January Exams

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I wish all those who are entering the exam halls this month the best of luck with their papers

Personally, I'll be sitting an AQA Chemistry paper on Monday 14th but at the moment, that is all for me though I know others who have got more to worry about!

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[ralphchadkirk]

1 A&P, and a shedload of OSCE's...

 

[trainmananthon]

1 English, 1 geography an 1 physics for me this month. The worst thing is m English exam is on Wednesday

 

[user15681]

I've got A level exams (A2s). 1 psychology, 1 law and 1 maths. Good luck to everyone else as well!

 

[317666]

I'm retaking my Maths GCSE, which I got a D in last year. Hoping to nail it this time around, good luck to everyone else taking exams!

 

[Harbon 1]

As Geography Unit 1 (or 2, I can't remember) and general studies on Friday! With our first lesson being on Wednesday. And the school complains about us doing homework the night before....

 

[Class172]

For me it will be AQA GCSE Chemistry Unit 2 and MEI AS Maths C1 (doing it early). Most of my exams will be in the summer though; I already have got two whole GCSEs out of the way, English Language and Astronomy.

Good luck to everyone.

 

[Ivo]

I wish Astronomy GCSE had been an option for me

All the best for those facing the torture this year. I think my biggest complaints were Maths (where I would have had an A* in my brother's year) and Geography (where the girls' school had a tourism section relating to Southend of all places) - in theory two of my best four subjects...

 

[Robinson]

No exams as such (except one in which I'm an unassessed accompanist) - but I do have several university coursework deadlines - one of which is very pressing indeed

 

[ValleyLines142]

I've got one exam tomorrow, that's my Geographical Skills in Uni! Then another two weeks off!

 

[musicking1306]

English and physics A level.

 

[Qwerty133]

Think I have the first gcse science exam this month. Not expecting a very good grade as we have had a long term supply teacher from the start of term (September) who was no good and taught me approximately nothing. Hopefully it isn't a very high percentage of the final grade as it is the first exam and there is still 18 months of the course to go.

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Think I have the first gcse science exam this month. Not expecting a very good grade as we have had a long term supply teacher from the start of term (September) who was no good and taught me approximately nothing

Nothing to stop you learning it yourself though

 

[90sWereBetter]

I have a Politics exam (ideologies) and a Maths exam (C3), plus two resits, Politics unit 1 to try and bump my AS grade to an A, and Maths C2 (got an E first time around )...

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Best of luck everyone. I have to say I don't miss A-Levels - there's a lot more enthusiasm to do work when you're actually doing a single subject that you want to do.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

For all the secondary school attendees on here reading this, I'd heed this warning - GCSEs are exceptionally easy compared to A-levels. I genuinely believe I'm doing 2 or 3 times the amount of revision for A-levels as I did for GCSEs, and I'm still far from confident on a quite few things.

 

[MCR247]

I've got physics biology and chemistry starting on the 14th. Not too worried about chemistry tbh, meh about biology and well the less said about physics the better

Think I have the first gcse science exam this month. Not expecting a very good grade as we have had a long term supply teacher from the start of term (September) who was no good and taught me approximately nothing. Hopefully it isn't a very high percentage of the final grade as it is the first exam and there is still 18 months of the course to go.

What exam board are you on?

 

[Crossover]

Good luck to anyone with exams, be it GCSE, A Level or uni (or otherwise, for that matter!)

I'm thankfully beyond them now having graduated from uni a couple of years ago, but I don't envy anyone sitting them, as I well remember the amount of work that came up at this time of year!
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For all the secondary school attendees on here reading this, I'd heed this warning - GCSEs are exceptionally easy compared to A-levels. I genuinely believe I'm doing 2 or 3 times the amount of revision for A-levels as I did for GCSEs, and I'm still far from confident on a quite few things.

Nothing like a bit of encouragement, eh?

That said, I recall when I was in AS Physics, one of our teachers saying that making the step up from GCSE to AS is the biggest one, with the jump to A2 being slightly smaller

 

[Trainfan344]

Ah the joys of a BTEC! I have done my work for the deadline tomorrow, but have an Interview for University on the 14th.

 

[Qwerty133]

I've got physics biology and chemistry starting on the 14th. Not too worried about chemistry tbh, meh about biology and well the less said about physics the better



What exam board are you on?

Not been told any of this

 

[MidnightFlyer]

You haven't been told your exam board? Really?! I'd certainly hope you would have been! It's usually on your textbooks, entry slip, past papers, anything official. Failing that ask your teacher.

 

[Class172]

I'm surprised you haven't received which exam board you are on: I can think of AQA, Edexcel, OCR, MEI — there's probably more.

Personally I haven't found the jump from GSCE to AS maths too difficult, but looking back on my GCSE work, it looks so simple. Odd thing is, I'll be taking this before doing the GCSE in June. hock:

 

[CC 72100]

For all the secondary school attendees on here reading this, I'd heed this warning - GCSEs are exceptionally easy compared to A-levels. I genuinely believe I'm doing 2 or 3 times the amount of revision for A-levels as I did for GCSEs, and I'm still far from confident on a quite few things.

