Exams 2007

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Well I don't know for sure, but our teachers/lab technicians have to see the practical papers beforehand so they can ensure we have all the equipment. With this in mind our teacher has been giving us 'relevant' notes and practice exams. :dopey:
 
Oh god, we had a practical a few weeks ago that involved sticking weights onto hacksaw blades. :scared: :dunce: You wouldn't believe how far the pieces go when one snaps. :crazy: I don't even remember exactly what the point of the practical was, I just remember that every few minutes there'd be a 'ping' followed by rapidly ducking behind solid objects.
 
I finished with my testing on Friday. On Monday (afternoon. Yay for sleeping in on school days!) was AP French:ouch::crazy:. Didn't feel good about it at all. My preparation was to the point that I didn't even feel like I should've know the stuff.:banghead: Most likely a 1 (out of 5.).

Wednesday morning was Calculus:dopey:. I feel like I did really well on it. Probably about a 3. I knew the first three sections really well and then spun in my chair for the last.

Yesterday was AP Euro:cool:. I felt pretty good on it. Multiple choice was easy. The three essays I had to write will probably bring me down to a 3:yuck:.

All in all, it was a pretty good AP season. I only worried beforehand about one test. French was the only one where I was wishing to get out of the room. Most of the AP students I know will be done next week sometime when they take Biology or English. It should be fun to laugh at them.
 
Blarg. This next month cannot go any slower, or I will kill someone.


I. NEED. TO. USE. MY. BOAT. :grumpy:

Oh, and theres this whole "Forza 2" thing. I'll have to check that out. ;)
 
Yesterday I had my English test (Campridge University), but although I did well in the Writing, Reading, and Use of English parts, in Listening the cassette quality was awful and I couldn't make out a word. If don't pass one of the parts I don't pass the whole exam so I'm very anxious about the results... :nervous:

On 31/5 I have the speaking test and I think I'll do well... next Saturday I'm having the Michigan Univeristy exam, which is said to be easier.👍
 
Through my Maths course so far, I've got absolute top marks for the Intermediate papers. There were on Number and Statistics. But the upcoming main paper on Algebra is going to be a pain to do well on... No matter how much I try to remember "Factorising" and alike, it doesn't seem to sink in. If I find it completely useless, I tend to be like that.

I've done all my Courseworks and Speaking & Listening activities already, and overall I have a middle B (I got a worse mark on my last final piece than my draft piece, which is a little unfair...), which I'm totally fine with, especially as you don't get things explained to you as much as a daytime class. Plus I never managed to get to the GCSE stage at school...

I done a practice paper on the main English exam coming this June, and it's pretty hard IMO... I'm the type of person who likes to work things out that have one or two answers. English is different every time, so I struggle a bit to get my proper thoughts down without too many mistakes... And it isn't helped by the absolute tight times you have for each paper. I should get my practice mark back next Tuesday. Hopefully I done well enough.

Good luck to everyone else, though. 👍
 
I got:

Science: A and B
Maths: C
English: C
PE: C
Engineering: B

cant remember the rest.
 
Aah, I'm actually really really happy with my coursework this year. I got an A in English and I'm fairly certain I have an A in Computing too, after much effort. I spent 4 months on and off writing VB code for an alternative vote program and trying to make it work. No matter what I did, it would only recount once, or it would recount 5 times and then one of the variables would go out of range. Of course I forgot that VB doesn't treat numbers typed into a text box as integers, so it wasn't counting properly. Thanks Access! :ouch:
 
Hehe, that was possibly the easiest Physics practical exam I've ever done. Thank you exam board! :dopey:

Now I just have to try and learn the whole of C2 in about 4 days. :indiff:
 
Well, that's French listening and BCS out of the way.

The french was horribly easy. It couldn't have been much more obvious what they were saying.

BCS, meh. It was long winded but simple, really. It was all about fruit sales.
 
jammyozzy
Hehe, that was possibly the easiest Physics practical exam I've ever done. Thank you exam board! :dopey:

Now I just have to try and learn the whole of C2 in about 4 days. :indiff:
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Agreed. Did you have the spinning light thingy for Q1 and the springs for Q2?


C1/C2 monday.... arrrghhh.
 
Nah, we're doing a different specification to most other schools (AQA Spec. B). In the words of our teacher, "I don't like space, so we're doing the syllabus without space." :indiff: Our praticials were the flow rate of salt and sugar, hanging weights off of a ruler and tooling about with resistors.

I think one of my friends did the same practical as you though, something about a spring connected to another spring, and hanging weights off of it?
 
Oh god that was a nasty C2 exam. I started panicking when I couldn't do 3 of the questions at first, but I suddenly had a spark of brilliance in the last 15 minutes and finished with about a minute to spare. It could have gone better. :indiff:

Still, I had a bit of fun in General Studies afterwards. Being myself I had Monty Python and the Holy Grail going around in my head all throught the exam, and when I found I had missed a page in the answer booklet I proceeded to write 'Intermission' at the head of the page and fill it with stick men fighting. :dunce:
 
I get so stressed during exam time. Mine are in two weeks but I still am getting nervous. I am going to a new school next year and I want to do especially good to show them im smart. Oh, I am a sophmore going to be a junior in high school.
 
Heh, I hate the way my exams are timetabled. I have 7 exams spread between today and tomorrow, and then two at the start and end of the 2 school weeks either side. :crazy:
 
On Saturday I had my English exam, this time the University of Michigan one (E.C.C.E.) It was easier than the English one, actually. I'm waiting till next 31 May when I have the English Speaking test, and on 9 June I have the American one. I've done well I think. I am 99% I 'll pass the E.C.C.E., about the F.C.E. I'm no sure at all.


