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Diru
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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 09:21
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I'm not looking forward to it Although I don't have a clue if I did well or not. Anyone else waiting for their results?
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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 09:34
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Nope, you are the only one in the world to do GCSEs this year.

But seriously, Good Luck with the results! I can still remember going for mine. It gets worse at A level, but at Uni its not really as nerve racking.
You get your results on the internet, so you don't have to go through the charade of getting ready and doing the loooooong walk to the table of dreaded envelopes!

You got any plans for Higher Education?

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Diru
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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 09:40
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I could get some results on the internet but I lost the card

Staying on for sixth form and then hopefully going to Uni for Computer Science.

And without asking if anyone else did them, the post seemed very, very short.
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Don't worry, I was only joking!

What you doing for A-Level?

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Diggsey
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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 15:17
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I have GCSE results tomorrow too


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The Wilderbeast
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Ohh my, I forget they were tomorrow :S If I can make it out of bed I shall discover whether or not I have made it back to sixth form D:

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SikaSina Games
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Posted: 26th Aug 2009 19:15 Edited at: 26th Aug 2009 19:16
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I've got the results for the year 10 GCSE science exams tomorrow (Ds away ) and I'm actually hoping to get a C. [lie] Otherwise I'll sticker my room with 'retard' [/lie]. Good luck everyone...

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RPDan
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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 00:13
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I'm getting GCSE results tomorrow. Should be interesting. Especially our class's DT results
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Diggsey
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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 11:41
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19 minutes remaining...


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Diru
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A* IT
A* Maths
A Bio
A Chem
A Business & Economics
A Eng Language
A History
B Eng Literature
B Physics

Better than I expected, I'm over the moon!
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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 12:47
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Looks like you didn't study that much Diru. Pretty dissapointing results if you ask me.

OBVIOUSLY joking Congratulations, I would have liked results that good when I did my GCSEs.

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 13:01
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They look good to me. Well done.

I wonder how the rest of you got on.

Diggsey's 19 minutes should be up now. Should we be getting worried for him?

Quote: "Congratulations, I would have liked results that good when I did my GCSEs."


Ditto here.

Wait a minute ... they didn't have GCSEs when I was at school.
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Bozzy
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I got a lot better than I expected:

9 A*s, 1 A (1% off an A* )

Really wasn't expecting anywhere near that kind of result.

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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 13:32 Edited at: 27th Aug 2009 13:33
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Quote: "Diggsey's 19 minutes should be up now. Should we be getting worried for him?"


No
I have to go to school to get them, I can't just miraculously teleport there and back!

5 A* (Maths, Physics, Chemistry, French, Core Science)
5 A (Statistics, English language, English literature, Design & Technology, Latin)
1 B (0.5% off an A , but it was in RS so I don't really care, LOL)


Also, it's not a GCSE, but I got an A in Additional Maths (You can't get A*!)


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Last year I got 5A* 3A and 3 B (the B in French and English's - Not fond of languages =) A*'s and A's in the important stuff )

So you lot all seem to have beaten me =S

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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 13:43
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Quote: "Also, it's not a GCSE, but I got an A in Additional Maths (You can't get A*!)"


Haha... I got a U in Add Maths! No effort put into it whatsoever.

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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 14:05
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Quote: "but I got an A in Additional Maths "


My 'O' Level GCE (who remembers those ) in Additional Maths was probably my worst ever Maths result.

I think it had something to do with excessive teenage over-indulgence over the preceding weekend. [No, you're not going to get the full details. ] Suffice to say that I had recovered in time for the following weekend - but I was never quite the same thereafter.

Glad to hear all the success stories. Well done to all of you.
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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 14:09 Edited at: 27th Aug 2009 14:11
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3 As 4 Cs and 3 Ds

As:
Science (all exams were above 48/50. Did badly on coursework)
Maths
BaCS

Cs:
Geography
Science (did shocking in coursework)
RP
Engineering

Ds:
English lit
English
History


I'm not so good at reading or writing.

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Well done all. Now you've all got your A Levels to do.

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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 14:27
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Yes, but we don't have to do any subjects we don't want to for A level

(I'm dropping ALL essay subjects)

Just doing Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computing

Out of those I might have to do some work in chemistry


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I'm going into year 11 so I haven't done all of mine yet, but I have done 2 so far: Technology: A, French: A (god I am so happy with my french result now that I don't have to do it )


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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 16:04 Edited at: 27th Aug 2009 16:04
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Quote: "Yes, but we don't have to do any subjects we don't want to for A level"


Depends on your 6th form, I did my A Levels in 6th form at school instead of college (which was perhaps a mistake) and we had to do a manditory ICT course along our A Levels, yet we got the worst teachers for it and it was boring as hell and I found a I knew everything (I did an intermediate GNVQ during my GCSEs for ICT and I'm a computer geek, so did I really need another computer class for 'basic ICT skills'?) but most of us just stopped turning up.

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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 16:13 Edited at: 27th Aug 2009 16:14
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Quote: "(I'm dropping ALL essay subjects)"


Awesome sauce tip: If you want to stand out from every other Comp-Sci candidate, retain your ability to write in English. Maths is "where it's at" but they certainly consider essay subjects as incredibly useful/an advantage as well (considering communication etc. is key )

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Quote: "Awesome sauce tip: If you want to stand out from every other Comp-Sci candidate, retain your ability to write in English. Maths is "where it's at" but they certainly consider essay subjects as incredibly useful/an advantage as well (considering communication etc. is key )"


He has a very good point, apparently people that judge whether you make it into uni like to see you're a varied person ie not taking all sciences. So a subject like english or another language, or something creative like Art or Tech.

I took Maths, Physics, ICT and Tech at AS, and I'm picking up (everyone else is dropping a subject) further Maths =)

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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 18:49
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Don't worry, I'm not going to turn illiterate over-night


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The Wilderbeast
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A day late but...

A*
Core Science
Additional Science
Maths
English Literature
English Language
Design Technology
Art

A
German
Religious Studies
Business Studies

Pretty chuffed about those really. Quite amazed actually considering I only finished reading our English Literature book in the exam and I wrote a bunch of stuff about Judaism in the Religion exam even though I know nothing about it as we were only taught Christianity xD


Well done everybody else . Now for A-Levels x(

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Quote: "Don't worry, I'm not going to turn illiterate over-night"


Yeah, and you may still be good at maths too, but you need an A-Level to prove it. My point is, keeping an essay subject around may help you more than you think

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Had to do foundation for the exams, but meh:

Year 10 GCSE Core Science - Average result - C(c)

Edexcel GCSE Key Skills ICT - 44/50

I got a little congrats card and a book of Great Expectations and a GCSE note guide .

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Blobby 101
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hah, some good results there - I was away in Ireland over the last week so i couldn't go to collect mine. Not sure what they want me to do about it though... xD

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Diru
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My friend is over in Italy till Tuesday and he is waiting till he gets home for his results... That's patience.

And Blobby don't the school post the results? Although there may have been (and still be) a postal strike.
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hmm... don't know about any postal strike recently but knowing my school, the holidays will be over before they get around to sending them xD

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