Exams!

[BB-Rocks]

Anyone sitting exmas at school or uni??

If your stressed out(like me!) .. come and talk here about it!!

Im sitting my Standard Grades this year and im poooing myself!

[Kore]

i didnt start revising my exams till 2 weeks before.

i did alright :wavey:

ps. good luck

[BB-Rocks]

Thanks!

It makes me feel better when people say they didn't till late - at least im not alone

[Kore]

i didnt see the point in revising months before, itll go in one ear and out the other sometimes :rolleyes:

[Siouxsie]

I think its best to revise near the day of the exam then you dont forget

[Lance]

I sat all mine over the last two weeks. Did OK. But these were just mocks so didn't do any work for them TBH.

[BB-Rocks]

Well i thought if it studied early i would remember it

But when i got closer i would forget but when i went over it again i would remember it quickly.

I don't ahve time to revise though, to much homework etc!

[Siouxsie]

no sorry you spend too much time on her lol :spin:

[Arneldo]

I Finished my mocks yesterday.

Got J.C in June!

[Legend]

I revise in school. Every lesson is revision lessons, all of what they teach us is to help with exams.

I could not sit in my house and read from books, i would learn jack sh!t. I've got a short attention spam and if i was to read through work for more than 30minutes then i would crack up lol.

I've got a Maths gcse on the 14th, made up, i get the rest of the day of hehe! :wink:

[Kore]

btw lance, you nailed us in the rugby!ffs :bigsmile:

we are crap this yr

[BB-Rocks]

When i attempt tos tudy, i got distracted easily

[Kore]

so did i, dont worreh :thumbs:

[BB-Rocks]

Least im not alone

[Kore]

no chance, theres millions that are like you now, that have been like you in the past.

like me. :laugh:

[Legend]

Originally posted by BB-Rocks
Least I'm not alone

At least your actually bothered about yours unlike the 'Hard lads', my name for them - GOBSH!TES! :spin:

[Kore]

yeah dont be an 'ard guy' and not study at all tho. :laugh:

[BB-Rocks]

Im going to start soon. Some tiem next week .. mabee:tongue:

gobshite lmao

[Lance]

Originally posted by Kore
btw lance, you nailed us in the rugby!ffs :bigsmile:

we are c**p this yr

Did indeed.:dance:We've been playing quite badly too. I was expecting to get our asses whipped.

And yup, Davie, it's really hard but you'll be fine. Just remember they aren't the be all and end all.:thumbs:

[Pipergun]

But the teachers wouldn't want us to think that eh!? :laugh:

I'm sitting my GCSEs in May/June this year, got all the "Conformation of Entry" forms yesterday - can't believe it, but I'm sitting 17 Exams, and will hopefully have 14 pass grades! (I stress the "hope" part! :tongue:)

Am quite relieved now, as the option pools for 6th Form A-Levels have just been revealed, and my options fit in fine, which is good - but a lot of my friends are having to switch options or go elsewhere! :bawling:

[BB-Rocks]

Do you need to sit 17 exams!

I only it 8:dance:

[BigSister]

Ive only got 4 exams for uni 3 1 hour ones for Language and an hour 1 for Lit in May but have had little ones during the year to put up for my mark
Good luck every1 who are taking exams

[krinzy]

my exams are going to be round the time off bb7 so i wont be watching the live feeds as much

[sol]

What I find is that its best to start a month or 2 before the exam, but dont do loads, 20 mins a day - just keep "topping up" your memoery of the subjects and gradually increase the amount of time you spend revising as the exam date gets closer, they you'll do fine.
Ive got my AS module results of Friday :bored:

[BigSister]

good luck Sol yeah ive just got little exams at uni but they all count

[sol]

Originally posted by BigSister
good luck Sol yeah ive just got little exams at uni but they all count

thanks, good luck to you too :thumbs:

[Pipergun]

Good luck to everyone who's taking exams in the near future! :thumbs:

I've got three science module exams on Weds: Biology, Physics and Chemistry!

Bio is "Moving and Feeding"
Physics id "Electricity"
& Chemistry is "Aqueous and Organic Chemistry" :sad:

[sol]

Originally posted by Pipergun
Good luck to everyone who's taking exams in the near future! :thumbs:

I've got three science module exams on Weds: Biology, Physics and Chemistry!

Bio is "Moving and Feeding"
Physics id "Electricity"
& Chemistry is "Aqueous and Organic Chemistry" :sad:

I take it you do seperate sciences, i dont remember learning "aqueous and organic chemistry" :shocked:

[Pipergun]

Yup, that's right. We're the group that gets labelled "the boffs" throughout school by default! :rolleyes:

I'm dreading the Chemistry - this mod involves Titration and Moles, which I can't get my head around!

Physics is pretty awful too, with all the different equations! Saying this though, I'm not a sciencey person - English, Geog and History are more by forte! :spin2: How about you? :puzzled:

[sol]

yeah i do History for AS Level, its good - i didnt get much further than covalent bonding with chemistry and all that stuff, i did Double Award Foundation, still got a C-C though so i didnt care really, good luck :spin:
hah, dont even get me started on Physics, god knows how i passed that :rolleyes:

[sol]

woo i got 106/120 in History = Grade A
68/120 in Psychology = Grade C (2 marks off a B :rolleyes:)
Im really pleased, especially with History :hugesmile:

[Pipergun]

Wow! Well done Sol! :thumbs::spin2:

Have completed all the Science mods, but the results won't be published for a couple of months. Will let you know in due course though! :laugh::rolleyes:

[sol]

cheers Pipergun, i reckon you'll do fine in your science mods, i think i got 41/60 in my science thing (i assume these are sc1's?) and i was a dum-dum at science so you'll do amazing :thumbs:

[BigSister]

Well done Sol

[sol]

Thanks BigSis, can i have a bit of advice as well please.
Do you think its worth me retaking psychology? :conf:

[Pipergun]

Thanks, Sol! :spin2:

I think ours are marked out of 50, yet there are 36 marks on the paper! :conf:

I don't expect you to complete any, but so you know the style of them, past papers are provided at Link (http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/physmod_assess.html)

Given Physics as the example - found that awful on Weds! :sad:

[sol]

nooo it brings back memories of physics :bored: :laugh:

im sure you'll do fine :thumbs:

im glad you didnt expect me to complete any of them :laugh:

[BB-Rocks]

My 1st exam is a week tmomorrow!!!! Ah dreding it!!

