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 Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:42 pm
Pad Chief It's all easy unless you picked Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths. Those are the only difficult subjects at A Level. A Level is no harder than GCSE provided you concentrate. You'll also get used to the workload.
Actually, it's not that bad. I was going to do Further Maths in addition to those 4 subjects, but I'm so glad I dropped it because everyone in the Further Maths group is insanely good at Maths and it's scary >.<
Honestly, those are the only four subjects I actually enjoyed at GCSE bar Latin, and since Latin wouldn't really help me on a science degree, I chose all four science-y subjects.
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:00 pm
Welcome to hell on Earth.
I feel sorry for you.
The only benefit is you're doing them all and they all link into eachother. The fact that I was having Chemistry thrown at me without giving the words meaning or in any way explaining what they meant did not help me with Biology last year.
You need those study periods. They actually matter.
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:45 am
Also a benefit of doing all sciences: your homework doesn't take 432789503157394 gazillion hours because of some stupid 50-mark essay in which you're describing literary devices that might not actually be there, or speculating about what the author meant by one word.
Yeah. I REALLY hated English Lit.
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:52 am
I wasn't even allowed to do it and I was smacked into an all boys class with all the boys who didn't give a s**t.
Like literally only four of us passed that class.
Five as of this year.
The absolute lack of ******** anyone gave in GCSE is incredible. If I could do it again with the mood of A-Level I would.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:20 am
Our school was the complete opposite. With the exception of a few people (me included), everyone was stressing out WAAAAY too much about GCSEs and were blowing their importance totally out of proportion.
Most people did every single past paper they could get their hands on... especially for subjects like English, and in the end I don't think all the revision even helped them, because I didn't do any English past papers and still got the same marks.
Srsly. Sleep > revision.
Soooo... what are you taking for A-levels, Pad?
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:49 am
Well. GCSEs are important but I didn't revise at all and got through easy. They aren't hard you just need to revise if you want high marks.
I took Biology, Psychology, Religious Philosophy and Ethics (RE) and Law last year. None of them were hard apart from Biology. Unfortunately I thought I could get away with it again. No. No Pad you can't. A Level is too much about remembering cases and studies and names and you can't do that without revising.
Biology I just had shitty teachers. Like one of them this seemed to be her first job and she'd ask class members about the work.
This year I'm doing Psychology, RE and Maths. Maths would be good but my class is filled with people who give NO ********. When compared to by RE and Psychology Class it's depressing. Fortunately they should be kicked out one of these days.
Here's hoping.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:55 pm
I thought I was gonna fail GCSEs because I revised zilch and everyone else around me was stressing out... but I was pretty surprised at how low the grade boundaries were. Like, how the heck did I get full UMS in the Biology exam where I made up half the paper? The rest of the country must have done atrociously for me to get an A*...
My worst teacher by far is one of my Chemistry teachers. She's such an awful teacher and every time we ask her a question, she doesn't know, but tries to cover it up by saying something like: "oh, I think it might be this, but I don't know, I'll just look it up on the internet". Gawd, one of the questions she didn't know was something from the GCSE syllabus... even I knew it.
Our class average for end of topic tests in her class is liek, 60%, and this is compared with my other Chemistry teacher, where the class average for the last test was 86% ¬.¬
How did you switch to Maths when you didn't do it last year?
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:34 am
Mucked up two subjects. Decided to pick it up as I wanted to do computer science at some point or something similar.
Only problem is while decisions mathematics which is what computer science uses is really easy to me the other bits about lines and all these mad things you can somehow work out sometimes get me.
I blame it on the class. They should help me by being quieter.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:19 am
Oh no, don't talk to me about Decision Maths, that was the most awful module ever. I much prefer geometry and algebra and "bits about lines" than route planning and networks... gonk
Somehow I just find it difficult to learn an algorithm and apply it without making mistakes, whereas it's easier to work stuff out using things you already know.
Maybe it's just 'cause I'm a girl, so my brain's not genetically programmed to do computer-ey things xD
Pad, you should come to our school's Further Maths class. Apparently, they don't talk at all during lessons, they just stare at their textbooks and study and study and study. Once during my class, the Further Maths teacher came in to chat with us for a whole lesson, because apparently his group didn't need him and wouldn't respond to anything he said. They're just. That. Focused.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:26 am
I can understand making mistakes but I know what I did right in the last test.
I sat there and I took my ******** time. That teacher was going to give me the marks whether he liked it or not. I didn't even finish the test and I did better than 90% of the class if not 99%.
Route Planning, Algorithms and Networks are easy. I find Algebra and Tangents and lines confusing because I usually don't understand how they work.
I'd adore sitting in a quiet class though. I just need to be taught the thing and then sit down while asking the odd question to get through it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:41 pm
The problem is that my real D1 exam, there was NO TIME. I had literally only just started on the last question when the invigilator told us "5 minutes left". Luckily, the last question was about linear programming (I don't know whether that's still in the D1 syllabus but it was last year when I was doing it), and I actually knew what I was doing because it's basically algebra but in a fancy table.
Anyway, the time constraint meant that I had no time to check if I had made a mistake in any of the previous questions. I didn't actually do that badly in the end, but my mark was way lower compared to my norm.
You should've tried to get into a grammar school or something. You seem like a clever guy. And the students actually... study.
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:21 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:48 am
 *can't color for s**t* Adventure Time, come on grab your friends!
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:46 pm
http://yuki-chan32.deviantart.com/art/Genesis-283545401?q=gallery:yuki-chan32/25972084&qo=3
Printmaking project. smile
http://yuki-chan32.deviantart.com/art/So-Close-278792381?q=gallery:yuki-chan32/25972084&qo=5
Random doodle that I started during semester exams.
http://yuki-chan32.deviantart.com/art/Rakey-Lamilton-Metomorphosis-285180771
Doodle of Rakey (( Yes, even though I haven't RP'd with her in two years I still like to draw her :/ ))
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