Finishing School

I finish next week, Thursday 16th. Even though we've basically got to go back in most days until the middle of June for revision sessions (Apart from Half term).

Anyone finishing school soon? Do you want to finish or would you rather stay on instead of going out there in the big world?

It has been A LONG TIME since I have been out of school but Since I can't be an adult and keep my action figures it is the best way to be

Finished on 26 April, now I only need to go back for exams, and then that should be me off to college to do Media.

Only two more weeks for me, I still can't get my head round the fact 5 years has gone by. Still, education for me isn't finished yet.

I'm only in Year 10, so still another year to go for me!

Still in Year 10 , got 4 GSCE Exams this year !

I've been off for a week. I never knew I got distracted so easily! Even so, a lot more useful than having lessons, because I can focus of the things I really need to. My exams start this Monday. I've got…

French Reading & Listening
S1 (A level maths Stats)
English Lit 1
German Reading & Listening
Drama
English Lit 2
Music
C2 (A level maths Core)
English Lang
Biology B7
Chemistry C7
Physics P7

So, 12 or 14 exams for me, depending on whether you count the languages ones as one or two (they are different papers, but sat one after another).

Only 10 exams for me:

13/5 - RE
14/5 - Biology 3
17/5 - Spanish Listening
17/5 - Spanish Reading
17/5 - Citizenship
20/5 - Chemistry 3
23/5 - Physics 3
24/5 - English Literature Unit 2 (poetry)
04/6 - English Language Unit 1 (Resit)
05/6 - Biology 1 (Resit)

Fairly similar to MJF really

My final exams:

Already sat
29/04 - Credit/General/Foundation English (Writing)
29/04 - General English (Reading)
29/04 - Credit English (Reading)
03/05 - General Mathematics (Paper 1, Non-calculator)
03/05 - General Mathematics (Paper 2, Calculator)
03/05 - Credit Mathematics (Paper 1, Non-calculator)
03/05 - Credit Mathematics (Paper 2, Calculator)
08/05 - General Administration
08/05 - Credit Administration
09/05 - Foundation Modern Studies
09/05 - General Modern Studies

Yet to sit
13/05 - General French (Reading)
13/05 - General French (Listening)
13/05 - Credit French (Reading)
13/05 - Credit French (Listening)
15/05 - General Biology
15/05 - Credit Biology
21/05 - General Drama
21/05 - Credit Drama

I've got to sit:

13/05 - RE
13/05 - PSHE
14/05 - Biology Unit 2
22/05 - German Listening
22/05 - German Reading
22/05 - Systems and Control
23/05 - Physics Unit 2
23/05 - English Literature Unit 2
04/06 - English Writing (Resit, even though I've already passed)
04/06 - English Reading (Resit, even though I've already passed)
04/06 - Geography, Geographical Skills
17/05 - Geography, Human Environment

Not looking forward to tomorrow's exams at all. Credit Listening is going to be extremely difficult. I suppose the Reading papers will be okay, because we are allowed a dictionary, and General Listening will be okay because the level of difficulty is not as bad.

I don't even know what an infinite verb is. I think the only verb group that I know of is 'reflexive'.

The infinitive is the 'root' form of the verb, eg (in English) the infinitive of 'walk' (as in: I walk, you walk, he walks, we walk, they walk) is 'to walk'. In French 'être' is the infinitive of the verb 'to be' - je suis, tu es, il est, nous somme, vous êtes, ils sont. In German, 'sein' is the infinitive of 'to be' - ich bin, du bist, er ist, wir sind, ihr seit, sie sind, Sie sind.
Scary is saying that you will only find infinitives in a dictionary. For example, if you didn't understand 'Je suis un chat' (which would be very unfortunate…) and were stumped on the word 'suis', you would not find it in the dictionary, only 'être'. In many cases, you have to try to decode what the infinitive would be, and this is normally very easy if you're not dealing with irregulars.
Another scenario - you didn't understand 'je cherche un emploi', because of 'cherche', you would recognise that it is in the 'je' form of the verb, and as it ends in an 'e', thus it is probably an '-er' verb. So, you take the 'e' off of the end, add 'er' and look up 'chercher' in the dictionary to find that it means 'to look for'.

I have to say, I wish I was allowed a dictionary in my exam tomorrow! It would make my life so much easier!

Same for me. No more French (yes, I really did use that simley).

My papers were almost the opposite of yours Scary - I think the listening paper created a bloodbath, especially given that we had a double-page spread of (hard!) written translation questions to do that gave you hardly any time to answer them, and subsequently made me get behind on the questions on the following page. Still, the grade boundaries will slip down I reckon and I'm pretty sure I got around 32/40, which should scrape me my A*.
Reading was really straightforward for me, but I can also see some people getting tripped up. I found my self giving a couple of the marks educated guesses, but other than that it was fine, and nothing that much harder than the other papers I've done where I only dropped a few marks.
I guess my CAs will also generate some bonus marks to keep me afloat, should things not go as planned…

Anyway, 1 down, 11 to go!

No more French to study ever again! Now I will be burning my French stuff. Will be a good feeling, given my teacher's been nothing but a pest for the past two years.

Got my Biology exams tomorrow, and I really have not revised at all. I don't really need it to get into college, but if I don't get into college and go back to school, I'll need good grades to get into the Int 2 course (one of my choices).

The Body in Action, The Biosphere and Animal Survival are all OK topics that I know roughly enough about. Cells, The World of Plants, Inheritance and Biotechnology though, I know next to nothing about. The latter of the four, I was not in class for, so I am going to bomb these exams. :/

Did my Biology exam today... you know when Teachers say "Oh you don't need to know that, It won't appear in the Exam itself" and then it does? Well that happened.

In other news It's the last day wearing our School Uniform tomorrow, the rest of the days when we come in for Revision we'll be wearing our own clothes.

Lucky that you don't have to wear school uniform anymore. At my school we don't have to wear our jumpers because its the summer.

LumatTheEwok wrote:Did my Biology exam today... you know when Teachers say "Oh you don't need to know that, It won't appear in the Exam itself" and then it does? Well that happened.

Did you do B3? I did, but for me it was the opposite, our teacher said there would be loads of questions on global warming/pollution and there wasn't a single one!

Biology went swimmingly REALLY badly. :/

Science exam tomorrow

RE's amazing, TBH, Scary (well, our Scottish one - about Capital Punishment, Euthanasia, etc).

Scary wrote:

Oswin wrote:RE's amazing, TBH, Scary (well, our Scottish one - about Capital Punishment, Euthanasia, etc).

Oh I love the subject, it's just our teacher isn't all that good. We just copy out of books. It's no fun so I'm not taking any of it in and learning anything.

Textbook copying is probably one of the most disengaging ways of learning. Our RE teacher basically, every period, gets us to DRAW what she's teaching us, and then we have a discussion about it by throwing a ball around, v v fun. I see your problem, though - it's never good when you like a subject, but get a bad teacher.

Just beaten my second ever A-level exam to the ground. I was really surprised at how well it went! They put a really stinky question at the end of the paper where the solution wasn't obvious, and then, with only a few minutes left I had the eureka moment and got it out
2 down, 10 to go!