Does anyone know what college/BTEC is like?

[Will.]

So basically I'm starting college in September with Media and production diploma (level 3).

Maybe level 2 if I don't get 5 C's.

Do you have a tutor, or do you just come in for the classes? Is college all day? or is it just a few classes?

And are the holiday times different to school, as it says the course ends in Sep next year?

[Will.]

Not been giving much info from my college tbh, they keep saying I'm doing Art and Design course, don't know how many times I've had to contact them saying its Media lol.

[Moosething]

I'm doing A levels so I wanna kno

[lily.]

It's different from school.

You'll get a timetable with your classes on it. Should be 3 or 4 days a week. You only need to be there when you have a class. If it is the same as up here, they will split the year into two semesters, and your timetable will change for the second semester around the end of January.

You should get an induction day which will explain everything. If you haven't been invited to one, call them up and speak to student services or go in and see them. They have loads of help and info at the one I went to, so yours is probably the same.

It's quite daunting when you first start, but you'll settle in quite quickly.

[Tom4784]

So basically I'm starting college in September with Media and production diploma (level 3).

Maybe level 2 if I don't get 5 C's.

Do you have a tutor, or do you just come in for the classes? Is college all day? or is it just a few classes?

And are the holiday times different to school, as it says the course ends in Sep next year?

It's a piece of piss tbh.

I had a form tutor who you'd go register with once a day with the rest of my group and we'd have a few form sessions a week. We'd usually only have about three lessons a day with long breaks in between most of them. As long as you attended the classes you could do what you pleased outside of them. I was only in for four days a week as well and two of them were half days.

Breaks are longer if i remember right, I can remember the summer breaks lasting for ages in particular.

[lily.]

Oh, there was no 'form tutor' at mine. Guess that's an English thing. :/

A register was taken at the beginning of each individual class, and that was kept centrally, so if you skipped out on classes the curriculum leader knew about it and that could get you kicked off the course, or affect your student loan/bursary.

[Will.]

thanks guys,

so it says its 9-5:30 full time (mon-friday), so classes can be any time of the day between 9-5:30?

Do you have to leave college at 5:30, or when your last lesson is?

[Jason.]

You get the same holidays as you would in Year 7-11, if I remember correctly.

October Half Term (1 Week)
Christmas Break (2 Weeks)
February Half Term (1 Week)
Easter Break (2 Weeks)
May Half Term (1 Week)
Summer Break (6/7 Weeks)

[lily.]

thanks guys,

so it says its 9-5:30 full time (mon-friday), so classes can be any time of the day between 9-5:30?

Do you have to leave college at 5:30, or when your last lesson is?

I'm guna leave others to advise you on this, cos it seems to be a lot different in England than it is up here, so my answers will probably just confuse the situation. :thumbs:

[Jason.]

When I went to college, we went in whenever we had lessons. You get free periods (although, that depends on the individual). You leave whenever you finish your last lesson. You don't have to stay till 5.30. The day ends like normal school would, around 3, unless you have extra work or need to stay behind or something. You can leave before that, though. Say your last lesson is at 1pm, and you it ends at 2pm, then you can leave at 2pm, instead of staying till 3pm, if that makes sense.

I don't really remember much as I went college like 8 years ago.

[Tom4784]

thanks guys,

so it says its 9-5:30 full time (mon-friday), so classes can be any time of the day between 9-5:30?

Do you have to leave college at 5:30, or when your last lesson is?

You can leave whenever you like, you don't have to stay until 5:30 if you don't have any more lessons to do. You just have to attend lessons, anything other than lesson time is your time.

EDIT: Yeah, lesson times can be anywhere between those two times. I remember one year when we only two lessons for one of the days, one was at 10 and the other at 3:30. I used to just go home and come back in time for the last lesson.

[Moosething]

I have to do enrichment once a week w/e that is

[Will.]

You get the same holidays as you would in Year 7-11, if I remember correctly.

October Half Term (1 Week)
Christmas Break (2 Weeks)
February Half Term (1 Week)
Easter Break (2 Weeks)
May Half Term (1 Week)
Summer Break (6/7 Weeks)

I went to private school so it was a little different:

October - 1 week
December - 4 weeks
Feb - 1 week
Easter - 3
Summer - 8

Thats decent though, considering your not at college all day unlike school, the whole course ending in Sep is confusing... Do you think if I only get the qualifications for level 2, it will be ok to swap from level 3 to 2?

[Will.]

You can leave whenever you like, you don't have to stay until 5:30 if you don't have any more lessons to do. You just have to attend lessons, anything other than lesson time is your time.

ok thank you.

[Jason.]

I went to private school so it looked like this:

October - 1 week
December - 4 weeks
Feb - 1 week
Easter - 3
Summer - 8

Thats decent though, considering your not at college all day unlike school, the whole course ending in Sep is confusing... Do you think if I only get the qualifications for level 2, it will be ok to swap from level 3 to 2?

Are you going to a private college, or just a normal one?

I think it may look like the former.

[Will.]

Are you going to a private college, or just a normal one?

