I get my A-Level results.

Fucking hell.

Spookymuffin said:

how do u think you've done??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...147675.stm

I bet ya got A's. If not your parents should be pissed. Did you take 4 subjects?

PANDURITO said:

Yeah but I did hard A-Levels!

jami0mckay said:

I did 4 A-Levels.

I'd love AAAA, but I think I'll get AAAB.

Worst case scenario I'll get AABC. I need AAB for University.

I'm just getting stupid nervous pangs. I hate that I did maths...I could have had AAAA. Wouldn't that look nice?

Fauxie said:

thanks!

I did French, Spanish, Maths and Economics.

when tomorrow will u know?
can u go online to check these days?

Spookymuffin said:

You went to Eton, right? That's like automatic straight A's surely.

I went to Cleeve Comp. but basically everyone from my primary school whose parents sent them to Pates Grammar School instead got A's. I figured it was the general snootiness, peer pressure, decent teaching and hard-ass parents thing.

I can't even remember what I got. BBB, I think. I was pretty pleased because I honestly feared the worst. You're probably doing the same. I'm sure you'll get at least what you need and probably better.

Spookymuffin said:

I got ABBA

jami0mckay said:

Usually you have to phone, but our school emails them to us as well. 7am tomorrow.

Spookymuffin said:

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, and my lucky heather, and my four leaved rabbits horseshoe.
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Fauxie said:

If only! No doubt it helps, and I'm eternally grateful for that, but here's the problem - you get over-educated, and so when writing, say, my economics A-level, I'm constantly wondering if the stuff I'm slipping into the exam is relevant to the mark scheme, and whether the outsourced exam marker in India will know what I'm talking about even though what I'm saying isn't in the syllabus.

At least, that's how I fucked up my economics AS-level.

jami0mckay said:

Don't go overboard or anything...I mean, well, I'm not gonna repay you.

PANDURITO said:

Assclown.

Spookymuffin said:

dammit...but the kids need new shoes

jami0mckay said:

WELL THEN YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE 'EM!

Spookymuffin said:

I think if i had children I would train them to be cobblers, and put them in shoemaking competitions all over the world...

jami0mckay said:

I think it would be more impressive if you trained Squirrels to do that and left the kids to pursue Space Travel.

Spookymuffin said:

you see thats why your gonna do well in your a-levels!

Spookymuffin said:

Yep, it's knowing what they want more than anything. I went into a bit of a phase pre-A-levels where I was railing against the whole system and would go on about how dull it was to have a formula for doing well at A-Levels. Our history teacher taught us this rigid way of answering questions and while it undoubtedly worked quite well I just couldn't be arsed with it all. I followed it but my heart just wasn't in it that summer. If only I'd just have shut up and worked a bit harder, but then I knew I only needed 3 B's. Still, I was a twat.

Of all the scenarios, I bet you get towards the top of your expectations rather than the bottom. Did you do badly in your mock exams? My whole history class got C's or worse, and many of us got a D or an E. When it came to the real thing everyone got C or higher.

GCSEs are more fun than A-Levels.

Fauxie said:

I was the same during my AS' - particularly for Spanish and Economics. I got an A in Spanish so I was like HA IN YOUR FACE FUCKHEAD TEACHER, but then a B in Economics due to getting a D-grade in one of the modules. - I'd never gotten a B before, let alone a D.

So I ate humble pie and followed the syllabus for Economics word-for-word this year, and was getting As in my mocks which leaves me hopeful. I'm not too worried about French and Spanish; I love the subjects, they're what I'm doing at University, and the A-Level wasn't too hard.

Maths on the other hand, oh boy. Good Christ I am shit at maths. AWFUL. I had to retake Common Entrance maths to get into Eton, and even then got a D or worse and was placed in the bottom set. I worked my way up and managed to glean an A* in GCSE maths by the skin of my teeth (and think how easy GCSE maths is!) then did AS maths and was like OOOOH SHIT WHAT HAVE I DONE?! B-grade. It gets worse, I committed to Maths A-Level after being pressured into it by my Housemaster and being told it wasn't that hard. WASN'T THAT HARD? FUCK THAT SHIT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! CALCULUS, WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK.

In my last mock before my A-Level, I got a U. U stands for Ungradable. And that was me TRYING.

I put in more revision than Paul did for the Bible, so I'm praying for a B, but there's a good chance I'll get a C.

jami0mckay said:

Spookymuffin said:

@ all of your post.

I was always terrible at maths. I got a C at GCSE, the only C I got, and felt triumphant at that, so please don't even mention A-Level maths. I just can't even imagine.

If you were doing subjects like history or English I'd say if you towed the line an A would be automatic, but I imagine subjects like maths and economics are a different kettle of fish? Isn't it all so dull though? I can see why you'd love languages. It's easy to be passionate about learning them. I didn't gain a real love for learning languages until I came out here. I wish it'd happened a bit earlier and I could've taken a language or two at A-Level because I think it's easier to find a natural motivation for it.

On second thoughts I'm just talking out of my arse regarding the motivation. I guess I just prefer languages. Some people love maths. They should probably be shot.

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stop stressing yourself out, there's no point in it now.

Fauxie said:

English

History

I can't do that stuff! It's all grey-area; there's no right and wrong, just opinions! FUCKING HATE THAT SHIT FUCK THAT FUCK HISTORY FUCK YOU CHURCHILL AND YOUR FAT BOLLOCKS, FUCK YOU SHAKESPEARE AND YOUR ODD ENGLISH.

*ahem*

No, I need to know I'm getting things right. Economics and Maths are easy like that, Maths in particular - but ONLY if you know what you're doing, which I didn't at A-Level. Economics on the other hand, I did - and I felt I was writing gold during some parts of the exam. - It also has a ridiculously low A-grade boundary because Joe Public look at the time pressure of the A-Level (3 50-mark questions in 1 hour) and shit themselves then pass out and die.

Languages are easy because I have a language brain. It just clicks. I find it easier to analyse and critique foreign literature than I do English.

Spookymuffin said:

good luck.

Spookymuffin said:

There's no grey area in history and English as far as writing essays about it at A-Level. You just learn a few bits and bobs, basically almost fully formulated answers that your teacher has already given you while you've read through the books, and then you use the state, quote, analyse formula. Another good thing at A-Level about subjects like English lit. and history is that being able to write well in general is worth a grade higher all by itself. It shouldn't be, but it just always is. Those who mark the papers just can't help it.

Oh, and in English lit. you bring the books in with you and you can make sure beforehand that you've filled every available space on the relevant pages with full chunks of essays you'll potentially have to write. I found that worked a treat. I just had a bit of a tendency to stop writing and look around for a while and ponder at how surreal it all was, the gravity of the whole scene, before considering why the fuck I was wasting time, only to continue to just look around even more precisely because of that and for my own amusement. Twat.

Fauxie said:

Not anymore you can't! And you have to write critique, and have to quote famous critics exactly. The more critics you get in, the better your grade. My friends though, being brilliant english writers (what else from Eton *smug, arrogant, posh cunt face*), made up critics and got away with it.

Fauxie said:

wait, in your standardized literature exams you have books with you during?