The GCSE results thread

bhavv · 25 Aug 2011 at 00:55

loopylou said:
Ignore what people say about the exams being too easy, or not worth stressing about. Its all relative and will still be the hardest thing you have done so far.

I didnt revise for a single subject and got 6 B's, 2 C's. There was nothing that I ever found difficult in education up to 16.

If people actually find GCSEs difficult, then I pity what will happen when they go into A Levels because that is where the the only difficulty actually exists within the current education system, and then only if you do Maths / Pyshics / Chemistry.

And these days there are people that get all A*'s at GCSE, 4x A* at A levels and still get turned down from Medicine degrees..... and Uni costs at least triple today what it did when I went.

Wow, theres really a lot of bad with todays education system when you compare it to 6-10 years ago, and thats ignoring whether stuff is getting easier or not (I dont think it is for Maths / Physics / Chem, and everything else has always been easy).

explicit4u · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:07

bhavv said:
I didnt revise for a single subject and got 6 B's, 2 C's. There was nothing that I ever found difficult in education up to 16.

Those grades are average at best, if they were really that easy you would have got A/A*s

bhavv said:
And these days there are people that get all A*'s at GCSE, 4x A* at A levels and still get turned down from Medicine degrees..... and Uni costs at least triple today what it did when I went.

Most probably because they wrote rubbish personal statements, did nothing outside of school/education and didn't interview well. It's not all about grades for competitive degrees like Medicine.

Uni costs are irrelevant, I'm more than happy to pay £9k a year if it means I earn a good living when I leave uni. It's easy to manage uni debts, they can raise it again for all I care.

bhavv · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:09

explicit4u said:
Those grades are average at best, if they were really that easy you would have got A/A*s

I could have if I revised!

Also back then the average grade was actually an E. The number of people getting just 4 C grades at GCSE was well below 50%.

DJ_Martin · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:10

bhavv said:
I didnt revise for a single subject and got 6 B's, 2 C's. There was nothing that I ever found difficult in education up to 16.

If people actually find GCSEs difficult, then I pity what will happen when they go into A Levels because that is where the the only difficulty actually exists within the current education system, and then only if you do Maths / Pyshics / Chemistry.

With your complete confidence, I was expecting straight A*s, I would be disappointed with the grades you got and I didn't do revision for much. I tend to find biology hard for some reason so revised for that. Also had to learn quotes for English but not much else.

So these really easy exams you got Bs and Cs in, did you just not do some of the easy questions then? you obviously would have got them right if you had done them. They were easy!

bhavv · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:15

DJmartin said:
With your complete confidence, I was expecting straight A*s

The subjects I got C's in I sat the foundation paper (I could have easilly done the higher paper, but my school put me in a low English set even though I didnt have any problems with English besides my mostly illegible handwriting). The others I sat higher and they were mostly maths / science based and I'm absolutely terrible at calculations.

I was also never bothered about getting A's. I was fine with getting B's, thats all I wanted, plus I wasnt ever predicted an A in any subject so I did as well as I was expected to.

DJ_Martin · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:23

bhavv said:
I was also never bothered about getting A's. I was fine with getting B's, thats all I wanted.

Probably why you found it easy.

I would probably agree win you normally in that the exams were quite easy, most of the questions I know I missed out turned out to be alternate ways of wording questions I already knew the answers too but failed to see the link. I just think the way you are putting forward your argument really doesn't help.

Aedus · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:25

DJmartin said:
Probably why you found it easy.

I would probably agree win you normally in that the exams were quite easy, most of the questions I know I missed out turned out to be alternate ways of wording questions I already knew the answers too but failed to see the link. I just think the way you are putting forward your argument really doesn't help.

But then again, his B's would be equivalent to A*'s now, due to the papers being easier, so he technically got the same marks as you're predicted.

bhavv · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:26

Erm, well as long as you revised you should get an A.

Thats all you need to do, and I'm sure that most people did revise for their exams, especially if they are the ones feeling nervous about it?

A.N.Other · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:26

Good luck to you all

Doesn't seem so important to people who have gone through it, but I remember at the time I was bricking it.

PermaBanned · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:27

Aedus said:
But then again, his B's would be equivalent to A*'s now, due to the papers being easier, so he technically got the same marks as you're predicted.

