Failed/Past - Exams

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Originally Posted by Tawm

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

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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

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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)

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 ;)

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Originally Posted by Metric1

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

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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

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Originally Posted by 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

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Erm okay, thanks

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Originally Posted by Sticky

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

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ooo thats new to me :o, thanks that sounds good.

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Originally Posted by Professor-Alex

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.

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Thanks :)

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Originally Posted by Galaxay

Not just when you put answers down :rolleyes:

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Huh???

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Originally Posted by 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

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Well done and they do... lol

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Originally Posted by mynameisjake

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)

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Thanks I don't mess around much now tbh

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Originally Posted by 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 ;)

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It helped, ta :)

Basically you're stupid.

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

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Originally Posted by Professor-Alex

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by msb.

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

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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.

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Originally Posted by Metric1

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.

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thanks +rep for advice

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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So you have failed lol :P

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