[Pipergun]

Oh, no Davie! It seemed so far away when we started the course back in Y10! :shocked:

I'm literally in shock though, although my first exam isn't until May 18th, I've been given another piece of Geography coursework to do! I honestly can't believe it!! :bawling:

My first exam is German! Ich sprechen ein bisschen Deutsch, obwohl ich fuer nur fuenf Jahre gelernt hat! Aaaack!!!

[xWee-Babezx]

My 1st exam in next week too - im so scared! i aint started studyig yet yippppps

[sol]

Ive lost my statement of entry, god knows when my 1st exam is :conf:

[BigSister]

whoops sol good luck anyway

[BB-Rocks]

This time enxt week - that will be 1 exam over!!

[Legend]

I didn't realise i had to do GCSE's in year 10.

I've only got 2 maths & a science one for this year though.

Then again, we do get the rest of the day off after an exam so it's all good. :spin: .. looking forward to them now. :laugh:

2 maths and a science. Only way i'm going to get anywere near my science target (grade C) is if i revise everything i have done which is veryyy unlikely or if miracles were real. I'm rruubbiisshh at science.

I sit in class looking like the following, good looking chap. >>> :conf:

[x-heather-x]

Originally posted by BB-Rocks
This time enxt week - that will be 1 exam over!!


Awwww bet ya cant wait eh davie?

[Aflamo]

Originally posted by bb4eva
I Finished my mocks yesterday.

Got J.C in June!
Good luck in your J.C !! I'm doing mine next year.. Ahh!!

[Siouxsie]

Wishing everyone taking exams the very best of luck

[krissybabe06]

hey good luck with any exams every1, you'll be fabxxx

[BigSister]

I have 2 exams in may but thats it thank goodness

[BB-Rocks]

Im so scared!!! This tiem next weekt hat will be admin and english over with ...:sad:

[krissybabe06]

aww big sister good luck darlingxx
bb rocks you'll be fab!!

[Legend]

Originally posted by BB-Rocks
I'm so scared!!! This tiem next weekt hat will be admin and english over with ...:sad:

BB-Rocks, i wouldn't worry about it. From what you've said, you have revised A LOT so you'll do great on them.

Plus, if you worry then you'll do worse well so i've been told.

Hopefully my more laidbacked attitude to exams (not in the sense i don't revise but that i don't worry over them) will help me a bit more.

Also, if you do $hit then there's always re-sits. Look on the bright side. :laugh:

[BB-Rocks]

Originally posted by Legend
Originally posted by BB-Rocks
I'm so scared!!! This tiem next weekt hat will be admin and english over with ...:sad:

BB-Rocks, i wouldn't worry about it. From what you've said, you have revised A LOT so you'll do great on them.

Plus, if you worry then you'll do worse well so i've been told.

Hopefully my more laidbacked attitude to exams (not in the sense i don't revise but that i don't worry over them) will help me a bit more.

Also, if you do $hit then there's always re-sits. Look on the bright side. :laugh:

I have studied a bit i suppose but i could be doing more. I think ill will be fine, im just nervous..Im going to ahve a busy weekend anyway ...

[BigSister]

I really need to get my head down but ive still got assaignments to do
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Corkie]

ermm well im not doing any main gcses or whatever they call them in ireland and scotland but im doing grade 3 in singing :shocked::laugh: si for mine i have to learn 4 songs of by heart and do sight reading (giveing a song and you have to sing it straight away) and unaccompenied

so im doing alot of diffo stuff :blush2:

[x-heather-x]

AWWWW good luck to eveyone:dazzler:

[ThaGazBoi]

I got my GCSES in 4 weeks time and im ******** it, Im not that brainy and im not predicted any good grades, but im happy with all the revision im doing.

[Siouxsie]

just do your best thats good enough

[Pipergun]

Good advice, Scoob!

I'm dreading them, but I'm looking forward to getting them over and done with now! :bigsmile:

[BB-Rocks]

Originally posted by CrazyGazza
I got my GCSES in 4 weeks time and I'm sh****** it, I'm not that brainy and I'm not predicted any good grades, but I'm happy with all the revision I'm doing.

Gazza at elast you ahve done a lot of studying. Ive hardly done anything .. and my exams are in 5 days!!!

[x-heather-x]

aww poor davie:sad:

good luck to everyone...im sure yous will all do great.

it'll be me this time next year:shocked:

[BB-Rocks]

Lol .. i wish mine were enxt year im ******** myself:sad::sad::sad:

[x-heather-x]

if its any consolation my cousin done his exams last year. he hardly did any revising and came second top in the whole year!:eureka:

does that make ye feel better or worse?

[BB-Rocks]

I wee bit better .. lol

[x-heather-x]

Glad to be of help:spin:

[BB-Rocks]

I find the work easy - except Chemistry. If i work ahrd this weekend i should be fine!

