Higher, Intermediate or Foundation?

[Redway]

What GCSE level in Maths were you at? Higher, Foundation or somewhere in between?

[Apple202]

Higher

[Munchkins]

Higher

[Marc]

:amazed: I'm so glad this was a Maths poll because this was my only Higher exam at GCSE :laugh:

[Niall]

Foundation because I've always sucked at maths. :idc:

[Redway]

btw was intermediate level not scrapped a few years back or is it still there?

[RichardG]

I'm in set 2 and we're all sitting the higher papers in June, I don't think they have intermediate anymore (assuming it ever even existed, I wouldn't know). In our school they only ever go on about doing higher or foundation.

[LemonJam]

I was bottom set without a teacher for most of the year and they still made us do Higher.

[Niamh.]

Hated maths, I did Ordinary level for my Junior Cert which would be similar to Intermediate GCSEs

[CharlieO]

I didn't do any not higher GCSE's :/

I dont see the point, you cant even get above a C.

But I got overall 96% in AS Maths so im pretty good at maths :laugh:

[Tom4784]

Foundation at maths (and Graphics) but Higher for everything else.

[reece(:]

Higher Maths.

[Lee.]

The exams are different here in Scotland.. I did standard grade maths and passed with a 2, then when I started higher maths I remember having this conversation with my maths teacher:

Me: excuse, me I don't like these simultaneous equations
Teacher: why not?
Me: cos I can't do them and to be quite honest I don't really understand why anybody would need to do them. I can't think of any time in my life when ill need to do a quick simultaneous equation
Teacher: what if you do maths at university
Me: :suspect:
Me: ha2 well I think you and I both know that that will never happen bye

....and I never returned to maths! I used the time instead for zany common room fun..erm, I mean study periods :)

[Benjamin]

I did higher in all my GCSE's.

[Marcus.]

intermediate which i was surprise about because i was bad an maths

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Unclassified....I don't want to talk about it

[Shaun]

We were entered for higher in every GCSE :/

[CharlieO]

intermediate which i was surprise about because i was bad an maths

I guess you didn't even take English.

[Princess]

I did Higher for my Junior Cert(which is like the GCSEs) and Ordinary Level for my Leaving Cert(A-Levels)

[Jordan.]

Higher... the last few pages were pretty much impossible.

[Tom4784]

I've always thought they should overhaul how they approach GCSE maths. I'm terrible at Maths and I think that's a consequence of the curriculum focusing on a lot of stuff that isn't practical or useful for every day life. It actually screwed me over once when I went to a job interview and as part of a test I was asked to figure out some percentages but I failed since we never did that much about percentages in school since we were always focusing on the flowery and useless side of Maths.

If it was up to me I'd split Maths into two separate GCSEs. Have everyone undertake basic and practical Maths and then have the more specialised stuff as an optional GCSE. At my school everyone did English Language (obviously) but only the top English sets did English Literature as a seperate GCSE and I always thought that worked well since English was my best subject and I responded well to the added Literature GCSE while people who weren't that great at English only had to focus on learning the core curriculum.

The Maths curriculum is too dilluted, it more important that people master the basics rather then theorems and things that most people will never use.

[King Gizzard]

Intermediate, because you couldn't get a C at foundation (well, our school/exam board that is) but I was even terrible at that and got a D

hate maths

When am I going to use hal the stuff anyway?

[Harry!]

Well when I started doing my GCSEs in Year 9 I was in the top set so I did Higher for the first 2 units. But I was moved down a set and was struggling so I did the last paper on Foundation.

[Doogle]

I go to a grammar school so we do higher for everything.

[Marcus.]

I guess you didn't even take English.

oh i was top for englash too

[Redway]

oh i was top for englash too

:laugh2:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

icr if i was higher or intermediate

but i got a B

the highest you could get on the foundation paper was a C iirc? :suspect:

and i think the intermediate might have been a B so that was probably the one i did but icr

[Marcus.]

:laugh2:

sorry English

I was in the same set for English

[Jarrod]

There's not a middle level. I was in higher set, but i moved down to Foundation... But i'm still Set 2 out of 4

[reece(:]

There used to be Intermediate but think it got made defunct in like 2008/2009.

[Redway]

icr if i was higher or intermediate

but i got a B

the highest you could get on the foundation paper was a C iirc? :suspect:

and i think the intermediate might have been a B so that was probably the one i did but icr

Yeah, you can only get a C for foundation and a B for intermediate.

[Mystic Mock]

Foundation because I've always sucked at maths. :idc:

This, you would looklike a pro compared to me.:joker:

[Jamie585]

I got a B :D was so happy!!!! so Higher ;)

[Kizzy]

My year were the first to sit GCSE's... I failed everything.
Did a foundation GCSE course( 5 subjects in 1year) 4 years ago, sat the higher paper in maths as it was easier for me (don't ask me how it just was) and passed! :)

[Gstar]

I did modular exams and during the 2nd module I ran out halfway through because I thought I was gonna throw up, the room was so hot and stuffy and I hate stuff like that.

By the time I got back the exam was pretty much over so I was just like -_-

The previous module I got a C, I think it was foundation.

I didn't bother to turn up at the 3rd exam, 'aint body got time fo' dat'

[Joelle.]

All my GCSEs were higher. Got an A* in Maths, but the A2 spec contains so much Trigonometry I think my head may explode before the exam.

[Kizzy]

Well good luck! my daughter got A* too but dropped out of A level maths and didn't tell me.... I still haven't fully forgiven her haha.
What is modular maths? are there some that don't have to sitthe usual foundation/higher papers?

[Joelle.]

I think you have Linear and Modular, with Linear having 2 exams at the end (calc and non calc) and Modular having an exam at the end of every module (a calc and non calc paper for each). :)

[Kizzy]

My sons school only do linear then :(
Would have preferred modular.