ralphchadkirk
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Really not looking forward to OSCEs now...
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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
I am quite a fan of statistics, but aside from that I do find differentiation/integration to be one of the most enjoyable parts of the A Level Mathematics syllabus.
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When I did A2 Maths we seemed to all find C4 easier than C3 - although we did have a change in teachers which helped significantly. This was a few years ago, in the first year after the change from P1 to P4, though.
Good luck to those sitting exams, I do not miss them at all.
Good luck to those sitting exams, I do not miss them at all.
MattRobinson
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Got a maths exam a week today- facing the joys of Laplace and Fourier transforms amongst other things...
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I do enjoy maths, but I didn't choose to take the exam early, the whole class as we are top set are taking it early. I am pleased to be able to take the exam early though.
Well I took my GCSE astronomy and got an A* although I am disappointed you cannot take it any further. However I know it forms part of some physics courses at uni.
I would tend to agree that the written exam is quite lengthy, but it allows plenty of time for checking.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
ryan125hst
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I'll back you up on that one! Going from A*'s to D's and C's in Chemistry and Physics, and from an A to a U in Maths was quite a shock
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I've got a Mechanics resit (the first module of my Physics course) on Friday afternoon. I've then got a Chemistry exam (Rings Polymers and Atoms) on Monday afternoon and another Physics (Newtonian World) on Wednesday afternoon.
Good Luck to everyone who has exams this month!
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Well either way, still try your very best and revise as much as you can
I eally do regret not revising harder for my module 123 science exams last year
ValleyLines142
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I've just done my exam on Geographical Skills & Statistics for my degree at UWE!
Reminds me of my IB days. Urgh.
MidnightFlyer
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English Language resit, Government & Politics, Law and English Language exams all await within the next two weeks, luckily they are rather quickly successive, which numbs the pain somewhat. Assuming I don't need to resit any of these exams, I only have three come summer, which is a strangely good feeling.
Railguy220
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I've got English Language Unit 1, Maths Unit A,B and C, Biology Unit 2, Chemistry Unit 2 and Physics Unit 2. All between now and the 25th; a lovely start to 2013... 
Searle
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Hey you have to slightly enjoy maths to want to do a degree in it!
Statistics is pretty fun, but the amount of hypothesis tests I've done just completely does my head in I tell you
trainmananthon
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Sat my English literature exam today. Think myself I have failed completely and gonna get a D or even U...
90sWereBetter
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I often find if I feel I've done badly in an exam, I've actually done really well. In May last year I did my second Politics exam and I thought to myself afterwards that I couldn't have done a better job screwing up that exam. Turned out I got a high B for it.
In contrast, I did my Maths C2 exam a few days before, and I felt I'd done really well. Got a low E for it.
ryan125hst
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There's someone in my Chemistry class who was convinced she didn't do very well in the F322 exam last May. She ended up with an A! In fact, she was worrying about a biology exam when revising for it yesterday. I asked her how she did in the mock exam in November. She said she did alright in it but still thought she was going to fail the real exam. I asked her for the grade, and it was an A!
trainmananthon
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I often find if I feel I've done badly in an exam, I've actually done really well. In May last year I did my second Politics exam and I thought to myself afterwards that I couldn't have done a better job screwing up that exam. Turned out I got a high B for it.
In contrast, I did my Maths C2 exam a few days before, and I felt I'd done really well. Got a low E for it.
I know, but it's the fact that my answers don't make any sense, or the person marking it can't read my writing. That's what makes me thing im going to fail
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Seems as good a place as any to ask - is the rumour that's done the rounds for years true, that if someone dies in an exam you're also sitting, everyone is excused from it and gets their predicted grade automatically?
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I should add, I think it's nonsense, but I've never read anything to the counter.
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I should add, I think it's nonsense, but I've never read anything to the counter.
Searle
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Jesus, that's a bit sinister!
Yeah, I think that's what would happen. If something uncontrollable happens then your teacher will give you a grade for it, at least that's what happens for one individual (there was someone in my school who was in a car crash on the way to the exam and this happened to her). I'd imagine that'd happen to all the entrants, you're definitely not allowed to take it at a later date, I know that much :P
ralphchadkirk
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It's bollocks. The exam board *may* look at your previous grades and give you one based around that if there are special adverse circumstances, but to avoid the bad press they are much more likely to say that the exam has to be retaken.
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Not really answering the question, but I know someone who was in hospital and so couldn't attend their geography final exam and as there was no chance to resit it, she got given the grade she was predicted/her mock exam result
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It hasn't yet hit me that I will be in my exam in 12 hours time with 20 minutes left to run. God help me.
Well the day of my C1 maths exam has arrived, and there is 2in of snow outside: let's hope the trains to Worcester are running well. 
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90sWereBetter
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Politics resit today. God knows why I decided to resit an exam that I got a B in last year, but oh well.
That's pretty much my mentality for 90% of my subjects!
MidnightFlyer
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Well, that's me done until June
wensley
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One more uni exam on Thursday then that's it until summer, 5 in total. May be able to get back to something like normal sleeping pattern My top tip is to not leave 12 weeks of economics lectures til the day before to revise!
My top tip is to not leave 12 weeks of economics lectures til the day before to revise!
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I've got one more on Friday (Physics ugh) and then no more until... February
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