[x-heather-x]

aw poor you...i find chemistry n biology easy...dont get physics at all tho but im not doin that for standard grade thank god

[John72]

Good luck to all you guys sitting exams. It seems a long time since i was in your position.

[BB-Rocks]

My 1st exam is tomorrow (2nd May!)

Wish me luck y'all hehe

[x-heather-x]

good luck davie!!!!!!

[x-heather-x]

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TO EVERYONE WHO IS SITTING THEIR EXAMS!!!!!!

[Siouxsie]

best of luck from the three wise monkeys

Dont panic just do your best

[Z]

I'm off til Tuesday, then I have exams. I know I've been postings LOADS lately (:joker:) so I'm gonna be disappearing for a while. :)

[Siouxsie]

good luck ziola :thumbs:

[Z]

Thanks Scooby! (well done on 10000 by the way!)

[Siouxsie]

thanks :xyxwave:

[BB-Rocks]

Im soo scared!! haha

[Pipergun]

At least it's a means to an end! :thumbs:

What is the exam on tomorrow?

[BB-Rocks]

Administration

[Pipergun]

Oh, I've never heard of that before - we certainly don't study it! .... At least I hope not, or I'm screwed, lol! :laugh:

I've set the bank holiday weekend aside to complete my Geography coursework that's due in tomorrow. It's unfair to be given coursework in this period, don't you think?? :nono:

[BB-Rocks]

Yes!

Im sutdying all day today! Im soo nervous but i think once i have 1 over with ill be fine (hopefully)

[Pipergun]

Yep, you'll know what to expect after the first exam! :spin:

I don't know about you, but I did some GCSE's last year and lots of Science modules (Bio, Chem and Physics) in exam conditions, so it helps you get used to it! :thumbs:

[BB-Rocks]

Yeah we got them before christmas, prelms incase we fail our exams we have an appeal.

[Pipergun]

Oh yeah, we called them Mocks, the problem is, I'd be perfectly happy getting the results that I got for my Mocks!! Now I just know how much work I have to do all over again in the exams!! :shocked:

[BB-Rocks]

I didn't do too well in them soo i need to do well in these!! Ive hardly studied!!! Ahhhh

[Pipergun]

Don't worry! From the sounds of it you've done a lot more than I have, at least! :hugesmile:

I think the main thing to remember is once you've done an exam, just forget about it: I know it can be hard but thinking "Oh, I think I got A and B wrong" is only going to make you feel more negative about the other exams that are coming up! :spin2:

[BB-Rocks]

Yeah i suppose.

Im good at admin so hopefully if i start off with a possitive start, ill be fine through the rest!

[BigSister]

Good luck Davey and Tom

[BB-Rocks]

Thanks!! Ill need it

[Pipergun]

Thanks Becca! Good luck with the Uni exams that you have coming up too! :thumbs:

I start with German Listening, which is where you listen to a group of Germans talking and have to answer questions on it as you go through.

Likewise I'm fairly, but perhaps foolishly, confident on it, as we've had so many practise tests! Hopefully if we start with confidence, that should follow through! I stress the "hopefully" part, though! :wink:

[BB-Rocks]

Sorry Becca!! God luck to you to!!

Tom, i ahve that except its french. I find that quite easy.

[Princess]

I don't have any exams this year. Just like a gazillion projects and a Maths test which I so don't care if I fail cos it doesn't matter. Good Luck to all those doing exams!

[BigSister]

lol thanks Tom and Davey. Once ive finished this assaignment today im going to start revising grammar

[Pipergun]

Thanks Laura! :laugh: Hope you do well in all of the projects/tests too!

You make it sound like a spelling test Becca!! :bigsmile:

Our class always has a laugh in the listening tests: the female voices always sound so masculine, and we sometimes mistake them for men!! :hugesmile:

Some have the most uglly sounding names, like Birgitte (Pronounced Beer-gitter), I'm sure there are some more attractive names they could think of to compensate on the masculinity! :spin2:

[BigSister]

What do you mean it sounds like a spelling test?

[Pipergun]

Well, i thought "Grammar" was to do with spelling and sentence structure etc! Lol! :laugh:

[BigSister]

it does but i have other things in my language section like semantcs which is the study of words ands phonetics (kill grrrr) which is how the words we speak sound

[Pipergun]

Oh dear! Sounds a lot more complicated now you explain it like that! Hehe! :blush2:

I'm presently struggling over writing an article to describe the state of culture within America. I've done Iraq, Sheffield, America to finish and then Ethiopia! :sad:

Geography can be soo annoying ........ :conf:

Quite bizarre that they picked Sheffield as a case study in amongst other countries!! :puzzled:

[BigSister]

oh it is annoying and complicated. Semantics is the best 1 out of the 3 but i have another 1 called Communication studies which is like advertising adverts etc we dont have an exam in that and then we had 2 half modules called English over Time and space which was like history of english and 1 called text/discourse which all the tutors are panicking lol because the tutor is rubbish. There was another 1 as well but that wasnt important

And then I have my literature exam as well but thats just 1 exam so thats ok. Thats 2 h and the Lang 1 is 3 hours an hour for each exam!

[BB-Rocks]

I just done 5 hours of studying .. go me

[BigSister]

ooh well done davey i spent 3 hours doing my assaignment but its nearly done

[Pipergun]

We're all knuckling down today, aren't we! :hugesmile:

My Geography coursework is getting nearer to completion, but I still have a fair few hours of work to put into it yet - perhaps going offline would help me complete it quicker! :rolleyes::bigsmile:

Speak to you all later, and good luck for tomorrow, Davie, if I'm not back online before then! :wavey:

[BB-Rocks]

Thanks Tom

[BigSister]

good luck Davey

[BB-Rocks]

Thanks

Im away to some more studying

Don't know if ill be on tonight but if not bye!

