| From: | adambell |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 11:14:00 |
| Subject: | Re: OT GCSE Results |
Hi Gaz,
>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 :-)
Good for you. ;-)
>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
Yeah my school did exams at Xmas and Summer, but the GCSE's are the first
exams where they 'can affect the course of your life'. That is what
teachers tend to say about them, but it is a load of rubbish though. You
exams during the year mean absoloutly bugger all whereas you need certain
GCSE's to get into college/sixth form etc.
I actually went to a Grammar school and had to take the 11+ equivalent (it
had been scrapped by then). That was my first big exam. Didn't do any
work for that either.
>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."
You call those exams? Those tend to be tests that try to make you
understand that reading the paper through is worthwhile. Believe me it is
worthwhile in proper exams too. If you have a question that is two parts
and you read the first part and see it's worth 8 marks, you may write four
points and explain each of them. You get to the second part and realise
that you now need to say things that you covered in the previous part.
Exams are structured so that you should never be repeating yourself. If
you read the paper first, that trap wouldn't have occured.
>> 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!
I too thought I was very mature from very early age because I had to bare
some family trauma when I was very young and have had that hanging over me
since that time. At 16 then I felt I was very mature, but looking back
after doing my A-levels and a year at Uni, you realise that you weren't
quite as mature academically as you were mentally.
As for the smoking and drugs, I wish they would stop for one second and
think about people like Roy Castle. Never smoked in his life and died of
Lung Cancer. Very sad.
>It's been a bad day....my inflatable girlfriend exploded.
How mature ;-)
Ad.
Quote carefully and read all ADMIN:README mails