GCSE's......

[mc cockface]

i take tripple :D i think it is more officially called seperate science. Basically you just get seperate grades for biology, chemistry and physics. 9 lessons of science a week was a drag, monday morning i had 4 science lessons in a row!

i have left:

chemistry

English paper 2 (2moz)

Physics

RE (god that subject is useless. Me and longpot have never done a page of work or listened and we dont revise for it at all. and where still expecting A's in it!!!)

Business paper 2 and 6

electonics paper 4

French reading

Anyone else agree about RE?

[saxondale.]

strange, iv known people from private schools. people going into special classes because they are too smart, A* students who just take the double award science. Never herd of tripple award. Maybe most schools think its pointless to do that many, which i agree, too much work would be involved.

[Powa]

RE (god that subject is useless. Me and longpot have never done a page of work or listened and we dont revise for it at all. and where still expecting A's in it!!!)

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Ditto to that, it's a crazy subject :laugh:

All I need to know are basic facts like what they believe and the rest is my opinion, or interpretation of what they think about it. I just make it all up off the top of my head and I'm still predicted an A :woot:

[+dave164 Subscriber¹]

I know people saxondale. who are doing tripple science, but there not in our school

Yeh ive got

Maths Paper 2

Science Paper 2

History Paper 2

RE Paper 2

French Reading

Remaining, but it goes over 2 weeks :( Id rather have another full week and get them over with

[Omar Hussain]

yeah triple science does exist, im doing it lol, but also i do go to a grammar school which have higher standards so they expect us to take all higher, this is a greater challenge, which i think does bring out the better in you, if you show enough commitment to a subject you will do well. take my French for example, i got a D in the mocks, and now doing the real thing, ive been predicted A , only because i showed that commitement to do well!

[Omar Hussain]

strange, iv known people from private schools. people going into special classes because they are too smart, A* students who just take the double award science. Never herd of tripple award.  Maybe most schools think its pointless to do that many, which i agree, too much work would be involved.

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well not really, Triple science is so much better if your choosing to do a particular science for A level , and in my case, im doing all three (along with maths) so to have three seperate qualifications for the sciences better highlights your ability in each subject than double science

[Omar Hussain]

Ditto to that, it's a crazy subject  :laugh:

All I need to know are basic facts like what they believe and the rest is my opinion, or interpretation of what they think about it. I just make it all up off the top of my head and I'm still predicted an A  :woot:

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well basically it again depends on two things, what school your going to and what exam board you are doing

the one that im doing is split up into philosophy and ethics, and is a real challenge, and to say that it is a doss (for us) would be a lie, you need 96% for an A *, so the challenge is clear. No coursework, 2 exams, 2 hours each. The exam is tough, 2 hours of solid writing, and in my case i wrote 14 pages, so its not a doss if you take it as a serious subject, and brings some much needed education about different religions and cultures, so people are better educated to know that we shouldnt be doing sh*t like racism and the rest of it. its much more than just the grade at the end, you can apply what you have learnt in the wider world

[Elmo]

i am doing triple and go to a comprehensive school

i got forced to take it because i had a 7 in year 9 sats

i got

Welsh :(

Maths paper 2

Chemistry

Physics

left

[Martyn]

Im doing dual award (are school only offers dual and single) and im predicted A/A* in it. A school not to far away is doing the triple award though, ive heard its a drag.

[adrian.wallis]

Just finished English Language paper 2. thought it went ok, easier than the practices.

[mc cockface]

yeh but there always easy... just write what ever the hell you think! did mine went fine :) i did questions 1 and 5.

in 5 i had 2 describe a nightmareish place so i described a journey to hell :D nice and evil. question 1 i compared blessing and night of the scorpion, picked those because at first glance one is good n one is bad... but a deeper look shows they both hav good and bad... in blessing all there water supply has gon 4 months so in the end its bad and in night of the scorpion its kinda good because it takes away all her darker desires, makes the pain of her next birth (reincarnation) less than this one and then in the end the womany says shes glad its he not her children... wat did you lot do?

[+dave164 Subscriber¹]

Yup mine went fine as well (Y)

[Martyn]

yeh but there always easy... just write what ever the hell you think! did mine went fine :) i did questions 1 and 5.

in 5 i had 2 describe a nightmareish place so i described a journey to hell :D nice and evil. question 1 i compared blessing and night of the scorpion, picked those because at first glance one is good n one is bad... but a deeper look shows they both hav good and bad... in blessing all there water supply has gon 4 months so in the end its bad and in night of the scorpion its kinda good because it takes away all her darker desires, makes the pain of her next birth (reincarnation) less than this one and then in the end the womany says shes glad its he not her children... wat did you lot do?

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I did one and five as well. I compared Blessing to the Scavs In A Truck one. Then I wrote about a nightmare place, it had these little green monsters lol!

:)

[Omar Hussain]

Wow your papers are so different to the one that i done today... (AQA) but we had to write a crappy essay on how men have more rights then women, and it was some major issue that had to be sorted, and compare two poems :crazy: :( :huh: :wacko: :/ and this cool cat (the relevence is not up for question lol :cat: )

[longpot]

Ok, i took triple science and it is hard but well worth it. You learn loads more and get to do some really cool experiments. I dont see how it is extra work because its an option so you would do a simliar amount if you took say history instead. I also did question 5 on my english paper, i basicly wrote the storyline to doom 3! Electronics isnt that bad, its just the stupid D&T coursework for it thats hard. The actuall electronics is quite easy.

[Powa]

English was easy. But knowing me I'll probably not get the grade I need in it

[saxondale.]

no exams till wednesday,thank god

[+Peewee210 Subscriber¹]

Got Exam on Tuesday R.S!!

[saxondale.]

For english, i thought the exam was a morning one, but it was an afternoon one! and i had to stay around for 4 hours untill english :(

[+dave164 Subscriber¹]

This week ive got

Maths

Science

Next week

French

History

RE

LMAO :rofl: my last exam is RE for 1 hour :D

9 days and counting till the end

[stfu.]

I've got Maths and Geography on Wednesday, chemistry on Thursday. Next week, french reading on monday, physics on wednesday and Stats on Friday :( My maths teacher will kill me (literally) if I don't get an A*...but my A* maths coursework (8,8,8) helps :D

[Neil]

I am doing well, I hope you guys as well.

I ahve Geography, Maths and Chemistry this week.

Next Week Physics, History.

Then All over, but last week was hard I think I did alright.

[Bhav]

strange, iv known people from private schools. people going into special classes because they are too smart, A* students who just take the double award science. Never herd of tripple award.  Maybe most schools think its pointless to do that many, which i agree, too much work would be involved.

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i'm sorry, i think that's a bit of an ignorant and foundation-less comment (no pun intended). how would you know unless you've done it?

i go to the same school as Omarhussain. we both do triple. in fact out of over 180 people in out year, only 20 do double. triple is much better than double for people that can handle the work. there isn't "too much" work involved, just more.

the triple material isn't any harder, there's just more. if you have the right attitude, you can do it. most schools, especially comprehensive, don't do it because they feel that the majority would not have the determination to do that little extra work. in our school, however, it's the opposite, with most people willing to do more to get 3 GCSEs, giving a massive amount of scope for A Level and beyond.

[Neil]

I ahve failed maths, course work was poor my who class ahs failed because we have a crap teacher, I found paper 1 alright but paper 2 could be a hard one.

[Omar Hussain]

yeah my maths coursework was 8,8,7 in the algebra, and the stats was crap, overall i got like 41 / 48 which is ok!

and yes i do agree with Bhav, in the long run, a little effort in this point will reep its rewards in the ling run!