GCSEs!

[Michaela]

Some of you may have noticed I've been a bit absent lately, that's because of my exams. They start tomorrow. :shock:

French Oral. I'm so worried! But next week is terrible, I have an exam every day and they are all bad ones.

Monday; Economics 1
Tuesday; Additional Maths 1
Wednesday; Religion 1
Thursday; Additional Maths 2
Friday; Economics 2

Once I get next week over it calms down a bit, but they don't finish until June 20th.

Wish me luck!

 

[Becca]

Good Luck

My friend in the year above me is doing her yr nine sats but that is no where near as inportant as your gcse's i a sure you will do fine


Hmm i wish rabbits were a subject we would all get A*

 

[MsBinky]

Let me know if you need any help or someone to listen to your oral, french is my first language.

Best of luck with all your exams, but I'm not worried :rose:

 

[polly]

Good luck.
arty0002:Go michala goarty0002:

 

[mouse_chalk]

I still maintain, as do my parents, that it's toooo many exams for young people to cope with! It's just plain unfair to put that amount of stress on young people! Also,I don't want to say anything incorrect /misleading etc, but I sat my CGSE's in 2000, and apart from getting into college to do my A-Levels, I've never needed my GCSE grades since!

Anyway, rant over... I wish you the very best of luck, and we know how hard you've been working so you deserve a great grade! You come across as a very dedicated and hardworking student, and you deserve every success you get!

I'm so sorry you have sucha tough week ahead, I hope that it will all be over quickly and you can relax a bit after knowing all the tough ones are out of the way...

LOTS of good luck and well wishes coming your way!

:hug:

Jen xx

 

[pumpkinandwhiskersmom]

Best of luck to you in the next week and until the end of the term. It sure is stressful....be sure to get lots of bunny hugs!

 

[cheryl]

Good luck Michaela...Iknow you will do just fine though

Sending you lots of good luck vibes

Cheryl

 

[AngelnSnuffy]

Wishing you the best of luck, Michaela! I know you'll do well!

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

Good luck Michaela:hug: - you'll do fine!

I can sooo sympathise - my AS's start on Monday too.:?I am so so scared. I'm really not a person who copes well with exams!:faint:I thought GCSE's were bad last year - but these are even worse:? (something nice for you to look forward to)

Stress!!!:bangheadanic:

 

[Michaela]

Thanks for all your good wishes everyone! The oral went ok today, I got my two best topics and even though I was soo nervous and thought I was going to be sick before it wasn't that bad at all. My teacher was really nice and encouraging.

Jen, yeah they aren't that important mostly, but I need As or A*s to get into my chosen subjects for A Level. And on certain Uni courses (ie Medicine and Dentistry) they are starting to take GCSEs into account because the A Level results are so good, they need a way to distinguish. That's for Queens in Belfast, if I don't do so well it's easier to get into some of the Unis in England.

Good luck Jess! I don't cope well either, at all! I'm fine once I start the paper but I get very nervous before hand. I cannot wait until next year! haha I won't have to do my bad subjects, I'm actually looking forward to my Science exams (which are mostly in June) because I'm so worried about Economics, Add Maths and English and Lit. :shock:

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

Aww I'm glad they went well - I knew you'd do great! :hug:

Tell me about it!:rollseyesI get myself in such a stress that I can't concentrate in the exam and end up forgetting everything I've spent weeks learning!:?I'm especially nervous about history and psychology as there is just SO much to learn!:?I'm still worried about Eng lang and lit, but not as much as my c/w and past modular marks were pretty high so *hopefully* I'll do well on those (I love my Englishes). It's so scary as well as my school is cramming uni stuff down our throats. We've already got open days for universities and stuff scheduled for later on in the summer and we haven't even got our exams over yet!:?


Good luck for your other stuff Michaela!!:clover:

 

[Michaela]

First week over at last, must have been the longest week ever. :thud:

Economics 1 was awful, but I think I did a bit better on paper 2 today. Additional Maths were both impossible, but that was expected. Religion went the best, I was lucky in that the topics I knew came up.

Next week's awful too, Normal Maths 1 and Religion 2 on Monday, English Literature and ICT 1 on Tuesday, and Biology 1 on Wednesday. No exams Thursday and Friday at least.

How'd anyone else go with exams this week?

 

[pinksalamander]

GCSE's are a fond memory for me, i just had a 4-hour-no-break English Lit&Lang exam. It went OK actually. Usually all exams go bad for me but i thought it was OK, especially seeing as English is my weakest subejct. There were 2 different exams (The Spoken Word - you have to analyse a real conversation alongside a piece of drama/TV/Prepared speech etc). And then you have a question on a text.. mine was Much Ado About Nothing. Good ole' Shakespeare. That q went well in my opinion. I thought i'd do worse but it was good. Then the second one was called the Desk Study. You have to write a piece of text for a specific purpose, (mine was a text for a presentation about under-age drinking to 14-17 year olds and their parents). Then you have to analyse what you wrote.

Sorry to hijack your thread and bore you all. I only have 1 more exam to go on Tuesday! I'm so worried though because i've done NO revision.

