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The OP will struggle with a-levels particuarlly(sp) if he is specail in the ways he said. have fun being able to pull that off.

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corpsesarefun wrote:Do express A-level maths, express further maths, biology, chemistry and physics.

You will beg for death.

That's pretty much what I did, three sciences and maths(applied), did them to A-level too, not just AS. I enjoyed them all at the time and thought that if I dropped one, as is standard after one year, I would get bored with all the hours off in the middle of the day. You're supposed to use these spare hours to go to the library and study but no one ever did, and I knew I wouldn't either.

Applied maths is quite a bit easier than express maths, with express you are looking at 10 hours of maths a week on top of 5 hours for each of your other subjects.

I managed to get the A Level results I needed without putting in much effort. But to be honest, I could have got a lot better results.
Got BCC in Film, Philosphy & Ethics (of Religious Studies) and Photogreaphy.
Got an A at AS for Geography despite getting a D at GCSE... But I dropped Geo after the exam in the first year, as I thought I did poorly, got a B in coursework but that was easyish, and there was a trip before summer holidays on which second year coursework would be based, and I didn't really want to pay for a trip that wasn't that interesting if i wasn't going to do Geo next year, so I dropped it. Should have waited until results, and knowing teachers for second year because my Photography teacher changed, and my second year one was terrible.

Second year, every essay for Film and Philosphy & Ethics I did, I got an A, better than my first year ones. Got a B in Film overall, 2 marks off an A. C in Philosophy and Ethics, after getting A for AS level (after a retake of the Philosophy exam) managed to completely mess up the exams despite actually doing quite a bit of revision got a C (or B) for the Philosphy section, and a D for the Ethics.... So got a C overall, was really annoying that I actually put the effort in, and only got a C.

Doesn't really make sense, put little effort in and get better marks.....Carried that into my first year of Uni, (doing Film, Radio and Television studies, perfect mix of theory and practical work), got equivalent to 2:1 marks in the one exam, and 4/5 essays and 4 practical work assessments (these were only 1000 words, hate having such a small word limit) I did every essay on the day it was due in....(well I got quotes and did Bibliography the night before, because that part takes the longest, probably also did that the wrong way round....) Not going to do that this year, although for some reason we only have one essay due in first term, then two a couple of weeks after christmas, then 3 before easter, and one practical assessment same time as first two essays, and then another one after easter. And only one exam again, and only two lectures after easter, barley worth bothering with, hope my exam is really early in May, otherwise i'll be waiting around in Canterbury for 2/3 weeks doing nothing...

No offence but none of the subject you listed are Academic.

I just to a Science test. The second question showed a picture of a Ducks foot and asked me to link it to Its use. Ughhh to Swim.

That's an good example of GCSE work.

Really?
Film Studies is essentially English literature, but Films instead of Books.
Philosphy and Ethics? thats pretty academic.
Geography, if thats not academic then what is?

Photography is the only one thats not.

And you sure your taking GCSEs and not Year 3 tests... I didn't have any questions like that, and I only did GCSEs in 2008.

corpsesarefun wrote:Applied maths is quite a bit easier than express maths, with express you are looking at 10 hours of maths a week on top of 5 hours for each of your other subjects.

I don't really know if it's arranged the same way now as when I went. I was offered either double or single maths. Single was either pure+applied, or pure+statistics. These counted a single A-level and took up 5 hours a week like any other A-level. Double maths counted as a two A-levels and took 10 hours a week. You did twice as much pure and both the stats and applied work.

It wouldn't have been physically possible to do three other A-levels and double maths because the timetables would not mesh. Very few things could be taken that would allow for 5 A-levels.

Anyway, if InquisitorVaron wants a challenge he should take the extended maths paper, I went to the classes for that as extra maths practice as they were only a couple of hours a week, but the exam was beyond the impossible as far as I was concerned. I've no shame in saying that's where my maths ability stops.

I am Writing you a Letter of Recommendation so that Maybe you will be Put into a Grammar class and learn Not to Capitalize Random Words In A Sentence.

GCSEs are measurably easier at 5% each year if i recall form reading Bad Science.

