Exams

[koaku]

I'm in exam period too...hopefully i finished all of them...but there still the last one the 28th...I already passed Math, Biology and I.T/Stat. the final exam is about bioinformatics..*HARDDDDDDD* LOL...

[noodle]

Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y

Yea but doesn't having to do like 5 AS levels increase the work load in the first year?
I mean, doing 3 A levels was troublesome enough for me

most people still do 3 A Levels... I don't know the reason for AS, but I thought it was to give us a choice... because after one year, you're meant to drop one of your subjects... The English education system is too specific unlike others, eg, international baccalaureate (which is a lot harder in the sense that it has a lot mroe subjects)

[MissMisa]

Originally Posted by james1254

would you prefer to do that non-calculator paper or two 2 hour papers of algebra :P and my first one is on Thursday, but I'm not that worried i just have to remember to read the questions properly ( I normally don't but i got an A in the mock with loads of stupid mistakes so if we get an easy paper i should be able to get an A*, knowing my luck thats not going to happen). The only one I'm worried about is French I'm going to have to revise like crazy just to get B on that :P The only one I'm not really going to have to revise is Japanese i wish all the subjects were as easy as GCSE Japanese :P

There is a paper purely for alegra?! I'm actually pretty good at algebra. The GCSE higher paper was full of it, that's probably how I scraped a C. I just can't work stuff out in my head, it annoys me! >.<

[MissMisa]

Originally Posted by noodle

most people still do 3 A Levels... I don't know the reason for AS, but I thought it was to give us a choice... because after one year, you're meant to drop one of your subjects... The English education system is too specific unlike others, eg, international baccalaureate (which is a lot harder in the sense that it has a lot mroe subjects)

Hm, I don't know. I do 4 AS Levels now and I'm going to continue them all in A2 Level depending on how well I do.

[Hiroki]

I've done my exams allready ^^

[noodle]

Originally Posted by MissMisa

Hm, I don't know. I do 4 AS Levels now and I'm going to continue them all in A2 Level depending on how well I do.

You're an exception then...Most colleges/sixth forms don't allow you to do that... They allowed me to do 4 A-levels because french was easy and it was an evening class... So in fact, I was only able to fit in 3 A-levels during the day... But for you, the more the merrier ... it'll help you greatly with university!!!

[MissMisa]

Originally Posted by noodle

You're an exception then...Most colleges/sixth forms don't allow you to do that... They allowed me to do 4 A-levels because french was easy and it was an evening class... So in fact, I was only able to fit in 3 A-levels during the day... But for you, the more the merrier ... it'll help you greatly with university!!!

Yeah I guess so ^_^

The course I'm doing only requires 160 UCAS points, but hey the more I've got the better chance I have of getting it

[kitski]

Originally Posted by Hisuwashi

Hmm... I don't think A2s were harder than ASs. But I did a lot more revision for the A2s in January than I'd done for ASs, so perhaps that's why. I didn't really do any revision at all for AS and I didn't do well at first. XD
But then in the resits I got a lot better.

Edit: yeah, I think Yinnie explained all this

Thanks kitski ! Great to see you again, btw ^^

glad to be seen
and good luck again minna-san

[noodle]

Originally Posted by MissMisa

Yeah I guess so ^_^

The course I'm doing only requires 160 UCAS points, but hey the more I've got the better chance I have of getting it

I've totally forgotten how the UCAS points work... It's 60 points for an A in A-level right? Yeah, you're right, the more points the better, but make sure you make a fantastic personal statement, that can count just as much as your grade if not more!!!

[MissMisa]

Originally Posted by noodle

I've totally forgotten how the UCAS points work... It's 60 points for an A in A-level right? Yeah, you're right, the more points the better, but make sure you make a fantastic personal statement, that can count just as much as your grade if not more!!!

Nope, much more than that, for an A Level. One second I will go have a look in my school diary ^_^

Aha!

An A at AS Level is 60, so that's what you were thinking of. A whole A Level at an A grade is worth 120 UCAS points. So if I get an A in something at A Level, I'm well on my way there.

It's like this:

AS LEVEL

A - 60
B - 50
C - 40
D - 30
E - 20

A LEVEL

A - 120
B - 100
C - 80
D - 60
E - 40

Originally Posted by noodle

Yeah, you're right, the more points the better, but make sure you make a fantastic personal statement, that can count just as much as your grade if not more!!!

Yeah you are right about that! I've got so much to put down though, so I'm sure I'll be fine in that! I might even start practicing my personal statement soon. If I don't get into University my parents will be so pissed >.<