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phelpsa - 24/8/06 at 11:43 AM

An A* in maths IGCSE (slightly harder but internationally recognised).

A B in French!

Both a year early



Adam


David Jenkins - 24/8/06 at 11:47 AM

Smart *rse!

(and well done)


Furious D - 24/8/06 at 11:59 AM

Well Done !!!


JamJah - 24/8/06 at 12:55 PM

Starting a locost project aged 12 kinda said that you were going to do well. congrats


JoelP - 24/8/06 at 01:04 PM

well done!

i got my maths when i was 10

only an A but there were no A* back then

there was some bugger the other day who got 10 As at A level!

[Edited on 24/8/06 by JoelP]


Tim 45 - 24/8/06 at 01:07 PM

Maths IGCSE was a bugger eh...london eye and all that differentiation....

Congratulations on all your success!


chockymonster - 24/8/06 at 02:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by JoelP

there was some bugger the other day who got 10 As at A level!

[Edited on 24/8/06 by JoelP]


Which just goes to show how worthless the A level is. I had too much work on to do any more than 3 and an A/S, the subjects were harder.

Why is it with the constant raise in pass grades the kids I see at work seem to be struggling with the more basic things. They got good grades though


ned - 24/8/06 at 03:11 PM

i got rubbish grades at A-level but am doing pretty well now. got the jobs i have/had on my own merit but its who you know, not what you know in my experience to find the right opportunities.

oh, and adam - no one likes a smart ar$e but well done


Peteff - 24/8/06 at 03:19 PM

Are you taking them again next year.


phelpsa - 24/8/06 at 04:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
Are you taking them again next year.


Was thinking about taking the maths again to see if I could improve my grade

DT, English x 2, Science double award, Geography, Greek and Latin next year!

I didnt find the iGCSE too difficult compared to the practice papers!


Humbug - 24/8/06 at 04:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
well done!

i got my maths when i was 10

only an A but there were no A* back then

there was some bugger the other day who got 10 As at A level!

[Edited on 24/8/06 by JoelP]


I got a 3 in Maths... showing my age


David Jenkins - 24/8/06 at 07:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by phelpsa

DT, English x 2, Science double award, Geography, Greek and Latin next year!



I don't know - kids these days, choosing the easy subjects just to get the grades!


DIY Si - 24/8/06 at 08:16 PM

Especially that double science bit! Any proper smart person would do the seperate gcse's!


JoelP - 24/8/06 at 08:31 PM

why greek and latin adam, seems an odd choice? Certainly not the easy ones! I only did the one english but most of the sciences, topped of with odd ones like law, accounts and art.


DIY Si - 24/8/06 at 08:36 PM

Law and accounts are just odd ones to make the numbers up?! Quite glad I bumed through mine and only got 10 gcse's! Although my geography teacher refused to let me do an 11th. As he couldn't be ar$ed to teach me out of hours. He was too busy in the pub!


phelpsa - 24/8/06 at 09:45 PM

quote:
Originally posted by DIY Si
Especially that double science bit! Any proper smart person would do the seperate gcse's!


Wanted to but the school won't do it for some reason

I chose Greek and Latin because I enjoy them, i'm quite interested in the history, its good for my brain and it makes me sound intelligent to universities apparantly!

I'm doing the most full GCSEs I can do at my school (10). I could have done a short course History or RS but decided against it as I would rather put the extra work into my maths and sciences as they are what I enjoy and what are needed for what I want to do in the future.

Adam


DIY Si - 24/8/06 at 11:02 PM

I'm quite gald I got the chance to do seperate sciences as it helped a lot with hetting onto engineering curses. Loughborough and Imperial gave me a place over the phone once I told them my results for gcse and A level!


ned - 25/8/06 at 06:57 AM

Likewise i got stuck with double science, it's an inaccurate reflection of your abilities, one for each discipline would be much fairer and more meaningful imho.


David Jenkins - 25/8/06 at 07:28 AM

Makes a change to hear a young'un wanting to do maths & science - not many of you around these days...
...and the languages.

I worked with a German bloke who spoke around 5 or 6 languages - he reckoned that Latin was really useful for learning European languages.

David


phelpsa - 25/8/06 at 09:20 AM

quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Makes a change to hear a young'un wanting to do maths & science - not many of you around these days...
...and the languages.

I worked with a German bloke who spoke around 5 or 6 languages - he reckoned that Latin was really useful for learning European languages.

David


I think that learning Latin from yr 4 has really helped my french. I have always tended to struggle with my modern languages but as I started to learn latin as a language properly (yr 6) my french started to improve massively. Without latin I don't think I would have got a B.

I got my certificate today and I was only a couple of marks off an A.

Adam


Tim 45 - 25/8/06 at 09:34 AM

Adam, go for a remark if you think you could go up...i did last year in my French


Coose - 25/8/06 at 09:43 AM

quote:
Originally posted by DIY Si
I'm quite gald I got the chance to do seperate sciences as it helped a lot with hetting onto engineering curses.


I take it you failed english then?


DIY Si - 25/8/06 at 09:58 AM

Only got A-B in english. Was my worst result as it happens. Oh, and I'm just too lazy to spell check most days.


spunky - 25/8/06 at 10:48 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Coose
quote:
Originally posted by DIY Si
I'm quite gald I got the chance to do seperate sciences as it helped a lot with hetting onto engineering curses.


I take it you failed english then?



LOL

Good to see Latin is still taught, I was fairly fluent when I was 14. Dropped it as an o'level though.

john


DIY Si - 25/8/06 at 11:05 AM

It's still taught at my old school, but there wasn't enough interest to do it at gcse when I was at that stage. It was quite interesting, and as said, it helps no end with other european languages since they are at least partly based on latin.