To put a positive spin on it - at least you do have some good solid marks-that-count already under your belt in all your subjects... better than end-of-course-exams-only (bar coursework) which is what all the artsy A Levels were a decade ago (sciences had some modules but all of my A Levels were coursework (in some!) and then a whole bunch of scary exams, all in one short summer! 6-1 exams didn't count at all )... so it could be worse

It could be worse, but how often do you see me being positive?

I live in hope..........

You might be waiting a long time.

Hehe, thanks! It's not a bad course to study to a certain extent, just a bit tedious at times! Hehe, but saying that, I certainly prefer Stats to Decision, and that is saying something! Actually, Stats is growing on me!

I don't know, I just had a complete mental block in the exam - for example, seeing 'Plot the graph of the image of the number 8 where nodes are spaces and arcs are boundaries' was certainly not the question I wanted to see to begin with! And I didn't quite get what they wanted in Question 2... it should have only been a Bubble Sort Algorithm and I don't think any of us understood what the free columns were actually for! Well, just hope it goes better second time round, because our teacher said it was the hardest D1 paper he had seen in a long time!

But I think it's amazing the contrast between different modules in maths and how one can be so much better in one than another!

Anyway, well done to everybody on their results!

~Wobby~

Well done to everyone!

Oddball, your results are fab

Rosemary, I know what you mean about people getting 100 in C1, that makes me feel really stupid........

Well they don't really. They affect your immediate decisions, but as for "your future" it's a bit OTT to say that they affect that. Of course this is a perspective borne only from experience. Right now, you won't believe me!

Congratulations for the already known results and best of luck!!!!

This is what my undergrad was saying when I went to KCL. A levels just don't matter when you get to HE. No-one talks about them. They're just bits of paper that you bring with you on your first day to show that you've done it. After that, that's it.

I think GCSEs and A levels are a lot about 'learning how to learn'.

Yes, but to get to HE I need them.

That's the thing that troubles most people close to the 100% mark! The best way to get around it is to get some competition going amongst a few people getting near that mark; makes one focus more on not making those mistakes . Of course they can still slip through .

I've been doing that for years.... I've just now found a couple of people to mark myself against! (one got 99, the other 96) On a mock paper I recently lost 3 marks for the stupidest thing - I added 6 and 3 and got 11

A friend of mine studied biology few years ago got 300/300 in A2. Another friend who is in the same year as me studying engineering got:

Maths P1 - 99%
P2 - 100%
P3 - 100%
P4 - 100%
P5 - 100%
P6 - 100%

One of the Edexcel top 5 students or something.. She also got a clean sweep of first honours at uni. amazing...

Good luck to you all with your summer exams, espcially to those who are in upper sixth trying to meet the entrance requirements of universities.

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Must get full marks in GCSE maths and A level maths this summer*

Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee don't beat yourself up about it Rosemary!

Nothing like a healthy dose of perfectionism .

Don't worry though Rosemary, I got a few 97s in my maths results too . Managed a clean sweep of 1st honours like Matthew's friend too, so straight 100s isn't a necessity .

But I like straight 100s....

I will just have to get a few myself

Well done everyone!!


*lots of hugs*



*sprays congrats mist* *sprays huggle mist*



*bakes big cake(s)*



I got mine...

Psychology 105/105

Maths 99%

Biology 88%



~CPPF <3

Woo go you!

Well done CPPF

Not necessarily to the first point regarding people doing less well because of their own fault. A whole number of factors can contribute. However, I DO get what you mean.

But sometimes, you can't help comparing yourself...well I can't anyway!

If no one strived to be the best they possibly could we would all be hopelessly bogged down in mediocrity and would get nowhere.

Hear hear! All the same, we still shouldn't beat ourselves up TOO much (says the hypocrite who is still annoyed that she made the eminently stupid mistake of mixing up 'less than' and 'greater than' signs! I would have got into the 90s if it hadn't been for that )

Well done CPPF!

Remember, the crocodile eats the bigger number .

For a second there, YAP, I thought you'd really lost it.............

Lol! I did know that in the exam, it was just me getting to the last couple of questions and thinking 'this wasn't too bad after all' and promptly making a stupid mistake

Don't get me wrong, I am really proud of what I got - I really had to work for it (missing the equivalent of 3 weeks worth of maths lessons never helps ) but it was worth it.

I try and remember things in the silliest way possible . I once knew of an English teacher who got her class to learn something by standing in the corner with one foot in the waste paper basket and telling them, adding that they'll remember it because they'll remember how silly she looked - I work off that principle .

It did cross my mind earlier, Rainbow, but I forgot to say especially well done given the ropey start of the school year you've had so far .

Does she know my French teacher? He was reading a story the first week of AS level and did the actions, including putting the waste paper bin on his head!



Thanks!

