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TillyLala
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 12:38
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I, like many others in the UK, am taking my first A2 Exam today... So if you\'re in the same position or you have them to come, good luck!

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Fallout
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 13:50
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Exams were so long ago. In my day, we wrote on slate with our own blood, and the examiner, who was dressed only in a bear skin, had to gauge the exam duration using only a sun dial. How we PRAYED for a cloudy day!

You youngins have it easy with your desks, pens, bottles of water and little chewy sweets. In my day, to concentrate we sucked on a pebble that we had to share with the person next to us. If we were caught cheating, we were publically spanked. And if we failed!! ... we weren't fed for a month, and all we had for nourishment were the weevils in our own hair.

Hard times.

Oh, good luck btw.

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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 18:08
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Did the first lot of my AS exams the other week. Considering the average 30 mins revision time for each they went surprisingly well..., but I don't think I'm going to risk it again aha.

What subjects are you taking?


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Diggsey
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 18:19
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What Wilderbeast said pretty much applies to me too


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Tom J
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 18:26
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Was the exam C3 by any chance?
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TillyLala
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 18:32
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Quote: "Was the exam C3 by any chance? "


Noooo! I don't do maths

I do Health and Social care, History and Psychology.

I have my Psychology resit tomorrow - I failed it last year. Looking at a website and printing information off it does NOT count as revision! I learnt that the hard way

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lazerus
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im taking mainly course work based lessons right now so ive only got A geography exam. Art exam is 15 hours stretched over 3 days... yay...

Oh anf mine are A2


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Tom J
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 18:41
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Quote: "Noooo! I don't do maths

I do Health and Social care, History and Psychology."


Ah ok, fair enough
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 19:06
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Well break a leg you lot.

A Level exams weren't so bad when I did them over 2 years ago - I had to do a couple of resits myself. May as well make a mistake when it can be rectified, so you know how much harder you have to work.

I did Edexcel Psychology for my AS's, I could do the theories, I could do the dates and even argue between them, the thing I couldn't do very well was Research Methods. Oddly enough, for my dissertation this year I've been cracking up psychology books (I'm looking at how Anxiety Effects Stage Performance, for a Broadsheet based article) and it's a lot easier to understand in hindsight...it's also probably because I'm looking at it practically, rather than just as a text book thing.


What we did for our A Levels was make the 6th-form part of the library our social area, rather than the common room, it meant you could work and socialize. It worked to an extent...the extent where you weren't distracted.

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TillyLala
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 19:15
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What we did for our A Levels was make the 6th-form part of the library our social area, rather than the common room, it meant you could work and socialize. It worked to an extent...the extent where you weren't distracted.
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Seems like a good idea! We have our sixth form computer room as our work room... The social area gets a little loud, apparently people are deaf and insist on having the TV on full volume.

Ah ha, I'm doing the AQA Psychology, i've just finished Depression and Addiction with research methods thrown in there too! That exam isn't for a couple of weeks though thankfully

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 19:21
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You had a TV? Lucky. Our problem was the stereo, always too loud. Most of time I was in the pool room or library.

Though on the note of the stereo, there was a pretty hilarious feud over it one time. I have 2 free periods, the first I spent in the library, the second I headed to the common room to see what people were up to. The Emos and Metal-heads had their music player and the chavs and pretty boys started causing trouble, because it was 'too loud', despite them playing their dance music full blast all day.

It cured my boredom, it felt like being an audience member for the Jeremy Kyle show. Naturally as I'm a metal-head, you'll know whose side I was cheering on.

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TillyLala
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 19:31
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Yeah the TV is ok when theres not many people in, but when it gets full and they music chanels are on (we have a digi box for it) full blast you just want to shoot yourself Last year it got annoying when you'd be sat working on your own and someone would put the TV on full... Though if you pull the ariel outta the wall, everyone thinks the tv's broken... It's great! Hehe.

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Glad to hear it

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Diru
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Posted: 20th Jan 2010 20:19
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Had two AS exams last week, Maths and Physics. didn't find Physics so bad, but Maths... Every other practice paper I was getting As and A*s in, but the exam we had was so much harder. Luckily everyone else found it hard Anyway hope you all do okay.
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TillyLala
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Posted: 21st Jan 2010 14:07
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Quote: " Luckily everyone else found it hard "


Phew, always a relief when it's not just you that found it hard!

Well, today I had my psychology AS resit... I came out with a smile on my face feeling confident, for the first time in my little life! Lets hope the results match my confidence

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Bozzy
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Posted: 21st Jan 2010 17:49
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Everyone found it hard over here as well, so it must be the entire country!

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Diru
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Quote: "Everyone found it hard over here as well, so it must be the entire country!"


Even better I really hope they'll adjust the grade boundaries, so I don't have to retake it (want an A*), C1 is really, really boring. Done half of C2 and that's pretty easy. Looking forward to C3 though
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