GCSE Results Day.....

Good luck Jack!

good luck man.

Its a bit late wishing him good luck now , when the exams were over two months ago, they were marked six weeks ago, and have been sitting in an envelope for a fortnight waiting to be picked up.

And lets face it, you'd have to be a complete fucking doofus not to get good grades. The english education system, harder to fail than to pass.

is right.

Uncle Liam wrote: Its a bit late wishing him good luck now , when the exams were over two months ago, they were marked six weeks ago, and have been sitting in an envelope for a fortnight waiting to be picked up.

And lets face it, you'd have to be a complete fucking doofus not to get good grades. The english education system, harder to fail than to pass.

I'll tell you what though. I didn't half have nightmares over Differential Calculus. Prob and Trig not too bad. but fuckin Calculus. whoaaaa!!!

Just checked out my German group's grades, not too bad - 7 Bs, 6 Cs and 3 Ds, but if the lazy fcukers had actually done some work, then who knows...

Snorri xxx

Snorrimon wrote: Just checked out my German group's grades, not too bad - 7 Bs, 6 Cs and 3 Ds, but if the lazy fcukers had actually done some work, then who knows...

Snorri xxx

We made our German teacher cry in class. Are you out there Miss Birkmann? so sorry.

J.A.K wrote:

Snorrimon wrote: Just checked out my German group's grades, not too bad - 7 Bs, 6 Cs and 3 Ds, but if the lazy fcukers had actually done some work, then who knows...

Snorri xxx

We made our German teacher cry in class. Our you there Miss Birkmann? so sorry.

That's probably because she actually cared... 'I'm not standing here for my own benefit, you know' - one of my favourite teaching cliches!

Snorri xxx

Celebrations in this house later!!!!!!!!

My Daughter brought her results home!

So spill it!!

I never spill it!

Wino wrote: I never spill it!

I meant the results foolish brummie

In fact everyone should post their's or their offspring's if they got em today.

God, I'll be going through this around Christmas time. My daughter has her final exams in November and wants to go to Uni. A stressful time for all :\ohwell:

J.A.K wrote:

I'll tell you what though. I didn't half have nightmares over Differential Calculus. Prob and Trig not too bad. but fuckin Calculus. whoaaaa!!!

Showing your age, calculus is no longer on GCSE's nor logarithms, trig done on calculators so no log tables, trig only uses whole number values for degrees so minutes are unknown to current GCSE students.

As with any students, I hope you get what you deserve. :)

Doctor? wrote:

Wino wrote: I never spill it!

I meant the results foolish brummie

In fact everyone should post their's or their offspring's if they got em today.

Think of an 80's group headed by a man in a very shiny suit! More than enough to get into her preferred college!

Wino wrote:

Doctor? wrote:

Wino wrote: I never spill it!

I meant the results foolish brummie

In fact everyone should post their's or their offspring's if they got em today.

Think of an 80's group headed by a man in a very shiny suit! More than enough to get into her preferred college!

so that's the look?

Is anyone other than Jack young enough to be getting exam results today?

oldmonkey wrote:

Wino wrote:

Doctor? wrote:

Wino wrote: I never spill it!

I meant the results foolish brummie

In fact everyone should post their's or their offspring's if they got em today.

Think of an 80's group headed by a man in a very shiny suit! More than enough to get into her preferred college!

so that's the look?

I don't know the answer to that question. If I knew, I would tell you.

steveone wrote: Is anyone other than Jack young enough to be getting exam results today?

Would anyone else care?

GCSEs are a joke. i got my results last year and got a B in maths without even revising. Saying that though, not revising didnt work for me AS levels where i didnt do too good:\ohwell:

Papa Bendi wrote: GCSEs are a joke. i got my results last year and got a B in maths without even revising. Saying that though, not revising didnt work for me AS levels where i didnt do too good:\ohwell:

Yeah i got a U in my mocks but came away with a B in maths. GCSEs mean shit all once you've done em and moved on to higher education. I work with a few youths who are/were stressing about their GCSEs and i just told them that they're bound to pass and they'll wonder why the fuck they were so worried in a years time.

And yeah, bit of revision is needed for A levels. Despite the fact that people who havnt even done an A level brand them all as easy

FrogChorus wrote:

And yeah, bit of revision is needed for A levels. Despite the fact that people who havnt even done an A level brand them all as easy

That's because they are fucking easy! I did mine 21 years ago, we didn't get awarded 50% for turning up and remembering to bring a pen with us, then spelling our name right!

I left the teaching profession twelve years ago because I was sick and tired of how actually teaching kids had been forced to take a back seat in favour of number crunching and lesson plans, how tidying things up for an OFSTED report to blag extra funding or avoiding sanctions was seen as a bigger priority than helping children discover new things.

