AS Levels - Page 3

**Graham M** · 18-05-2005, 17:02

Good luck mate, I did my AS levels 3 years ago now, im sure theyve improved since then. I hope you did better than me

o Psychology - U - Due to not turning up to the exam, the teacher was horrrrible - I gave it up half way through the year.
o English Language - E - Upgraded from a U after the teacher ordered a remark
o Physics - U - Drew a total Mental Blank on the day but i could reel off any of what i learnt now

o IT - B - My best subject of all, wooo glad i carried it onto my current course which im coming to the end of now, 3 weeks to go

eerrrr · 18-05-2005, 17:27

I've got my AS exams now. I'm studying Computing, Maths, Physics and English Lit. I had Computing today and it was rather easy, it's more like a GCSE course if anything. Maths Core 2 shouldn't be too bad, though I'm terrible at Stats. Physics is gonna be a little crap, and English will be dull as usual, glad I'm not taking it next year.

General Studies is terrible, and it's impossible to teach. Here's a question that was in my 'Scientific Domain' paper on monday;
"A man is walking with a bag of corn, a fox, and a goose. He comes to a river which must be crossed, with a small boat nearby. The boat can only hold himself and one item. He can't leave the fox with the goose, and he can't leave the goose with the corn.
Write how he will get himself and all his items across the river safely, using the minimum number of trips."

Of course, I got it wrong. :P When I found out how to do it I was so annoyed! It's so simple! And that was the Scientific Domain, I'm not gonna do any better in the Cultural or Social papers (nobody seems to know what kind of topics they cover :S).

Anyway, good luck to everyone doing their exams.

Macca371 · 18-05-2005, 20:29

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Originally Posted by eerrrr

I've got my AS exams now. I'm studying Computing, Maths, Physics and English Lit. I had Computing today and it was rather easy, it's more like a GCSE course if anything. Maths Core 2 shouldn't be too bad, though I'm terrible at Stats. Physics is gonna be a little crap, and English will be dull as usual, glad I'm not taking it next year.

General Studies is terrible, and it's impossible to teach. Here's a question that was in my 'Scientific Domain' paper on monday;
"A man is walking with a bag of corn, a fox, and a goose. He comes to a river which must be crossed, with a small boat nearby. The boat can only hold himself and one item. He can't leave the fox with the goose, and he can't leave the goose with the corn.
Write how he will get himself and all his items across the river safely, using the minimum number of trips."

Of course, I got it wrong. :P When I found out how to do it I was so annoyed! It's so simple! And that was the Scientific Domain, I'm not gonna do any better in the Cultural or Social papers (nobody seems to know what kind of topics they cover :S).

Anyway, good luck to everyone doing their exams.

What is your Maths exam board? OCR?

greencreeper · 18-05-2005, 22:18

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Originally Posted by Diamond

Forgot to add, I hate it!!

You hate thinking huh. Well you are a teenager

You'll know of De Bono then? Tutor at Uni, an expert on things such as critical thinking, was always quoting him. I tried getting my head round some NLP books he (the tutor) lent me but I'm just too cynical.

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Originally Posted by Kliro

Geology again

Geology?

Never had anything like that when I was young. It's a whole new world these days. Amazing what people are studying.

I've probably narrated this before but it's a good lesson for life. At school they asked, in music, what instrument I wanted to learn. I said, "Violin" - always liked the violin. They gave me a cornet. That's life for you

eerrrr · 19-05-2005, 13:07

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Originally Posted by Diamond

What is your Maths exam board? OCR?

Yep, OCR, I think. We study Core 1, Core 2 and Statistics at AS, then Core 3, Core 4 and another module at A2. I've chosen Mechanics to study next year. How about you?

Macca371 · 24-05-2005, 17:48

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Originally Posted by eerrrr

Yep, OCR, I think. We study Core 1, Core 2 and Statistics at AS, then Core 3, Core 4 and another module at A2. I've chosen Mechanics to study next year. How about you?

I'm OCR, but instead of doing Statistics I'm doing Mechanics this year. Core 1 and Core 2 went alright, could have done much better. The last question was horrible though about solving a bleeding trigonometrical function, the thing I really knew nothing about. Also, I have realised that on the question about finding the area under the graph using the trapezium rule, I got that completely wrong because I had my calculator in radian mode instead of degrees the whole time! Doh! Stupid me. Anyway, I think Core 1 went quite well though. Mechanics on the 16th June which is quite far away thank God because I need to do a lot of revision for that.

Anyway, my next exams:

Tomorrow - Critical Thinking (both papers)
Thursday - French (both papers)
8th June - Spanish (Both papers)
10th June - Physics (Both papers)
15th June - Maths (Mechanics paper)

Then back to college at the end of June

eerrrr · 24-05-2005, 21:41

How is Mechanics? I'm taking it next year to fit with my Physics, so I should be okay with it. It's gotta be better than Statistics!

I've got exams on Friday, then then rest in 2 weeks, then I go straight back to college on the 13th June to start A2.

Good luck with your exams!

Macca371 · 24-05-2005, 21:55

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Originally Posted by eerrrr

How is Mechanics? I'm taking it next year to fit with my Physics, so I should be okay with it. It's gotta be better than Statistics!

I've got exams on Friday, then then rest in 2 weeks, then I go straight back to college on the 13th June to start A2.

Good luck with your exams!

Mechanics isn't too bad, 80% of it is about the formula 'F=ma', all about forces etc... It goes hand in hand with Physics so really it's like being qualified twice for the same thing, ish.

Good luck everyone.

nffc · 24-05-2005, 23:55

Mechanics is hell.

Macca371 · 25-05-2005, 17:51

Crappio, just had my critical thinking and I put the wrong candidate number (I put my school candidate number instead of my college one), so I crossed it out and put my real one next to it (but outside the marked box). My friends said it should be alright, I hope so. Can't believe I'm so silly.

Kliro · 26-05-2005, 17:53

heh, think it will be alright, finished geology today wooo.

Wrote about 6 pages for the last question.

Boy do I feel sorry for the examiner getting paid Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£1.50 to mark my paper

Dave Stones · 26-05-2005, 18:17

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Originally Posted by nffc

Mechanics is hell.

piece of advice, don't do an engineering degree. it only gets worse...

Macca371 · 26-05-2005, 18:36

Well, made the same stupid frigging mistake again, on my French exam, wrong candidate number but crossed it out. I'm just glad that I noticed it, even if it was in the last minute.

nffc · 26-05-2005, 22:14

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Originally Posted by Dave Stones

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Originally Posted by nffc

Mechanics is hell.

piece of advice, don't do an engineering degree. it only gets worse...

No way am I gonna do another degree, at least for a few years anyway.

eerrrr · 27-05-2005, 14:26

I had my English Lit exams today, 3 in a row. So 3 hours of writing with a 10 minute "break" after the first hour. Quite intense, I worked up a blister on my finger from all the writing.

Oh, and Diamond, are you going to do anything about the candidate number mistake. I don't think it really matters in your case since you corrected it, but my friend thinks he forgot to write his number on one of his papers, and couldn't sort it out at the end because they'd already sent the first papers off. He's going to contact them and find out, so if anything of interest comes up I'll let you know.