[QUOTE=Ruski v2.0;39800069]A*AA?
da fuq
that would get you into Oxbridge.. why bath?[/QUOTE]
Dunno I think grades are worth a bit less nowadays, predicted A*AA didn't get me an offer at durham let alone Oxbridge (although I didn't even apply to oxbridge)
[QUOTE=Fergeh;39809423]Dunno I think grades are worth a bit less nowadays, predicted A*AA didn't get me an offer at durham let alone Oxbridge (although I didn't even apply to oxbridge)[/QUOTE]
Did you get an interview? Most placements really boil down to the interview, the predicted grades are often to see who they should bother interviewing, and then they give the solid grade offers if they like what they see. Sure some courses don't bother with interviews, but when you get into the heavily oversubscribed ones (radiography) or the high grade ones, they tend to place a lot of value on an interview.
I'm getting my AS Biology paper back, and I did my best but i'm not expecting a miracle
I'm getting my GCSE unit 1 biology, physics and chemistry paper marks, hoping I did pretty well.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;39809890]Did you get an interview? Most placements really boil down to the interview, the predicted grades are often to see who they should bother interviewing, and then they give the solid grade offers if they like what they see. Sure some courses don't bother with interviews, but when you get into the heavily oversubscribed ones (radiography) or the high grade ones, they tend to place a lot of value on an interview.[/QUOTE]
they don't interview for my course (chemistry)
Absolutely nerving for these results. I've got 6 exams done and I really need to them to be as good as possible, to put me up in the position where I can be in a good spot for achieving university requirements. I hope. It really does depend on my Core 4 resit though honestly, I need a high B, hopefully.
Don't even know how anxious I'll be at August.
[QUOTE=Unib5;39812126]Absolutely nerving for these results. I've got 6 exams done and I really need to them to be as good as possible, to put me up in the position where I can be in a good spot for achieving university requirements. I hope. It really does depend on my Core 4 resit though honestly, I need a high B, hopefully.
Don't even know how anxious I'll be at August.[/QUOTE]
I think I did your core 4 resit as my mock exam a few days ago, that was a tough paper.
[QUOTE=zerotwelve;39799155]I'm in my first year, planning on leaving in June and getting an apprenticeship. Sadly, the qualification is worth nothing compared to workplace experience and hopefully the fact that I've done a year will help towards actually getting an apprenticeship.
It's a shame because if I'd just worked that little bit harder at GCSE and been less of a lazy, arrogant little shit I wouldn't be in this mess :v:[/QUOTE]
BTEC's aren't useless, it depends entirely on where you go and what you do.
I did mediocre at GCSE's, rubbish at AS levels (CDE), dropped out and went to college to do a BTEC National Diploma for games development. The course itself was awful, it was pretty much just a media course with some video game themes slapped onto the coursework.
Despite that, it was a perfectly legit course to get onto a degree, a lot of people on it went off to all different universities. I carried on at the college to do a degree there (Biggest mistake ever, never do a degree at a college, they are run extremely bad), then after a year of that I managed to land a placement over at Capgemini > [url]http://www.uk.capgemini.com/capgemini-careers/apprenticeship-programme/higher-apprenticeships/[/url]
Starting that next Monday and my roommate has been on it for the last few months and loves it. Really good perks, pay, a free degree and a career opportunity. If anyone is looking for an ICT apprenticeship, they offer GCSE level and A level ones. Starting pay for A level apprenticeships is £16,000 a year, rising each year until you complete your degree, among a lot of other perks.
It isnt easy to get a spot though, they have a few hundred people apply for every spot and you have to go through a lengthy interview process (Mine was about 4 hours) which consists of tests, group tasks and one to one interviews.
[QUOTE=Cushie;39814291]BTEC's aren't useless, it depends entirely on where you go and what you do.
I did mediocre at GCSE's, rubbish at AS levels (CDE), dropped out and went to college to do a BTEC National Diploma for games development. The course itself was awful, it was pretty much just a media course with some video game themes slapped onto the coursework.