I think it may look like the former.

no not going to private college, the school I went to was in bishop Storford (like an hour and 15 mins away).

North London is really bad for private schools tbh, there aren't any near me, thats why I was sent there.

[Jason.]

Do you think if I only get the qualifications for level 2, it will be ok to swap from level 3 to 2?

You should be allowed to. I remember when I was going to college, they said we needed to get the certain GCSE grades required to do what we wanted to do and if you didn't, you'd do Level 2 or BTEC.

[Jason.]

no not going to private college, the school I went to was in bishop Storford (like an hour and 15 mins away).

North London is really bad for private schools tbh, there aren't any near me, thats why I was sent there.

Yeah, that's true. I went to Woodhouse College.

[Jason.]

I'm speaking from expirience from almost a decade ago, though. So I'm not sure if things have changed or not, but I don't think they have :worry:

[Will.]

You should be allowed to. I remember when I was going to college, they said we needed to get the certain GCSE grades required to do what we wanted to do and if you didn't, you'd do Level 2 or BTEC.

yeah thats good then, I think I've done decent on probs English (2), RE and ICT, making 4 GCSE and possibly Maths, should be ok.

Geography, Business and Science are a mystery, I have no idea tbh.

Yeah my parents aren't to stressed about there results, and we've already discussed level 2, so it won't be like a huge shocker/crisis if I don't get 5 c's.

Although I think I'm being a bit OTT, as I got 4 c's and a B on my mocks, and 3 D's.

[Will.]

Yeah, that's true. I went to Woodhouse College.

omg yeah loads of people are going there from my school, I've heard all about it, don't think anything has changed. The teacher didn't mention level 2, but I think he thought I was perfectly capable of 5 c's.

[Jords]

Attend a couple of open days and tasters :)

[Jason.]

Attend a couple of open days and tasters :)

I think they did that back in November, before applying.

[Moosething]

I think that all you basically need is a C in English & Maths.
My sister did a BTEC Level 3 and A level even though she had to redo her maths because she got a D.

[Will.]

yes I attended a taster/interview in Feb, it was amazing but a little messy on behalf of the people running the day.

Lots of technical difficulties, and they took as into the library and everyone of the students was kind of chatting/messing around, and the guides didn't know what to say lmao.

[Jason.]

yeah thats good then, I think I've done decent on probs English (2), RE and ICT, making 4 GCSE and possibly Maths, should be ok.

Geography, Business and Science are a mystery, I have no idea tbh.

Yeah my parents aren't to stressed about there results, and we've already discussed level 2, so it won't be like a huge shocker/crisis if I don't get 5 c's.

Although I think I'm being a bit OTT, as I got 4 c's and a B on my mocks, and 3 D's.

Do you just need 5 GCSE's?

When I was going college, we also needed a certain grade in GCSE for the subjects we wanted to do. For example, I remember doing Psychology at A-Level, which required a B in Maths, and a B in Science, I think if you got lower than a B, even a C (which is a pass), you couldn't do it.

Although, each college is different, so that's understandable.

[Daniel-X]

Good luck in College Will. I hope you enjoy it, I've only got like 8/9 months left at school I start Y11 once Summer is over. I have to start deciding what I could be interested in doing and which college I may go to then by October I need to know for definite practically.

I have no idea what I'm doing but I was considering doing Media so you'll have to tell me what it's like :)

[Will.]

Do you just need 5 GCSE's?

When I was going college, we also needed a certain grade in GCSE for the subjects we wanted to do. For example, I remember doing Psychology at A-Level, which required a B in Maths, and a B in Science, I think if you got lower than a B, even a C (which is a pass), you couldn't do it.

Although, each college is different, so that's understandable.

5 c's including English, he said get a B in English (just pushing me/challenging me, not actually required).

although I did literally like the same paper a week before the English language exam (exact same question but different passage), and got an A on it, so hopeful.

[Will.]

Good luck in College Will. I hope you enjoy it, I've only got like 8/9 months left at school I start Y11 once Summer is over. I have to start deciding what I could be interested in doing and which college I may go to then by October I need to know for definite practically.

I have no idea what I'm doing but I was considering doing Media so you'll have to tell me what it's like :)

Thanks, I will! It sounds really interesting! Good luck in year 11, its not too bad.

[Daniel-X]

Do you just need 5 GCSE's?

When I was going college, we also needed a certain grade in GCSE for the subjects we wanted to do. For example, I remember doing Psychology at A-Level, which required a B in Maths, and a B in Science, I think if you got lower than a B, even a C (which is a pass), you couldn't do it.

Although, each college is different, so that's understandable.

At most colleges you need x amount of points to get in.

The college nearest to me Winstanley college is the best college in the North West. You need 48 points to get into it. 10 points is an A*, 8 points for an A, 6 for a B, 4 for a C and then none for anything else.

[Will.]

At most colleges you need x amount of points to get in.

The college nearest to me Winstanley college is the best college in the North West. You need 48 points to get into it. 10 points is an A*, 8 points for an A, 6 for a B, 4 for a C and then none for anything else.

thats interesting, is that for A level though? I just need 5 c's or 5 d's depending on the level.

