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Science was, I don't know really. I didn't find it extremely hard so I'm confused as I'm not what you would call a smartass in the subject. I'm just nervous now as to what results I get compared to what I need to get.

Currently revising for my Further Maths A2...

Using ratios and the fact that there's two similar triangles:

9+3 : 3

12 : 3

1/12(12)(6) : 1/12(3)(6)

6 : 18/12

6 : 1.5

It's 1.5cm - It'd better be because these A-level things are hard :|

Turns out it is 2, as I first suspected:

9 : 6

= (1/9)(9)(12) : (1/9)(6)(12)

= 12 : 8

= 9 + 3 : 6 + x

= 9 + 3 : 6 + 2

Thereforel; x = 2.

Got *ABBBBBBBCC for my GCSEs :D - If you think you're good at maths doing GCSE you just wait for AS maths... it's a big step. A2 is just rediculous. :laugh:

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:wacko: *cries*

I made it up, I think I put 3, actually, I might have put 2 just as a guess

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Science was, I don't know really. I didn't find it extremely hard so I'm confused as I'm not what you would call a smartass in the subject. I'm just nervous now as to what results I get compared to what I need to get.

:wacko:  *cries*

I made it up, I think I put 3, actually, I might have put 2 just as a guess

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yey i got that one! The really scarey thing is practically the same question was on last years paper which i was practising the night before the exam and i couldn't do that one and had to have it explained. Thank god i did have it explained!

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A question (as it's been 20 years since I was in school), during French/German/Spanish lessons, are you permitted to speak English?

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We are only allowed very basic English to be spoken in our German classes, if any at all. It does help sometimes to speak English though.

yey i got that one! The really scarey thing is practically the same question was on last years paper which i was practising the night before the exam and i couldn't do that one and had to have it explained. Thank god i did have it explained!

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Ha lucky you. All our teacher did for the last few months preparing for the exams was to split our group up into people doing the higher test and those doing intermediate.

I was doing intermediate and all she did was fob us off with the same sheet for 3 months straight! I ended up joining the group below mine so I could learn something, and make myself feel smart again :ninja:

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If you guys think your GCSE's are hard, just be gratefull you didn't have to go through the horrors of O Levels!!!

Course work didn't apply to those... The entire percentage of your grade rested on the exam, you didn't get any help from your coursework at all!

I don't know if any of you saw that program on Channel 4 (?) a while back where they put some modern kids through 1950's style school?  All were predicted good results in the GCSE's, all got truly DREADFULL results in the mock O levels they did! 

The exams are definately getting easier!  I don't blame the kids being more stupid though, it's the quality of the teaching that's dropped and you poor kids are suffering because of it.  :no:

For gods sake, if you get into college, study hard or those A levels are going to kill you!  :wacko:

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Ohh right, my mistake! I got mixed up, I did my O Levels :p Not GCSE. I think that one is for International Schools right?

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Ohh right, my mistake! I got mixed up, I did my O Levels :p Not GCSE. I think that one is for International Schools right?

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No, O levels, and the lower CSE exams, were what they had before they replaced them with GCSE's in the 90's. The current GCSE's are (apparently), a little bit harder than the old CSE's (which were also course work based), but a LOT easier than the old O levels, towards which coursework did NOT count.

I'll never understand why they dumped the O levels. They could have at LEAST made the higher GCSE's as hard as the O levels, those things were NASTY!

It's also about time they stopped teaching completely useless subjects at school. I mean, just how much use is stuff like media studies going to be in real life? They need to take your calculators away from you in maths too! Sheesh... If we tried bringing a calculator into maths class (let alone the EXAM!), it was suspension time!!!

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No, O levels, and the lower CSE exams, were what they had before they replaced them with GCSE's in the 90's.  The current GCSE's are (apparently), a little bit harder than the old CSE's (which were also course work based), but a LOT easier than the old O levels, towards which coursework did NOT count.

I'll never understand why they dumped the O levels.  They could have at LEAST made the higher GCSE's as hard as the O levels, those things were NASTY!