Today I had the Ancient Greek language test, which was ....hard. Apart from the syntactic part (which I think I have done completely wrong), I've done well in the others (translation, grammar etc.)

Geometry is next on Wednesday...
 
I smashed all my exams so far. English has been the toughest, but all are still child's play. I was one of two people in my class (like, graduating class) who got a 100% on the double essay portion of the test.
 
jammyozzy
Oh god that was a nasty C2 exam. I started panicking when I couldn't do 3 of the questions at first, but I suddenly had a spark of brilliance in the last 15 minutes and finished with about a minute to spare. It could have gone better. :indiff:
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Yeah the general opinion amongst my friends was that C2 was much harder than any of the previous we'd seen. The C1 however wasn't too bad.

Also didn't help teh fire alarm went off in C2. But we weren't evacuated because it was a false alarm. However, we did have to sit in the exam listening to this electronic high-low fire alarm going off for near 5 minutes. That's some serious mind bending stuff, it's like it gets inside your head.

All in all, I think I passed, perhaps a low B between the two.
 
Yeah, that was easily the most difficult C2 exam I've faced, and our school gave us practice papers going back to 2001. Still, if everyone else found it hard the grade boundaries will go down some. :)

I had a messed up Tuesday - 4 exams, 2 English and 2 Computing, and they clashed so while I was doing English the rest of my class was doing the Computing papers. The Computing guys finished first ("Whoops, we don't have your English papers! Sit here a minute.") and left, so when I finished it never occured to me that I should be in isolation. Wandered into lunch and overheard a group of worried looking teachers looking for someone called 'Oz-bun.' I got all the way outside of the building until I realised they were mis-pronouncing my name. :dunce:

I got lucky though, the only other boy who was due to take the computing exam that afternoon with me left the school completely. The school let him sit the exam, but OCR can still void his results if they want. :sick:
 
Damn, I'm a bit worried now...

I just done the first of the last Maths exam papers, and realised at the end that it said you must do it in blue or black ink. Only pencil can be used on diagrams. I done it all in pencil. I asked the examiniers what I should do, and they said to keep my fingers crossed... I'll be really annoyed if they don't accept it. I've always been told to do maths in pencil anyway!

I just looked on AQA's website and saw that the other papers I done last year were supposed to be done in ink too, and I done them in pencil. I got a mark back with no notified failure for doing so, so maybe I'll be ok... There's no way you can expect everyone to remember switching over from pen to pencil several times under exam conditions.


So far, I have got absolute top mark in the Number and Statistics exams, and hopefully done well on this exam (although definitely not top mark).

English tomorrow (:(). I can only answer questions properly if there's a definite answer. English is too wishy-washy for my brain... At least I have 4 consistent Cs on my practice papers.
 
Just had the first of my two Maths exams. Today was the non-calculator, which is good for me as i always do best in the non calculators. :) But walking in 5 minutes late due to my darned bus did not help at all, but i finished with 45 minutes to spare, so i guess it didn't matter.

I didn't find it hard which is really concerning for me because, if an exam is easy, then surely there was something hard in there that i missed... or maybe i just found it easy, because it was easy! Either way, i'm feeling pretty confident about it.

Tomorrow morning i have the first of my English papers. I have no clue how to prepare, so i won't. Haha.
 
Queen Bee
Just had the first of my two Maths exams. Today was the non-calculator, which is good for me as i always do best in the non calculators. :) But walking in 5 minutes late due to my darned bus did not help at all, but i finished with 45 minutes to spare, so i guess it didn't matter.

I didn't find it hard which is really concerning for me because, if an exam is easy, then surely there was something hard in there that i missed... or maybe i just found it easy, because it was easy! Either way, i'm feeling pretty confident about it.

Tomorrow morning i have the first of my English papers. I have no clue how to prepare, so i won't. Haha.
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Same as me. Which exam board/level was the maths?

Geography today too, and Graphics and English tomorrow.
 
Queen Bee
Board: AQA
Level: Imtermediate, i think i have the abilty for higher but my teacher won't give me the chance.
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Same here... I asked to take the higher and they wouldn't allow it openly.
 
Queen Bee
Board: AQA
Level: Imtermediate, i think i have the abilty for higher but my teacher won't give me the chance.
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Ahh I see. I did Edexcel Higher.

You'd have prefered Intermediate, honestly. Assuming the AQA paper was anything like Edexcel's, the higher paper would have been very intensive for anyone aiming for anything lower than an A.
 
I'm at a very high grade B. All my coursework has been at a very high grade B - can't get higher because of intermediate. My maths exam was incredably easy, and it bugs me to think that i can do better but i'm just not given the chance. I can aim for an A, but unless i get like full marks on the test then i can't get an A in intermediate.
 
I'm pretty sure the maxinum you can get on an Intermediate paper is a B, even if you score 100%..
 
And so my week of torture begins.

Tuesday - Design and Technology
Wednesday- Spanish
Thursday- Maths (Mechanics)
Friday- Phyics.

The time to be worried has passed.

G.T
There's no way you can expect everyone to remember switching over from pen to pencil several times under exam conditions.
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I'm exactly the same, and I've never had a problem.

Bee
I'm pretty sure the maxinum you can get on an Intermediate paper is a B, even if you score 100%..
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Yep.
 

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