[Daniel-X]

Thanks, I will! It sounds really interesting! Good luck in year 11, its not too bad.

Most say it's the best year and it goes quicker than you think so I'm not too worried about it. I'm doing well in my most subjects also I got A*'s in my five pieces of English coursework and got an A on my mock. I've done well on all my controlled assessments I've gotten my target grade of B's or A's and I did well in most of my mocks (I ****ed up really bad on my Maths mock though I got a D)

[Jason.]

5 c's including English, he said get a B in English (just pushing me/challenging me, not actually required).

although I did literally like the same paper a week before the English language exam (exact same question but different passage), and got an A on it, so hopeful.

Good luck for the 20th August, I'm sure you've done well. Hope you get the grades you want.

God, results day is agonising. It's even worse for A-Levels. Even when I go in to see my students on Results Day, I feel worried. Especially, as we get the results the midnight before.

[Will.]

Most say it's the best year and it goes quicker than you think so I'm not too worried about it. I'm doing well in my most subjects also I got A*'s in my five pieces of English coursework and got an A on my mock. I've done well on all my controlled assessments I've gotten my target grade of B's or A's and I did well in most of my mocks (I ****ed up really bad on my Maths mock though I got a D)

yeah, I got a C in my Maths mock, I got A's in my english coursework, OMG IVE COMPLETELY forgot about course work, Im less worried for next Tuesday now, as I know I've got 50% of it already for English lang.

[Jason.]

Most say it's the best year and it goes quicker than you think so I'm not too worried about it. I'm doing well in my most subjects also I got A*'s in my five pieces of English coursework and got an A on my mock. I've done well on all my controlled assessments I've gotten my target grade of B's or A's and I did well in most of my mocks (I ****ed up really bad on my Maths mock though I got a D)

Yeah, Year 11 does go quick. You're only in school from September till like April, really. And half of April is wasted on the Easter holiday. After then, you're pretty much off timetable doing your exams in May-June, and you finish school like a month early, so you get an extra 4/5 weeks of summer holiday.

[Moosething]

The year 10 mock mocks lol.
My school did the year 11 mocks in January which sucked as we had to revise at Christmas :(

[Jason.]

It's weird how I remember more of Year 10-11, than I do of college, and that was like 10 years ago. Those days were the best though :lovedup:

[Daniel-X]

Year 8 is still my favourite year tbh. I liked this year but it wasn't as good as I expected it to at times.

[Jason.]

The year 10 mock mocks lol.
My school did the year 11 mocks in January which sucked as we had to revise at Christmas :(

We did ours in late November to mid December, if I remember correctly.

We had two sets of mocks in Year 11. One before Christmas, and one after February half-term, during March.

[Will.]

prepare to see lots of people dressed like this Daniel :hee:


http://starterpackbuilder.com/uploads/photo/avatar/3430/medium_1431291368.png

[Daniel-X]

I had mocks in Y9 also but only in Science, R.E., English and Maths

I've already done one of my science GCSES this year I'm expecting to get a B.

[Jason.]

Year 8 is still my favourite year tbh. I liked this year but it wasn't as good as I expected it to at times.

Year 10 was my favourite.

You were old enough to not feel like the youngest, and GCSE's made you feel grown up :laugh:, and everyone had matured by then, but it was still a year before your GCSE's, so it felt less serious and you could still enjoy yourself.

[Moosething]

Year 10 was my favourite.

You were old enough to not feel like the youngest, and GCSE's made you feel grown up :laugh:, and everyone had matured by then, but it was still a year before your GCSE's, so it felt less serious and you could still enjoy yourself.

True, but all of the subjects like art and food tech where you could just doss about :laugh:

[Jason.]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Year 10 is the year where you drop all the deadwood subjects like DT/ICT/etc, and just do the subjects you chose for GCSE's and the core ones, which made lessosn more enjoyable.

[Will.]

Were you a rebel at school BB6?

[Moosething]

I have no idea what I'm doing but I was considering doing Media so you'll have to tell me what it's like :)

Are you doing media studies gcse?

[Moosething]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Year 10 is the year where you drop all the deadwood subjects like DT/ICT/etc, and just do the subjects you chose for GCSE's and the core ones, which made lessosn more enjoyable.

What options did you choose?

[Daniel-X]

I've took quite serious subjects though as my school split options into two separate areas where you had to pick two subjects:

The first was:

French
Spanish
Drama
I.T.
Graphics
D&T
Textiles
Food Tech
Electronics

The second was:

History
Geography
Art
Music
P.E.
Triple Science
Business Studies

I first picked French, Drama, Geography and BS but I dropped French and changed it to Spanish and dropped BS for History.

[Will.]

Yes :hehe::blush2:

lol, are you a strict teacher?

[Jason.]

What options did you choose?

Gosh, it's been so long. I think I did History, Sociology, and Media Studies.

The thing is I went to a language college, so we had to do a MFL as a GCSE as it was compulsory, so I chose Spanish. That was a pisstake, though as nobody cared about languages (well I didn't anyway :hehe:).

