exams and college - what did you study?

blazey · 14-06-2007, 18:20

Hey everyone, My A level exams have started, sociology tomorrow, and I just wondered what everyone else had studied?
I'm pretty worried about mine but im revising ok, lets just hope it all gets done for tomorrow

Do you have any particularly good or bad exam memories? I went into my history one the other wednesday, felt terrified at the first two but think I did alright. The last one was horrible, I almost wanted to just write, 'i didnt study these topics' and walk out lol. It was bad. My last lot shouldnt be too terrible though.

WillowTheWhisp · 14-06-2007, 18:29

Good luck with the exams blazey. Mine were long, long ago. My eldest daughter has just finished her GCSEs.

blazey · 14-06-2007, 18:32

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Good luck with the exams blazey. Mine were long, long ago. My eldest daughter has just finished her GCSEs.

My revision is already giving me a headache but it has to be done

no pain no gain

Tombraider · 14-06-2007, 18:35

Good luck with the exams blazey. Hope you get the results your after

blazey · 14-06-2007, 18:41

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Originally Posted by Tombraider

Good luck with the exams blazey. Hope you get the results your after

Thanks, I need B grades. Hopefully I'll get the grades but i'll find out on results day because i should get the acceptance/rejection letter to uni then

LancYorkYankee · 14-06-2007, 19:29

Since you asked (I don't want to be accused of bragging or needing to be "brought down a peg"

), after graduating from high school, I studied Animal Sciences throughout my 4 years of college. I then earned a Bachelor of Science degree.

I take it that over there, you take a final exam for all your studies? In our senior year of high school, students must past the SATs which test them in English, Math, History, and the Sciences. You must pass these to get your high school diploma. The better you score the more colleges/universities will accept you.

Brian

blazey · 14-06-2007, 19:32

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Originally Posted by LancYorkYankee

Since you asked (I don't want to be accused of bragging or needing to be "brought down a peg"

), after graduating from high school, I studied Animal Sciences throughout my 4 years of college. I then earned a Bachelor of Science degree.

I take it that over there, you take a final exam for all your studies? In our senior year of high school, students must past the SATs which test them in English, Math, History, and the Sciences. You must pass these to get your high school diploma. The better you score the more colleges/universities will accept you.

Brian

I'm at college right now studying history, sociology, law and fine art. I'm in the last lot of exams process, get results on 16th of august and the letter which tells me whether I have or havent gotten into uni. I need two B grades and to go on a 4 week course on the summer to be accepted. Going to study law full time at uni.

Margaret Pilkington · 14-06-2007, 20:04

I hope you do well Blazey with your exams...all you can do is your best.

I left school at 15 and had to go out to work.....my family needed the income.
But I did return to study when i was 26 (just a few years ago)and did my nurse training. It was three years of hard slog, working on the wards and studying as well. I was one of the oldest students in my group and studied ALL the way through my three years...but in the last month before my finals I chucked all my text books into a suitcase and put them on top of the wardrobe......I figured that what I didn't know by then I would NEVER learn in the last month.
I came top in the Hospital finals and passed my finals the following month.....it was one of the best things I ever did.

mez · 14-06-2007, 20:14

good luck for your exams, hope you get the results you wanted

West Ender · 14-06-2007, 20:57

First of all, good luck. A levels are not easy but you seem to have your "head screwed on" so I'm sure you'll do well.

It's far too many years ago than I want to admit to that I took mine at college - French and English, I passed in French and got a Distinction in English (that was how long ago it was) - but 25 years ago I took 2 more, Psychology and Sociology, at night school and somehow I managed to get B and A, respectively. I did OK because I was really interested in both subjects and, keep it quiet, but I failed Maths O Level at school because I couldn't ever get to grips with algebra.

I'm the first to admit I don't know how you survive the pressure of doing 4 or 5 A levels at once. It's a helluva lot to get through but it will be worth it in the end.