[BigSister]

ok bye and good luck!

[BB-Rocks]

I studied 2 hours tonight!

Im stressed .. i forgot everything!! HELP!!!

[Pipergun]

Keep calm, Davie. Have confidence in yourself that you've now done the best that you possibly can do in your revision. :spin2:

I think it'd be best for you to forget completely about school for now, as you're not going to do any productive revision at this time of night. Go to the exam tomorrow with a clear mind and try to relax for the rest of tonight!

I know it sounds tough not to worry, but it'll help you concentrate and block everything else out during the exam. :thumbs:

[BB-Rocks]

Im trying too forget about it. Ive elarnt ost things i eman its impossible to know everything ... but i keep thinking that stuff will end up in the exam!

Im going to look over stuff for half an hour and then go bed.

[Pipergun]

Ok, I can see that you're offline now, and I've said it enough times, but good luck for tomorrow - not that you'll need it! :bigsmile:

[BigSister]

good luck Davey

[Z]

*****.

That's all I have to say. I'm going to fail these exams badly. They're not important, like other people's, but I'm not going to pass...

[BigSister]

im not going to pass my grammar test either Z

[Z]

Don't get me wrong, I do believe I can do most of them, but I fail to grasp Chemistry or Maths.

I still don't know why we do Maths. Arithmetic, yes. But Maths? Who's going to need to know how to use Pi in their job? Pythagoras? Only a select few careers need those things.

[BB-Rocks]

1 down

7 more to go!

[Pipergun]

Woo! Well done Davie! :spin:

It's still 0 down, 14 to go for me! :bored:

[BB-Rocks]

I never finished it!!!!!

I think ive done enough to pass though

[sol]

Tomorrow I have to be a reader and a scribe for some Year 9s doing there SATs, some of them cant read and write, apparently so I have to waste my time helping some Year 9s who are doing exams that dont even matter, I wouldnt mind so much if they were actually importent exams like GCSEs :rolleyes:

[BB-Rocks]

I know what you mean.

[Pipergun]

I still can't believe the number of illiterate people at year 9 stage! :rolleyes::bored:

[x-heather-x]

Well done Davie!!!

good luck to everyone for the rest of your exams!!!!!!!!!

[Pipergun]

Quite ironically, my first exam is on May 18th, the day that Big Brother starts! :nono::hugesmile:

[BB-Rocks]

Awww poor Tom.

In my credit admin exam, i never finished and i new wouldn't! So i answeared all the 6 and 8 marker questions towards the end and missed out about 6 of the 2 markers - so i think ill get a 2! Which isn't so bad, plus my practical maek which is a 1 so my overall mark will be a 1!

I was worried when i got because everyone else had finished the exam - but most people must have thought 'look at the time' and rushed everything. Fingers crossed i past .. if i didn't ill sit it again next year i suppose

[Pipergun]

Fingers crossed Davie, I always prefer to take my time if I can too! :thumbs:

I don't know if you have this trouble but nearly everybody seems to finish the Maths Calculator and Non-Calc exams, having checked through with at least 30 mins to spare of doing nothing. :sad:

Each of these exams is 2hrs long, so I don't see why they can't just shorten the allotted time to put us all out of out misery! :conf:

[BB-Rocks]

Yeah im like that. For chemistry we get 2 hours and i usually finish it in an huor - may not be a good thign but i always pass.

For my exam today .. no way was their time to finish! You may think im just saying that but even the smartest in the class were not finished! You don't even ahve time to check over your answears. Thats one thing i hate about the SQA! Never enough time.

Tomorrow i ahve english - the reading is a nighmare - you ahve 50minutes to read a passage and answear 30 questions on it!

[Siouxsie]

aww davie My thoughts are with you. It will all be over soon Take care and good luck
Lots of Love From
Aunty Sue xxx:flower::wink:

[BB-Rocks]

Thanks Sue

1 down

7 more to go

Tomorrow is English!!

[Pipergun]

English is a nightmare for us!

We have 3 seperate English exams.

The first: English Literature, consists of A Heaney, Clarke and 2 x Pre 1914 poetry question and a "Lord of the Flies" question.

I'll have to check the other two, but the first has to be completed within a 1hr 45 min time frame. :shocked:

Good luck with your English tomorrow! :thumbs:

[BigSister]

ouch Tom what a day to have your first exam
Good luck Davey for today im sure you will do fine

[BB-Rocks]

Jus back from the english exam

It was soo hard!!

The general 1 was quite easy - but the crdit was a nightmare!! I don't think ive passed it .. but hopefully i have!

[BigSister]

aww im sure you have davey

[BB-Rocks]

It got to the end and i was making up answears!!

For all i know they could be right!

[BigSister]

well you never know

[BB-Rocks]

I only missed about 4 out and the invigator was cooelcting the papers in so a wrote so randoms down

[x-heather-x]

aww im dure you did fine davie!!!

[sol]

Originally posted by Pipergun
I still can't believe the number of illiterate people at year 9 stage! :rolleyes::bored:

Tell me about it, I can see why though, during the test they were whispering and giggling to eachother whilst me and fellow 6th formers were wasting our time trying to help them which I thought was just pure disrespectful so to be honest I have no sympathy for them whatsoever - lol during the test I saw a question saying "Mark where -2 would go on the scale below" the scale was an ascending thingy from about +10 degrees to -10 degrees, and you'd never guess what, this kid marked where +2 would go, I felt like I was going to cry out and say NOOO how the hell can that be... but I couldnt :laugh:

[BB-Rocks]

Got my PE exam tomorrow!

