Maths results.

[Smurfed-]

I was in Maths today and we were talking about the results we're going to get tomorrow. My teacher said that the grade boundaries for a grade C was 153 marks out of 200 for the foundation paper. I was just curious on what other people thought of this and if people are getting results tomorrow to.

[Cerys]

I'm also getting my results tomorrow. I reckon I got about 70 marks... :P

[Jssy]

Anyone know if I am? People said it was tomorrow but then others are saying its next tuesday. I sat Edexcel Higher Maths resit at beginning of march, I think the paper code was 1380/H

[Matthew]

Anyone know if I am? People said it was tomorrow but then others are saying its next tuesday. I sat Edexcel Higher Maths resit at beginning of march, I think the paper code was 1380/H

A friend who resat that paper got his results two weeks ago :P

Good luck, but why didn't you take the foundation when you didn't pass the higher last time? Just curious :P

[Jssy]

A friend who resat that paper got his results two weeks ago :P

Good luck, but why didn't you take the foundation when you didn't pass the higher last time? Just curious :P

Wow none of us have :/ and school won't let me. They want fantastic results so everyone in year 11 has to sithigher unless they have a special needs statement

[Chippiewill]

school won't let me.
You should be able to twist their arm and force them, they really have no right to not let you.

[Jssy]

Ah well I've sat it now and hopefully passed.

Also grade boundaries have been released:
http://www.edexcel.com/iwantto/I%20want%20to%20%20Tasks/1203%20GCSE%20Full%20Course%20(Linear%20Specificat ion)%20Grade%20Boundaries.pdf

[Smurfed-]

Ah well I've sat it now and hopefully passed.

Also grade boundaries have been released:
http://www.edexcel.com/iwantto/I%20want%20to%20%20Tasks/1203%20GCSE%20Full%20Course%20(Linear%20Specificat ion)%20Grade%20Boundaries.pdf

153 marks for a c is quite steep, I was feeling quite confident but I'm not now :(

[Cerys]

Ooh, looking at those grade boundaries, I'm guessing 3H + 4H = Higher tier?

If so, I'm expecting a B/C :D (If I understood that right...) that's made me a bit more confident now!

[Smurfed-]

Ooh, looking at those grade boundaries, I'm guessing 3H + 4H = Higher tier?

If so, I'm expecting a B/C :D (If I understood that right...) that's made me a bit more confident now!

that makes some of us!

[Cerys]

that makes some of us!

I'm sure you'll do fine, hun xx

[Empired]

Everyone in my class got their marks back today.. most people were pretty disappointed with it all :(

Good luck to those who haven't got them back yet?

[Jssy]

Ah I feel so scared now. This is ******** me up because I'm more nervous for tomorrow than results day in august. Not being big headed but I'm great at english and r.e and not so great at science, but maths is rly important (YN)

[Cerys]

We were supposed to get outs today, but the teachers think it's entertaining to give them tomorrow instead! ugh

[Jssy]

Ah so happy! Thought I'd done so bad but I've passed! Me and one of my best friends were the only 2 out of the class that passed, everyone else got D again. So glad I've got my C at last :D

[Cerys]

Ah so happy! Thought I'd done so bad but I've passed! Me and one of my best friends were the only 2 out of the class that passed, everyone else got D again. So glad I've got my C at last :D

Welldonee! :D xx

[Jssy]

Thanks! Good luck for your results too :D

[Jurv]

Ah so happy! Thought I'd done so bad but I've passed! Me and one of my best friends were the only 2 out of the class that passed, everyone else got D again. So glad I've got my C at last :D

well done jess! :) xx

[Jssy]

well done jess! :) xx

Thanks Cam xo

[CaptainAce$$]

Ah so happy! Thought I'd done so bad but I've passed! Me and one of my best friends were the only 2 out of the class that passed, everyone else got D again. So glad I've got my C at last :D

Well done (:

[Cerys]

I wasn't in school today so I didn't get my results :( my friends got a B and the other got 4 marks off of 100% :l lucky person

[Gina]

woo jess!! get some $$ off ya mum for doing well, and save for that pass ;)
goodluck anyone else waiting for their results Jssy;

[Jssy]

aawwwww omg! I love my maths teacher so much. I had such a ****e teacher in year 10 and I had mr dyson for only 8 weeks before the first exam. He took my out of lesson today and i was like oh crap hope he hasn't got my results mixed with someone elses. And he was like Jess I want to congratulate you, I knew you could do it and all your effort has paid off, all the others who have put zero effort in have once again failed'' Going to school on a saturday morning to see him has paid off :P Gonna miss him :(

[Rixion]

I got my results and got an A, I was well chuffed after two resits:)

[lizzieTBH.]

I got a B, I didn't even think I'd got a C I was so happy :). We hadn't even learnt everything so we have to resit. 15 marks off an A hopefully won't be too hard...

[Chippiewill]

I seriously don't get why schools are doing the whole constant resits strategy, massive waste of time and money.

Congratulations to everyone regardless :)

[Jordan]

I seriously don't get why schools are doing the whole constant resits strategy, massive waste of time and money.

Congratulations to everyone regardless :)

I was talking to a teacher the other day and he said that he doesn't like how the current system now (where all the exams are split up into different months) because it gives the students the thought of "if i fail an exam, I can always retake" which I do understand, which is why I think the government are reverting back to the old system where it's all at the end of year 11? Which frankly I would panic about if I was in that situation, so many exams.

