Results Day - March 2012

[Shar]

I got two B's one mark off an A in one and two in another :@

[Matthew]

I think it's mostly that people on Habbox are pretty smart because they don't spend their time out on the estate doing drugs, they sit on their computer playing Habbo and then compulsively study for their exams.

That and 100/100 isn't actually full marks because of the way UMS works, I think I could have gotten 70/72 in actual marks and still gotten 100/100.

Yeah this. For my biology, I know for a fact that I didn't get full marks because I made a stupid mistake, but thanks to UMS I got 100/100.

[Mathew]

I think it's mostly that people on Habbox are pretty smart because they don't spend their time out on the estate doing drugs, they sit on their computer playing Habbo and then compulsively study for their exams.

lol, I often ponder about whether there's some actual truth in this. For years, I never really thought "smart people" would use Habbox but after reading the results threads every year since I joined, it's clear to see that it's not the case.

Results Day went really well for me.
English Language Resit - A
General Studies - A
General Studies - A
Sociology Unit 1 Resit - C
Sociology Unit 3 - A

I managed to get a higher A in English Language, thankfully!

The Sociology Unit 1 resit was a bit messy, although I got a B in summer so I'll probably stick with that... not sure yet.
Thankfully, I got 79/80 UMS marks in the Sociology Unit 3 exam. When you add that to 118/120 UMS marks in Unit 2, I only need to get around half marks in the final exam to get the A.

Oh and to top it all off, I've just got back from the Batley vs. Leigh rugby game where we won, wooo!

[beth]

can someone explain this ums to me it all sounds very intriguing.

[Mathew]

can someone explain this ums to me it all sounds very intriguing.

UMS stands for Uniform Mark Scale and it's the way of standardising the grades across all subjects. For example, you may sit an exam in January but then get a higher raw mark in the summer; this looks good on the surface, but you need to take into account the fact that the summer exam may have simply been easier - hence you convert it to a UMS mark.

This is especially good because you can work out how many UMS marks you need in the final module in order to get the grade you want (like my Sociology example in the other post). It can take quite a bit of working out as you need to add the different UMS marks from the different modules, then take it away from the amount you need for an A. There's a chart with the UMS boundaries, depending on whether it's a two, three, four or six unit course.

[Samantha]

Had a talk with my media teacher today, he was shocked that I ended up with a U for the exam (1 mark off passing urgh) and said without resitting I can get a D which is what I wanted anyway I just need to make sure I get about 75 marks out of 100 for my coursework !

[Shar]

lol, I often ponder about whether there's some actual truth in this. For years, I never really thought "smart people" would use Habbox but after reading the results threads every year since I joined, it's clear to see that it's not the case.

Results Day went really well for me.
English Language Resit - A
General Studies - A
General Studies - A
Sociology Unit 1 Resit - C
Sociology Unit 3 - A

I managed to get a higher A in English Language, thankfully!

The Sociology Unit 1 resit was a bit messy, although I got a B in summer so I'll probably stick with that... not sure yet.
Thankfully, I got 79/80 UMS marks in the Sociology Unit 3 exam. When you add that to 118/120 UMS marks in Unit 2, I only need to get around half marks in the final exam to get the A.

Oh and to top it all off, I've just got back from the Batley vs. Leigh rugby game where we won, wooo!

Well done Mathew!

I did quite bad in my re-take too but I did better in it in June so I'm just leaving it now. I've been working out UMS too and I'm going to have to work harder than I've ever worked before to get an A in all my subjects if not though I'd be happy if not a little bit disappointed, with B's.

[Cerys]

My first results day was okayyy

Physics - B
Geography - A*

Pretty pleased with myself, but my mum still thinks a B isn't good enough, for the job I want...

[dbgtz]

My first results day was okayyy

Physics - B
Geography - A*

Pretty pleased with myself, but my mum still thinks a B isn't good enough, for the job I want...

Wait... how old are you? XD Also it depends what job you want.

[Cerys]

Wait... how old are you? XD Also it depends what job you want.

13, almost 14, but our school starts GCSEs early and does them in a really weird way.
And I want to be a clinical biochemist, so I need A's in everything apparantly x.x