It's also about time they stopped teaching completely useless subjects at school.  I mean, just how much use is stuff like media studies going to be in real life?  They need to take your calculators away from you in maths too!  Sheesh... If we tried bringing a calculator into maths class (let alone the EXAM!), it was suspension time!!!

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They still do O Levels in our country and Singapore. I did mine last 2 years ago. It's called GCE O Level. Sure it's missing an S.

From my perception, it looks as if GCSE is much more simpler than O Levels but who am I to judge.

I think they changed the system in England - You all have IB as a growing standard. GCSE as being the norm. There's also the N Level for the more "slower" people. Our country has abolished that education examination just recently. Singapore has an Express and Normal (O Level and N Level respectively). Smarter kids get the O level course.

It was a tough course, but I guess with anything - Perfection can only be achieved with Practice.

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I have Only 3 Exams Left!! :D :D

French Reading, History Paper 2 and Physics :p

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Well, stop playing on here and get studying young man! :D

Best of luck... History sucks, I dropped it!

Physics, good when the teacher blows up the lab for the Nth time :)

French reading, M?rde!!

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Well, stop playing on here and get studying young man! :D

Best of luck... History sucks, I dropped it!

Physics, good when the teacher blows up the lab for the Nth time :)

French reading, M?rde!!

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I am Studying! :DD

French = I basically can't revise for this, i know what i know. I dnt know what will come up

History = This is the Topic i am revising for atm. Britain 1900 Poverty etc

Physics = Im too good at Physics :pp 4 out of Five Tests we did i got an A! :DD

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yeah i got French writing

Physics ( im sorry person above, i think ive bettered you by getting striaght A * 's in mocks and practices ;) )

And RS, which i absolutly hammered the first paper, and hope to do the same again on wednesday , last exam

THEN IM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Business Studies is all exams and no Coursework.

After speaking to a few people, including teachers, tests have not got easier. They have stayed the same or got harder. So we are actually smarter then previous generations and the people who always say that they are getting easier are just jealous :p

No offence to anybody who has a different viewpoint from me.

Yeah two exams left, RE and History. I should do really well on both of them, but I'm nervous about me RE one because I either do really well, or really badly.

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did mine last year....

i didnt revise at all.... and was banned from going to science lessons becoz the amount of pi*s me n my mates took out of the teachers....

ended up with

2 A's (Geography and R.E)

5 B's (English, English Lit, Urdu Language, History, Maths)

4 C's (all sciences - took seperate science and i had a C from last year when i did statistics)

well thats what i got... not too bad considering there was virtually no revision involved...

hehehe doing AS levels now :D

Got an A in business Studies muhahahaha only started revising 3 days before Exam so im buzzing on that.... ohh yeah and once ur in college its as if GCSE's dont mean anything.... they are more concerned about AS/A2... dont care about GCSE's... but yeah if you goto college and wanna goto uni make sure you get enough points in the first year... second year is meant to be solid....

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Business Studies is all exams and no coursework

Im doing business studies and I did coursework. Im doing the AQA one though so it may be different to you. I got 62 out of 63 for the coursework as well, the highest in the year, I want to know what I dropped the one mark on!

Any way I had the business studies exam today, it wasnt exactly hard but I didnt do any revision for it apart from last night and getting up at 6 this morning.

Only got one exam left, Physics which is part of my Dual Award Science. Its on Wednesday so plenty of time to revise!

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Im doing business studies and I did coursework. Im doing the AQA one though so it may be different to you. I got 62 out of 63 for the coursework as well, the highest in the year, I want to know what I dropped the one mark on!

Any way I had the business studies exam today, it wasnt exactly hard but I didnt do any revision for it apart from last night and getting up at 6 this morning.

Only got one exam left, Physics which is part of my Dual Award Science. Its on Wednesday so plenty of time to revise!

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Well I don't do it myself. But my friends who do it must be on a different exam board. They have no Coursework but 3 exams instead

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Personally I would rather do the coursework and one exam than 3 exams!

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Ditto to that. I prefer to have a fall back option also for if my exam didn't go as well as planned. But the other point of view is that you don't have coursework to mess up on, so you can just focus on the exam

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