[Daniel-X]

yeah, I got a C in my Maths mock, I got A's in my english coursework, OMG IVE COMPLETELY forgot about course work, Im less worried for next Tuesday now, as I know I've got 50% of it already for English lang.

Are you doing media studies gcse?

No my school just do the basics and business studies LMAO

[Moosething]

I chose 2 normal subjects and 2 doss (sort of lel) subjects:
Geography
History
Business
Media

[Will.]

my subjects I choose were awful considering I'm not academic:

Geography
ICT
Business Studies
History

They didn't offer Media ffs

[Jason.]

lol, are you a strict teacher?

Not really.

But, even though I was a rebel, I was smart at the same time and quite accademic, unlike most of the other ones who were just bat**** stupid.

[Daniel-X]

Geography
History
Spanish
Drama

and

R.E.
Maths
English - Lit and Lang
Science - Two GCSES

are compulsory

[Moosething]

No my school just do the basics and business studies LMAO

Media studies was so tedious. Apparently they change the topic every year and we got print advertisements so we had to look for hidden meanings and bs

[Will.]

Not really.

But, even though I was a rebel, I was smart at the same time and quite accademic, unlike most of the other ones who were just bat**** stupid.

Im one of the students who never does my Maths HW really, but I always get away with it because I do.

She always believed me lmao.

If I didn't do my HW for one week would you go into rage mode?

[Jason.]

I had mixed feelings about Media Studies GCSE.

I found it boring as I found the content to be too repetitive. All we did was analyse things over and over agian, which was long and dull. But often, we got to make films and things like that, and come up with our own ideas, which was good.

I prefered Year 10 Media, as Year 11 Media was focused more on exam.

[Jason.]

Im one of the students who never does my Maths HW really, but I always get away with it because I do.

She always believed me lmao.

If I didn't do my HW for one week would you go into rage mode?

I rarely give HW, but if someone didn't do it, I would rage, cause I hardly give it out, so it's not like I'm asking for much, if you know what I mean.

[Will.]

I had mixed feelings about Media Studies GCSE.

I found it boring as I found the content to be too repetitive. All we did was analyse things over and over agian, which was long and dull. But often, we got to make films and things like that, and come up with our own ideas, which was good.

I prefered Year 10 Media, as Year 11 Media was focused more on exam.

I love making movies, I always am the main role. In one of my movies I got strangled by the pool cover sucker (sucks up rain), and in another I got dragged across the floor and thrown out the house :hee:

[Moosething]

Business (it was some sort of mix with I.T) was also a joke as our teacher couldn't control the class and literally let us just play games on the computers. Someone even got sent out of the business top tips before the exam... what a mess

[Daniel-X]

I get away with not doing HW in science because me and my teacher ****ing hate each other's guts like literally she sent me out once and told to never come back. She also apparently did like a stupid celebration once when I wasn't in.

Once though we was ready for finishing for Easter and she just turned to me and went 'Have a lovely holiday Millie' on about the girl sat next to me but she said it looking at me so I said 'Thanks so much I will' and she said 'Sorry but I thought Millie was a girls name' and I just turned and said 'You learn something new everyday :hee:'

She always picks arguments with me over nothing but I'm not going to bore you with every single one but put it this way a boy died at our school this year and she made me take the bracelet off I was wearing for him out of respect on the day of his funeral.

Cut the story short my mum went in about her and complained so she's not allowed to give me detentions I don't think LMAO

[Will.]

I rarely give HW, but if someone didn't do it, I would rage, cause I hardly give it out, so it's not like I'm asking for much, if you know what I mean.

I guess you wold say something like this:

"it's not acceptable, I have had enough of it tbh, and I'll be contacting your parents, give me your diary."

thats what are maths teacher would say, she wast much older than us. or it would typical "I'm fuming".

[Moosething]

But idc because it was so easy and I got an A* in every written exam (the grade boundaries are super low)

[Jason.]

Media studies was so tedious. Apparently they change the topic every year and we got print advertisements so we had to look for hidden meanings and bs

Yeah, that was like us.

I remember in my year (2006) we got Children's Comics

[Will.]

my school was in the Daily Mirror for a relationship between a teacher and student :hee:

[Jason.]

I guess you wold say something like this:

"it's not acceptable, I have had enough of it tbh, and I'll be contacting your parents, give me your diary."

thats what are maths teacher would say, she wast much older than us. or it would typical "I'm fuming".

I don't say that. But I do make threats to call home, even though I really cba, it just makes them do their HW in the future :laugh:

[Will.]

I don't say that. But I do make threats to call home, even though I really cba, it just makes them do their HW in the future :laugh:

my mum would go into rage mode at the teacher probs :laugh:

Our Maths teacher gave us loads of HW.

[Moosething]

Yeah, that was like us.

I remember in my year (2006) we got Children's Comics
Lol did you have to do a storyboard in the exam?

[Will.]

I was treated like a mental patient at school, the amount of time I would be call in to discuss my eating habits, I'd be asked what did you have for dinner, and they would want every detail.

