| From: | Gareth Griffiths |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 11:33:40 |
| Subject: | Re: OT GCSE Results |
> 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.
Well, in my opinion, GCSE's mean bugger all. OK, so you need them to get
into college, but once you've done that, who's gonna look at your GCSE
results? My brother's experiences so far suggest that despite the claims on
job advertisements that you need so many C's or above at GCSE or whatever,
employers very rarely check your GCSE results, and only slightly less rarely
check your college grades.
Obviously I've not had experience of this yet.
> 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
Yeah, an examination of your ability to folow instructions, ergo, an exam :)
> 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.
I've done that myself a couple of times, it's not a nice feeling :-)
Fortunately it only happened once in my GCSE exams, and that was on my
History paper, where I repeatedly got John Macadam's name wrong, calling him
John Metcalfe instead. Oh dear :-)
> 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.
I'd tend to agree here, maturity academically is different from mental
maturity. An academically mature person wouldn't leave all his assignments
to the last minute, for example.
Argh!!! Why are all these fingers pointing at me? :-)
> 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.
Exactly.
>> It's been a bad day....my inflatable girlfriend exploded.
>
> How mature ;-)
Ahahahahahaha ;-)
Cheers,
GazChap.
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