UK Exam Results Day
Hey all UK students!
As you may or may not know, today is the day that AS/A2 results are released, and someone mentioned GCSE's as well?
Anyway post what you got, what you thought of it, what your doing next year (uni/more college/work), and how your celabrating/comiserating tonight.
I'll start:
I didn't do too well last year, but this year my retakes did me good and I got my UCAS up to 220, i'm going back for a 3rd year to get me back on track for a uni degree. (I got an ALevel @ B in computing, an AS B, a C, and a D.
Ok that might not be that good, but i'm not a A grade student and I'm happy with what I have.
I'm planning to go out tonight in Kingston and party! woo celebrating with all my friends from college and a few from my old school.
So post away your results and plans!
Jason
Oh, another thing I want to mention is my anger towards all those who claim A levels are too easy. They have no idea how hard it can be for some of us. They allways claim its too easy beecause of the increasing amount of A grades and pass rates, but what about the people who either didnt get an A, got a very low pass, or failed?! i dbout these people fount it easy. They should try it them selves!
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-J
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-J
Didnt get my A-level results today but I did get the marks back from my first year of uni.
83/100 average for the academic year. Not bad a guess.
What you planning to do at uni Jason?
83/100 average for the academic year. Not bad a guess.
What you planning to do at uni Jason?
Quote:Original post by grekster
Didnt get my A-level results today but I did get the marks back from my first year of uni.
83/100 average for the academic year. Not bad a guess.
What you planning to do at uni Jason?
Well i'm a coder, so i'm planning to do something to help me get into a job in the industry, not nessesarily the games industry, but any programming job will do lol.
If that doesn't work out, i might go for a techie path, network technitions, i've allready started studying on my own for a CCNA as a backup plan of mine, so we'll see where the next year takes me.
Jason
Quote:Original post by Jason2Jason
Oh, another thing I want to mention is my anger towards all those who claim A levels are too easy. They have no idea how hard it can be for some of us. They allways claim its too easy beecause of the increasing amount of A grades and pass rates, but what about the people who either didnt get an A, got a very low pass, or failed?! i dbout these people fount it easy. They should try it them selves!
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-J
Exams are getting easier. When I was doing my A-Levels (I was the first year to do the whole AS thing) the hardest questions I did in my physics class was old O-Level questions. Also, I ended up getting 3 A's and a B (Not the only one either). I did no work. That shouldn't be possible.
So your exam was easy, and you allready have a concept of physics very well in your mind? That doesn't mean its easy for all. I find computing easy(ier) because its something I practise a lot in my own time, its comes more naturally, (I got a B because I let my self down on the coursework).
-J
-J
Quote:Original post by Jason2Jason
That doesn't mean its easy for all.
Considering the pass rate is something like 97% - I beg to differ.
I didn't find A-Levels easy at all. The problem I have is that they didn't seem (at least not in the Physics exam) to test understanding, more learning parrot-fashion a bunch of rules. I didn't understand 90% of the Physics modules but managed to bullshit my way to an A. I think this was mainly down to my teacher, who just repeated on the same lessons again and again until we'd got it.
Electronics was a guaranteed A thanks to our incredible teacher (a large portion of the class got 100% in the written exams) and the fantastic way they add marks if they think it's a tough paper. [rolleyes] I think the best example was the question "design a circuit that does XYZ (4 marks)". We requested that the exam board send us some papers back (we had a bet on how many marks they'd added overall) and one guy's attempt would clearly never work. "Explain how it works (2 marks)" - he wrote "it doesn't" and managed to get 2 marks for that answer.
Ah well - how the mighty have fallen, from straight-A student to staight-fail student. [wink] The average mark in my university exam results was about 15%.
Electronics was a guaranteed A thanks to our incredible teacher (a large portion of the class got 100% in the written exams) and the fantastic way they add marks if they think it's a tough paper. [rolleyes] I think the best example was the question "design a circuit that does XYZ (4 marks)". We requested that the exam board send us some papers back (we had a bet on how many marks they'd added overall) and one guy's attempt would clearly never work. "Explain how it works (2 marks)" - he wrote "it doesn't" and managed to get 2 marks for that answer.
Ah well - how the mighty have fallen, from straight-A student to staight-fail student. [wink] The average mark in my university exam results was about 15%.
Quote:Original post by python_regiousQuote:Original post by Jason2Jason
That doesn't mean its easy for all.
Considering the pass rate is something like 97% - I beg to differ.
An E is a pass, just not a very good one, it means they got a majority of the questions wrong. if 70% for instance of the passes were of E's or D's, would you still call it easy? (I don't know the figure, if you do please tell me, I just find it degrading that we have to go through 2 or 3 years of all this jsut to be told by some people that its worthless.)
-J
Quote:Original post by benryves
Ah well - how the mighty have fallen, from straight-A student to staight-fail student.
That would be the pub yes? It's been my achilles heel at Uni. The "revision" periods that we get before exams have turned into "learning" periods for me...
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