was expecting to not get this and I was on the foundation paper)

 

English Language: C

 

English Literature: C

 

Science: C

 

Addittional Science: D

 

Business Studies: B

 

 

 

Pretty average, but i got my 5+ A-C grades, and a C+ in English and Maths to get me into 6th form, so I don't mind. :thumbsup:

[Jaziek]

My results are awful. :(

 

ICT: CREDIT (B Grade in other words)

 

History: C

 

Drama: D (1 FREAKING MARK FROM A C. Now I can't do this subject in Sixth Form.)

 

Design and Tech: C

 

Religious Studies: B (HELL YES)

 

Physical Eucation: D

 

Maths: C (Really happy about this, I was doing Foundation paper)

 

French: E (Tre's difficile!)

 

English A: C

 

English Lit: C

 

Science B: D

 

Additional Science: C

 

 

 

So yeah, that's mine.

 

 

 

get the drama remarked.

[Fat_Slug]

can you ask to be remarked?

 

when i did the gcse's they was in their second year of being released(yes i know that makes me old :ugeek: )

 

and this option just wasn't around sadly.

 

there was several results i was told i was 1 or two marks off the next level up in them.

[PhaperPlane]

It was my final performance which let me down 18/40. It would be very difficult to get it re-marked.

[SirHartlar]

5 A*'s, 5 A's and a B. Pretty happy, I got what I expected.

[doomy]

I have to do AS maths (Pure maths) in a few weeks, and AS english I'm not sure if we're doing.

 

It's much harder then last years though.

 

 

 

But doing AS maths should make NCEA (NZ qualification thingy) a breeze :)

 

How come you have to take AS maths/AS english?

 

Dunno, probaly because NCEA means nothing except in NZ :P

 

 

 

Jeez @ all you with like A*'s and everything, I'd have killed for an A last year.... Ended up like 2% off so meh. (and like only just a B in english... :P)

[Boris5000]

Maths : A

 

Statistics : B

 

Biology : A

 

Chemistry : A

 

Physics : A

 

Religious Studies : B

 

English : B (Predicted a C, lol)

 

English Lit : B (I was predicted a C, Thank you Mr. Kellay!!)

 

German : B

 

Geography : C

 

Resistant Materials : C (the test was a [bleep] >.>)

 

 

 

I got 87/120 in each of my Biology, Chemistry and Physics exams (they are seperate)

 

 

 

Yeah, Not bad

 

4 A. 5 B. 2 C.

[Zeddude]

Chemistry : A* (DELIGHTED! couldnt believe it, i thought i would get a B!) ( i got 100/100 for coursework! :D)

 

English Language: A (Surprising :) )

 

Graphics: A

 

Maths : A

 

Biology : A

 

Applied ICT Double: A and A

 

Geography : B

 

English Literature : B

 

Religious Studies : B (Dissapointing, usually get A*'s in class tests)

 

Physics: B

 

 

 

Overall, 1 A*, 6A's and 4 B's

 

 

 

Plus, B in Arabic i did 4 years ago.

 

B in citizenship short course.

 

 

 

 

 

DELIGHTED