Good luck in your exams. Opening my GCSE's last year was the scariest moment of my life. I got AAABBCCCCD. You'll do fine. The only advice i can give you which is know you won't follow because i didn't is START REVISING EARLY. And the fact you can NEVER have done too much revision. Revise in the evenings, between 6 and Midnight. Teenagers work best in the evenings. You need 8 1/4 hours sleep so if you go to bed at Midnight you should be fine unless you have a 9.15 test. Good luck!

P.S What are you doing next year? 6th Form? College? Subjects? I swear 6th form is so much fun!

 

[Michaela]

4 hours!?! :shock: That would kill me, I HATE English..

Ahh I wish I had revised earlier, I started on Sunday. :? I can learn things pretty well night before though, thankfully.

Good luck with your last exam! Lucky you, I've still over a month to go.

I'm hoping to stay on at my school to do A Levels, I've picked Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Maths, but I'll have to wait for the results to see if I do well enough to get into them, and I've gone off maths lately, I might change. Can't wait til next year to get rid of all my bad subjects! What A Levels are you doing?

 

[Becca]

I am sure you will do absolutly fine!
Like I said before if rabbits were a subject we would all get A*
I have a couple of years till my GCSE's its yr nine sats next but they aren't really that important LOL

 

[pinksalamander]

Ah you must be clever! Maths! Ha! I can't STAND maths, or physics, or biology or chemistry! They are so not my subjects.

I took R.S (but i dropped it... booooring) so now i'm taking English Lang&Lit, ICT and Product Design Resistant Materials.

I have to say when it comes to A Levels you REALLY need to pick subjects you are good at, not ones that look good. I'd say if you're not enjoying maths just don't do it. Do at least one subejcts you really love. At A Levels its so much deeper and you need to be studying something you are actually interested in because otherwise it will drive you crazy, you'll probably end up dropping it like i did and then its a waste of a subject.

I found it so weird when i startde Sixth Form. It seems the entire way through school you are kind of guided and i definatley feel that when i started GCSE's it didn't feel like a huge jump, just a natural progression. But A levels are totally different. Its a HUGE jump and in the first few months you really feel the pressure. Alot of the Y13's have told me that A Levels only really get OK at A2.

I've been revising today, but then i got a bit torn away because my friends came over . I really should get on and do some more. I'm not at school until the 16th of June now.. yay!

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

For me - 4 exams over, 3 to go!I had History on Monday (Nazi Germany) and English language and 2 Psychology exams on Friday (paper 1 - physiological and abnormality and paper 2 social influence and research methods). I think they all went ok but I'm thinking I really should have picked a different second question for English language.:?Plus the stupid invigilator told us we were finished 6 minutes before we really were so I wrote the most rubbish conclusion ever!:XGrr! I'd better still get an A or I will seriously be so peeved off as I want to do English at uni so I have to do as well as possible.:disgust:


Now just to get through English literature and my other 2 history exams (French revolution and Russian revolution ) and I'll be free again!:biggrin2:I so miss having a life....ullhair:

 

[Michaela]

BabyBunnies wrote:

I am sure you will do absolutly fine!
Like I said before if rabbits were a subject we would all get A*
I have a couple of years till my GCSE's its yr nine sats next but they aren't really that important LOL

Thanks Becca. Good luck woth your SATS! Here we do KS3 exams in year 10.

Fran I'm the opposite, like my sciences but hate English. I might do French in place of maths, I don't know. Until this year maths was always my favourite subject, but Additional put me off. :?

Your exams sound.. uh.. fun.. Jess. At least you've only got a few more, I have 16 or 17 more. :grumpy: Hope you've done well and good luck with the rest. :hug:

 

[pinksalamander]

Grr! I'd better still get an A or I will seriously be so peeved off as I want to do English at uni so I have to do as well as possible.

I got an A in Lang and a D in Lit (but they let me take the A level course because they could see i obviously had a big muck-up in the exam.. i basically wrote about the complete wrong chapter in the book!). If you want to do it at Uni they won't look at your GCSE, they'll look at your A level grade. They look at GCSE's in all your subjects apart from the ones you took for A level, if that makes sense. So they wouldn't look at my GCSE Product Design because i'd taken an A level in it they'd look at that.

Although, if its really competitive they might but generally i don't think they do.

I should so be revising right now.

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

pinksalamander wrote:

Grr! I'd better still get an A or I will seriously be so peeved off as I want to do English at uni so I have to do as well as possible.

If you want to do it at Uni they won't look at your GCSE, they'll look at your A level grade.

These are my A levels!But thanks anyway.Hopefully I'll still get an A as in my January modules I got a high A (102 out of 105) and the way the points system works in English language means that with modules it isn't too hard to get an A - as long as no exams go badly wrong!

Are you doing English literature and language as the same subject PS?I'm doing them as 2 separate subjects (as I'm such an English freak)so can't really imagine doing them together - they're so different! How do you find it?



Oh -Michaela they are brilliant!I hate the French revolution with a passion...that exam is on 2 June and I haven't even started revising.:shock:Good luck to you too!:hug:*tootles off to read'A woman of no importance' again!*