2011 A level results day thread

Milkybk said:
GCSEs and A levels are a joke. You can do well in them with hardly any effort or revision as long as you have an average IQ or above.
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Maybe for GCSEs and looking back on A-Levels they weren't that hard, but you are completely wrong. They are difficult, particularly if you choose to do decent subject ie sciences.
 
chaosdestro0 said:
The grade boundaries for my physics one is quite high, usually it's about 65% for an A but it's 70%. I have worked out from coursework and the January exam that I have about 8-10 Ums to drop from the A grade boundary so that I can get an A overall. I am really bricking it but the maths grade boundaries are fairly lenient.
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Good luck with your grades.

However i've always thought that an A should be more like 90%. I work in mechanical engineering and if you only get 70% of a job right then bits start falling off.

A pass should be no less than 60% rather than the 50% odd that it is now (am I right?). Only knowing half of something, but thinking you know a lot can be pretty dangerous.
 
AndyT said:
Good luck with your grades.

However i've always thought that an A should be more like 90%. I work in mechanical engineering and if you only get 70% of a job right then bits start falling off.
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Erm, what? What you do in school and what you do in a job is usually completely different. If you work in the media you don't keep going over Media theories do you? Same with things like engineering, in a job you don't do or need everything that you learn in school/Uni. Besides, you are subject to training in the field you do anyway.

Milkybk said:
Well I did two sciences and maths. As a matter of fact all my subjects were sciences and not arts. The only one that was pointless was buisness studies.

I'm speaking from personal experience. They are a joke. I ****ed around for 2 years and past them with ease, I promise you I did not revise. This is simply down to the fact I had no interest in doing them, it just got my parents off my back.

A-levels if you're dumb as **** = a slight challenge

A-levels if you're even remotely intelligent = walk in the park
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Maybe not Everyone is naturally as clever as you are :rolleyes:? Get over yourself.
 
B@Th*nG said:
why?

B@
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Your A-level grades get taken into serious consideration even if you're applying for a job with a masters, it's the last form of education where everyone in the country is on a level playing field so employers put a lot of weighting into it.

As well as that there's the obvious fact that conditional offers from top universities will be AAA
 
B@Th*nG said:
why?

B@
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Because without the right grades, I cannot get to where I want to be. I want to study medicine. I NEED 3 A grades at A Level at least. AS grades are less important, but my school will only predict me an A at A Level if I get an A at AS level. Therefore I need an A chemistry, which was really hard. I just hope I got my A.

So, in my case, my grades determine whether I have the opportunity to attempt to reach ideal career.
 
as i said, it's a means to an end, once you've achieved that end (or not) they're largely redundant. once you've done a masters I'm not sure how much employers are interested in whether you've got a B or A at a-level english lit because you've got a masters degree in your field so you aren't likely to have flunked your chemistry

B@
 
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You'll all be fine, good luck to all getting results. Looking back at it 3 years ago (time has flown by)... not so bad. Memories... xD.
 
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