[Sheep]

yea i cant wait

[Stickyspanner]

Eesh

School - I cant remember that far back!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

ah back in the days of chalk boards and quills eh mr spanner? tell us about your life god knows it has to be better than most of this drivel....

anyone ever watch that old bear thing? "please tell us a story old bear.... we'll all gather round...." just me?

[Sidders]

those dreadful things called gcse's

if it helps - i passed them all.

ooh, and that's really hard ain't it?

[Stickyspanner]

Well since leaving the warm bosom of Stevotrash`s sexual innuendo, I have been pretty much DJ`ing full time most evenings, as well as now being the Program Controller of a Hospital Radio Station.

Couple with various bouts of insaneness when females are involved, and the occasional jaunt to Liverpool to visit friends, and erm thats about it.

Oh - and I got rid of the BMW - big tears - miss that car

I now have a Volvo and an Escort estate - yup - Mr Sensible, guilty as charged.

[~JACQUI~]

I am in year 13 now, scary thought. I have to resit my exams, i got nervous on the day and failed a few of them!

[Nablo.]

Or you have found out what we already knew, you are just thick.

[~JACQUI~]

piss off nob, Im not thick, Im special (no, i kidding, but im still not thick!)

[Nablo.]

Well then perhaps if you didn't spend as much time here and did better work, then you wouldn't have such crap marks

[Adam]

judging by her sig - i think you are to be honest rather special. christ - how did u get three u's ?

to be honest - why have u got ur gcse's grades in your sig ?

sidla - take note. er, how did u do ?

[~JACQUI~]

its not GCSE, its AS level. I failed both of my ICT exams, cos my mind went blank!

I failed my 2nd history paper, but everyone did in my class, it was solid!

[Adam]

providing an average student actually only does 4 a/s levels - how many did u actually do ms bear ?

ur not thick - u've done rather well actually. you can still get to uni with those grades - look at sidla for example.

u get into uni with one a level grade e...

dont put urself down

[~JACQUI~]

i did 3 AS lvels, and 3 key skills (of which i passed 2, failed the maths one!)

[Adam]

okay - how did you get 3 U's, 4 D's, an E and a C. ?


im confused.

[Nablo.]

It's probably her maths not up to scratch either.

[Adam]

what the * are key bloody skills? looks like baby_bear is missing some basic skills.

im sorry - but you get 4/5 grades depending if you general waste of time studies. you do four a/s and you get 4 grades.

explain.

[~JACQUI~]

right.

2 English papers and a coursework= 3 D's
2 ICT papers and a coursework= 2 U's and a D
3 History papers= an E, a U and a C

[Adam]

okay, fair enough. well done for trying your hardest.

is it wise you go on to the second year?

[Mcqueen_]

Key Skills are crap, I got an A in ICT at GCSE and im doing it at AS level but i've still got to do Key Skills In ICT Level 2, but 'cos I'm doing it as AS aswell i don't have to do Level 3 after that. Tis pointless.

Nearly as crap as Enrichment.

[~JACQUI~]

Key skills are bloody useless. apparantly they give you more points to get into Uni, but whats the point when its about 1 in 100 universities that actually take key skills points!

[Adam]

Having read up on some Key Skills reading material, I have found out that a lot of uni's actually do take them. It give you that extra few points. I didnt do them - hmmm.

So out of 100ish uni's which one actually takes the key skills again, baby_bear?

[~JACQUI~]

Bangor

[~JACQUI~]

oh, and im doing general studies this year

[Spoon]

All things considered, I'm glad I did 3 proper A levels and a single A/S )which was optional). Then there are only three grades to think about (and the A/S but most unis didn't care about that). If I split them into the different exams, then that'd be 4 sets of marks for Maths, 5 sets for Physics and 2 for Economics. (Oh and 2 for the Further Maths A/S).
Too much talk about.
I know you can't do that anymore but I liked it.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

as part of gcses there should be compulsory current affairs where you have to discuss what is goin on in the news at the time and its effects.