Havn't studied at all!!

But im good at it - in my prelim i got two 2's - so i always ahve an appeal! But hopefully i pass anyway ...

[Siouxsie]

what the hec do you do for a pe exam ?

[x-heather-x]

all i know is that theres the practical one where you do actual PE but what do you write about in a written PE exam????? "How To Run???''

[BigSister]

nah i think its all the theory stuff about your body and organs etc and how to stay healthy

[BB-Rocks]

Hey just back from my PE exam

[BB-Rocks]

Just back from maths!

Omg!!!! It was sooo hard!!!!!!

[BigSister]

aww i used to hate Maths stupid thing

[BB-Rocks]

I think i got a 4 - which isnt great but isny the worst

[BigSister]

is it a pass if it is then thats good ^_^

[BB-Rocks]

Thing is with Standard Grades you cant fail .. so they say

For instance Credit you need a 1 or a 2 and if you dont get it you get a '7' which is a fail but they exam board tend to say its a pass.

You can get a 7 if you right your name on the paper!

[BigSister]

oh right lol that is confusing

[BB-Rocks]

Yeah it is a bit lol

[xWee-Babezx]

i sat maths today i really hope i got a 3 but i think i got a 4! thats if im lucky. it was soo hard!!

were you sittin general/credit or general/foundation davie?

[Z]

*deep breath* OK, I got the results back from a couple of exams I've done so far. We're in the sort of calm before the storm stage, where you do a couple of exams before the week of exams.

I passed my French ERV (it's pass or fail, no grades). I passed my German Listening (22/26). I scraped a pass in Chemistry (57%. *runs*)

So now I have.. 12 more exams to do?

[BB-Rocks]

Are these like 3rd eyar exams?

[BB-Rocks]

Had to exams today!!

Chemsitry .. which was soo hard!!

And Craft & Design which was ok!

[BigSister]

thats ok Davey ^_^

[BB-Rocks]

Got French tomorrow

Im off to study bye:xyxwave:

[BigSister]

oki bye Davey

[xWee-Babezx]

davie i had chemsitry today too!!

it was sooo hard. i thought the general was ok but the credit NO WAY!!!!

i have french tomorrow too

[x-heather-x]

poor yous:shocked:

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!:wink:

[xWee-Babezx]

thanks lol

[BB-Rocks]

Hey jsut back from my French exam!! It was quite hard .. but hopefully i passed!

Im off for 2weeks now and then is my last exam on the 22nd!! WooHoo

I need a break ive had an exam everyday since they started!!

7 down - 1 more to go!:dance:

[BigSister]

Ive got my literature exam on Thursday its more essay based so im pretty comfortable with that ive just got to learn the storylines etc and my notes from TV/Flim drama

[BB-Rocks]

Coll

I dont mindd dooing essays .. its the things you have to study for that worry me!

[BigSister]

yeah same with me with essays you can know some things but you can just ramble on its the ones where you have to know things that annoys me

[BB-Rocks]

Ano i hae it. Im soo glad i only have 1 left!! I feel soo happy!! Sounds pathetic!! lol

[BigSister]

no i feel same this time next week ill be freeeee till 23rd June

[BB-Rocks]

Were sort of rhe same then!! Hehe

[BigSister]

yeah:elephant:

[BB-Rocks]

Im insuch a good mood amazing what exams can do to you!

[xWee-Babezx]

I had French!

How hard was the general!! The credit was harder. i think i just scrapped a 2 if im lucky!!

[xxalisonxx]

Originally posted by BB-Rocks
Had to exams today!!

Chemsitry .. which was soo hard!!

And Craft & Design which was ok!

i could not do chemistry !!!
i made it all up ! the gen was easy but the credit was so hard

[xxalisonxx]

and french today !! i could not do the general !
i felt so stupid

[BB-Rocks]

Tell me about it! I wanted to pass it too!! But im rubbish at it ...

[Pipergun]

Darn all of you early exam takers!! :mad::laugh:

It's still 0 down, 14 to go for me! :sad:

My first exam is German Listening, on May 18th, otherwise known as BB Launch Night! :bored::spin:

[BigSister]

same here Tom but its 0 down 4 to go for me

[Pipergun]

P.s. - As long as you all did your best on all of the tests, have the knowledge that you've done the best you've can, and just enjoy not having to do any of the subjects you hate anymore! :tongue:

[Pipergun]

Originally posted by BigSister
same here Tom but its 0 down 4 to go for me

I'm sure the difficulty of each makes up for the number of tests, hehe! :spin2:

Although, I could murder Physics, Chemistry and Graphics! :rolleyes:

[Lance]

Originally posted by Pipergun
Darn all of you early exam takers!! :mad::laugh:

It's still 0 down, 14 to go for me! :sad:

My first exam is German Listening, on May 18th, otherwise known as BB Launch Night! :bored::spin:

Oh dear.

Well, I've only got 7 exams, thankfully. But 3 of them are exams which you have to sit two papers, both 3 hours and 20 minutes long. French is 3 hours and 20 minutes including listening exam and my other three are 3 hours long. So rather long!

They start June 7th and finish on the 19th.

Good luck not getting distracted by BB, Tom. I remember doing my accounting mock exam the day before I met Kelly and I wa sso distracted I managed to scrape a whole 16%:wink:

Good luck to all doing exams.:thumbs:

[BigSister]

Well the 3 exams are all 1 exam each so i guess that evens it out a bit. Im ok about my literature exam (Thats the 1 thursday) but not over my language

[Lance]

Best of luck, Becca. :thumbs: I'm sure you'll be fine.

[Pipergun]

Oh dear.