Don't forget to let us know, when your results come through.

blazey · 14-06-2007, 21:03

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Originally Posted by West Ender

First of all, good luck. A levels are not easy but you seem to have your "head screwed on" so I'm sure you'll do well.

It's far too many years ago than I want to admit to that I took mine at college - French and English, I passed in French and got a Distinction in English (that was how long ago it was) - but 25 years ago I took 2 more, Psychology and Sociology, at night school and somehow I managed to get B and A, respectively. I did OK because I was really interested in both subjects and, keep it quiet, but I failed Maths O Level at school because I couldn't ever get to grips with algebra.

I'm the first to admit I don't know how you survive the pressure of doing 4 or 5 A levels at once. It's a helluva lot to get through but it will be worth it in the end.

Don't forget to let us know, when your results come through.

I'll make sure i will post about my success or failure, whatever the result.

Margaret Pilkington · 15-06-2007, 08:11

Blazey treat your successes well, but the only way we learn anything is by revisiting our 'failures'.......you never ever critique your successes.....only your perceived failures.

WillowTheWhisp · 15-06-2007, 08:19

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Originally Posted by LancYorkYankee

I take it that over there, you take a final exam for all your studies? In our senior year of high school, students must past the SATs which test them in English, Math, History, and the Sciences. You must pass these to get your high school diploma. The better you score the more colleges/universities will accept you.

Brian

Students don't take a GCSE in every subject. They start High School with a wide range of subjects but in Year 9 they narrow that down to a choice of subjects to study for the next 2 years for the GCSE exams. These are usually based on preferred career choice but Maths and English are mandatory. I took 10 subjects at that stage. That is usually narrowed down further at 'A' level. The higher the grades and the more subjects passed then the more chances of acceptance by universities. There is no overall High School Diploma here though.

blazey · 15-06-2007, 08:31

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Students don't take a GCSE in every subject. They start High School with a wide range of subjects but in Year 9 they narrow that down to a choice of subjects to study for the next 2 years for the GCSE exams. These are usually based on preferred career choice but Maths and English are mandatory. I took 10 subjects at that stage. That is usually narrowed down further at 'A' level. The higher the grades and the more subjects passed then the more chances of acceptance by universities. There is no overall High School Diploma here though.

yeh the best way to add to that is its normally mandatory these days to study maths, english, science, a language and religious education if your at a secondary school. Also Physical education has to be participated in.
Then they normally get you to pick between a technology; food tech, wood tech or electronics
Then you get a choice of the other subjects:
PE (taken as a gcse)
music
art
history
geography
a possible extra language so french/german/spanish etc
statistics
business
law
health and social

Theres quite a lot of gcse options at school these days, there is at the one I went to anyway.

10 is normally the average amount of gcses u take. I got 4 B's and 6 C's. My options where food tech, music and art. The language I did was french.
I liked school but I would never go back now.

entwisi · 15-06-2007, 09:47

When I was at school I took 10 O levels, In them days you only normally took 9 but I managed to scam my way out of PE to do a prototype O level in Electronics.

At college I took the usual 4 (3 chosen + General Studies) , I took Maths, Physics and Computer Studies.

I must admit that up to and including A levels I never revised for any exam, I'm lucky that I have (or certainly used to) a photographic memory. In exams I would read teh Q and then sort of 'play back' teh lesson quickly in my head.

At Uni I specialised into Applied Mathematics and Computation, In the first year i had to take Pure Maths, Applied Maths and one other, I wanted to do pyschology but the forced me to do Physics, I got 95% in Pure, 97% in Applied and 26% in Physics (Oops!) I hated Physics.............

Due to them deciding to decoratre the Uni there were no resits that summer so I was being forced to wait a year. I thought about just bumming around the SU for a year but in the end decided I wanted some cash in my pocket so I dropped out and started in the real world i.e. work.

Since then I've taken a few exams and never had to revise for any of them. (Catering and IT qualifications)

Ian