Hugs about the stupid mistakes thing. I always do that in practice papers and kick myself afterwards, I do it in mock papers too. Then in the real thing I go into a frenzy and madly check everything again and again. *headdesks because she always misses something*



Talking of getting 100% and such, I think its good to strive and work as hard as you can. If you really want a mark, you can get it. That said, I was talking to a girl at Oxfam today who got 90% in her C1 Maths exam. She's RETAKING. (and I was like, ??!! )

Oh it definitely helps - it just took me a second to make the connection between <> and crocodiles

My chem teacher had THE BEST mnemonics... (I'm sure he didn't make them all up but he had a good stock of them!) things like:

Johnny's dead, and Johnny's gone, and Johnny's here no more
For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4

(Don't know how to do subtexty things. But you get my point. I haven't had chemistry lessons in 12 years and I still recall the formula for sulphuric acid )

*laughs and laughs and laughs and can't stop laughing*



*wanders off and bumps into chair*

That is great!!!

I know, that seems slightly excessive (unless she's worried that she's going to do loads worse on her other modules). I'd prefer to save the £12, personally!

Congrats CPPF!

My dad (Chemistry teacher) does terrible jokes as part of teaching too. He did a variation on the popular 1970's song 'Rhinestone Cowboy', I can't remember the specifics but he was re-cast as the 'Limestone Cowboy' and reacted with Nitric Acid....

New one for you??


Ouch!

Just seen Andy's post - I can't believe that one isn't more widespread!

Nice one, YAP!

We have jokes like that in Spanish class but I won't post them as most of them are obscene/you need to be there to get them.

Teehee, I wish I got taught with some of those methods...I guess I could do them myself.

I think it's just because she wants to get higher marks in the easier modules. I'm retaking and i got 84, and theres two other girls in my class retaking, who got 83 and 90.

I think, if it comes to the end of year 13 and it's apparent that I need a few extra marks here and there, then I might resit C1. It's unlikely, but it's there if I need to do it.

I was going to resit History, well a module of History at AS, even though I got an A to take the pressure off in the summer exams, but I was just too busy.

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I'm the first person one of my teachers has ever taught that has passed AS after doing Intermediate GCSE.

Congrats, that's fantastic Yes, 72/90 is an A grade. It doesn't look bad at all


Yay, well done

Wooot

My friend retook P1 Maths even he got 98/100.

I retook physics Module 1 three times and at last i still got 96/105 which was ok, but when compared to other ppl i felt that i didn't do that well. My physics teacher told me not to waste time to retake but i really wanted to becos it doesn't harm at all. In that summer i took physics module 2 and very luckily got 105/105
somehow and my teacher said " do you want to resit it this time?".. i was like....

Anyway, my advice is to resit it anyway (if you have got sufficient cash!) because you may JUST miss your grade in the end - who knows!? My other friend missed an A in chemistry for the whole A-level by 1 MARK!!!

It's all about your personal expectations, isn't it?
Personally, I'm one of the people who gets disappointed if I get 90-something% - and particularly if the marks are on accuracy issues or things that I should not have made mistakes.

However, just as I wouldn't ever criticise someone who was happy with those kind of marks for, I don't know, not being good enough - because clearly those ARE good marks, it's just that the same mark is not equally good for two people - I find it hard to accept others criticising people who are NOT happy with these marks.

This is simply just another example of people being very different in their tastes and their ways. Just as people who would like to aim for that 100% are in no way insulting those who aren't as perfectionistic, it would be good if those who can let themselves be happy with good, but not perfect marks, could be more tolerant of those who feel they have to aim for 100% - because, for a start, it's often not a very enjoyable way to work, always feeling like you could be doing better and never being happy with your results.

I agree with that, that's said what I wanted to say much better than I could! There's nothing wrong with aiming to do your best and being dissatisfied if you don't do quite as well as you could have done, although it feels terrible at times. Although I hate that the fact that I'm not totally satisfied even though I got an A, if I wasn't so perfectionistic, I wouldn't have even got that.



Same here. Although I am struggling a bit with C2 and D1 and so I might not get an A overall, I'd rather spend my time working to get to grips with them and hopefully getting good marks in those modules, rather than spending ages going over and over C1 for a few extra marks (I got 89 this time, I doubt that I'll ever get more than 94 or so, I just make too many stupid mistakes). Also, if I resat C1 in the summer, I'd be faced with 8 exams over 3 days and that's just too many, especially when I should be concentrating on my other subjects more (I have 4 exams on one day ).

Chris is there really any need for the attitude. It is obvious that you are in a bad mood so why not next time not come on the forums when you are moody and save us from having to read your negative comments.

Yes, there might be worse off in the world, but 4 exams in one day is hugely stressful, and obviously means a lot to Emma, even if it seems petty to you.