What sets were you in at school, high or low?

[sol]

Just wondered what sets you lot were in, i wanna know if im not the just the only thicky round here lol:

year 7 - 1A (fluked entrance exam)
year 8 - 2B (moved down, woops)
year 9 - 3By
year 10 - 4s3 (moved down again lol)
year 11 - 5s3

now im in year 12 and we aint setted any more - but i managed to qualify to do A levles instead of those GNVQ things though so i suppose i wasnt that thick lol :laugh:

[Dan_]

We had set's for everything but a lot were just to tie in with other subjects. I think I was in set 2/3 for most things.

[cc100]

I was always in the highest, for some reason!

[guttridge]

i was in set 3 for most stuff bottam for matchs and re

[~Kizwiz~]

We didnt really have sets when I was at school.... except for maths which I was in the medium grade!

[Kore]

i was normally in set 2/3

[Siouxsie]

is that why you are called top banana ???:thumbs:

[bbslilspy]

in ireland its honours (me!!!) ordinary and foundation! foundation is like in maths 234 + 23-3= lol but in honours its like xy squared to the spuare root of blah de blah lol

[Legend]

Ares ws 4 sets with 1 being top n 4 bottom.

Up untill yr9 i was in -

Set 1 - eng
Set 4 - science lmao
and set 2 for EVERYTHING else

and now in yr 10 im in set 2 for eng n set 3 for everything else lol.

[BigSister]

Was in set 2 for everything apart from Science when I was in 3

[Fangz]

Year seven- Top set english and maths at first, moved school and dropped to bottom set for maths.

Year eight-Top set english, bottom set maths.

Year nine- Top set english and science, bottom set maths.

Year ten- Dropped science, top set english and maths.

Year eleven- Same as ten.

[Z]

Ah right, at my school we do things differently. For what I call first and second year *I think that's what you other people call 8th and 9th year* only Maths and English were set, then in third year *which I'm in, and I think is year 10* it's all set unless not enough people picked that subject, in which case there's only one class.

First Year, out of 3 sets: Set 2 for Maths, Set 1 for English.
Second Year, out of three sets: 2 for maths, 1 for english.
Third Year out of nine sets: 7 for maths, 2 for english.



Rather alarming drop there, going from set 2/3 to 7/9 in maths... But I really honestly think I'm too good for the group I'm in, but the teacher I had last year *whom I hate with a burning passion and vice versa, no holds barred and it's not hidden either...* is the set above, so I don't really want to move up... >_>

I mean everyone else in my class was getting 10/20 in the homework, I managed 17/20, and the previous homework I got 24/24 in! So I'm kinda P/O'd at my Maths teacher of last year, because he marked the tests, he hates me but knew he couldn't set me in the wrong set, but didn't want to teach me, so I get put in set 7... It makes sense to me!!!

[Lance]

Irish educational system is way different to what you have in the UK.

But I do higher level everything, which gets quite difficult at times, but I manage.

At present, for my Leaving Cert., which is the equivalent of your A-levels, I'm studying: Irish, English, Maths, French, Geography, Accounting and Physics, all at higher level.

[Nicola]

I was in the top set for just about everything. In Maths, I was moved about a bit between the top and second sets in Years 9 and 10, before being permanently in the top set.

[Corkie]

well in year 7 you were only setted in

maths english and science and i was in top for them


now in sets for everything expect i.t music & art

well heres my sets

english- top
math-top
science-top
french-top
humanties (geography c.p history r.e)- top
p.e-bottom (theres only top and bottom for p.e)
technolagy-middle


i feel very clever cos its wierd my group of friends are mad but clever which is good

[Princess]

Originally posted by bbslilspy
in ireland its honours (me!!!) ordinary and foundation! foundation is like in maths 234 + 23-3= lol but in honours its like xy squared to the spuare root of blah de blah lol

Im in honours everything expect irish

[Aflamo]

I'm in honours for everything. yeahh! Go me! In the Foundation level's exam, one question aks you to add and subtract and you are allowed to use a calculater!

[Ruth]

I was in the top for most things except Science.

[cc100]

Originally posted by scooby
is that why you are called top banana ???:thumbs:


Im just a top banana- its what my girlfriend calls me!

[guttridge]

Does anyone know what the GCSE are call in sctoland

[Siouxsie]

:puzzled:

[Lance]

Originally posted by princess90
Originally posted by bbslilspy
in ireland its honours (me!!!) ordinary and foundation! foundation is like in maths 234 + 23-3= lol but in honours its like xy squared to the spuare root of blah de blah lol

I'm in honours everything expect irish

Ugh, honours Irish is sooo hard. We've got to like read a whole novel. I can barely read an English novel, never mind an Irish one.

And like 3 A4 pages on racism in Irish...ah hello!

[guttridge]

Dont worry about it.

[Kore]

well, i had to sit welsh gcse, compulsory.

you should all be feeling sorry for me :P lol

[Lance]

Originally posted by Kore
well, i had to sit welsh gcse, compulsory.

you should all be feeling sorry for me :P lol

Irish is compulsary too, Kore. Unless you're foreign and have an exemption that is.

[Z]

GCSE's in Scotland are called Standard Grades, but they're changing some of them to Intermediate 2.

[ThaGazBoi]

Year 7: Middle: English, Science, Bottom: Maths
Year 8: Moved up to Top science, Still in middle English and Bottom Maths
Year 9: Moved back to Middle in science, Middle in English and Bottom Maths still
Year 10: After doing well in my English sats i moved up to Middle, But i failed my Science so found myself in bottom science, and i was still in bottom maths
Year 11: Same as year 10. Except im still in Top english but instead of being in A3 im in A2 which is slightly higher. :thumbs:

[sol]

In the UK (well, England anyway) after GCSE's you either do advanced (AS an A2's = A levels) or intermediate = GNVQ's which probably isnt too much harder than GCSE's
But some people do these B-Tec things i dont have aclue what they are, no offence but you have to be quite stupid not to qualify to do A Levels, I didnt work too hard and i did :laugh:

[sol]

Actually, no thats wrong you arent just stupid if you dont do A levels, some people choose to do the lower level qualifictions because they maybe want to do an apprentiship.
But these people tend to be of lower ability