Despite that, it was a perfectly legit course to get onto a degree, a lot of people on it went off to all different universities. I carried on at the college to do a degree there (Biggest mistake ever, never do a degree at a college, they are run extremely bad), then after a year of that I managed to land a placement over at Capgemini > [url]http://www.uk.capgemini.com/capgemini-careers/apprenticeship-programme/higher-apprenticeships/[/url]
Starting that next Monday and my roommate has been on it for the last few months and loves it. Really good perks, pay, a free degree and a career opportunity. If anyone is looking for an ICT apprenticeship, they offer GCSE level and A level ones. Starting pay for A level apprenticeships is £16,000 a year, rising each year until you complete your degree, among a lot of other perks.
It isnt easy to get a spot though, they have a few hundred people apply for every spot and you have to go through a lengthy interview process (Mine was about 4 hours) which consists of tests, group tasks and one to one interviews.[/QUOTE]
i know someone who got onto a uni course which required [B]A*AA[/B] with a btec. And it wasn't some dumb media studies course either, it was a science one.
but to be fair, btecs won't always adhere to criteria and alevels are pathetic and useless most of the time.
so all in all, good job there education secretary!
also they're now condensing all exams to end of the year, sending us all back 30 years. :D
I wouldnt worry about the end of 2 year exam thingy most likely the grade requirements of middle of the road uni's will change to reflect the results.
[QUOTE=AK'z;39817752]i know someone who got onto a uni course which required [B]A*AA[/B] with a btec. And it wasn't some dumb media studies course either, it was a science one.
but to be fair, btecs won't always adhere to criteria and alevels are pathetic and useless most of the time.
so all in all, good job there education secretary!
also they're now condensing all exams to end of the year, sending us all back 30 years. :D[/QUOTE]
Didn't they scrap that?
Also yeah, BTECs will likely get you onto a degree if you actually do something relevant to the degree, a D-D-D on a BTEC course is pretty much equal to A*A*A* (And its funny, because it makes no sense, the work you do on them is SO easy and there is basically no deadline; if the tutor wanted they could let you hand in every piece of work on the last day of college and mark it then)
Getting my results too.
Looking at A in Physics based on mocks, but probably a U in Maths.
[QUOTE=Cushie;39818957]Didn't they scrap that?
Also yeah, BTECs will likely get you onto a degree if you actually do something relevant to the degree, a D-D-D on a BTEC course is pretty much equal to A*A*A* (And its funny, because it makes no sense, the work you do on them is SO easy and there is basically no deadline; if the tutor wanted they could let you hand in every piece of work on the last day of college and mark it then)[/QUOTE]
Who the ass said they were easy?
maybe if you wanted a "EEE" level btec then yes, but if you want a D* in a science/engineering one then you have to do some hard graft. The work is about referencing, self-motivating, being interested in what you're learning. A-levels involve "spoon-feeding", "how much info can you condense in your brain", and "how you can communicate with the examiner".
The only A-levels really worth the work are the creative and language subjects.
[QUOTE=AK'z;39820054]The only A-levels really worth the work are the creative and language subjects.[/QUOTE]
i don't do art or anything but as someone who does spanish i can't really agree with this
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[QUOTE=SataniX;39819657]Getting my results too.
Looking at A in Physics based on mocks, but probably a U in Maths.[/QUOTE]
how the fuck do you manage that
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;39820811]i don't do art or anything but as someone who does spanish i can't really agree with this
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People I know who did French liked it, but tbh in my GCSE french we spent a bit of time in France. Didn't see such thing in a-levels..
This is so strange. In Canada we just do high school and get percent grades. Below 50% is a fail, and 75% is average.
You then go to college or university and do whatever you want.
Anyone who did OCR chemistry Unit 4, it was 51 marks for an A, out of 60. Pretty brutal.
AQA maths core 3 is 69 marks out of 75 for a A*, where as the AQA physics unit 4 is 57 out of 75 for a A*... crazy shit
[QUOTE=DOG X9282;39821621]Anyone who did OCR chemistry Unit 4, it was 51 marks for an A, out of 60. Pretty brutal.[/QUOTE]
fuck.
[QUOTE=AK'z;39820054]Who the ass said they were easy?
maybe if you wanted a "EEE" level btec then yes, but if you want a D* in a science/engineering one then you have to do some hard graft. The work is about referencing, self-motivating, being interested in what you're learning. A-levels involve "spoon-feeding", "how much info can you condense in your brain", and "how you can communicate with the examiner".
