I'm puzzled as to how anyone could ever fail GCSE ICT. Probably one of the easiest courses I have taken.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41627549]I'm puzzled as to how anyone could ever fail GCSE ICT. Probably one of the easiest courses I have taken.[/QUOTE]
The course it self is a shambles, I hardly learnt anything new.
[QUOTE=jamzzster;41627649]The course it self is a shambles, I hardly learnt anything new.[/QUOTE]
Did you have to do the get up get moving campaign too?
[QUOTE=Ka-BOOM;41627712]Did you have to do the get up get moving campaign too?[/QUOTE]
Don't think so, I did my Ict course 2 years ago now, did stuff like making a powerpoint, using microsoft word, using crappy freeware to make a website.. it was awful
[QUOTE=jamzzster;41627737]Don't think so, I did my Ict course 2 years ago now, did stuff like making a powerpoint, using microsoft word, using crappy freeware to make a website.. it was awful[/QUOTE]
Ah, mine wasn't that bad. Had to make a campaign with certain programs.
Website with dreamweaver
Logo with photoshop
digital poster with powerpoint
"fitness model" with excel
podcast with audacity
quiz with powerpoint
Still didn't learn much new though
Realized I'm not going to get the 90% overall for the scholarship I'm aiming for (for Medicine) so I'm gonna do Biomedical Science or Biology or Engineering and then request a transfer to Medicine next year and hope it gets accepted.
Fuck this stress!
[QUOTE=sambooo;41620533]I need AAB to get into Uni and I'm confident I'll have gotten it. Woo! Still nervous anyway.
Which exam board?[/QUOTE]
AQA
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41627549]I'm puzzled as to how anyone could ever fail GCSE ICT. Probably one of the easiest courses I have taken.[/QUOTE]
Because it's so boring you can't be assed doing anything.
I had some fat fuck of a teacher who fell asleep most classes [I]standing up[/I]. I only had a decent teacher until year 11 so I was basically on a U in ICT until year 11 where I got a pass by 1 mark exactly.
Not all of us are in the best situations for certain classes, I mean I had a spectacular history GCSE course despite poor resources though ICT was everything but good - modded Win98/XP hybrid. All we done was some "business finance" project most on excel, a little on dreamweaver, and that was it for two years.
All people here doing GCSE's however must know that GCSE are the easiest things you will ever do in your life, it's not even like if you fail maths or English your life is over, a lot of people in my college re-sat them while doing A-Levels. The diffiulty curve however is like your first day of CS or some shit.
[QUOTE=BeAR!);41628431]the scholarship im going to be applying for this year needs AAB.. thinking i could probably get it, though Biomedicine is definitely my second choice
for me the stress starts after the exams where i think about what id do if id failed all my exams or something[/QUOTE]
I'm really stressing about Maths. I revised it way back in January and left it till May till I started studying again and realized I'd forgotten almost everything. Got into the exam and the test was brutal. If it comes back a C or D, I'm going to be insanely depressed. I'm just hoping it's a B.
[QUOTE=Hellborg 65;41623578]<3
Scotlands system is better than the peasant english system anyway[/QUOTE]
I can't believe how little studying I did this year, completely couldn't care less doing my AH's, class's weren't much fun either compared to the banter in Higher. Got my unconditional to Uni and repeating all the topic's again in first year so I'm not sweating it for next week.
I could do with ABB to get into uni. I'm pretty sure I have an A already, but the other two subjects it's looking like I'm going to get Cs in, so my parents will no doubt be really awful about it all. Not looking forward to it.
[QUOTE=CrumbleShake;41618907]Anyone else do Maths Core 4 this year?
Now that was a fucking hard exam.
It's why I think I fell way short of my much needed A in Maths I need to get into Bristol. I messed up a little in the Core 3 exam and thought "well this one was hard so the Core 4'll probably be a bit easier so I can make it all up on that one" but nope. Fate gave me the finger.[/QUOTE]
what are you doing at bristol?
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41627549]I'm puzzled as to how anyone could ever fail GCSE ICT. Probably one of the easiest courses I have taken.[/QUOTE]
I did the whole thing in 2 weeks at the end of the year.
We never even did a GCSE for ICT. It was a BTEC or something because the school is trying to do some dumb shit to improve the amount of people getting A-Cs, ie make it so they can get an equivalent C or above.
The course is boring as shit, too. Powerpoint 101, word and all that crap.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;41628940]I can't believe how little studying I did this year, completely couldn't care less doing my AH's, class's weren't much fun either compared to the banter in Higher. Got my unconditional to Uni and repeating all the topic's again in first year so I'm not sweating it for next week.[/QUOTE]
Some AH's are like that, they have that many similarities to the standard Higher, you can usually do fairly well with what you already know. Still, I did 2 AH's and 2 highers so I had a lot of studying to do. Only need a C in Advanced History to get into my course at uni, and that exam was piss easy.
[QUOTE=Hellborg 65;41636326]Some AH's are like that, they have that many similarities to the standard Higher, you can usually do fairly well with what you already know. Still, I did 2 AH's and 2 highers so I had a lot of studying to do. Only need a C in Advanced History to get into my course at uni, and that exam was piss easy.[/QUOTE]
I kinda fucked up the History exam by only doing 1 essay, thankfully the essay I did was my Dissertation question and my dissertation was apparently amazing so I'm hoping for a B. The dissertation was pretty fun to write, 4000 words on the Treaty of Versailles, 65 footnotes.
I did feel bad about AH Maths though, I forgot the easiest stuff and missed quite a few marks that I should have gotten if I did more studying for it. I plan on working quite a bit harder in Uni.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;41637383]I kinda fucked up the History exam by only doing 1 essay, thankfully the essay I did was my Dissertation question and my dissertation was apparently amazing so I'm hoping for a B. The dissertation was pretty fun to write, 4000 words on the Treaty of Versailles, 65 footnotes.