And they'd always come and find if I'd be to lunch, I once walked into form stuffing my face food (on purpose), it was the first time I think they'd seen me eat. :hee:

[Daniel-X]

my mum would go into rage mode at the teacher probs :laugh:

Our Maths teacher gave us loads of HW.

My mum was hilarious once my old HOY rung my mum and said 'There's been a situation involving Daniel today and another girl and it is necessary to ring you so my mum was like what happened and she replied 'Well Daniel apparently flicked yoghurt on this girl on purpose' HONESTLY I can tell you now I did it by accident. My mum just said Daniels already informed me about what happened and the teacher said 'This girl is known for lying, However, Daniel may need to go on report over this situation.' My mum just replied 'No. No he won't. Don't ring me again please unless it's something which is actually important' and my HOY just said 'Umm... okay... sorry'

[Daniel-X]

I was treated like a mental patient at school, the amount of time I would be call in to discuss my eating habits, I'd be asked what did you have for dinner, and they would want every detail.

And they'd always come and find if I'd be to lunch, I once walked into form stuffing my face food (on purpose), it was the first time I think they'd seen me eat. :hee:

LMAO that's hilarious Will :laugh3:

[Jason.]

Lol did you have to do a storyboard in the exam?

God, yes I hated that :rant:

I actually ran out of time in my Media GCSE, if I remember correctly. I think that was my worst exam.

I did hardly any prep for it, as it was one of my last exams so by that point I just couldn't be arsed with GCSE's anymore as I just wanted it to be over, which I ended up regretting.

We also needed to bring colouring pencils and I was anxious at the timing so my colouring was awful and outside the lines :laugh: and other people were doing the same and you could hear pencils dropping and the nib of the pencils on the tables, it was awful. Then when I finished the storyboard, the invigilator said 5 minutes left, and I still had one more question to do (the questions were worth 25 marks each), I was like oh crap. I managed to do a bit of it before time ran out. In the end, I got a B in GCSE Media. No doubt the coursework helped, as my coursework was great, and it was worth like 60% of our overall grade whereas the exam was 40%. I think I got a D in the actual exam :laugh:

[Will.]

one of my exam invidulators who was about 60, turned up in a full denim outfit :bawling:

[Daniel-X]

One of the invidulators always says 'Fancy phone watches ARENT allowed' at the start of the exam

[Will.]

One of the invidulators always says 'Fancy phone watches ARENT allowed' at the start of the exam

omg screaming, lmao.

There such banter between the invidualtors, they walk around having a bloody gossip!

In the ICT exam she sat down and red a book!!

[Jason.]

I remember we had some ancient woman as one of our exam invigilators, she was like 73, no joke, and I swear she couldn't see. She would just walk up and down the aisles looking straight ahead, and when someone would put their hands up for extra paper or tissues or somet like that, she would just carry on walking straight ahead :joker:

She had a face smacked with makeup as well, which made her look even more fossil than she actually was.

She's probably dead now.

[Moosething]

God, yes I hated that :rant:

I actually ran out of time in my Media GCSE, if I remember correctly. I think that was my worst exam.

I did hardly any prep for it, as it was one of my last exams so by that point I just couldn't be arsed with GCSE's anymore as I just wanted it to be over, which I ended up regretting.

We also needed to bring colouring pencils and I was anxious at the timing so my colouring was awful and outside the lines :laugh: and other people were doing the same and you could hear pencils dropping and the nib of the pencils on the tables, it was awful. Then when I finished the storyboard, the invigilator said 5 minutes left, and I still had one more question to do (the questions were worth 25 marks each), I was like oh crap. I managed to do a bit of it before time ran out. In the end, I got a B in GCSE Media. No doubt the coursework helped, as my coursework was great, and it was worth like 60% of our overall grade whereas the exam was 40%. I think I got a D in the actual exam :laugh:
We didn't have to colour in ours. :laugh:
Controlled assessments and coursework will no doubt be my grade savers :cheer2:

[Will.]

One of our exam invidulators tripped over in the Geog exam and she mumbled "**** sake", cracks me up.

[Daniel-X]

One of the invidulators once just shouted 'TIME IS UP' and we all looked and one of the women tapped him on the back and tapped her watch and he went 'HALF AN HOUR LEFT'

[Moosething]

There is always that horror story of the boy whose phone went off in the exam that they say before literally every other exam

[Will.]

http://www.rydens.surrey.sch.uk/images%5Cstories%5Cnews%5C2013-2014%5CInvigilators%5CInivigilator.jpg

[Jason.]

We didn't have to colour in ours. :laugh:
Controlled assessments and coursework will no doubt be my grade savers :cheer2:

Media Coursework was so dull. It was all analysing. I remember it being split into 3 assignments. I think the 3rd assignment was the best as that involved practical work, and it was the biggest.

If you're good at English, you'll find it easy, which I did, but it was soo long.

[Jason.]

