Failed/Past - Exams

[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 ?

[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 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