I did feel bad about AH Maths though, I forgot the easiest stuff and missed quite a few marks that I should have gotten if I did more studying for it. I plan on working quite a bit harder in Uni.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Dissertation is worth 33% iirc, makes the exam less scary. AH Modern Studies exam was a pain, one essay question was really good, but the other was worded really vaguely, so I'm still not sure if I wrote the right essay or not.
The other person doing History with me quit AH Mod half-way through the year because it was apparently too difficult.
[QUOTE=Hizan;41636106]We never even did a GCSE for ICT. It was a BTEC or something because the school is trying to do some dumb shit to improve the amount of people getting A-Cs, ie make it so they can get an equivalent C or above.
The course is boring as shit, too. Powerpoint 101, word and all that crap.[/QUOTE]
Edexcel DiDA?
[QUOTE=Thom12255;41637482]The other person doing History with me quit AH Mod half-way through the year because it was apparently too difficult.[/QUOTE]
Quite a few people dropped out of my class for it, but it was more because its quite time consuming.
D*D*D* in my BTEC Extended.
Pretty happy.
Especially given the tutors at my college only cared about getting you a pass.
[QUOTE=rhx123;41639581]D*D*D* in my BTEC Extended.
Pretty happy.
Especially given the tutors at my college only cared about getting you a pass.[/QUOTE]
You would've been better off doing A-Levels. You're pretty much guaranteed a D*D*D* on a BTEC simply because the rules are so lax. I did an extended BTEC for a year and was babied through the whole thing, coursework deadlines didn't exist and the tutors basically do the work for you.
Employers know about this and so they are nowhere near as highly regarded as A-Levels. I left college because I knew that I would be better off getting a job or an apprenticeship than wasting 2 years of my life doing a BTEC. (I was stuck doing a BTEC because of my lack of effort at GCSE).
[QUOTE=Willox;41637607]Edexcel DiDA?[/QUOTE]
No, OCR Nationals level 3(?). Used to be a GCSE with WJEC.
AQA Physics and Spanish A2 weren't too bad; I'm not brilliantly happy with how I did on the second paper of the former, but it wasn't disastrous.
OCR Further Maths, though. [i]Fuck[/i] me; FP2 was horrifying and M2 I panicked early on and couldn't do large chunks of most questions. :suicide:
Waiting for AS results on History, English Lang/Lit and Film Studies
If I've passed them, I'll stay at my sixth form and do A2, if I've failed, I'm going to move sixth form or go to college and redo AS. Really horrible feeling I've failed everything due to lack of proper effort.
[QUOTE=Fergeh;41631236]what are you doing at bristol?[/QUOTE]
Maths. To get on the course you need either an A* in maths or an A in both maths and further maths and I'm doing further maths next year (on my course we do an A level in maths in the first year alongside our As levels then an A level in further maths next year along with the other A levels..
Plus I believe they have a system for lowering grade requirements based on income and education background so that'll hopefully come in useful.
[editline]30th July 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Hizan;41636106]We never even did a GCSE for ICT. It was a BTEC or something because the school is trying to do some dumb shit to improve the amount of people getting A-Cs, ie make it so they can get an equivalent C or above.
The course is boring as shit, too. Powerpoint 101, word and all that crap.[/QUOTE]
IT is just a joke whatever level you do it to. I've spoken to people doing A levels in IT and, by the sounds of it, it's still the same old shit. It's barely any more advanced than in secondary school. They really need to sort out how the teach using computers.
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;41643804]Also the worst thing is, they made computing a choice at my school the year after I finished ICT. [sp]But now they're cancelling it due to the lack of people doing it[/sp][/QUOTE]
My school is replacing DiDA/IT with Computer Science, which will benefit me hugely. I know how it all works (roughly!) and there's less stitting at a desk, and more head in a case wiring up a mobo.
Edexcel did really just give us all the shit. I need an A*AA for my offer which is pretty darn high. Here are my experiences with the papers I took (Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Biology)
Maths A2: More below quoted
Chemistry A2: Paper 6 was alright, kinda found it hard and I lost like 8 marks most probably. Paper 4 was damn hard, one question toppled me over and due to it, I made petty mistakes here and there. Anticipating a 15 mark loss for that paper. Paper 5 was good although it was tough. Don't know how many marks I lost but I anticipate enough for an A*.
Physics A2: Paper 6 was beautifully easy as well as paper 4. I think I lost around 4 marks only for paper 4. Paper 5 was tougher than paper 5 however I think I lost maximum 8 marks being really harsh on myself.
Biology A2: Paper 6 was tough but alright. Reckon I dropped 5 marks maximum. Paper 4 was really good unusual format but I loved it. Paper 5 was alright to pre-release content questions were decent. So much for studying last minute. Expecting a 10 mark loss maximum.
[QUOTE=JGillo;41612598]I think I did horribly during my Maths C4 paper, but I'm hoping that the marks I've received in previous exams will allow me to scrape a B.
The difficulty change from GCSE to A-Level really did surprise me...[/QUOTE]
Yea I'm feeling the same right now.
I'm predicted an A* for maths right now. I think I only lost 2 marks in the regional paper for C3 after comparing answers.
Taking that regional C4 exam made me shit bricks and fire out of my ass. I was crying internally like everything was going to fail. There were 2 girls in my year who literally just started bursting in tears after that C4 exam. I hope the grade boundaries are low enough for me to just get an A at least.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41627549]I'm puzzled as to how anyone could ever fail GCSE ICT. Probably one of the easiest courses I have taken.[/QUOTE]
The Edexcel exam was 90 minutes.
I finished it in 25 :v:
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