Well, I've only got 7 exams, thankfully. But 3 of them are exams which you have to sit two papers, both 3 hours and 20 minutes long. French is 3 hours and 20 minutes including listening exam and my other three are 3 hours long. So rather long!

They start June 7th and finish on the 19th.

Good luck not getting distracted by BB, Tom. I remember doing my accounting mock exam the day before I met Kelly and I wa sso distracted I managed to scrape a whole 16%:wink:

Good luck to all doing exams.:thumbs: [/quote]

Well, it's 16% better than nothing at all! :laugh:

It might not sound quite so severe, but I only managed 45% in my Mock Physics exam in December, which raised a few eyebrows considering I was supposed to be a "capable" student. Oh how I hate being labelled! :bored:

I can get by on the modular, multiple choice exams, but when it comes to explaining the reasoning behind Sciences, I just can't do it! :bigsmile:

Oh well, it's the personality that makes the person, after all, and not the grades! (I convince myself!) Luckily, I'm not doing any Sciences for A-Level in 6th Form! :spin2:

I can't imagine 3hrs 20mins of French, I'd want to incinerate all the croissants I could find afterwards!

One of my mates got cautioned by the school after the German Writing mocks, as we had so much time to spare, he had doodled "Heil Hitler!" and "Mein Fuhrer" on his script, translating as "Hail Hitler, my leader!" - Not good! :blush2:

Just realised I have written an absolute essay - it's no surprise English is my strongest subject! :tongue:

My best wishes, once again to those taking exams! :hello:

I shall refrain from inflicting anymore incomprehensible blabber onto your innocent selves!! :laugh:

[BigSister]

Thanks Lance, Ive just been reading over my notes and i feel ive done enough for tonight. Ill do more tommorow though

[BB-Rocks]

My next exam is on the 22nd!

I really need a break thought ive had an exam everyday since they have started and had two exams on the one day yesterday!

[Lance]

LMAO, Tom!

French is actually y best subject so I'd rather 3 hours plus of that than three hours of Accounting.:rolleyes::spin2:

That's not bad for Physics. I know a lot of lads in my class failed their Physics mock exam even though they were people expected to at least pass. I got 51% in mine. Our exam was rather tough though. What kind of stuff do ye cover? How is your exam layed out?

[BB-Rocks]

I had French today

I don't do phsics .. thank goodness!! But msot of my friends do and they say the first half of it is like multipal choice questions were you circle either a b c d e f

[Sunny_01]

It's never ending as well - I am 35 and still learning!!!

[Pipergun]

Uhoh, Lance - prepare yourself, there's tonnes of incomprehensible jargon, but... you asked for it!..... :tongue:

Yep, it sounds a similar setup, Davie! It's the same format for Biology, Chemistry and Physics:

During the year, we've had three modular (multiple choice, in which you put a dot in either circle ABC or D for Q1,2,3,4 and the 5.1-5.4 up to 10.4) exams for each subject, with each exam accounting for 10% of our final grades. We've also completed one piece of coursework for each subject, which is worth 20% of the final mark, hence the terminal for each is worth 50% - Eeek! :shocked:

As for the topics covered, from reading off the sheet i've got, Here goes!!:

Biology:

Module 3: Environment
Module 4: Inheritance and Selection
Module 20: Biology in Action
Module 19: Moving and Feeding
Module 1: Humans as Organisms
Module 2: Maintenance of Life

Chem:

Mod 7: Patterns of chemical change
Mod 8: Structure and bonding
Mod 22: Chemistry in action
Mod 21: Aqueous and organic chemistry
Mod 5: Metals
Mod 6: Earth materials

Physics:

Mod 11: Forces
Mod 12: Waves and radiation
Mod 24: Forces and motion
Mod 23: Physics in action
Mod 9: Energy
Mod 10: Electricity

Now....... if anyone can understand that, I think you deserve the Smarties award, Pullitzer Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, The Iron Cross, or whatever they call them! Hehe! :hugesmile:

[Lance]

Originally posted by BB-Rocks
I had French today

I don't do phsics .. thank goodness!! But msot of my friends do and they say the first half of it is like multipal choice questions were you circle either a b c d e f

OMG, no way!?

That sounds pi$$ easy. Ours is nothing like that.

We have two sections to our exams. Aptly named Section A and Section B.:laugh:

Section A gives you the title of 4 experiments. You have to explain 3 of them in great detail. They are from a list of mandatory experiments we are to do in class over two years. There's 24 of them we have to know.

Section B you have to answer like 8 questions which have 5/6 parts each, I think. And they're long questions requiring definitions and mathematical work. They are based on all the fundamental topics we do: Light, Heat, Waves, Electronics, Particle, Statics, Moments, Forces etc..

No multiple choice though.:bored:

[BB-Rocks]

Not really

The 2nd half of the exam is like that .. lol

All our sciences .. Bio Chemsitry and Phsics are all multipal choice questions but the 2nd half is worth more marks. Its hard but its easy if you don't know anything you can just circle it.

And the expeirment part .. we do that during the eyar its out folio and its 1/3 of out grade

[Pipergun]

OMG, no way!?

That sounds pi$$ easy. Ours is nothing like that.

We have two sections to our exams. Aptly named Section A and Section B.:laugh:

Section A gives you the title of 4 experiments. You have to explain 3 of them in great detail. They are from a list of mandatory experiments we are to do in class over two years. There's 24 of them we have to know.

Section B you have to answer like 8 questions which have 5/6 parts each, I think. And they're long questions requiring definitions and mathematical work. They are based on all the fundamental topics we do: Light, Heat, Waves, Electronics, Particle, Statics, Moments, Forces etc..

