The Back Room

[Icuownage]

You're AS IN You are, example, You're a person.

 

Your AS IN, your, as in your choice.

 

 

Also people who only do education and no fun are horrible people and actually aren't normally that successful in life cause you need people skills to get a job and to get promotions and to get recognised.

 

 

So really, TAKE EVERYTHING IN STRIDE, SHE DOESN'T WANT YOU? HER LOSS BRO, SHOW HER HOW MUCH SHE DOESN'T CONTROL YOUR FEELINGS ANYMORE, BECOME A SUCCESS, FIND A BETTER GIRL, BE RICH.

[Retech]

Honestly, coming on this forum is probaly more detrimental than having a relationship. At least it helps one develop socially with relatively normal people, unlike the wierdos on here. :P

[Jehosaphat]

Resistance, it is important to stop on the way to greatness.

 

These moments will shape you as much as your hard work will.

You stop when you're finished.

 

At fifteen providing he's British or American he will be having important exams/learning, having a girlfriend will be detrimental to that.

That's a little harsh. Friends you make while you're still a "kid" can be some of the best friends you'll ever have, and concentrating on nothing but exams kills your social life.

 

That said, I'm staying away from "relationships" for a while because A. all the girls at the school I attend are way out of my age range, and B. I just don't see a point in it yet.

[Nexaduro]

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It's people with that attitude, Resistance, who ruin the world. Life has no purpose without love and happiness, both in a philosophical and evolutionary sense. The fact is, my grades suck, I have depression issues, probably the best thing that could happen to me in academic terms would be finding someone I could tell my problems and work together with towards self improvement.

[Jehosaphat]

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It's people with that attitude, Resistance, who ruin the world. Life has no purpose without love and happiness, both in a philosophical and evolutionary sense. The fact is, my grades suck, I have depression issues, probably the best thing that could happen to me in academic terms would be finding someone I could tell my problems and work together with towards self improvement.

There's always your bros (and Iey, Vix, and Lee) in the Tavern if you need to rant about something, ask questions, or generally goof off.

[Retech]

The best thing to improve your grades is to IMPROVE YOUR HANDWRITING. It takes roughly a month (varies for people) and will probaly increase your grades from a minus to a plus. It's because people perceive the neatness and flawlessness as indications of quality and intelligent writing.

 

That being said, I am often perceived to be like Resistance in sheer work ethic, because I am always seen working, but that is mainly because I like to do everything at school so I can goof off and relax at home.

[Resistance]

That's a little harsh. Friends you make while you're still a "kid" can be some of the best friends you'll ever have, and concentrating on nothing but exams kills your social life.

The best way to ruin a friendship is to go out with someone. That isn't just one of those phrases it has been observed.

[Retech]

That's a little harsh. Friends you make while you're still a "kid" can be some of the best friends you'll ever have, and concentrating on nothing but exams kills your social life.

The best way to ruin a friendship is to go out with someone.

 

Nah, not the case.

 

The best way to ruin a friendship is to act like an idiot when you go out with someone. It's not that it happened, but that one's behavior can change so rapidly when in a relationship that it makes things plain wierd.

 

So, be yourself.

[Jehosaphat]

That's a little harsh. Friends you make while you're still a "kid" can be some of the best friends you'll ever have, and concentrating on nothing but exams kills your social life.

The best way to ruin a friendship is to go out with someone.

Nope. I was good friends with the one girl I dated before I asked her out, and we're still good friends despite the fact that we broke up.

 

And besides, coping with romance issues while young can help you cope with it when you're older.

 

And Retech, the best way to improve your grades is not to improve your handwriting. It's to type EVERYTHING. Looks nice and professional and stuff.

[Retech]

Not when you're stuck in a timed examination!

[Nexaduro]

Precisely. I couldn't count how many girlfriends Felix has had, but every one of them is still quite close to him without being romantically associated in the least. Especially Naomi, who he met by almost tossing out a window during a theatre performance.

[Resistance]

The best thing to improve your grades is to IMPROVE YOUR HANDWRITING. It takes roughly a month (varies for people) and will probaly increase your grades from a minus to a plus. It's because people perceive the neatness and flawlessness as indications of quality and intelligent writing.

 

That being said, I am often perceived to be like Resistance in sheer work ethic, because I am always seen working, but that is mainly because I like to do everything at school so I can goof off and relax at home.

