I got an A in English - Standard Grade (Scottish GCSE) and A at Higher (Scottish one year A-Level). I found writing a lot of meaningless crap really worked; English seems to be about stroking egos. I went to uni originally intending to do English Lit but the sheer pretentiousness of the department made me want to projectile vomit... I remember being in one lecture, and the lecturer was saying "so... Jane Eyre... her name is related to the word 'eye'... because she is all seeing". Wtf? Its a pants book. I'd be in tutorials and the lipgloss girls would be all 'ooooh' and 'ahhhh' over it - asking "why don't they just admit they fancy each other?" I answered (and I didn't know I had Aspergers at the time), completely deadpan, "because then we wouldn't have to endure 300 pages of shite at university level".
History was always my favourite subject at school... oddly enough I hated computing, but that was because of the idiots in my class. But then I developed a special interest in the Nazis... ho hum.
What's a GCSE? A High School Diploma test?
Also, Jane Eyre and Rochester don't admit they fancy one another because they are both extremely shy and both extremely proud and Rochester has a wife locked up in his attic which is a slight complicating factor. Also he's an asshole and she should hook up with the preacher guy, but that's just my opinion. Maybe blindness will improve him slightly.
Belated spoiler warning, but honestly I don't think any of you care about how Jane Eyre ends; unless you are one of the aforementioned lipgloss girls.
Also, happy endings aren't believable unless you make the characters work for them. Or rather, they are believable but then nobody likes the story.
Where I come from (Canada) there's no government mandated standardized test, but my province (Alberta) has one anyway, and because of that universities in other provinces mark our grades up as much as 10%, because our high schools can't just give us 90s and 95s we haven't earned.
The only thing that I really struggled with in English was having to give presentatation in front of the class. How exactly are you supposed to give a confident articulate presentation in front of all of the people that bully you and generally make your life miserable?
I would have preferred to give my presentation in front of a group of teachers or a panel of examiners who I didn't know and would never see again and who were not the people who bullied me daily.
I second that... but my problem isnt in English... its in Spanish...
I always got D and F in Spanish ... now that I'm in college I've got to take 3 Spanish classes (drat! I dont wanna lower my GPA... I almost have it at 4.00! I hate Spanish... funny thing too cause its my "native" language)
... but I've a question... what's GCSE?
oh btw... my first oral presentation in college was for my Child Development Psychology class... and I chose to do it on Autism ... I've since had to correct a few errors (hey thats what you get when you take info outta autismspeaks or autism.com) lol
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Also the usual amount of GCSEs that are taken are around 10. I know some people at state schools who took 15. At my school the most we were allowed to take was 9 (It's now been changed to the option of 12-11 because they finally started caring about their position on the league table). I took 8 because I dropped 1 of my subjects after a year.
Oh so thats what a GCSE is... Hmm thats weird... I never had to take such a test or whatever it is... when I was in high school... all I had to take were the SAT and the College Board exams ... to qualify for college ... idk some weird thing were they add up your GPA throughout all highschool and add it to what you got at the College Board... and ta da depending on your score is how "qualified" you are for entering college.
The SATs are um... depending on how well you did um how well ALL the students do in those exams ... your school can get more points and therefore more federal funding (weird way of doing so but oh well...) Anyhow I always scored high in English and Language Comprehention and low in Spanish and Math.
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Did you hear that there were answers on the back?
"Thousands of pupils sitting their GCSE music exam may have thought their dreams had come true when they discovered that the answers were printed on the back of the exam paper.
Now, however, the printers' error has become more of a nightmare, as the students have been told that they may have to resit the paper.
The mistake was noticed by school pupils in Hereford and Worcestershire, who found that a list of composers printed on the back of the exam directly related to the questions on the other side of the sheet.
Some of the pupils dutifully put up their hands and reported the error to the invigilator. Others carried on with test. The examiners fear that some students may not even have noticed the error, creating an unlevel playing field when assessing the results. "- The Times
I never heard of these tests - I am in the US - until last night on the news (in the US0 thought the news made it sound like the whole test and not just the music section. (bad reporting as usual)
Yeh, thought it was quite funny. I was watching it on the news and they said they weren't going to make people redo it. Although I can't see how thats going to be fair since lots of people didn't notice whereas some did.
It didn't mention on the news that some people reported the error. I wonder what they did becuase surely they wouldn't have been allowed to finish their exam so what will they do if the exam board don't make everyone redo it and the the current papers marked as they are.
Did anyone else here that a van carrying Business Studies GCSE papers was broken into and raided? It was about a month ago and they had to rewrite the whole exam.
Did anyone find the GCSE hard? I'm struggling like hell. I've discovered that I lack empathy and thoughts and feelings and stuff. It's doing my head in !
I did that yesterday too! I got the extra time but it was so hard! I felt like I was going to get a D or E for my results of that paper!
The GCSEs really annoyed me. I was constantly told how hard they were so I did SO much work. Revising actually became an obsession of mine, and then I do the exams and they were no where near as difficult as we had been told they were. I had wasted so much time.
It annoyed that the exams I took were nearly all easy because if everyone does well the grade boundary then becomes higher so it actually makes it much more difficult to do well. For example I got 89% in maths overall but didn't get an A*.
And since i'm also dslyxic it means that I will never do really well in any exam I take because I can't read the questions or write the answer properly. So if the exam is really hard I have more of a chance.
Did anyone find the GCSE hard? I'm struggling like hell. I've discovered that I lack empathy and thoughts and feelings and stuff. It's doing my head in !
I did that yesterday too! I got the extra time but it was so hard! I felt like I was going to get a D or E for my results of that paper!
Don't worry about it, you seriously never know what the result will come out to be based on your performance. For my Business Studies exam last year I thought the most I was going to get was a D because I messed up so much on the exam. But I got a B!
I guess lots of other people did really badly, or mabey I underestimated my performance.
Also remember that the exam is over, worrying about it won't make the slightest bit of difference so forget about it and enjoy yourself.