My GCSE results sucked i got maximum marks in the exams but as i never bothered with course work it made it no good. I hated coursework, it was rubbish that never proved you knew anything, just that given no real time limit you could write down the correct answer.

Still I'm MCSE qualified now so it didn't do me any real harm

I must one day go sort out evening classes and redo them if it could be exam only. My scores are embarassing seeing how easy the papers are now.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Applied maths is quite a bit easier than express maths, with express you are looking at 10 hours of maths a week on top of 5 hours for each of your other subjects.

I don't really know if it's arranged the same way now as when I went. I was offered either double or single maths. Single was either pure+applied, or pure+statistics. These counted a single A-level and took up 5 hours a week like any other A-level. Double maths counted as a two A-levels and took 10 hours a week. You did twice as much pure and both the stats and applied work.

It wouldn't have been physically possible to do three other A-levels and double maths because the timetables would not mesh. Very few things could be taken that would allow for 5 A-levels.

Anyway, if InquisitorVaron wants a challenge he should take the extended maths paper, I went to the classes for that as extra maths practice as they were only a couple of hours a week, but the exam was beyond the impossible as far as I was concerned. I've no shame in saying that's where my maths ability stops.

I think your extended maths is the same as my further maths.

Doing 5 A-levels at high quality (A or A* grades) is generally regarded as an almost superhuman feat.

Dreadwinter wrote:I am Writing you a Letter of Recommendation so that Maybe you will be Put into a Grammar class and learn Not to Capitalize Random Words In A Sentence.

Are you an Idiot? I do that for Aesthetic reasons.
A looks far better than a. Like wise with I's.

If I'm writing an essay I wouldn't do so.

As someone who took the GCSE tests about six years ago now, I'm not as distant from them as some (although not as close as others). What you tend to find is that when it is said the exams are easier, you're actually hearing a somewhat bad representation of precisely HOW they are easier.

What used to be the case was that questions on each topic were divided into easy, medium, and stonking pigs ear difficult. So on one hand, on a maths paper, you'd have a basic multiplication question, but flick through to the difficult algebra questions, and you'd be asked to do multiple simultaneous equations.

The point of the system is to push out as many 'pass rates' as they can at the basic C Grade, so that ministers can claim education is getting better. To that end, they simply add more of the easy, and less of the difficult. However, there's always going to be a number of the difficult ones involved.


And to the chap who started this thread, you may not realise it (that being one of the symptoms of Asperger's, high functioning or otherwise), but you're coming across as very over the top and 'look at me and how smart and tough I am!'. Then when you start going on about just doing it to study reactions, it looks like you're just desperately trying to save face, and don't realise that it doesn't impress people.

If you just tone it down a little bit, you might realise that there are people on this forum who are equally as intelligent to you (if not possibly superior, I've met some smart people who wargame), who don't feel the need to post their IQ.

InquisitorVaron wrote:
Are you an Idiot? I do that for Aesthetic reasons.
A looks far better than a. Like wise with I's.

If I'm writing an essay I wouldn't do so.

Yeah, perfect example again of how you may not have the perfect social skills you think you do. Plus, there's meant to be a comma between 'essay' and 'I'. Ignoring the general bad grammar of the sentence on top of that.
You might wanna relax a little before throwing around direct insults.

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What's that? You didn't understand?

Sorry I choose to face roll for aesthetic reasons.

If I came across like that I sincerely apologise, It wasn't intended. Once again the Reactions wasn't intended in the way you've described but I can see how it comes across that way. I will vet my posts for anything that could be miscontrued as Narcissitic.

The reason I study reactions is to help not make the saame mistakes. That and It's interesting how the Brain works.

There is also an amount of Jealousy considering the more barbed replies, I thank the people that have kept it calm.

Nobody here is jealous of someone that just randomly appears and claims to have a high IQ, nobody at all.

However cocky little kids who think they are better than everyone else are extremely annoying and that is exactly what you came across as regardless whether it is an apt description or otherwise.

We're done here.

A. This is not the place to conduct whatever "social experiments" you might claim to be doing.
B. We require posters to be polite to each other.

I'm sure this has been very educational for many forum members anyway.