There is always that horror story of the boy whose phone went off in the exam that they say before literally every other exam

Oh yeah :joker:

[Daniel-X]

There is always that horror story of the boy whose phone went off in the exam that they say before literally every other exam

They always say 'three boys were disqualified from their exams last year' but contradict themselves by saying 'we haven't had any complaints last year so we want you to follow this standard as there conduct was flawless'

[Moosething]

Media Coursework was so dull. It was all analysing. I remember it being split into 3 assignments. I think the 3rd assignment was the best as that involved practical work, and it was the biggest.

If you're good at English, you'll find it easy, which I did, but it was soo long.
It was pretty easy tbh
I think I got an A in all of my coursework in all of my subjects which wasn't hard as in some subjects the teachers gave you whole paragraphs to put in to boost your grade.

[Jason.]

I remember doing our Year 11 mocks in the hall, so it would give us an idea of the "real thing" and the retarded rebels would cough loudly in the middle of the exams and the invigilators would get annoyed at shout "IF THIS WAS IN THE SUMMER, YOU'RE PAPERS WILL BE TORN UP! :rant:!" with a face of thunder :joker:

[Will.]

The Horror of when one of the invidualtors gives you a dirty look.

[Daniel-X]

My year is the first year were it's compulsory to do some form of education till you're eighteen.

Also the last year to do coursework

[Jason.]

The Horror of when one of the invidualtors gives you a dirty look.

I'd put my middle finger up, it's not like I'm cheating, so what they guna do.

[Moosething]

The tragic ending to the tale was that the person ringing was the boy's mum checking to see how his exam had gone.

[Jason.]

It was pretty easy tbh
I think I got an A in all of my coursework in all of my subjects which wasn't hard as in some subjects the teachers gave you whole paragraphs to put in to boost your grade.

Yeah, I got A* in both my Science Coursework (ISA's I believe). The teachers would pretty much spoon-feed us the answers, and you just wrote them in your own words in exam conditions like a few days later :joker:

[Moosething]

http://www.rydens.surrey.sch.uk/images%5Cstories%5Cnews%5C2013-2014%5CInvigilators%5CInivigilator.jpg

squad goals

[Jason.]

The tragic ending to the tale was that the person ringing was the boy's mum checking to see how his exam had gone.

Yeah, I've heard that happen to people.

That wouldn't scare me, TBH as I would just blame my mother for failing me.

[Will.]

I'd put my middle finger up, it's not like I'm cheating, so what they guna do.

she'd come over and slap you, and then proceed to shoving your table over whilst spitting in your face perhaps? Or I'm sure thats what they would be thinking :hee:

[Jason.]

Omfg, I remember in Year 10 doing my Core Science GCSE, and my desk collapsing halfway through the exam. The humilation :blush2:

[Will.]

Omfg, I remember in Year 10 doing my Core Science GCSE, and my table collapsing halfway through the exam. The humilation :blush:

oh my god, did the invidulator run over with tissues?

I can't think of anything more embarrassing...

[Jason.]

oh my god, did the invidulator run over with tissues?

I can't think of anything more embarrassing...

No, but they moved me to another table. But for 5 minutes straight, all eyes were on me. I think the part where I had to get up and carry my paper and pencil case was the worst. And you could hear people sniggering :o

I was the centre of attention after that exam though so :hee:

[Will.]

No, but they moved me to another table. But for 5 minutes straight, all eyes were on me. I think the part where I had to get up and carry my paper and pencil case was the worst. And you could hear people sniggering :o

I was the centre of attention after that exam though so :hee:

omg, I bet the invdualtors had a good old gossip about it whilst sipping tea from their flasks. :hee:

[Daniel-X]

Most embarrassing thing to happen to me (I've had lots of embarrassing moments) was when everyone was quiet working on their coursework in science this year was my lab stool giving way and me grabbing the desk behind me and dragging that down with me also literally everyone was in tears

[Daniel-X]

omg, I bet the invdualtors had a good old gossip about it whilst sipping tea from their flasks. :hee:

I can see them now

[Moosething]

Remembering them bible quotes for philosophy & ethics

[Will.]

I remember a teacher went pyscho bitch and dragged one of the students across the floor in year 3.


Adoja pre legacy

[Jason.]

Someone should make a thread about funny exam and cheating stories

[Will.]

I can see them now

their proper gossipers.

[Moosething]

I remember a teacher went pyscho bitch and dragged one of the students across the floor in year 3.


Adoja pre legacy

omg before you added year 3 I was like wtf lie

[Daniel-X]

I remember my HOY screaming in a girls face cause she wouldn't take her nail polish off she just shouted 'IF YOU WANT A FIGHT ILL GIVE YOU ONE DONT QUESTION ME!' and then burst into tears and ran into her office

[Will.]

Someone should make a thread about funny exam and cheating stories

not people telling us they had a relationship with one of the ancient invialtors so they could see the papers before hand...

[Daniel-X]

Another girl in my year was expelled this year for calling the sleuth head a jug eared twat and offering a teacher out on the yard :hee:

[Moosething]

The one way corridor chaos

[Will.]

omg before you added year 3 I was like wtf lie

she was legend tbh, I lived like on the same road as her daughters clothes shop.