Oh yes, AS levels were a major shock to the system. I was working at the same level as I did for GCSE exams, throughout the whole year.

This week I've got Spanish and Portuguese uni exams. Shouldn't be too bad, major issue would probably be a rather tricky translation in the former.

 

[All Line Rover]

Personally I haven't found the jump from GSCE to AS maths too difficult, but looking back on my GCSE work, it looks so simple. Odd thing is, I'll be taking this before doing the GCSE in June. hock:

C1 is a similar level of difficulty to grade A GCSE maths, except perhaps the occasional last question in the exam paper. If you are confident of an A/A* in your Maths GCSE and work hard you'll be fine at C1.

M1 and S1 require a somewhat different way of thinking to GCSE maths, but are fairly easy once you've grasped the basic principles. C3 is boring. Exponentials, logs, transformations (horrendously tedious), trig, trig, oh and more trig! As we've got to have that extra chapter of trig!

FP2, M4/5 and S4 are, err... 'tricky.'

 

[HST Power]

Personally I haven't found the jump from GSCE to AS maths too difficult, but looking back on my GCSE work, it looks so simple. Odd thing is, I'll be taking this before doing the GCSE in June. hock:

You must like your Maths to be sitting the an A Level model before GCSE! That's quite impressive, I wish you well with your examination.

I'm in and out of school this week owing to the exam timetable, lots of afternoons off! I've already got B and A grades in German and ICT, which I fast-tracked, and an A* in English. Aside from the mocks, my next formal examination is Additional Science in a fortnight.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Personally I haven't found the jump from GSCE to AS maths too difficult, but looking back on my GCSE work, it looks so simple. Odd thing is, I'll be taking this before doing the GCSE in June. hock:

Speaking as one who obtained his First in Mathematics in the long and distant days of 1966, I can vouch that I too was encouraged to take all my Mathematics examinations earlier than those of my fellow classmates at my grammar school and would venture the opinion that if you have a flair and mental aptitude that readily lends itself to this particular subject, please enjoy the ability that you have and look at fields of Mathematics at the more ethereal levels that you then may want to specialise in later in your future studies in that subject.

Incidentally, how far forward are you taking your obvious interest in Astronomy in terms of educational study ?

 

[Searle]

C1 is a similar level of difficulty to grade A GCSE maths, except perhaps the occasional last question in the exam paper. If you are confident of an A/A* in your Maths GCSE and work hard you'll be fine at C1.

M1 and S1 require a somewhat different way of thinking to GCSE maths, but are fairly easy once you've grasped the basic principles. C3 is boring. Exponentials, logs, transformations (horrendously tedious), trig, trig, oh and more trig! As we've got to have that extra chapter of trig!

FP2, M4/5 and S4 are, err... 'tricky.'

FP2, C4 and S2 were such awesome modules, especially FP2. Proper maths!

I had a 3 hour Probability and Stats exam yesterday (with a lovely 20 mark hypothesis test to finish off with x_x), and a 90 minute calculus exam, and I have a 90 minute core algebra exam on thursday. The joys of maths at uni!

Also I did an Astronomy GCSE, we did like, no work for the whole year, learnt everything in the last week and got an A in the exam, best GCSE ever! The only terrible thing was the paper was 2 hours long, and everyone finished within 30-45 minutes, and you had the longest wait to do nothing, I remember just forgetting what a solar flare was (when I had to draw it) so I just drew a magnificent picture of a sun with sunglasses etc. on it

Good luck to everyone, especially those doing Maths or Economics A levels, some of them are pretty damn mean!

 

[YorkshireBear]

GCSEs and A Levels oh the happy memories!

Just sat my Water Engineering/Open Channel Hydraulics III module yesterday. Got Stress and Structural Analysis on 14th followed by Steel and Concrete Engineering on 16th. OH the joy!!!!!!!

 

[90sWereBetter]

C1 is a similar level of difficulty to grade A GCSE maths, except perhaps the occasional last question in the exam paper. If you are confident of an A/A* in your Maths GCSE and work hard you'll be fine at C1.

M1 and S1 require a somewhat different way of thinking to GCSE maths, but are fairly easy once you've grasped the basic principles. C3 is boring. Exponentials, logs, transformations (horrendously tedious), trig, trig, oh and more trig! As we've got to have that extra chapter of trig!

FP2, M4/5 and S4 are, err... 'tricky.'

I actually really like C3. Hated C1 and C2, and I'm somewhat indifferent to S1 and M1. Not yet started C4 though...

 

[Searle]

I actually really like C3. Hated C1 and C2, and I'm somewhat indifferent to S1 and M1. Not yet started C4 though...

C1 and C2 didn't have any depth to it, C2 had way too many chapters, you'd just get into something interesting and then you'd start doing something else!

If you liked the differentiation in C3, you'll love the integration in C4