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Aedus · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:27

PermaBanned said:
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Damn, I thought I'd get you twice in 1 thread.

bhavv · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:28

Aedus said:
But then again, his B's would be equivalent to A*'s now, due to the papers being easier, so he technically got the same marks as you're predicted.

Hmmm, actually yes, if my grade boundaries had been several points lower as they are now, I probably would have gotten at least 4 A's. I was very close to A's in double science, maths and music.

PermaBanned said:
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The exams arent easier today, but grade boundaries on GCSEs have been significantly lowered.

powelly · 25 Aug 2011 at 01:45

i didn't revise much for my gcse's and im starting to poo it.
as long as i get c's and b's i shall be happy and to all those saying gcse's are easy, well there the hardest thing we have done so far and it also depends on how smart you are.

plus if i don't fail any of my subjects i get monies as an incentive. oh and best of luck everyone

flibbage0 · 25 Aug 2011 at 08:02

I know someone who got mostly B's at GCSE and is now going to study Maths at Oxford.

But anyway good luck

LateX'Dog · 25 Aug 2011 at 08:11

24th year in a row where GCSE results have increased.

My partner who is a PhD student at York Uni tells me that the first year students coming into Uni are appalling. They are taught how to pass exams and not about the subject. They rely heavily on too much help.

Are kids really getting more intelligent or are the schools tailoring the classes to increase pass rates for league table results.

StriderX · 25 Aug 2011 at 08:14

LateX'Dog said:
24th year in a row where GCSE results have increased.

My partner who is a PhD student at York Uni tells me that the first year students coming into Uni are appalling. They are taught how to pass exams and not about the subject. They rely heavily and too much help.

Are kids really getting more intelligent or are the schools tailoring the classes to increase pass rates for league table results.

The latter, i left school because it was useless.

They may be intelligent in general, due to it being the age of computers and all, but it also means knowledge retention is going out the window.

(A scientific review was done on memory and search engines replacing the need for the brain to remember things, rather remember where things are.)

meghatronic · 25 Aug 2011 at 08:25

LateX'Dog said:
My partner who is a PhD student at York Uni tells me that the first year students coming into Uni are appalling. They are taught how to pass exams and not about the subject. They rely heavily and too much help.

....And if they're not so spoon fed, they bitterly and repeatedly complain and slate the University in student satisfaction surveys....

LateX'Dog · 25 Aug 2011 at 08:37

meghatronic said:
....And if they're not so spoon fed, they bitterly and repeatedly complain and slate the University in student satisfaction surveys....

My partner was really concerned for her job around March time when the students had to hand in there Ethics for there testing, all the students where given a power point presentation of how to write up the ethics form EXACTLY.

Nearly 75% of all the first year students didn't understand the presentation so my partner had to go through it with them.

Then 1 week before the ethics meeting they submitted there ethics and they where all disqualified because they forgot to add simple things like Titles and reasons for there experiment.

(Ethics committees only meet every 6 months, if you miss your "slot" it can heavily impact your experiment.)

StriderX · 25 Aug 2011 at 08:42

LateX'Dog said:
My partner was really concerned for her job around March time when the students had to hand in there Ethics for there testing, all the students where given a power point presentation of how to write up the ethics form EXACTLY.

Nearly 75% of all the first year students didn't understand the presentation so my partner had to go through it with them.

Then 1 week before the ethics meeting they submitted there ethics and they where all disqualified because they forgot to add simple things like Titles and reasons for there experiment.

(Ethics committees only meet every 6 months, if you miss your "slot" it can heavily impact your experiment.)

Its funny, you never see it in the news, so the general population never realise it.

No one cares about education until it collapses (the parents certainly don't, since they see the government teaching them, so they think they don't have to actually be parents), but then the youth have fled the country and the rest of the population are dying because no one is there to help fund the systems, which have been exaggerated by labour.

Sad days indeed.

DJ_Martin · 25 Aug 2011 at 10:02

While everyones busy complaining about the education system I'll just say I got an A* in maths and physics (100%) A in almost everything else and Bs in RE and PE. Quite happy, annoyed I didn't get an A* in IT though.

Very happy, got into 6th form