[Moosething]

and the year 11 prefects thinking they actually hold power

[Daniel-X]

The one way corridor chaos

Do. Not. Get. Me. Started

[Daniel-X]

and the year 11 prefects thinking they actually hold power

I'm a senior prefect I do all the jobs for HOY7 :smug:

[Jason.]

I'm trying to remember stories from when I was at school, but that was way back in 2005/6 :worry:

I feel old

[Will.]

And the invdulators thinking there all hip in there black boots, scarfs and blouses,

bloody Sharon Mitchell off rip offs if you ask me.

[Jason.]

I remember clocking someone cheating in the Spanish Mock Exam, it was funny as the invigilator walked past, and she almost fell of her chair :joker:

[Moosething]

I'm a senior prefect I do all the jobs for HOY7 :smug:

All our prefects did was stand in random areas and say "where ya goin" and told you to tuck your shirt in.

[Will.]

I remember clocking someone cheating in the Spanish Mock Exam, it was funny as the invigilator walked past, and she almost fell of her chair :joker:

bloody disgraceful, I hope the inviduator went psycho bitch on her.

you should have decked the pair of them...

[Daniel-X]

A teacher ripped her skirt on non curriculum day in Year 7 when going down the bouncy slide on the AstroTurf and she said 'OH FOR **** SAKE'

[Will.]

A teacher ripped her skirt on non curriculum day in Year 7 when going down the bouncy slide on the AstroTurf and she said 'OH FOR **** SAKE'

What a mess, sounds like BB6 if you ask me... Still a rebel infront of the year 7

[Moosething]

The totally pointless and random Geography trips :love:

[Jason.]

What a mess, sounds like BB6 if you ask me...

more like Timeflop

[Jason.]

The totally pointless and random Geography trips :love:

I didn't go Geogpraphy, so I didn't go to any. :(

I did go to Northern Ireland during a History field trip in Year 10.

[Moosething]

We went to Weston for 'tourism' and we did a topic on Birmingham so we went to Birmingham at Christmas for the German Market. I remember the teacher saying she was trying to get us to go on a trip in the mini bus to an alpaca farm but it never happened :(

[Will.]

more like Timeflop

although your a man, so it couldnt have been you, unless it was "Teacher Drag Day".


Our fat psychics teacher turned up in full goth once...

It was for charity though.

[Daniel-X]

The totally pointless and random Geography trips :love:

I went on one on the last week to the lakes to collect information for our coursework we did it in like an hour and the rest of the day we just stayed in maccies till we had to meet back at the coach :laugh3:

The lakes is like a half hour/forty minute drive and we got there at like twenty to ten and stayed till like half three

[Moosething]

Oh yeah we went to the town for our coursework and had to survey loads of people

[Jason.]

Our school didn't have many trips, and when they did. I hardly went to any of them, cause I was lazy or didn't want to pay £20.

I think the only educational trip I went to was a Synangogue trip, for RE, in Year 9 and Northern Ireland in Year 10.

[Will.]

On our Geog coursework trip I was paired with a chinese girl.

She kept wondering off in New Market, she went into the local corner shop, but I didn't see her come out.

Everyone started looking for her, I feared the worst..

Found her in the end.

[Jason.]

Northern Ireland was great.

I shared a room with all my friends and one of them blocked the toilet, and when we tried to unblock it, we ended up overflowing it :joker:

[Will.]

Northern Ireland was great.

I shared a room with all my friends and one of them blocked the toilet, and when we tried to unblock it, we ended up overflowing it :joker:

bloody disgusting, I would have proceeded to have shoving the plunger in your faces :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Daniel-X]

Oh yeah we went to the town for our coursework and had to survey loads of people

We surveyed two people one person who was tourist, one who loved there.

Counted traffic going up and down a street for ten minutes.

Visited two different sites and either rated them (poor, average, good) on pollution, attractiveness, graffiti and a couple other things.

Then we finished :laugh2:

[Moosething]

Our school didn't have many trips, and when they did. I hardly went to any of them, cause I was lazy or didn't want to pay £20.

I think the only educational trip I went to was a Synangogue trip, for RE, in Year 9 and Northern Ireland in Year 10.

We went to a Synagogue and a Gudwara in Year 7 & 8. I remember having to buy a cap especially for the occasion

[Daniel-X]

We have loads of trips tbf to my school I've been to Barcelona, Holland and London and Belgium, Lourdes and Paris are also offered.

There's loads of education trips also so you can't complain about they're not being trips.

[Jason.]

That Synagouge Trip I went to wasn't bad. It was for a RE and History Project on the Holocaust and we had people who survived the Holocaust tell us all about it, it was interesting. But we had to stay seated for hours, so we almost fell asleep.

It was good as it wasn't during the whole day. It was only from 9am till lunch time.

[Will.]

I went to Amsterdam with my class, that was fun, bit boring though.

[Moosething]

Back in middle school they did an activity week with like 5 trips in one week and I s2g they were scraping the barrel with trips to the local Pizza Hut Delivery and garden centre. We got free pizza tho

[Daniel-X]

I went to Amsterdam with my class, that was fun, bit boring though.