The only A-levels really worth the work are the creative and language subjects.[/QUOTE]
I do agree that A-levels are basically spoonfeeding for a memory test, they should take more care to structure exams and syllabus so that the students are being tested on how much they understand the subject, not how well they can regurgitate information they have been previously taught, as well as increasing the amount of coursework that goes towards final grades.
My BTEC course was incredibly incredibly easy and even what is considered one of the best universities for Games Development in the country asked for an MMM from me. I dont know if it was just my college or the specific course or lecturers, but the lecturers could pretty much give you unlimited time to complete assignments, they were allowed to look over your assignments and tell you [b]exactly[/b] what you needed to do to get a distinction, they were extremely generous with the timeframes and the actual assignments themselves were really simple writeups.
The entire thing was easy enough to do purely in class time. Each of our three lecturers gave us maybe 1 assignment per month average, which usually took 1-3 hours to finish, and each lecturer would give us about 6-9 hours of class time to work on the assignment over a few weeks.
[QUOTE=Ultraleet;39820940]This is so strange. In Canada we just do high school and get percent grades. Below 50% is a fail, and 75% is average.
You then go to college or university and do whatever you want.[/QUOTE]
Our grades are essentially percentages. Every year the grade boundaries change and it is based on how well students did, so if the top 10% of students in the country scored over 80%, then anyone over 80% would get max grade, for example. The same follows for each lower grade so you end up with U (Fail), E, D, C, B, A, A* then universities ask for specific grades to get on their course, so if you were doing three subjects they'd say something like you need AAB to get in.
Damn i remember this thread from 3 years ago. Now in 2nd year at uni, good times. Best of luck all!
[url]http://www.ocr.org.uk/images/128198-unit-level-raw-mark-grade-boundaries-january-2013.pdf[/url]
For anyone who sat any OCR papers, here's the grade boundaries.
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[QUOTE=Fergeh;39821890]fuck.[/QUOTE]
Same boat as me buddy, seems far too high.
ocr are literally the worst exam board too, almost everyone I know who had them said they were much more difficult than the past papers...
AQA all the way
Anyone do the Government & Politics 01 exam in January?
Nobody else picking up AS English tomorrow? I'm fairly confident I did okay.
I'll be picking up A2 Core 3, A2 Human Bio (Population blah) and A2 Chemistry (EEE).
Looking at the grade boundaries for A and my own opinions:
Core 3 - 56/72 (77%) - A little lowered from 80, some of the questions were tough. I think I did well but frankly what can you predict with mark schemes where you can lose 14 marks because on the first step you wrote 4 instead of 1/4 and did everything else correct? Most confident with this
Chem EEE - 70/100 - 70% - I'm surprised not to see this lower. Everyone in my college found this exam brutal, and our college usually performs higher than national average. I don't know very many people who even finished. I left a lot of questions with half the working and not conclusion or result. I'll be happy to get a C. Not confident, but don't get me started on my teacher and the textbook for the OCR courses.
Human Bio Population ect. - 44/60 - 73%- lower than 80% which is what you'd expect, but the paper was very bitty, with lots of "suggest" questions. I either aced this paper or got very little correct. I usually do pretty good at "guess the abstract answer" questions but we will see.
Eh.. I got AAAA in AS with 90%+. This year I've spent a lot of time working backstage and have stopped caring much about college. If I get AAA I'll be both happy and suprised. A BBB would be a fine result, ABB would be cool.
Good luck to everyone else, I of course also did general studies, which I got 99% on last year, so I don't really think about it (spoiler: it's fucking easy).
I only got CCC. Guess I am going to be poor and Irish all my life. Good thing I live in America. Okay that was a bad joke but I really don't understand your inferior British education system.
Let's just say, I'm resitting everything in the summer so I'll have close to 10 exams or something then. Yay...
I'm really quite nervous about my politics result. I really screwed up on that exam. I rushed too much and ended up with 30 minutes to spare and so everything ended up being worded horribly!
I'll probably just resit it.
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