My handwriting is so terrible that I am allowed to use a laptop in all of my exams. Straight A*'s in all of my English's apart from poetry if I remember. I am not allowed a spell checker or anything but being able to look back and add things without masses of scribbles really makes things look better.

 

That is a good thing, but I am the opposite. I do little work at school and home school myself.

[Jehosaphat]

Not when you're stuck in a timed examination!

Ach, good point.

[Icuownage]

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It's people with that attitude, Resistance, who ruin the world. Life has no purpose without love and happiness, both in a philosophical and evolutionary sense. The fact is, my grades suck, I have depression issues, probably the best thing that could happen to me in academic terms would be finding someone I could tell my problems and work together with towards self improvement.

 

I believe they're called student counsellors. :P

 

In UK, we have a system called GCSE's and A-levels (you probably already know that) anywho, we begin our A-levels at the age of 16, and I am pretty much finishing my first AS (the first half) of my A-levels, and Nex is pretty much correct.

 

Even though when I was doing my GCSE's a year ago, so when I was 15 too, and passed them all without any real effort,(revision, looking back on notes, anything really, even homework was non-existant) except BTEC, but that was cause coursework GCSE's don't require smarts, but actual defication. I still could have done better, and it really does leave a real hollow feeling if you don't live a year at your best.

 

Now Nex, you at least took the plunge didn't you? I mean, you now have an answer, and a new chapter. Sure it sucks that it didn't work out for the best, but your worth as a person, in my opinion, is valued on how you deal with something. So if you deal with this in a good way, and end up trying to improve yourself and you DO improve yourself (although that implies there's anything needing to jmprove) then you'll have a relatively better life than if you NEVER asked.

 

Now that I am now near my A-level, and am only close to passing one nearly at a grade I really want (but that's the one I actually really like) it's still not the grade I want. And it really really sucks when you don't improve on it, and I never took the initiative to improve one what I did, and now I am failing another course cause I let this get to me.

 

 

SO TLDR, don't let it get to you, improve yourself, just improve bro.

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As long as your handwriting is basically legible improving it only gives you more confidence.

Or if you are subpar it improves your grades slightly...but if you are actually good at the subject/s then handwriting has no actual impact.

 

 

And for some people, me for example, it isn't possible to improve your handwriting...and trying develops you into a person like me, who refuses to try things that don't have a definate outcome, which is of the greatest detriment when finding accomodation, looking for love, job hunting...hell, anything that involves other people.

[Nexaduro]

I know. The whole thing is a weight off of me for asking, though it was a comforting weight with no replacement. Adopt, adapt, and modify as my folks say.

[Icuownage]

Also @Retech and Navi

 

HANDWIRTING ISN'T GRADED SO WHY IMPROVE IT?

 

It depends what kind of timed test.

 

Essay? Improve your essay writing skills, I have become very adept at writing essays now, as my class and I have written an essay every week this year, and sometimes 2 per week.

 

Exam? Revise! Once got a U in a test, revised for next time, got a B. They were on similar topics, and they were spaced very much apart (a few months) so it's not like I could remember the other test.

 

Or do what I did for my MAIN test, and memorise the mark schemes of the previous papers. Keywords become your [bleep]. (VERY USEFUL FOR SCIENCE)

 

Practical? Erm, I suck at this don't talk to me about this :P

[Retech]

They give the illusion that the paper is better than it actually is, so they grade it higher.

[Icuownage]

So you're on about essays? Cause they can't do that with exams, as the mark scheme is very specific, and they look for keywords instead.

 

They actually look for keywords in essays too.

 

Like in our english essay, they look for terminology of poetry, saying 'in my opinion', stating an argument, backing up the argument, countering the argument, context on the argument.

 

In my media essay, they looked for terminology of camera work editing sound and mise-en-scene, and then terminilogy on the production, distribution and consumption of a film. Not only that, you had to say how certain things are used, how this effects it, what this does for bla bla bla bla.

 

And the only thing the teachers told us to improve was our vocab, and to revise the material.

 

Cause handwriting is not important.

[Resistance]

It's people with that attitude, Resistance, who ruin the world. Life has no purpose without love and happiness, both in a philosophical and evolutionary sense. The fact is, my grades suck, I have depression issues, probably the best thing that could happen to me in academic terms would be finding someone I could tell my problems and work together with towards self improvement.

