Failed/Past - Exams

[msb.]

I passed, yay year 10 exam, I think it means nothing but some teachers say it goes for collage applications...

but...

I just passed... I am well chuffed lol cuz I fail @ some subjects that are important but it is upto me to improve tbh:


When I mean fail, I mean fail badly lol... anyways for maths only like 2-5 people passed in our class as the teacher doesn't really do a good job @ teaching, various students have complained to the head of maths
(also our head of our year) I was thinking to offer to move down a group but then thought I may find it too easy... and that group just messes around I think. Grr I am always stupid when I put the answers down lol... sum lame answers I wrote but I suppose I am in the learning process.

My questions are:


Does the results from May and June exams go to collage applications?
Did you find year 10 german exam easy/hard? I found it hard tbh.
Are these exams pointless/do they mean anything?
Shall I move down a group where may mess around and I don't know if the teacher is really good?

[Recursion]

GCSEs (Year 10 - Year 11 exams) decide your whole life!

[msb.]

GCSEs (Year 10 - Year 11 exams) decide your whole life!
Yes but my exams ain't all GCSEs

[BowTies1]

GCSEs (Year 10 - Year 11 exams) decide your whole life!



that quote is wrong i decides a part of your life not your whole life there is plenty of opportunities you life does not depend on gcse's

[Recursion]

You get crap GCSEs, you won't get into a good Uni or get a good job.

[Tristan]

Dudes, he's not talking about GCSE's.
He's talking end of year 10 exams.
I found them pointless, but if you're in bad groups for most subjects you should try hard so that for the next year (which is very important), you're in the best group that you can be in.

I found year 10 exams mostly easy. English and History I failed (and am doing so again this year), but that's due to my awful speed at writing. :( :P
It's good for exam practice though.

But year 10 exams have nothing to do with college applications, lol.
Well, they kind of help you in their interviews. Some places do look at your year 11 mocks and then year 10 end of years. But I found that they looked at my yr 11 mocks and predicted grades for me.

No @ da last one. obv.

[msb.]

Dudes, he's not talking about GCSE's.
He's talking end of year 10 exams.
I found them pointless, but if you're in bad groups for most subjects you should try hard so that for the next year (which is very important), you're in the best group that you can be in.

I found year 10 exams mostly easy. English and History I failed (and am doing so again this year), but that's due to my awful speed at writing. :( :P
It's good for exam practice though.

But year 10 exams have nothing to do with college applications, lol.
Well, they kind of help you in their interviews. Some places do look at your year 11 mocks and then year 10 end of years. But I found that they looked at my yr 11 mocks and predicted grades for me.

No @ da last one. obv.
+rep thanks for great long reply :)

If planning to return, I don't really like rep so you know lol...

oh so it is the mocks they do :O

YAY i hope so lol, our teachers say year 10 but must be mocks in december year 11...

Also I think I will fail:

English and science

I have failed:

Maths - So has most of class tbh, second highest set, teacher as said before

Dt food - dunno how I did tbh, wasn't even hard just I wasn't very detailed

Bcs - I ain't exactly rubbish @ computers but gosh I have actually learnt since then tbh... just yet again stupid answers I put down

[The Professor]

The rumour on the grapevine is that if you're genuinely ill during your GCSEs to the point that you can't take them, the internal year 10 exam results can be used to estimate your grade and you'll still get a GCSE. So in that respect, they do matter.

[Tristan]

The rumour on the grapevine is that if you're genuinely ill during your GCSEs to the point that you can't take them, the internal year 10 exam results can be used to estimate your grade and you'll still get a GCSE. So in that respect, they do matter.

I swear they only look at yr 11 mocks?

[Discharge Man]

Year 10 exams, if not mock or anything, mean crap all.

[Invent]

No, no, no. I'm sure that year 10 exams are ONLY to decide your sets for year 11. People think they are really important exams because of this, but the truth is, your school will almost definately mess around with the sets only a few months into year 11. So if you do really bad on them and get moved to a lower set but do good classwork/coursework, they'll move you up a set or two.

[Mr.Sam]

I'm quite sure year 10 exams decide what groups you will go into for year 11, like if your over performing you'll get moved up and will do a 'harder' tier.

like you would move from inter to higher
foundation to higher
foundation to inter or what ever.

I'm quite sure of this because I was moved into top set science when I started year 11 following the year 10 exams.

so if you do crap you'll most likely get put into a easier exam so that you have a chance to pass instead of doing a hard exam (for you) and failing.

[msb.]

but my school has already said these sets in year 10 will be the SAME for year 11 :o?

[Metric1]

When I mean fail, I mean fail badly lol... anyways for maths only like 2-5 people passed in our class as the teacher doesn't really do a good job @ teaching, various students have complained to the head of maths



yeah by year ten you should know the difference between "past" and "passed".

