Was I the only person who didn't give a fool about my GCSE results?

Moggy wrote:Genuine post I just saw on Facebook.

Well don’t to my son all cs in gcse xxxxxx

I feel like their son's school should have a more varied curriculum than just Computer Science.

I would have taken my results seriously had i actually sat the exams in the first place.

1 C, 2 Ds, 4 Es, an F and a G.

strawberry float school.

Mommy wrote:1 C, 2 Ds, 4 Es, an F and a G.

strawberry float school.

Unless you took music, in which case that was a killer song you wrote.

Ironhide wrote:
floydfreak wrote:nope i didnt take them seriously, only good grade i got was in English but now when i look back i do wish i did pay more attention when i was my last few years instead of messing around.

I didn't take mine seriously at all, I even bought a PS1 during the time I should have been revising .

Didn't do too badly considering (A iin RE B in Science and Cs for Maths and English - got an F in IT as the school lost my coursework).

For my RE exam me and some friends went bowling for the day instead :slol:

Squinty wrote:
Skarjo wrote:I'm a teacher so results day is just a countdown to having to listen to angry parents shouting about why their little darling didn't get straight As.

Because they are not that smart? What other explanation do they need? Dickhead parents.

More like they're just strawberry floating lazy as.

It seems unpopular to say it, just like it always was at school, but I cared less about my GCSE results.

My parents cared about them too, so I did better than if they hadn't. So, I was lucky there.

I think they're important, because they opened opportunities and didn't close them off, as opposed to not having them, which did.

Yearly bump.

I had tonsillitis during my GCSEs and had to do some exams at home. I overslept the morning of one of them and left the poor adjudicator who had to supervise waiting outside for an hour :slol:

My memory of my GCSEs is kinda hazy now. I think I cared a bit, but not that much. I vaguely remember not doing much revision.

I got mostly As. To be fair I was a bit ahead of the curve then but A-levels were quite a lot more stressful.

No you're not the only one, I didn't give a gooseberry fool about your GCSE results either.

I probably responded to this before, but I cared a lot just because school constantly made it sound like if you had bad GCSE results you'd be strawberry floated for life. It was a big part of anxiety and one of the reasons I think I have a huge amount of exam anxiety even now.

I ended up with all Cs and an E in art, because my teachers lost some of my coursework and I gave up caring about it. Since then I've never needed my GCSE results for anything and honestly, I don't think I've ever used anything I learned in school for anything other than maybe English lmao. Maths I learned all the stuff I know now at University and IT I learned at Uni/in my own personal time.

Qikz wrote:I probably responded to this before, but I cared a lot just because school constantly made it sound like if you had bad GCSE results you'd be strawberry floated for life. It was a big part of anxiety and one of the reasons I think I have a huge amount of exam anxiety even now.

I ended up with all Cs and an E in art, because my teachers lost some of my coursework and I gave up caring about it. Since then I've never needed my GCSE results for anything and honestly, I don't think I've ever used anything I learned in school for anything other than maybe English lmao. Maths I learned all the stuff I know now at University and IT I learned at Uni/in my own personal time.

Yep, it really did feel like this.

Tomous wrote:
Qikz wrote:I probably responded to this before, but I cared a lot just because school constantly made it sound like if you had bad GCSE results you'd be strawberry floated for life. It was a big part of anxiety and one of the reasons I think I have a huge amount of exam anxiety even now.

I ended up with all Cs and an E in art, because my teachers lost some of my coursework and I gave up caring about it. Since then I've never needed my GCSE results for anything and honestly, I don't think I've ever used anything I learned in school for anything other than maybe English lmao. Maths I learned all the stuff I know now at University and IT I learned at Uni/in my own personal time.

Yep, it really did feel like this.

Yeah with hindsight it's easy to see why they pushed this, becuase without that threat looming, it's easy to see school as less important.

Far more important is college and university, the first of which you needed GCSE results to get in to, but even then I didn't have an art qualification when applied to art college, and got in by doing a test of sorts to be accepted. So even then my results didn't actually matter.

I tend to get competitive only in things I think I'm good at, and I think that reflects how I felt about education too. I definitely cared about GCSE and A Levels, because I did very well despite mostly coasting my way through. My degree I ended up caring less about the overall grade, because it was actually hard work.

I'm more self-aware of my own psychology now, in large part thanks to the wake-up call of needing to put in effort at university, so I think I now manage things better. I wish I could relive the education system with the mindset of "learning as much as I can" rather than "do as little work as necessary" but I think that's probably a common desire!

I certainly was not anxious about my results - i was off partying in Tenerife with my best mate and his family! I remember seeing the Beckham wonder goal on opening day of the season that year (half way line chip) in an Irish bar. I remember that more than my exams tbh. And i don't even support Man Utd....

Why do tv programmes insist on doing the live exam result reveal each year? It's so cringe, and the kids that are picked are always Tarquin or jenny who get 17 a*.

I want some proper jeopardy god damnit. Give me a barry who desperately need that c in maths to get his university of choice, but whose pet fish died during revision and had diorea on the day of the exams.

strawberry float you, I worked hard for my 17 A*'s

Jenuall wrote:strawberry float you, I worked hard for my 17 A*'s

...me but IRL. :shifty:

Albear wrote:Why do tv programmes insist on doing the live exam result reveal each year? It's so cringe, and the kids that are picked are always Tarquin or jenny who get 17 a*.

I want some proper jeopardy god damnit. Give me a barry who desperately need that c in maths to get his university of choice, but whose pet fish died during revision and had diorea on the day of the exams.

I say this every year. :lol:

"Here's Charlotte 'Lottie' Worthington-Pepperidge-Thomas, and she's about to open her results!"

"Gosh yes!"

"And Lottie, what are you hoping to do?"

"Well gosh I'm hoping to get in to the royal equestrian vegan society school for the gifted"

"And what do you need to get in there?"

"Gosh, well I need a minimum of 87 A stars!"

"You must be nervous"

"Mummy and daddy have their fingers crossed!"

"Well now the moment of truth"

*Lottie opens the clearly already opened envelope with an ivory letter opener*

"Gosh I got 300 A stars!"

"Wow, well done Lottie! Well these are scenes being repeated all across the country. Over to Steph now who's at some povvo school where someone probably wants to be a footballer or something"

Was I the only person who didn't give a fool about my GCSE results?

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