 

No its not, you're fourteen. You need to be put in you're place. You've already said that you're failing at school and instead of working to improve those marks you're letting people distract you in lessons and then actually being sad that you're nerves got the better of you and stopped you're grades getting any lower. Do you really think that the best way to get better marks is get a girfriend instead of revising more?

This has to be the most childish argument I have ever had, in a poetic sense whatever you say, Nexauduro is true but logically and realistically whatever I say is true.

 

If you have depression you should see a doctor.

 

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Essays are easy, you just follow the simple formula.

 

Point,

Evidence of the point,

What it means,

[Optional:Comparison with other point,]

How it links with you're essay's question,

[Optional: Personal opinion]

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It depends how good the teacher is...I find that if you have a rubbish teacher then a page photocopied(by hand) from the text book is worth five pages researched and cited.

 

 

However, it may be that in Britian we don't get tests every other day, so the teacher has more than five minutes to read the test, as such isn't terribly interested in how well presented it is, but rather the content.

Or, of course, it might just be that I just had teachers that placed a very low emphasis on handwriting...though, since it is reasonably terrible, I did go on numerous courses to improve it, as their request...

 

End of the day(and coincidently end of my schooling period) when we joined classes with the girls, I consistantly scored as well as, if not better than, most of the girls...And girls tend to have better handwriting...so again, either teachers were simply not that fussed about handwriting...the girls were not that great(Possible, not because they were girls but because they had been taught to photocopy, by hand, from the book) or some other thing.

[Icuownage]

It's people with that attitude, Resistance, who ruin the world. Life has no purpose without love and happiness, both in a philosophical and evolutionary sense. The fact is, my grades suck, I have depression issues, probably the best thing that could happen to me in academic terms would be finding someone I could tell my problems and work together with towards self improvement.

 

No its not, you're fourteen. You need to be put in you're place. You've already said that you're failing at school and instead of working to improve those marks you're letting people distract you in lessons and then actually being sad that you're nerves got the better of you and stopped you're grades getting any lower. Do you really think that the best way to get better marks is get a girfriend instead of revising more?

This has to be the most childish argument I have ever had, in a poetic sense whatever you say, Nexauduro is true but logically and realistically whatever I say is true.

 

If you have depression you should see a doctor.

 

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Essays are easy, you just follow the simple formula.

 

Point,

Evidence of the point,

What it means,

[Optional:Comparison with other point,]

How it links with you're essay's question,

[Optional: Personal opinion]

 

I know for a fact you're not older than Nex, and if you are, you're 16, cause I swear you asked about your GCSE's once, and that wasn't a year ago, which means you're 13-16.

 

 

Also, that system is good for essays.... If you're not doing A-level.

 

You do a similar system in A-level though.

[Resistance]

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I know for a fact you're not older than Nex, and if you are, you're 16, cause I swear you asked about your GCSE's once, and that wasn't a year ago, which means you're 13-16.

 

Also, that system is good for essays.... If you're not doing A-level.

 

You do a similar system in A-level though.

 

That was A-level DT.

 

I use that system in A-Level.

[Icuownage]

Talking of innovation will anybody help me with my innovation GCSE controlled assessment (coursework that has to be at school)

Basically I am designing and making a prototype of my own idea, it can be whatever I want it to be (it can use emerging technologies or even be a hyper structure like as Dyson sphere). Anyway I'm stuck on idea's and reading through a big list would be helpful.

 

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• Home office integration
  
• Home Gaming
  
• On the move gaming
  
• Space travel
  
• Deep sea travel
  
• Mining
  
• Building safety
  
• Fashion
  
• Input devices
  
• Artificial Habitats
  
• Mobile Phones
  
• Fast Food
  

 

As you can see there is not much idea's that I can come up with, would anybody please continue the list.

 

 

Says GCSE here

 

 

 

And I talk English A-level (not trying to sound arrogant here) but we probably need to go more in-depth with our essays, as English is targetted at essays.

 

Unless the way we do essays in subjects is different. So that'd explain it.

[Nexaduro]

Res. That sort of crap isn't helping. I don't know what's wrong that you've taken such a pragmatic view, but I know what my problems are... Yes, I've been distracted, because I've been brooding over my place here. I see the world, I see that kind of attitude, and I think it's not worth dealing with. I see my life, I see that I love even those who don't deserve it, and I think that if someone, anyone would return those feelings that my existence would be worthwhile.

 

I won't settle for a crushed spirit and decades of monotony, I'd sooner walk into the wild and leave my fate to nature.