I cannot remember who it was on here who told me that they wished they tried harder in there GCSEs. Sam Rowlands said that he failed his English GCSE 3 times and that reminded me to announce that I have completed my GCSEs.
I am not very good with doing school work in general but I have worked hard to go from feeling like I will get pretty terrible GCSEs to satisfactory GCSEs. That means I hopeful for a few GCSE Cs from my exams and I have completed IT coursework to B level and Business coursework to C level. Some of you may have children who have achieved much better GCSE grades or are looking to achieve much better GCSE grades but I am satisfied with how my exams went and much more confident about getting on to a level 3 course.
I still need to wait and see before I know what my grades but I believe it is very likely I will get to go on the higher level courses in UK collage (I say that because different places have different definitions of collage).
Yup… Got a C in maths, B in Science and the rest were useless. I took the GCSE in tech instead of IT, and torn the ligament in my right arm during the practical time and never completed my project. If I’d taken IT (and done coursework) I’d of gotten an A.
I then went onto collage to study IT intermediate (as I didn’t have the grades), within two weeks I was moved upto the advanced course. However I wasn’t very good at course work, and my lecturer actually helped me get a paying job instead… Which set me off on my path.
[quote=110047:@Sam Rowlands]Yup… Got a C in maths, B in Science and the rest were useless. I took the GCSE in tech instead of IT, and torn the ligament in my right arm during the practical time and never completed my project. If I’d taken IT (and done coursework) I’d of gotten an A.
I then went onto collage to study IT intermediate (as I didn’t have the grades), within two weeks I was moved upto the advanced course. However I wasn’t very good at course work, and my lecturer actually helped me get a paying job instead… Which set me off on my path.[/quote]
Oh that’s interested. I didn’t know they would move you up.
=[quote=110157:@David Wylie]As a Brit, surely you meant “spelt”?
Though I suppose this is an American forum …[/quote]
Thanks. The spell checker does not detect misspellings like that.
That makes me feel really old. I did mine in 1989 - 25 years ago!
I made some ‘mistakes’ in my 3rd year which caused me to drop down to lower groups in my 4th and 5th years. This meant I could only achieve a maximum of a C grade in some subjects despite getting 99% in exams.
I was pretty cheesed off at the time but I put my head down, worked hard and with some lucky breaks ended up achieving a lot more than I could have imagined at the time. In the end my school exam results have had very little influence on my life and career.
So best of luck for when you get your results, but don’t dispair if they don’t go your way as hard work, passion and dedication will take you a long way in life.
You feel old,! They were pure GCE’s in my day, CSE’s were seperate and seen as the exams for the “dumber kids!” albeit rudely. Can’t remember when they merged them, mid 80s I think.
I still have my piece of paper with the results on.
I always thought at the ‘O’ level stage, people seemed to want quantity, and at the ‘A’ level stage, then quality kicked in. I guess I was good at exams, I goofed off at school but did well in the exams, thankfully no continual assessment in those days. My kids, will have to worry about their GPA’s etc over here now. Ah, “them were the days!”
[quote=110157:@David Wylie]As a Brit, surely you meant “spelt”?
Though I suppose this is an American forum …[/quote]
According to the Chambers English Dictionary:
spelt - An inferior species of wheat (Triticum spelta), grown in the mountainous parts of Europe.
Mention of 11+ reminds me why my parents emigrated to New Zealand, where there is no such thing as 11+ and anyone could get to University for free. There is still no 11+ in New Zealand, but university is far from free these days.
I am not sure if they thought my two brothers and I would not pass 11+, or they didn’t like the consequences of failure.
Some of us Canadian folk share some of the same linguistics as our U.K. counterparts: colour, cheque, endeavour, centre, and favourite to name a few
There are some words that are used in Canada which are similar to our boarder bretheren: gonnorrhea (instead of gonnorrhoea), hemmorrhage (instead of haemorrhage), and initialize (instead of initialise).
Ha ha ha… On my third attempt to pass my English GCSE, I took a dyslexia test first, it was determined that I have a mild enough dyslexia to cause a problem with spelling, grammar and something else (I can’t quite recall), but it wasn’t enough to alter the outcome of the exam, which means even though I really tried hard for the third time, I still failed.
The built-in spell checker catches most of my mistakes, but not when I use incorrect words such as collage instead of college or colleague (which I’ve be known to use incorrectly also).
