Sadly barry is a counter-tenor rather than a tenor, Willard...

And I'm sorry about the Advanced course but I know my limits!

Elementary Willard.

As Cyrilla said, I'm more a counter-tenor, but have been known to sing tenor in choirs. Sadly, Wednesdays is about as busy a teaching evening as I have...

Shouldn't that have been, 'Elementary, my dear Willard'??

'Elementary, my dear Willard'??

Nice

Frankly, my dear, I'm not sure Barry knows me well enough...
But tomorrow is another day!

The length of the braces.....

I bet my answer was more concise.

I'm going to be starting my A-levels!! I'm taking music, psychology, biology and English language (except I'm doing the A2 for Eng lang, as I did the AS this year. Unless I get less than a B, in which case I'll retake!!).

Can't wait to get started!! Music's going to be sooo hard, but really fun too!! And we've got a really nice group - a good range of instruments too!!

Good luck to everyone for Sept!

Laura

After the summer I will be doing Grade 4 violin (so I must really start looking at the scales.... )

I was going to start a second Masters degree but I'm putting it off for another year (health stuff...yawn).

Im starting A levels!

Still sort of deciding but pretty sure i will be doing English Lit, French, History, Biology and (this is the one im not sure on!) PE/Maths =s.
But still, quite daunting, but im looking forward to it.
Results day first .
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One of these things I really should know... but when is results day? (for GCSEs) I happen to know it's a Thursday(=useless piece of info) but not what date it is(=useful piece of info.) Why does my brain work this way

im going to start my A-levels this summer,
choosing: music , GeneraL studies , Business and either Maths/English.
deciding when my results come in!






does anyone know if the GCSE results are going to be A-Level target grades.
or are they not?

I obviously don't know what they do at your school, but at mine, they do target grades from your performance over the AS year, although they said if you got A*/A at GCSE, you could probably expect A/B at A level, B/C at GCSE - B-E at A level.

A levels

History
French
Music
Mathematics
Further Mathematics

A levels (as well)
Music
Music Technology
Maths (with stats)
Chemistry
Human Biology

Grade 8 horn and hopefully a new instrument

GCSE results day is the 3rd Thursday in August, 21st I think? Im going to miss it

GCSE results are 21st August I think

Wow - everyone on here does so many A Levels!

After summer, maybe Grade 3 Theory.

Sixth year in school doing Advanced Higher Music, Advanced HIgher Business Management, Higher Geography and Higher Administraton.

Though i have a horrible feeling that resit Higher English might be coming my way!

I doing Grade 6 clarinet

Chosen your pieces yet?

LOL Just out of curiousity, what is "further mathematics" and As level?
Up here in Scotland we have Standard grade, Intermediate 1+2 then higher and Advanced Higher which I think is the equivalent to A levels.
Shows how much I know
Good Luck to everyone taking exams or carrying on with their studies after summer, really interesting and varied replies!!!

A levels are split into two halves (ie one for each year), called 'AS' and 'A2'. Each half consists of three modules. So after your first year, you can either stop studying a subject and get an AS level (stands for 'Advanced Subsiduary'), or you can carry on studying at A2 level for a second year, then get a full A level.

Maths is complicated as far as A levels go! There's the normal A and AS levels, but if you like maths/want to do maths,physics, etc at uni, you can do a double maths A level. This consists of A level maths plus A level further maths. There is also the possibility of doing 9 modules, which would give you A level maths plus AS level further maths.
To give you some sort of idea, for my sylabus:

AS maths = Core © 1 and 2, and stats (S) 1, mechanics (M) 1 or Decision maths (D) 1.

A level maths= C1-4, two out of S1, S2, M1, M2, D1,D2.

A level Further maths= further pure (FP) 1 and five of FP2-4, M2-5, S2-4, D2 (have to be different from the ones you did for normal a level!)

I think for AS further maths, you would do FP1, and two applied modules.

Thought most boards only go up to FP3 and M4. Bah, back in the good old days when I do P1 to P6, no such hassle with all this FP business...ahem

Just for information, depending on where the simplex method is taught (it was in D1 then), D2 could be easier than D1, really

mmm, back to grade 6 horn for me...

They were just introducing the modular Maths when I took it, my board had P1-4 (Pure Maths) M1-4 (Applied Maths/Mechanics) and S1-2 (Statistics)

Four modules made up an A-level and two an AS. So you could have an A-level in Maths and one in Further Maths, or, one in Pure Maths and one in Applied Maths.

I think AQA is probably the only one with FP4.

Maths at uni. *hopefully*

Otherwise a combination of Maths, Further Maths, Music and Physics to get the grades I need!

However, one can also do an AS in Pure maths which would consist of - C1 C2 C3, with the A level having C1-4 FP1 and FP2/3

Also, on edexcel and OCR(MEI) you can take more modules and get an AS in Additional Further Maths (15 modules) or an A level in additional further maths (18 modules)



Simplex methods varies between the boards, in some its D1 and others D2

Completely lost with the whole maths subjects, there is only standard grade/intermediate/higher/advanced higher here. haha
Does anyone know what the American examinations are like, you know how 2nd/3rd year you study standard grade...?
Just curious.
Once again good luck to everyone who is studying after summer.