| From: | Gareth Griffiths |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 10:55:10 |
| Subject: | Re: OT GCSE Results |
> have the will to do well. There are countless people who can pass the
> GCSE's without revising and do very well. I did and I know many other
I didn't revise at all save for about half an hour with my Higher Level
Maths revision guide half an hoiur before the exam. I don't know if I've
done well until Thursday though :-)
> people at 18+ look at the past exams and realise how easy they are, but
> for the 16 year old mentality and the fact they are their first 'big'
> exams and therefore unexperienced in them, GCSE's are not easy.
What is their to be experienced about? I don't know about your school, but
at our school they held exams every year we were there for school assessment
purposes, and in the last three years they held them all in GCSE exam
conditions to prepare us for them. We worked on GCSE past papers as a
revision exercise, often staying in the classroom, but doing them to GCSE
times and conditions. We were certainly not unexperienced when the 'big' ones
came round :-)
> It does seem to older people that you get marks for writing your name on
> the paper, but trust me when you have gone on do something else like A-
What about the exams that test your ability to follow instructions? The
instruction that says "Read all questions carefully before beginning." Most
people won't bother and will launch into the questions. Those are usually
the exams where the last question is "Don't answer any of the other
questions. Please write your name on the top of the paper and hand it in."
:-)
> For girls, GCSE's are different, because they do mature earlier and
> therefore get the frame of mind to do them.
Well, IMHO, and in many other's HO, I'm very mature for my age. Methinks
you're kinda stereotyping here :-) I do agree with you to a certain extent,
although I wouldn't call any of the girls from my school (with a couple of
exceptions) particularly mature. Anyone who thinks it's 'hip' and 'cool' to
smoke and take drugs is definitely NOT mature in my opinion!
Cheers,
GazChap, what an unfortunate choice of tagline.
It's been a bad day....my inflatable girlfriend exploded.
Quote carefully and read all ADMIN:README mails