No multiple choice though.:bored: [/quote]

Multiple choice isn't as easy as it sounds... granted we have the correct answer somewhere in front of us, but unlike other exams, the examiners seem to deliberately go out to trick you, changing tiny details in each answer. :rolleyes:

Plus, they use countless double negatives in their questions. I can't think of an appropriate example, but it's similar to "which element doesn't refuse to repel the negatively charged cathode?" Plus, in tight time constraints, it's harder than it sounds, honest!! :blush:

[BB-Rocks]

See in French today!!

The SQA are sooo ansty! When you are listening for something negative they tend to say it as fast as possible so you can't hear it!!! Arrrrrrrrgh

Today at French it kicked in this was my actual exams because on the CD it said 'Scottish Qualifications 2006' and i was like S H I T !!!!

A bit late in actually kicking in

[Lance]

Oh right. Well, I suppose having the right answer in front of you is still easier than having a blank sheet. It's daunting, actually.

I do like Physics though. It's my kind of subject. As is Maths. I can't wait to sit my Maths exam.:angel:

[BB-Rocks]

My maths was on Friday.

Im rubbish at amths .. i think i got a 3 .. whcihc is good considering im crap!!

My strong subjects are English PE Studies Craft and Design Computing and Modern Studies

[Pipergun]

You sound like the complete opposite to me, Lance! :tongue:

My favourites are English, History, Geography and to an extent... German!

I just find them quite easy, although there is often a lot of writing involved: they allow me to waffle, as I often have trouble being precise, as is probably obvious! :wink:

[BigSister]

at school I was strong at English RS lol, ICT and History. I was rubbish at Maths, Science and Food tech and French i was middle at but I failed that and passed food tech lol

[BB-Rocks]

Is food tech Home Ec??

[BigSister]

yup same thing

[BB-Rocks]

Cool .. Home Ec must be the Scottish thing

[Lance]

Originally posted by Pipergun
You sound like the complete opposite to me, Lance! :tongue:

My favourites are English, History, Geography and to an extent... German!

I just find them quite easy, although there is often a lot of writing involved: they allow me to waffle, as I often have trouble being precise, as is probably obvious! :wink:

Ugh, I hate those subjects you listed!:laugh:

Well, I love doing the logical subjects like Maths & Physics but I always do best in language subjects for some reason.

[BB-Rocks]

I take it your good with nubmers then

[Lance]

Yeah.

Well I like to think I am. I've just always been good at Maths. Ever since I started primary school it's been something I've enjoyed and excelled at.

I'm pretty much an all-rounder, though. I can do anything well if I set my mind to it. Not to be big headed or anything... :angel::laugh:

[BB-Rocks]

Lol .. i wish i was good with numbers but for what i want to do is be a PE teacher which requires a 3 for Stnadard Garde Maths which i think ill get and Higher English which ill get enxt year as im good with English.

Maths isn't my thing .. we cant be good at everything ..

[Lance]

Originally posted by BB-Rocks
Maths isn't my thing .. we cant be good at everything ..

Speak for yourself.:laugh:

LOL.. joking.:wink: I'm sure you'll do fine, Davey. And I hope everything works out for you so you can become a P.E teacher.

[BB-Rocks]

Lol Lance ..

Thanks i hope it works out and im sure it look (confident) kidden on i hope it does work out for me. If i dont make it as a pe teacher im doing something with fitness.

Im a very sporty person!

Play for the school football and hockey team.

And go swimming nearly every night!

[Pipergun]

I am sooo not sporty! :hugesmile:

I dread P.E. each week, but our PE teachers are such tossers! :nono:

I didn't catch the ball in rounders last week, and had to go running after it, only to hear the teacher of all people shout sarcastically "Goooood throw!" :rolleyes:

Here's to you breaking the mould, Davie! :thumbs:

I'm the typical person who's always the last to be picked! :blush2:

Music is much more my forte, I play the piano and trombone! :spin:

[xxalisonxx]

i havent done pe scince january lol :P
keep forgeting my kit ;) i only like doing bball and netball hehe

[BB-Rocks]

Not being big headed by im always 1st to be picked hehe or i always pick the teams!!

Our PE teachers are cool .. they don't make full of people or anything. If they did i would jsut be giving them it back .. i ahve a big muoth on me though

[xxalisonxx]

you still have all your exams to go !! i only have 3 left !

[BB-Rocks]

i have 2!

[Pipergun]

:sad:. I can't believe I have 14!! :shocked:

[xxalisonxx]

14 ! im not even sitting 14 exams !! wow !
french is my worst subject i sat foundation french hehe and i thought the general paper was hard !! i dont need it anyway i got a 5 in my prelim :tongue:
so whats everyones next exam
mine is geography tomorrow :(

[Razmataz]

Well my exams are as follows.

Film Studies. - 23rd May. AM
Psychology. - 25th May.PM
English Lang - 6th June [06/06/06:devil:]. AM
English Lit - 8th June. PM

Quite quickly over really :thumbs:

[BB-Rocks]

England sit 14 .. but we sit 8 and our subjects go into MUCH MUCH more greater depth

[Pipergun]

Oh, I did my Geography exam last year, and so have only had coursework this year. I didn't find it that hard, so I'm sure you'll be fine - good luck! :spin2:

It's not exactly tomorrow, but the first exam I have is German Listening! :rolleyes:

[BB-Rocks]

German - is that easy

french today was quite hard!!

[BB-Rocks]

Alison i was sitting credit - the general was much ahrder than credit!

[xxalisonxx]

was it !!! grrrrr i bet if i had done the credit i would have passed !! and i bet i have failed the general !!
the listing was so funny i thought it was going to be the wee old lady thats usualy on the tapes and it this guy with a ruff scottish accent sounded like he was going to jump out the tape and beat us all up ... too far ?