Well done you guys, glad you get the results you wanted :)

[Matthew]

I was talking to a teacher the other day and he said that he doesn't like how the current system now (where all the exams are split up into different months) because it gives the students the thought of "if i fail an exam, I can always retake" which I do understand, which is why I think the government are reverting back to the old system where it's all at the end of year 11? Which frankly I would panic about if I was in that situation, so many exams.

Well done you guys, glad you get the results you wanted :)

Most of my exams are iGCSEs and they all just have one exam at the end of the year. Its pretty hectic!

[dbgtz]

I was talking to a teacher the other day and he said that he doesn't like how the current system now (where all the exams are split up into different months) because it gives the students the thought of "if i fail an exam, I can always retake" which I do understand, which is why I think the government are reverting back to the old system where it's all at the end of year 11? Which frankly I would panic about if I was in that situation, so many exams.

Well done you guys, glad you get the results you wanted :)

I pretty much had to do that already apart from (some) Science and French modules. I do think they could have easy been mashed into one and would certainly not have been a panic. I think the problem with exams in my opinion is that teaching is always just thinking about exams (and coursework I suppose) and never actually inspiring and showing anything where what I know could actually do in reality. With something like PE, if you get amazing the results are known by many, yet I think of other subjects and think "wow that's useless" (though I never thought PE as a lesson had a point). For example, RE, what could I do with that? RE teacher? That's all I could genuinely think of. But then subjects with huge career prospects such as maths and the sciences, yet they never really say what paths you can take with it. I think if the higher end paths were shown, it could inspire students to study that subject in future.

But then there's also IT which is widely reported at the moment because of how boring it is in schools, and it really was. The most interesting thing I was "taught" was using dreamweaver design view. I put the "" around taught as my teacher was so moronic, so idiotic, so incompetent that he couldn't teach, and people around me often asked me what to do instead (as I could create better sites then he was "teaching"). Subjects need to become more open to what can be done, and perhaps even crossing relevant subjects which could promote education in both areas. For example, if IT were to be replaced with Computing then math elements would be taught aswell which could aid the less able students in maths.

I went off on a bit of a tangent, but still.

[Lee]

Ah so happy! Thought I'd done so bad but I've passed! Me and one of my best friends were the only 2 out of the class that passed, everyone else got D again. So glad I've got my C at last :D

Well done!! :D

[Smurfed-]

Ok I got a C I'm seriously happy because i was predicted an F XD

[Chippiewill]

I was talking to a teacher the other day and he said that he doesn't like how the current system now (where all the exams are split up into different months) because it gives the students the thought of "if i fail an exam, I can always retake" which I do understand, which is why I think the government are reverting back to the old system where it's all at the end of year 11? Which frankly I would panic about if I was in that situation, so many exams.
It just becomes so diluted and worthless having them spread out, especially with GCSEs which are for most subjects is a matter of memorising some stuff and then repeating it. Also having taken the IGCSE there are a lot of exams but it's hardly an end of the world type event.

[Glen Coco]

compared to A levels, GCSE's are really easy.
but i remembered last year panicking about everything and anything with GCSE's.
i think i got an A in the first maths modual, a c in the second (which I retook and got another A in) and then the last one i got a c o it over alled a a B.
seriously, if I can get a B anyone can! it took me a good month to understand sequencing (like n=p+5) and it turned out to be the easiest thing ever.

[Jssy]

I thought only foundation maths had the exams split in to modules?

[Rixion]

I thought only foundation maths had the exams split in to modules?

they're all in modules but some exams are modular (an exam on each module) and some linear (one big exam at the end on every module - 4 hours)

[Cerys]

Finally got my results today - 2marks off a B

[Matthew]

Finally got my results today - 2marks off a B

Ah unlucky.

Are you gonna get it remarked?

Unfortunately with exams like maths its unusual that you get extra marks though as your answers are either right or wrong, as opposed to subjects like english where someone may think something is not worth a mark whereas another examiner may think it is.

Worth a try surely though :)

[Cerys]

Ah unlucky.

Are you gonna get it remarked?

Unfortunately with exams like maths its unusual that you get extra marks though as your answers are either right or wrong, as opposed to subjects like english where someone may think something is not worth a mark whereas another examiner may think it is.

Worth a try surely though :)

Mm I think I will get a remark. I suppose that I could try and pick up a mark on worded answers. Either way, I'm definitely going to resit it, so if the remark doesn't work, I should get a better mark on the resit! :)

[Recursion]

I seriously don't get why schools are doing the whole constant resits strategy, massive waste of time and money.

Congratulations to everyone regardless :)

Resits saved my ass at the end of my A Levels, the only issue I see with it is what Jordan; said about the "If I fail I can resit" mentality.

I also see the modular system as better than one big exam at the end, it allows students to hone their skills during revision and allows for better examination on key topics in subjects and so gives some students the chance to do well if they're good at one topic (such as Algebra) and bad at another (such as Trigonometry).

[Jssy]

Ohh tbh I wish I'd done foundation at first but not a single person has got a C in the foundation modules so far at my school even though they only have 1 module left? So it put me off anyway