I went to Amsterdam at the beginning of July and really liked it apart from staying in the youth hostel I cried because my bed was filthy and I wasn't sleeping in it and the teacher swapped mine with hers :laugh2:

[Jason.]

Back in middle school they did an activity week with like 5 trips in one week and I s2g they were scraping the barrel with trips to the local Pizza Hut Delivery and garden centre. We got free pizza tho

We had an activity week at our school from Year 7-9.
It was basically a week during June/July where we had no lessons. It varied each year.

In Year 9, it was outdoor activities. And me and my friends drank Vodka in our tents (we were 14) during camping and we were excluded for like five days.

[Daniel-X]

I had a week of trips this year almost apart from one day. On the Monday I went to meet Sir Ian McKellen for a talk, Tuesday the school did a Health/Social day, Wednesday I was on time table, Thursday I went to Alton Towers and on Friday I was invited to the School Summer BBQ and Fete

[Will.]

The teacher would always go out late night and leave us, the ancient teacher would stay with us... god knows were they went in Amsterdam, nothing to do tbh.

[Daniel-X]

The teachers just stayed up drinking beer on the ferry and at the youth hostel playing pool till about two in the morning

[Jason.]

I remember those end of year trips during Year 8-10.

We got to go to Thorpe Park :flutter:

[Moosething]

We had an activity week at our school from Year 7-9.
It was basically a week during June/July where we had no lessons. It varied each year.

In Year 9, it was outdoor activities. And me and my friends drank Vodka in our tents (were were 14) during camping and we were excluded for like five days.

:nono:

These Year 9 girls got drunk and were staggering and they were so stupid and just poured the vodka onto the grass.

[Moosething]

Yeah we got to go to Alton Towers at the end of every year but I don't think many people wanted to go this year :/

[Jason.]

:nono:

These Year 9 girls got drunk and were staggering and they were so stupid and just poured the vodka onto the grass.

:joker:

[Jason.]

Yeah we got to go to Alton Towers at the end of every year but I don't think many people wanted to go this year :/

Yeah, we went Thorpe Park twice. In Year 8 and 9. The 2nd time wasn't as exciting as we already went the previous year, and we happened to go the day before we finished Year 9 (when most people were on summer holiday) so the park was busy and we only got to go on 2 rides, as we had to wait like hours to get on :nono: It was an extremely hot day that day too.

In Year 8, we went in mid-June, when others had school so the park wasn't as busy and we could go on each ride like 5 times, as we only had to wait like 10-20 minutes.

[Will.]

I once threw a glass of coke in a teachers face for making comments about me... I got suspended for 2 days, on the French trip.

Ive never done anything else that bad...

[Jason.]

I once threw a glass of coke in a teachers face for making comments about me... I got suspended for 2 days, on the French trip.

is this the same teacher you lit on fire? :fan:

[Daniel-X]

We go to Alton Towers every year 7-10 but quite a few dropped out this year. I still went as I thought well it will probably be more safe than ever as they'll be scared of something going wrong.

[Will.]

is this the same teacher you lit on fire? :fan:

that was a joke lol, this teacher deserved it.

what would you have done to me if I there a glass of coke in your face? Would you rage?

[Daniel-X]

I've never been excluded. I got put into isolation for calling one of my peers a prostitute during a PowerPoint I had to show to the class. She was just smirking and winding me up and she'd been horrible to me like the week before (she's a MAJOR slag also) and I could hear her calling me so I just said 'You're a dirty prostitute' and walked out

[Moosething]

Omg wow all I got detentions for was being late, forgetting my calculator and not doing my homework

[Will.]

I've never been excluded. I got put into isolation for calling one of my peers a prostitute during a PowerPoint I had to show to the class. She was just smirking and winding me up and she'd been horrible to me like the week before (she's a MAJOR slag also) and I could hear her calling me so I just said 'You're a dirty prostitute' and walked out

I would have loved to have seen it...

[Jason.]

I'm off to carry on with my CBB4 re-watch. It's almost 1, and I don't want to get carried away on this thread any further :laugh:

[Jason.]

night :love:

[Daniel-X]

Isolation was hell on earth though I remember ringing my mum in the toilet telling her how bored I was

[Will.]

I'm off to carry on with my CBB4 re-watch. It's almost 1, and I don't want to get carried away on this thread any further :laugh:

I think I should get some sleep now as well...

Still laughing at your desk collapsing :laugh:

[Daniel-X]

I painted my hand in isolation and designed a solar system poster for science LMAO

[Will.]

night :love:

night :love:

[Moosething]

I'm gonna miss school antics

[Will.]

I painted my hand in isolation and designed a solar system poster for science LMAO

I wood have designed a book all about that slag...

[Daniel-X]

Should have done looking back </333

Such a good idea Will <3333

[Will.]

Should have done looking back </333

Such a good idea Will <3333

goodnight <33333

slap her next time you see her

[Daniel-X]

I will she's still a hoe for the record

Night Will :love:

[Will.]

I will she's still a hoe for the record

Night Will :love:

she's un classy prostitute :laugh:

night :love: