| From: | adambell |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 11:41:00 |
| Subject: | Re: OT GCSE Results |
Hi Gaz,
>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.
>
What you'll tend to find is that most people want minimum grade C in Maths
and English and will avoid the muppets who cannot even make that. ;-)
After that though yes they mean pretty much nothing in less you do not
continue into further education.
>> 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 :)
Ok maybe so, but at my school they were never done in exam conditions.
They were done as a bit of laugh in certain lessons. For example some of
the 'questions' told us to shout our names out and poke holes in the paper
with our pencils. I did one of these before my GCSE's and everyone fell
for it. I did another before my A-levels, and only one person in the
class room, started shouting their name out etc. Very embarrassing for
him but he learnt his lesson didn't he. Again it shows the difference
between GCSE and A-level years.
>> 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 :-)
Whoops! ;-)
>> 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? :-)
Very true, and you are also academically maturing all the time.
Especially during your first year at Uni when you think you are only there
to get pissed. There is a bit of coursework do be done.
>>> It's been a bad day....my inflatable girlfriend exploded.
>>
>> How mature ;-)
>
>Ahahahahahaha ;-)
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