[Galaxay]

There was something on news last week, someone left school with next to no awards cause they got kicked outta classes n their filthy rich..So yeh..

and idk cos fortunately im not english

[Plank]

My sixth form only wanted year 11 predicted grades and year 11 mock results

[The Professor]

I swear they only look at yr 11 mocks?

Mmm, that might be it actually.

So in answer to the thread starter: no, not really :P Internal exams are fleetingly used to decide sets, but I believe a lot of that is based on teacher intuition as well as the results so they aren't critical.

[Galaxay]

I was thinking to offer to move down a group but then thought I may find it too easy... and that group just messes around I think. Grr I am always stupid when I put the answers down lol... sum lame answers I wrote but I suppose I am in the learning process.


Not just when you put answers down :rolleyes:

[Abbie.]

i didnt revise for my gcses, and i did well lol

well, if u think 5 C's and 3B's is good

wish i revised

but gcse's dont matter if your sitting ALevels

[Mr.Sam]

googles founders are college drop outs, oh well.

Just because they did well without good grades doesn't mean there is a easy route to a fortune and that if you get crap grades you'll be successful.


There was something on news last week, someone left school with next to no awards cause they got kicked outta classes n their filthy rich..So yeh..

and idk cos fortunately im not english

[:Edzy]

GCSEs (Year 10 - Year 11 exams) decide your whole life!

Mehhhh. i'm only predicted 5 A Grades, 8 B grades and 1 C and i'm going to one of the best colleges in the country

even with straight b grades i'd get in, possibly even straight Cs

[Meanies]

I passed, yay year 10 exam, I think it means nothing but some teachers say it goes for collage applications...

but...

I just passed... I am well chuffed lol cuz I fail @ some subjects that are important but it is upto me to improve tbh:


When I mean fail, I mean fail badly lol... anyways for maths only like 2-5 people passed in our class as the teacher doesn't really do a good job @ teaching, various students have complained to the head of maths
(also our head of our year) I was thinking to offer to move down a group but then thought I may find it too easy... and that group just messes around I think. Grr I am always stupid when I put the answers down lol... sum lame answers I wrote but I suppose I am in the learning process.

My questions are:


Does the results from May and June exams go to collage applications?
Did you find year 10 german exam easy/hard? I found it hard tbh.
Are these exams pointless/do they mean anything?
Shall I move down a group where may mess around and I don't know if the teacher is really good?

I cba to read other replies so might've already been said.

The exams you do in year 10 won't be used for your college application (I don't think). The ones that my school sent off were those from the year 11 mock exams.

I really didn't care about my german, and still don't. I wouldn't really say it was hard. The exams are so easy, depends what question you get on the day. As for speaking, just make it up! I blagged my way through it and she said I'd done alright. I was predicted an A in year 10... yet I got a D in y11 mocks.

They are quite pointless but may come in useful. Year 10 exams are mainly to produce figures for your predicted grades in your GCSEs and to maybe change the sets you are in for subjects. Also, if you are unable to attend a proper exam in Year 11, the result from your year 11 mock will be used, yet if you were unable to attend that one, the result from your year 10 exams will be used. The only way this will happen is if something is seriously wrong with you and you cannot physically get to the exam, like being in hospital - not just feeling sick or something on the day.

If you want to do well, and are doing well in the class you are currently in, I'd stay in the current one. All you'll get from moving down a class to 'mess around' is a little bit of fun with some friends, yet you'll feel the difference when it comes to doom day (exam day)

[Jay.]

Basically some of the exams are kinda "pointless" because they are practice exams. However anything "double-award" means it counts for example science.. I do double award science so you get for example a B in yr 10 and C in yr 11 they both will go to college. But other than double-awards it's practice.. Howver the mock GCSE's decide on your predicted grade, this means that if your sick for your GCSE exams then you'll get your predicted grades but you've gotta have a resonable explanation to not do your exams... For example if you get an A* in most of your exams, and you've gotta headache, it wont work. But if you get an A* and you get hit by a truck then yes it matters.. So basically they are good yet bad.

Hope that helped ;)

[msb.]

yeah by year ten you should know the difference between "past" and "passed".
I think I may be correct, dunno... past is like "I went past the shop"

I am talking about past tense, so I said passed... dunno I may be wrong


There was something on news last week, someone left school with next to no awards cause they got kicked outta classes n their filthy rich..So yeh..

and idk cos fortunately im not english
Erm okay, thanks


My sixth form only wanted year 11 predicted grades and year 11 mock results
ooo thats new to me :o, thanks that sounds good.


Mmm, that might be it actually.