I did the last year of proper A-Levels, and i swear that the 2nd Law paper I did was the hardest exam ever. 5 years on, whenever we get together, we still bring it up.*

Then, i looked at this crummy AS law they do, which is a piece of piss

*of course, it being the hardest exam ever, still didnt stop me from getting 275/300.

oldmonkey wrote: I left the teaching profession twelve years ago because I was sick and tired of how actually teaching kids had been forced to take a back seat in favour of number crunching and lesson plans, how tidying things up for an OFSTED report to blag extra funding or avoiding sanctions was seen as a bigger priority than helping children discover new things.

And things have only got worse since then... If I hear the phrase 'Valued Added' once more, I'll scream... I've just been looking at my GCSE groups results and comparing them to predictions/targets - one kid got a C, but depending on which set of targets you look at was predicted anything between a B and D... So did he over-achieve, under-achieve or do as well as expected? Someone will want to know and use this info to judge how good a teacher I am, when in reality, I'm sure both the pupil and I are happy with his result, not an especially able kid, but worked hard enough and got a decent grade... But as OM says probably would have done better and got more out of the course if I could concentrate fully on what goes on in the classroom...

Snorri xxx

Uncle Liam wrote: Its a bit late wishing him good luck now , when the exams were over two months ago, they were marked six weeks ago, and have been sitting in an envelope for a fortnight waiting to be picked up.

And lets face it, you'd have to be a complete fucking doofus not to get good grades. The english education system, harder to fail than to pass.

Well, Jack, if you did do poorly, I hope there's some sort of clerical error causing you to get all A's!

haha teaching to the test

All i'm saying is that i didn't find my A-Levels easy, and i probably shoulda revised more to have got higher grades! I was one grade off going to my first choice uni :(

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

FrogChorus wrote: All i'm saying is that i didn't find my A-Levels easy, and i probably shoulda revised more to have got higher grades! I was one grade off going to my first choice uni :(

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

They hadn't invented the PC when I did my A levels!

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Why we still persist with so much IT as a separate subject - it's across the whole bloody curriculum anyway and half the time the kids know more about it than the teachers!

Snorri xxx

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

FrogChorus wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

You will be good at getting DATES then!

And before you lot START i got an O LEVEL in DUSTING!

FrogChorus wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

Beware history degrees. Useful for fuck all. You end up like I did, a teacher who can't stand the system, turning to IT project management instead!

oldmonkey wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

Beware history degrees. Useful for fuck all. You end up like I did, a teacher who can't stand the system, turning to IT project management instead!

:dead: sshhhhhhhhh. Parents are teachers - fuck that

oldmonkey wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Papa Bendi wrote:

FrogChorus wrote:

Never, ever take A Level ICT - pile of shit

hehehe-i gave that up after one week I made the mistake of not picking the subject i'm best at ie. history. Instead i followed my mates into biology and regretted it since. On the other hand, i've still got a year to make up for it

Yeah, History is the way. I'm doin a degree in it now - did quite good at A Level like

Beware history degrees. Useful for fuck all. You end up like I did, a teacher who can't stand the system, turning to IT project management instead!

Degrees are not supposed to be a gaurenteed way to get a job...

study what you love

history is useful in a lot of different ways... there's a lot of "out of the book" learning that humanities, social sciences, and liberal arts give you that other hard sciences don't

if you studied biology and hated it.. you'd be fucked out of luck now

Kind words! Nice to hear after my future had been shot down in a blaze

[brown]Ally[/brown] wrote:

C-Ro wrote: study what you love

Such naivety, aw how cute. I must be one of those kerazy nuts that went to uni to improve my employment prospects :D

Most students couldn't afford to do what they love at Uni for 4 whole years; it's far from financially viable. Even if they got a part time job while studying they'll still be swamped in debt at the end of it all. On top of that to find your degree is about as useful as a dildo in a nunnery for getting work is not the best news. Any personal satisfaction from pursuing "what you love" will soon evaporate when yer flipping burgers in the local Wimpy to pay the rent while your BA in History Of Art languishes silently on the mantelpiece.

The people who do "what they love" at Uni usually have pots of money behind them and are sorted for a job in daddy's company afterwards anyway, so they don't count i.e. Fuck em.

My degree is not sexy and purely vocational but it's done what I wanted it to do; got me a job (eventually) :D

Get where you are coming from........however, I was never in a position to have the opportunity to go to Uni; and I regret it to this day. I left college and ended up doing what I didnt love........cos I needed the money; simple as that. Uni was definitely not an option. Probably, if I had gone further and pursued my desired occupation, I would have been crap at it anyway!

However, I am a great believer in getting a good education - all round sort of stuff......my Daughter has never been taught (?) what a NI number is for, how to write a cheque, how much it costs to post a package (don't ask!), you know, simple everyday sort of stuff........and it's made me wonder......did I never tell her this stuff? She's got great grades, but she doesn't know that? Either I am a bad Mum, or the system is shite, or both? Regardless, we must have taught her something, cos she sure as hell doesnt want to work with us!

Anyway, doing what I love now......so Also, pulling a fast one to a degree!

Read it and weep.