SATS for year 9...

[sarey]

do they matter for your career & stuff? or am i just worried and nervous for no reason? i'm not even at school to take them, i'm really nervous about them so i'm avoiding going in. :s not the best of my ideas...

so do they matter or are they just like year 6 sats, to see where you're at ect?

[shiver]

i have them today and i'm fairly worried, i think they just depend on the set you're in next year for gcse.

[velocity]

they do decide sets, but you can move up and down groups if you do better/worse. all they are is to show how well the school is doing, they're the exact same as yer 6 sats, nothing to worry about tbh.

[cocaine]

they dont count for any jobs or careers.

;)

[sarey]

oww, so ive just skipped school today for no reason then? lol...

see, i was really worried, still am a bit, so when i think im gonna fail at stuff i say stuff it and dont bother, just how i work. :p

meh. now i dunno whatta dooo...

[Sly]

It's not to late to go school, seeing as the exam for everyone I think is at 12:00.

My school gets a "study leave" so they called it :D.

[sarey]

uhu, i go to a residential school, & the taxi just left & moms out till 4pm. ;[

so im stuck now.

[--ss--]

Yes they do but not much , they decide what sort of papers you take for GCSE's , if you do bad in SATs you get put into a lower set and won't be tuaght as much therefore effecting your GCSE grade , if you get less then a C then your very unlikely to get a good job

[sarey]

o.O

k that worries me.

:(

[Pawf]

Yes they do but not much , they decide what sort of papers you take for GCSE's , if you do bad in SATs you get put into a lower set and won't be tuaght as much therefore effecting your GCSE grade , if you get less then a C then your very unlikely to get a good job

Not serious at all. You're making them out to be the be all and end all. If you do bad in SATs then you will start off in lower sets for GCSE but if you do well on modular exams then there is no reason why you won't be moved up. The schools is there to do what is best for you. If that means teaching you until you get a D then fine, if it means teaching you for an A, also fine.

You shouldn't skip them though, still important to test the school o.O

[benjamin]

They count on your sets for next year, they're pretty pointless because next year you will be moved around if they think you're not in the right group anyway.

We got made to take them, told us they'd put us into sets, but no, we got put into mixed classes anyway :rolleyes: So it was oh so very pointless.

[Pawf]

They count on your sets for next year, they're pretty pointless because next year you will be moved around if they think you're not in the right group anyway.

We got made to take them, told us they'd put us into sets, but no, we got put into mixed classes anyway :rolleyes: So it was oh so very pointless.

Lol your school pwnd you :P

What do you mean "got made to take them" they are complusary anyway, the school doesn't have a choice.

[benjamin]

Lol your school pwnd you :P

What do you mean "got made to take them" they are complusary anyway, the school doesn't have a choice.
Well, you get what I ment. After all the stress of being told they are really important, they deemed to be pretty pointless in the end.

[sarey]

lol that puts some stress off me at least.

[benjamin]

lol that puts some stress off me at least.
Seriously, if worsts comes to the worst, you'll be put in a low set (If they put you in sets..:rolleyes:), and then in January, you start having modules, there is a science one, then followed by a maths one, and english well I have english exams this week I guess this will move people around.

It's GCSEs you need to worry about, and you don't have them for a longggg time yet.

[sarey]

okai :D but im not taking the sats so whatll happen then? just presume & put into low :(

[benjamin]

Are you taking any type of tests?

[Pawf]

Are you taking any type of tests?

He's waggin :P

[jackass]

We have just this second finished our Science Paper 1, its break so i'm on the net. ;)

[sarey]

ooer was it hard?

[Carlos]

SAT's aren't important, they just show how well the school is doing and what you know and don't know.

[cocaine]

i generally do very crap in tests but i did the 5-7 maths paper today and it was easyyy ;)

[sarey]

i did 4-6. was quite easy, dificult questions but overall oki.

just wanted to know if sats were important, already missed science, maths done, english to go. :(

[Eamonn]

They are if you think about them in the long term, for example at my school we do modular maths and each set does a different module based on their ability and you have to pass one to go to the other so if you done bad in your maths SAT then and was placed in a lower set you would be doing lower maths modules and wouldn't be able to acheive as high as a grade you could.