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Serial Velocity
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Anyone else in the UK expecting their GCSE result's tomorrow (well today)? Unlike most I'm actually looking forward to it.

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Indicium
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Me. I'm excited for it too, good luck.

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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 05:08
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We're all showing our age now Yup, me too. I have high hopes for drama

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C0wbox
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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 05:10
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GCSEs, I remember those things. xD

D: I feel old now coming into my second year at uni.

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Serial Velocity
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really happy, I got:

Maths: A* (did this last year)
Additional Maths (AS level): A
Statistics: B
English Language: A
English Literature: B
Biology: A
Chemistry: A
Physics: A*
Religious Studies: B
Art and Design: B
Geography: B
History: A
ICT BTEC L2: Distinction

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Deathead
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I got better then I expected.
Maths-B
Science-B
Addit. Science-B
Economics-C
English-B
English Lit.-A
Art and Design-C
German-D(But I couldn't give a flying monkeys about Germanlol)

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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 13:05
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Quite pleased with mine

English - A*
Science - A*
Additional Science - A*
Maths - A*
Drama - A*
IT - Distinction
French - A
Spanish - A
Music - A

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 14:20
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Quote: "D: I feel old now coming into my second year at uni."


I feel old having finished Uni a year ago.


Well anyway, congrats on those results folk.

Quote: "German-D(But I couldn't give a flying monkeys about Germanlol)"


Not even for shouting taunts when it comes to the World Cup?

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CoffeeGrunt
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Oh wow, every Brit I thought was older than me just posted. My perceptions of you all just changed massively.

For posterity's sake:

Maths - A, in year 10, like a boss.
English - A and C
Science - A, B, B
Electronics - C
IT - Distinction
Media Studies - A

And noone posted RE!? CHARLATANS!

I got a C in it. Oh, and a U in AS Maths during year eleven, since I finished the GCSEs early.

Guess what? I have never had anyone ask me for my GCSEs when applying for a job.

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Seppuku Arts
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Some do. (I'm applying for work at the moment) Usually it's Maths and English...basically you're qualified for any job that asks for GCSEs. But the most important things employers are looking for a skills and experience. Your CV should be out to sell your skills not your qualifications, unless it's a specialist job where the qualification is a requirement.

As for RE, back when I was a weeeeee lad like you (who watched Powerpuff Girls, not My Little Pony) I got an A for my GCSE RE, it was my only A. I did RE for A Levels too.

But nice one on the maths mate, my school was terrible at teaching maths, there was the odd good maths teacher when you were lucky to have them. I can remember my year 11 maths teacher, halting the class to explain maths problems you've already done because the chavs at the front couldn't work them out and being yelled at for 'not paying attention and disrupting the class' when you continue to work through the harder ones. Yet when the chavs actively disrupted the class, she did nothing. Regardless, I ended up with a C, though all the maths I need can be done on a calculator.

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C0wbox
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Quote: "My perceptions of you all just changed massively."

Yeah I always thought Insert Name Here and Serial Velocity were like 20+ when I first joined these forums. - I've only recently found out they're both younger than me. D:

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 21:23
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Quote: " I was a weeeeee lad like you (who watched Powerpuff Girls, not My Little Pony)"


I watched both...like a pro. Just throwing it out there that tey're made by the same person.

Anyway, I got consistently moaned at for listening to my MP3 player in class. Sadly, I felt it was necessary to blank out the genetic driftwood I shared a class with. None of them even tried, so I got As, they got high on drugs and got AIDS. 'Nuff said.

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Serial Velocity
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Nice results guys!

Quote: "Yeah I always thought Insert Name Here and Serial Velocity were like 20+ when I first joined these forums."

Seems our plan to deceive you all was a success

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Seppuku Arts
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Quote: "I watched both...like a pro. Just throwing it out there that tey're made by the same person."


Hehe, that's why I mentioned the Powerpuff Girls specifically.

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 25th Aug 2011 22:41
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Touche...

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ThoughtWire Software
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English - B
Business Studies - B
Maths - C
ICT - Distinction
PE - Merit

Still got some more to come

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CoffeeGrunt
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Quote: "PE - Merit"


Ever since The Inbetweeners, I can never take that seriously as a qualification.

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ThoughtWire Software
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Gotta love The Inbetweeners

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C0wbox
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I seemed to get loads more GCSEs some people I know:
A*,A,A,A,A,B,B,B,B,B,C,D,D (that last D was a half GCSE and there's a double ICT award @ B in there )

xD My A-levels were appalling though:
C,C,D (I basically stopped caring about education and for some reason they screwed up my computing exam paper and gave me an E grade -.- (we got it sent back and you can see they've just gone through entire sections and marked things all wrong))

Uni is fun though if you get in later - Education starts to become interesting again. xD

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Ocho Geek
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Pah, GSCE's are easy. Not to take it away from you, but even a few months into college you'll have wondered why you called GSCE's "Hard"

but hey, I got 3A* 5A 2B when I did mine


Not Spanish, Not Eight, Just Ocho

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Teh Stone
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Posted: 26th Aug 2011 21:40 Edited at: 26th Aug 2011 21:40
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Quote: "Ever since The Inbetweeners, I can never take that seriously as a qualification."


Nobody ever gives PE the credit it needs
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 26th Aug 2011 22:29
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I'm sure anybody who wants to be a gym instructor or personal trainer would find PE very useful.

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Fallout
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Quote: "Pah, GSCE's are easy. Not to take it away from you, but even a few months into college you'll have wondered why you called GSCE's "Hard""


Amen. I did mine 15 years ago now. Gulp. Back when they were harder. I didn't revise and got AAAABBBBC. Tried the same technique for my A-levels and got BDE.

To be fair to these guys, As and Bs are still good grades though, irrespective of the changing scale.

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Teh Stone
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PE can take you a lot further than being an instructor in a gym...
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Insert Name Here
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And noone posted RE!? CHARLATANS!
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Not every school has compulsory RE... that's why I don't have a GCSE in it My school has compulsary language, hence spanish + french.

Quote: "Yeah I always thought Insert Name Here and Serial Velocity were like 20+ when I first joined these forums. - I've only recently found out they're both younger than me. D:
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(Pssssst, I'm 24 actually, I'm just faking it)

(Psst, not really )

EDIT: Actually, I always thought Serial was older than me but Coffee was younger... go figure

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anayar
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Sorry... noob american coming in... but are the GCSE's the same thing as SAT's we write over here??

Cheers,
Anayar


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Seppuku Arts
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They're exams you do when you're 16 and leave school with. People have the choice to continue their education from there or look for work. The system isn't exactly the same, I think in the US it's High School -> College/University, so your final school exams could potentially equate to our A-Levels as you jump from School into your degree qualification. For us (typically) it's Secondary School (ends with GCSEs) -> College/6th Form (ends with A Levels) -> University (end with a degree). GCSEs are compulsory, but anything afterwards isn't.

To make things confusing, the UK also has SATs, but they're not the same, they're completed at the end of Primary School and half way through Secondary School. Though that was when I was at school, I don't know how things have changed since, as people like to keep playing with the education system here.

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