[BB-Rocks]

Whenw e do past lsitening its a women and we got a chav!! I was like o0o

[xxalisonxx]

hehe anno thats what i was thinking !!
all i could imagin was a big ned sitting reading out our paper !! hehe

[Pipergun]

I'm sitting the following exams:

18th May: German Listening
23rd May: English Literature
24th May: Religious Studies
26th May: German Reading
5th June: Maths Non-Calculator
6th June: English Language Paper 1
Graphics
7th June: Biology Terminal
8th June: English Language Paper 2
9th June: History Paper 1 (Core with Germany)
12th June: Maths Calculator
14th June: Chemistry Terminal
15th June: History Paper 2 (Past England)
16th June: Physics Terminal

Aack, so much work!
:shocked:

[Pipergun]

Originally posted by BB-Rocks
German - is that easy

french today was quite hard!!

The hardest part in German, is often distinguishing the man's voice from the woman's voice! :laugh:

[xxalisonxx]

aww good luck !!
you have a lot of exams !!
but you stop just in time for my birthday, 18th of June
wow you sound really clever with all thos exams!
i only have 7 !!

[xxalisonxx]

Originally posted by Pipergun
Originally posted by BB-Rocks
German - is that easy

french today was quite hard!!

The hardest part in German, is often distinguishing the man's voice from the woman's voice! :laugh:

lolol i'v only ever spoken to a german guy and his two sons on holiday !! the ladys with them never ever talked !! the boys did even tho they knew no english !!

[Razmataz]

Im in college...4 exams for me!:dance:

[Pipergun]

I'm not really that intelligent, it's just that all of the exams are compulsary in England, hehe! :laugh:

Ironically, although there isn't one on my birthday (4th June), Maths is on the next day, so I'll be going mad revising, lol! :bigsmile:

[BB-Rocks]

Originally posted by xxalisonxx
hehe anno thats what i was thinking !!
all i could imagin was a big ned sitting reading out our paper !! hehe

I know!! He was soo cheeky .. he wasa cting like it ws a apin to do it and its like **** off you idoit your the noe working for the sqa

[BB-Rocks]

Wow Tom - Your exam are not spread out at all!!

[xxalisonxx]

i have an exam every day this week apart from friday !! party night hehe
hehe just relised there are people that work for the sqa !! telling us about exams there working for the squ their exam results must not be that good !

[BB-Rocks]

So do i - now i ahve a huge cap!! Its uncalled for!! Dam the SQA!!

[Razmataz]

I had a huge gap last year.....it was annoying.

[BB-Rocks]

Must happen for everyone

Alsion what highers did you pick?

If i fail my exam i will have to do ints!! Omg!! Ints!!

[xxalisonxx]

:dazzler:<<< thats such a cool smiley lol anyway
yeah exams are a pain i cant wait till there all over but i bet that as soon as they finish the rain starts and the scottish weather makes a come back !!

[xxalisonxx]

Originally posted by BB-Rocks
Must happen for everyone

Alsion what highers did you pick?

If i fail my exam i will have to do ints!! Omg!! Ints!!

English higher Maths int 2 (should be doing higher but havnt did maths all year because my school had no teacher for us )
dance higher, art higher,computing higher :hugesmile:
you ?

[Pipergun]

I'm guessing these are the equivalent to English A-Levels?

If so, I've chosen English Literature, History, Geography and German! :spin2:

[BB-Rocks]

Hopefully i can do these!!

Higher English Int2 Maths Higher Computing Higher PE Higher Modern Studies

[xxalisonxx]

were sort of doing the same only im doing dance and your doing pe and im doing art and your doing modern studies
what do you want to do when you leave ?

[BB-Rocks]

5th year!!

but i can see me staying on to 6th if my sg's dont go well!

[Razmataz]

My school did a 6th year.....but i hated the little kids in the place, so i moved to a college :rolleyes:

[BigSister]

thats why Im glad my high school didnt have a 6th form....
OMG im so nervous gahhhhh

[BB-Rocks]

Awww poor Becca

Is it tomorrow?

[BigSister]

yup*nods*

[BB-Rocks]

Hope your studying

Waiyt you cant can you? Because tis essays?

[BigSister]

i can kinda I can learn the play(s) and for the analysing the poem learn the concepts like alleteration etc

[BB-Rocks]

Are you going to?

[BigSister]

yes......

[BB-Rocks]

Good good!:laugh:

[Lance]

Best of luck for tomorrow, Becca. I'm sure you'll do fantastic.:thumbs:

[BB-Rocks]

Wonder how Alison got on with her geo exam.

My mates sat it and said the general was a nightmare but the credit was easier

[Pipergun]

Good luck, Becca! Have confidence in yourself and I'm sure you'll be fine! :bigsmile:

I'm glad I didn't have an exam today, as I fainted in the last lesson - I feel so embarrassed! :blush2: Anyway, all is fine now! :rolleyes::blush2:

[BB-Rocks]

Oh my goodnesss Tom!! Leest your ok now!

[BigSister]

hope your ok Tom and thanks Lance and Tom for the good luck im sure ill be fine. Doesnt help I have another assaignment to finish tonight either!

[Pipergun]

Sorry to hear about the assignment, Becca - I always seem to get essays and coursework at exactly the wrong times! :sad:

On the fainting, I'm fine now, thanks! Just a few annoying, grazes after I fell out of the door onto the pavement, like an utter twonk! :rolleyes:

Everybody was watching a video, and heard a huge crash, and so they all came rushing round which made me feel even more silly, lol! :blush2: