How to Cope with Waiting for GCSE Exam Results - Comments

Oh alright. Sixth form life seems so different to school life whoa.

@ LanaDelGay;;
They do and they don't. It depends on the teacher. If the teacher for my class isn't in, I can either go home if I have no more classes or go to the common room for that period. However, sometimes the teacher will write what they want you to do either on the board or on a piece of paper and they expect you to do it (normally) for the next class.

@ the undead's vessel
Oh, that made me remember a good question I wanted to ask a sixth former. Do they do those classes where you don't have a teacher and it's all up on a bored? So you have to learn it without a teacher?
I'm defiantly going to pick something I enjoy.

@ LanaDelGay;;
Yeah, it was a home economics subject. And I know some schools didn't provide RE as mandatory for GCSE but my school did which is why I got a GCSE in it. In terms of hardness...I think it's if the subject interests you. It didn't interest me so I couldn't really take in the information I was being told because it was just so boring, but if it's something you want, then I don't think it'd be too hard overall. We get five free periods a week in year twelve, but next year we'll get ten for study, and in general, I never really did any work in my free periods. It's more do-it-yourself than it is relying on the teachers, but that totally didn't work out in my English Lit course and poetry ended up the class where the teacher did the poems for us.

@ the undead's vessel
I didn't know you could pick Child Development for a GCSE? I guess because you are up in Wales and I'm in London we have different options. Is travel and tourism hard? Well I know all the course work and deadlines aren't easy but in terms of the actual work, is it easy? I'm just going to pick something I enjoy. Oh yeah, well you seem to work hard anyway. I know for sixth form I'm going to have to put so much effort it.

@ LanaDelGay;;
Yeah, and if I'm honest, I fell asleep in the majority of my exams, including one of my Maths exams. I sat my Welsh exam, finished in twenty minutes and had over an hour left where I just sat there and slept. It's hard to determine how easy a subject will be. For GCSE, I picked Child Development, Psychology, Spanish and French. I got my E in French and my A in Child Development. Well, I didn't exactly pick French or Spanish but rather I was stuck in those classes without any choice. But AS Level, choosing a subject you think will be easy will come back and bite you in the arse because it doesn't work that way. I originally picked Travel and Tourism because it was a Vocational subject and I thought it'd be fairly easy but it wasn't and we had so much course with deadlines set at every Friday and I just couldn't do it so I changed to Art History where I don't do any work and am dropping it for year thirteen. Not that I'm encouraging you to not do work, but that's just what I'm doing. Just had to put that out there.

@ the undead's vessel
Yeah, I suppose. That's really good that they do. The sixth form I'm going to is linked with 13 others because I go to a place called Harris Academy Federation so it's part of a lot of schools.

Really? Ha lucky you! I'm just going to be honest right now and say I chose my GCSE's according to how easy they were.I tried to pick the easiest things so that's not a same mistake I'll make again.

Oh! Now I know how to do it. Thank you! I'm happy about that now lol. :)

@ LanaDelGay;;
Oh, right. Well I guess when you're ill there's only so much you can do in terms of education so that can't be held against you. But hopefully you'll go to a sixth form that'll take into account that and allow you to resit any fo the exams you need to so that you can get better. I know my sixth form allows you to resit if you need to/want to.

My RE exam for GCSE bored me so much I fell asleep in both my year ten and year eleven exams and I still managed to get a B overall. I would recommend RS for AS and A-Level only if you're prepared for the work. I mean, it'll probably be a different course for you than it was for me because I did Buddhism for my Jan exam and sat Judaism in May, but if you are prepared for the subject and not just taking it because it'll be "easy" (like some of the boys in my class did and ended up failing the Jan exam, which was the nicest exam anyone could ever have asked for!) then I would definitely recommend it.

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@ the undead's vessel
They did a bit but not much. They sent me work and they hired a tutor for me but I couldn't handle any work. They haven't enabled me to sit any exams more. I think I'm capable or getting high grades if I really try hard. I know because we had the maths exams in January and I passed the maths exam with a C so I got to drop the subject. I took BTEC science and I for a pass. A pass is equivalent to a C and well English, I just believe in myself.

Yeah it is basic knowledge. In this years exam they had "'Marriage is dead.' Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give your answer showing you have thought about more then one religious view." I was like "um what."
Would you recommend RS for an A-Level?

I went to upload a tutorial and it kept taking me to the article section. Have I done it right? It's a food tutorial and I'm really worried I've posted it in the wrong place. Since you're an article editor, maybe you could help me, please?

@ LanaDelGay;;
Normally schools cater to exceptions like that - a girl in all but one of my classes this year got hospitalised and missed a chunk of work necessary for the exam, but was educated partly on the topic and sat the exams at the same time as us where she was. She's able to resit the entire year twelve for English because she didn't finish her coursework, but yeah, normally schools cater for times when people are ill and off school. The college where I am lets you resit your GCSEs in evening classes but I'm guessing that not all colleges do that unfortunately. How do you know you got Cs in those subjects? Haven't you just sat the exams now and waiting upon the results in August?

Yeah, but then foundation tier is easier to do and if you sit higher tier, anything lower than a D is an automatic U. We didn't do philosophy, just religion and how it influenced four different topics each year (medicine, conflict, relationships, etc.), but RS at AS Level is so much nicer than GCSE religion. It's actually my favourite class this year. I'm sure you didn't do that bad on the paper. I found that GCSE RE was easy to do because it was basically "What is the definition of community?" and "'Insert controversial line here' Do you agree or disagree with this statement?" and just basic knowledge (I should know cos I skipped at least one day a week in year eleven and didn't sit a single mock paper of RE).

I haven't done that yet, but I've been preoccupied with the articles section, the staff forum and various group writes I'm involved in, plus I've just started series seven of Charmed.

@ the undead's vessel
Lucky for some. I had to drop out of school for a very long time because became very ill. I joined school again in year 11 but by the time I joined school again I had missed about a years work and exam practice so I don't have the right grades for their criteria.
The only reason I'm not going to college is because I need to re-sit exams. I know if I go to a sixth form they will let me re-sit my GCSE's. I passed my maths, english and science but I got C's on all of them because of everything I missed in year 10. Oh okay, that's handy to know.

Foundation tier is so unfair because you need most of the marks to get a C. Then again, they are easier. I hate RP. (Religion and philosophy) I got a B on my mock then I did the real exam and I just couldn't do it. I must have got a U in it. :/ It is a good way for you to occupy yourself. At least you won't be thinking about it all the time.

I recently did the Handwriting challenge lol. That was fun. I've seen some challenges but honestly, I know I'm not very smart so I never have the confidence to post much. I did a tutorial today though and I'm happy with it. It's the first one I've ever done.

@ LanaDelGay;;
I went back to my school's sixth form because I don't do well with strangers and new environment.
And it depends on the job. Loads of people don't go on to do their A-levels. Some go off to college and get a Level 3 in a certain course and such. But jobs are still available for them so don't believe it when people say that A-Levels are the things that are needed for jobs. You'll pretty much always need to say what GCSEs you got when you apply anyway.

Um, I don't know about that. We never had the option of BTEC science - it was either Applied Science, Double Award science (which I was in) or Separate Science. I got two GCSEs for science but sat foundation tier so I could only have taken Applied Science for AS Level which I ended up not doing because it was in the same column as Religious Studies.

I'm fairly confident about my Religious Studies exam as I got an A in January and the questions on the May paper weren't too bad. I know I've failed my Law exam but I spoke to my teacher and I'm hoping to be able to resit next year. My English Lit and Art History papers I'm unsure about. But I go back to sixth form tomorrow and start with year thirteen work so that's going to help with occupying my mind about my results, even though I have to continue with a subject I'm not keeping next year. Writing is a good way to keep your mind off of it, especially if you frequent the forums and check out the contests that are going on.

@ the undead's vessel
Exactly. I will be joining Sixth form soon as well and it is scary because of the new environment and people. Oh, do GCSE's matter when you are applying for a job? I heard you need A-Level's for jobs, not GCSE's.

I'm probably late saying this but well done for doing good on your exams. You are right and I often come out of exam thinking I dd bad which sucks but I often feel like I've written the right answers. I did BTEC science, do you think they will let me move up to AS- Levels with science or would I have continue doing BTEC?

You probably did alright any way. I see what you mean, it's the same but it is different. Mine depends on further education where as yours sort of depends on your future. I've been trying to occupy my time more with Mibba and stuff. I've been blog writing a lot more recently and I actually enjoy it. :)

@ LanaDelGay;;
GCSEs matter somewhat, especially when it comes to getting into sixth form or college, as well as when you apply for uni. But generally, your higher education matters most if you can manage to achieve it.

When I sat my GCSEs, I was a wreck for more than one reason, and when I went into school on that day in August and opened my envelope of results, I could have cried. The lowest I got was an E, the highest I got was an A. I did better than I expected and got into sixth form in the September. How did you approach your exams? How did you feel you did? Those are the questions that matter the most, and if you feel you did okay, great, take your mind off of it! If you feel you didn't do okay, that's okay as well. If you get into sixth form or college, they'll let you resit important subjects (English, Maths, Science, etc.) that you did not so well in if it's needed for your course(s).

Counting the days make the anticipation worse, especially as you have the majority of the summer to wait and fretting about your results is not a good thing to do for the entire time. Focus your mind on something else instead - I've just sat my AS exams in May just gone and a part of me is fretting about that but instead I'm focusing on other things, such as my writing, for example. Of course my fretting is completely different to yours as mine determines whether I get back into sixth form and meet the criteria for the uni I want to go to whereas yours is your leaving school results. But it's still the same: occupy your time with something else and stop counting the days. I know what it's like and it's not a good thing to put yourself through.

This helped me a lot. I've just taken my GCSE's and I'm not waiting for the results.
I've been counting down the days as well which makes me more nervous. I need to stop.
I'm really nervous for my results because I feel like my future depends on them, even though they say GCSE's don't matter.

love this! I'm so nervous :S