The GCSE Results Thread

[Hexx]

They were saying on the radio this morning that to get an A* you need 61% and for an A 51% (maths) is this true? If so,

That was for the advanced maths unit

I thought it was a bit rich of Chris Moyles (dumb arse) to be mocking his staff for not even been able to get a C on the (ADVANCED) Maths GCSE, calling them dumb arses....considering the number of people probebrly worried/concerned about results today.

What a Seaward.

[Mark]

What the radio are saying I aassume is something to do with what you need if you get absolutely full marks in coursework etc
I'm personally fed up of adults saying that GCSEs and A levels are easy nowadays. Maybe they should damn try being 17 and taking them again with the stress of teen everyday life.
Really annoys me.

Annoys me to. They want students to get at least 5 A-C's and yet apparently exams are to easy. They can't have it both ways.

[Hexx]

What the radio are saying I aassume is something to do with what you need if you get absolutely full marks in coursework etc
I'm personally fed up of adults saying that GCSEs and A levels are easy nowadays. Maybe they should damn try being 17 and taking them again with the stress of teen everyday life.
Really annoys me.

Annoys me to. They want students to get at least 5 A-C's and yet apparently exams are to easy. They can't have it both ways.

Sure they can. They actually want standards to improve, not just marks.

[Ario]

They were saying on the radio this morning that to get an A* you need 61% and for an A 51% (maths) is this true? If so,

No... We needed about 90% in maths to get an A*, 80% to get an A

What the radio are saying I aassume is something to do with what you need if you get absolutely full marks in coursework etc
I'm personally fed up of adults saying that GCSEs and A levels are easy nowadays. Maybe they should damn try being 17 and taking them again with the stress of teen everyday life.
Really annoys me.

90?? We needed 85% and 75 for an A%

[Adam231]

imm no drunk

[Mini E]

Oh dear.
Post GCSE results party at home alone on GRcade

[Spindash]

Oh dear.
Post GCSE results party at home alone on GRcade

That's the best sort of party.

Well done everyone.

[Mini E]

Hate to de-rail this but i was in a different country for the A level results thread? How did everyone get on?
I managed 2 Bs 2 Cs which isn't tooooo bad.

[Adam231]

nah ive been out with mates drinking, like 60 people were there was awesome, including an ex girlfriend.

[Mini E]

nah ive been out with mates drinking, like 60 people were there was awesome, including an ex girlfriend.

Get in the sex disasters thread then and describe how badly wrong it went?

[Green Gecko]

How come everyone is taking multiple subjects at college?

I only take one subject and that uses 3 days of my week, strawberry float doing anymore.

Stop moaning, now. I did a BTEC Cert in Interactive Media & Games Design, which was 12/16 units of a diploma. It was 32 hours per week not including 100% practical coursework that was expected to be presented at home, about 60-100 A3 pages of sketchbook work every 2 months on average.

I got 4 distinctions (one of which was for a unit I didn't even submit, which they managed to mark based on one unit I did do, that was so overdone that I accidentally covered two units with it ), a merit, and everything else passes because those units were all late. I've had a gooseberry fool year, had clinical depression and course was boring as strawberry float for an artist instead of some IT design monkey with no original ideas or passion like the course is designed for. I would have got a double distinction if I was actually happy as those are the units I managed to get in on time when I had my head above water mentally.

Meh. I still have enough UCAS points from A-levels to get into uni, and I was recommended for a scholarship based on my portfolio. The system has failed me blah blah. Finally I see proof that it doesn't actually matter.

Your GCSEs don't matter kids, as long as you tried your best at English, maths and science.

(For the record I got an A*, 6 As and 4 Bs, two of the Bs on subjects a whole crap load of people basically failed because it was taught so badly; RS and ICT short of course. I then went on to get BBDD for A-levels, because I realised I didn't really care and there are better reasons to work hard in life. Made some cool paintings though which basically got me into art uni in the end.)

[Pedro]

Was my first GCSE results day as a fully-fledged teacher. Overall very good and all the kids I wanted to achieve did so. Extremely weird feeling being agitated about GCSE results at 23.

Congratulations to everyone on all your results...