From Year 11 the oldest Girl was up the duff before the end of the School Year and so only took one GCSE Exam and got a G (in English), and the oldest boy was about the same.
But if you look at the correlation between age and average reading scores / GCSE results etc you'll see that the older people tend to do better.
If you want to be an intelectual then great - i'm sure it's useful, but tbh I doubt i'm ever going to have to help fix someones computer who's from Ancient Rome...
Sounds like my R.E lessons in year 9, it was straight after a cooking lesson so everyone would be munching on something. And the teacher would just go on about her dogs if you so much as brought the subject up. So it was essentially a free lesson, so I made good use of that and had a kip for half an hour or so whilst she nattered on.
Edit: Just seen your MRT reverse solution, brilliant!
That's because if you don't mention any gradings, the prospective employer kind of knows that they're not worth mentioning.
Eh? A degree in computer hardware? What's one of those then? Unless it's about designing transistors, chips and PCBs, which I'm pretty confident is maths, maths, maths, then some more maths, topped off with a sprinkling of maths. And not easy maths either.
We had a Food Teacher go on about her Dog. Little did we know that half way through a lesson, after a 15-minute hygiene lecture she would bring her Dog out of the cupboard while we were all cooking and it just wandered aimlessly around the room.
I tried the "do absolutely nothing" approach in Maths Extension. In the last 6 months I realised what an idiot i'd been and did tons of revision, i.e. buying the OCR 120-page book and reading it and doing every question 'till i'd aced it, did every past paper on Maths Extension there was (about 7) and started doing sliced up AS Maths Papers and was getting B's all the time. Along came Test Day and the exam was twice as hard as ANY of the exams i'd done before for the same syllabus - net result was an E
EDIT - Not a degree IN hardware, just something that won't involve a "heres a business document". More of something like "this is a CPU, it does xxx...". Anything but another f*cking business letter.
But... what CPUs do is maths. Lots of it. I may be wrong but I can't envisage any such degree as what you seem to be describing. Understanding exactly how microchips work almost at a switch/path/block level would only be relevant if you were learning how to design and create the things. That in turn would almost entirely be maths, and would surely also require an intimate knowledge of how software operates at the machine level.
The thing is, computer hardware is a hobby for you, which doesn't make it degree-worthy.
Then again I may be wrong, as you can get f*cking mickey mouse degrees in any old shit these days.
I did not do an A-Level, I did BND ICT Practitioners [Read: How to use Photoshop, the MS Office Suite, and basic computer maintenance], I also did an Advance Computer Maintenance course of which I was the only person to pass that year.
I am now doing a Degree in Internet Computing [Read: Making websites in a range of languages, setting up and maintaining webservers, setting up and maintaining networks].
Now normally I'd say something like "I wouldn't consider myself too stupid to do A-Levels" but I aim to join the Police when I finish with the ultimate goal of becoming an Armed Officer, so I suppose that nullifies anything involving intelligence.
It goes A*-U, though the grading is A*, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, U.
It sounds like Computer Science, which is what the first year of my course was (after year one you chose if you want to specialise in CS or IC), I did pretty good at CS, but there was too much maths, and I am appallingly bad at it.
Yeah. I guess things work a lot differently here. We have two series of tests. The HSPAs (High School Proficiency Assessment) are taken Junior year. Those determine whether or not you graduate High School.
Senior year (and Junior) you take the SAT tests, which are pretty much used only to get you into a good college. I don't think they mean any more than that. Better SATs mean you can get into a better college. When you apply to colleges, one of the major decision makers is where your SAT scores lie in relation to the average scores of people who were accepted the year previously.
Other than that, that's all we have. Maybe SAT scores are something you can put on your resume, but I really doubt it. So it basically is either pass or fail.
I'm a freshman in college, so I don't know what else might come my way in terms of major tests or the like, but that's all I've been through so far.
Just thought i'd bump this with yet more bitching.
The ICT course that our School uses (or used for the last 2 years running) for GCSE (well, a "GCSE Equivalent") is DiDa.
To give you an idea of how easy it is, this is my ePortfolio. Thrown together in 2 nights (4 PM - 2 AM, admitedly) after a year of dosing about, it passed. If you poke around enough you'll find that several times I accidentally attached my German coursework rather than the PDF's of the work we've done - And yet it still got a C!
I hope GCSE's don't dictate your life have a bad feeling about some of my subjects as i missed 70% of year 10 which is a pretty vital year for coursework etc. Maths has hit me like a ton of bricks this year, im in set 1 but still can't grasp some forms of algebra etc. For me it doesn't sink in, doesn't seem logical, im very good with numbers but algebra throws me and it's a big part in GCSE's.
English will turn out bad, although i have a feeling i got a B on the test, my coursework lets me down with a missing piece.
Was predicted A* in woodwork but had a bad practical (wood was warped) and missing folder work (which i blame not being at school in year 10 and our teacher)
Stats will be good as its mostly numbers, graphs which is LOGICAL maths not this poncy algebra crap.
Anyway hope i nail these tests and hope for the best.
Thanks for listening, feels good to get it off my chest as all ive been saying to my mum and dad is everything is fine
I have my graphics exam in at 10:40am but in our last exam, they made a notification saying that anyone doing the graphics exam should be in school by 9am? Is anyone else getting this or is it just my school?
So far, i have found the exam's "seem" easy. Im in higher for them all. Believe it or not, the hardest one i found so far was my P.E one i had a few weeks back.
I'm halfway through mine, and they were all pretty easy, except R.S where I revised the wrong stuff Buggar.
I've had 4x Spanish (Listening was quite hard, rest were pretty easy), 4x Latin (I hate Virgil sooo much) English Lit (I hate Hemingway nearly as much as Virgil), Maths (Dead easy) Bio and Bio resit (I suck at biology) and 2x AS Maths Modules (Which were surprisingly easy)
) and missing folder work (which i blame not being at school in year 10 and our teacher)