So in answer to the thread starter: no, not really :P Internal exams are fleetingly used to decide sets, but I believe a lot of that is based on teacher intuition as well as the results so they aren't critical.
Thanks :)


Not just when you put answers down :rolleyes:
Huh???

i didnt revise for my gcses, and i did well lol

well, if u think 5 C's and 3B's is good

wish i revised

but gcse's dont matter if your sitting ALevels
Well done and they do... lol


I cba to read other replies so might've already been said.

The exams you do in year 10 won't be used for your college application (I don't think). The ones that my school sent off were those from the year 11 mock exams.

I really didn't care about my german, and still don't. I wouldn't really say it was hard. The exams are so easy, depends what question you get on the day. As for speaking, just make it up! I blagged my way through it and she said I'd done alright. I was predicted an A in year 10... yet I got a D in y11 mocks.

They are quite pointless but may come in useful. Year 10 exams are mainly to produce figures for your predicted grades in your GCSEs and to maybe change the sets you are in for subjects. Also, if you are unable to attend a proper exam in Year 11, the result from your year 11 mock will be used, yet if you were unable to attend that one, the result from your year 10 exams will be used. The only way this will happen is if something is seriously wrong with you and you cannot physically get to the exam, like being in hospital - not just feeling sick or something on the day.

If you want to do well, and are doing well in the class you are currently in, I'd stay in the current one. All you'll get from moving down a class to 'mess around' is a little bit of fun with some friends, yet you'll feel the difference when it comes to doom day (exam day)
Thanks I don't mess around much now tbh


Basically some of the exams are kinda "pointless" because they are practice exams. However anything "double-award" means it counts for example science.. I do double award science so you get for example a B in yr 10 and C in yr 11 they both will go to college. But other than double-awards it's practice.. Howver the mock GCSE's decide on your predicted grade, this means that if your sick for your GCSE exams then you'll get your predicted grades but you've gotta have a resonable explanation to not do your exams... For example if you get an A* in most of your exams, and you've gotta headache, it wont work. But if you get an A* and you get hit by a truck then yes it matters.. So basically they are good yet bad.

Hope that helped ;)
It helped, ta :)

[Galaxay]

Basically you're stupid.

Edited by Hitman (Forum Super Moderator): Please don't be rude to other members, thanks. ;)

[cocaine]

The rumour on the grapevine is that if you're genuinely ill during your GCSEs to the point that you can't take them, the internal year 10 exam results can be used to estimate your grade and you'll still get a GCSE. So in that respect, they do matter.

correct, if you cannot do your GCSEs in year 11, they use them as well as coursework as evidence that you can pass. if they deem you can pass, they'll award you C's across the board, they cannot give you any higher.

[Metric1]

I think I may be correct, dunno... past is like "I went past the shop"

If you are referring to a period of time before now or a distance, use “past”: “the team performed well in the past,” “the police car drove past the suspect’s house.” If you are referring to the action of passing, however, you need to use “passed“: “when John passed the gravy, he spilled it on his lap,” “the teacher was astonished that none of the students had passed the test.” Remember that no matter however you have ”passed the time” you have never “past the time,” not even in the distant past.

[msb.]

If you are referring to a period of time before now or a distance, use “past”: “the team performed well in the past,” “the police car drove past the suspect’s house.” If you are referring to the action of passing, however, you need to use “passed“: “when John passed the gravy, he spilled it on his lap,” “the teacher was astonished that none of the students had passed the test.” Remember that no matter however you have ”passed the time” you have never “past the time,” not even in the distant past.
thanks +rep for advice

[Frodo13.]

I've never failed an exam in my life. I did get DD at GCSE Science, however I don't like to mention it and in my eyes, I see it as a failure.

[msb.]

I've never failed an exam in my life. I did get DD at GCSE Science, however I don't like to mention it and in my eyes, I see it as a failure.
So you have failed lol :P

I hate failing gosh lol, I tired aswell but I am going to improve.

[!d-generation-x]

I can tell you now, I'm doing my GCSE's now! GCSE's are important but do not decide your life. You do need them so try harder in exams. Also, some GCSE's in Year 10 DO matter. These may be very important to your life. I'd like to say now good luck in your exams next year I hope you get to do what you want in life.
P.S. GCSE's do go on college applications!

[Tristan]

I can tell you now, I'm doing my GCSE's now! GCSE's are important but do not decide your life. You do need them so try harder in exams. Also, some GCSE's in Year 10 DO matter. These may be very important to your life. I'd like to say now good luck in your exams next year I hope you get to do what you want in life.
P.S. GCSE's do go on college applications!

:blue_doub

He's not talking about GCSE's.

[stickwitu]

i only got like Cs in year 10 exams but managed to get mostly A's & B's in the actual gcse's - nout to worry about.

[msb.]

i only got like Cs in year 10 exams but managed to get mostly A's & B's in the actual gcse's - nout to worry about.
I ain't worrying but I seen what you mean, ta :)

Erm yh I just flopped tbh lol