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All finished! Had the last one yesterday!

Just got to wait two bloody months to see how well I did now! I need three Bs to get into London School of Economics.

Anybody else had/got A-levels/AS/GCSEs?

Finished my GCSE's Thursday.

Finished mine 24 years ago

did you do the 11+ foggy?  :wink:

Took mine 2 years ago, in Physics, Maths and Further Maths and done what i needed to do, then wasted the next two years of my life...roll on september!!

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:   I did and failed it!  One question I remember mucking up - what's the collective noun for the following: table, chair, wardrobe?  Who said exams have got easier

The LSE??  You after Sandy Grey's job?? :wink:

Finshed mine 4 years ago at school and at college last summer.

finished my first year earlier this month, easiest thing i've ever done. except three 3000 word essay all nighters.

Fucking hell, 5 years since I did mine. Physics, Maths, Further Maths, Computing and an AS Level in something I forget.

Mine were during the 2002 World Cup. Had a Physics exam in the afternoon after the Brazil Game. I turned up to the exam more than slightly pissed.

Finished my AS's last week

After a 2 yr siojourn from exams I have to get set to get back into them once i start my new job - 2yrs at Uni, and 2yrs of professional qualification, can't wait :?

I like exams.

its nearly 10 years since i did my al levels, still not sure i've made use of them.

Fuck me, did you take them when you were 6 then?

Working and studying at the same time is one of the funnest things you can do.

No...you don't need a degree to do better than Sandy!  :D

I dunno, I just applied there because very few places offer the course I want and somehow I got offered a place! If I applied next year I would have had to get AAB to get in, which is less than likely!!!

I've just finished Uni. Can't wait to escape the city of Plymouth.

I am strangely looking forward to being back in the uni way of life - getting my extortionate tuition fees of £6k paid for, getting every wednesday off work, a trip to chicago, and being paid a nice salary too.  I think i'll miss out on the uni lifestyle though, I guess it'll be very hard to enjoy quite as much as I did at uni teh first time round.  I think teh professional qualifications done in parallel are the tricky bit.

No,im nearly 40 you daft bugger

Yes and i failed but none of my mates wanted to go to Grammer school because they thought it was gay. I did CSE,s and O levels and came out of it with pretty good grades that have given me a basis for the future ,plus i spent 6 years at college to get my technical qulifications .

Really?  :o

Sorry i imagined you alot older.  :D

Twat  :D  :D  :D

I thought your avatar was a pic of you sorry.

i got shit gcse grades and lasted a couple of months in college.
what an idiot i was,should have knuckled down and tried at school.
i wont let my kids make the mistakes i did

Was that Kelsey Grammer School for Boys old chap? Definite fagging going on there what!

I left school 7 years ago and college 5 years ago. I dont miss exams thats for sure.

They were proper exams then too. None of this 'coursework' malarkey.

If it sany consolation, I only did coursework for one of my subjects. And those four essays made up something like 15% of my overall grade....

I used to fucking hate coursework. Exams are much better.

Finished my second year ones a month or so ago - got the results already :\/

exams are bullshit though. the world's most pointless method of measuring academic achievement - get students to regurgitate words.

i finish next week. i was expecting to go back next year but i've been told to 'do one', so now i have to find a job.

it was my last day of college today. but starting a 2 year course next year only my 3rd/4th year of college  :D

As opposed to getting them to cut and paste from the internet or get help from Mummy and Daddy   ?  (That's not aimed at you personally sonic)

which is why coursework ought to be done under more supervision and not entirely independently. the reason it has to be done at home is because the entire year is taken up with a narrow syllabus designed solely to get students to pass an exam, rather than actually learn or gain knowledge.

coursework at a-level and beyond is different as most of the students are there through choice so are far less likely to cheat, unlike at gcse where it's compulsory.

neither system is perfect though, so i suppose it's pointless really.

That sounds more like an exam to me, which in itself isn't a bad thing.

The problem with FE exams is that they don't test application of knowledge. I suppose they would take even longer to mark if it was more interpretive though.

Thats what is was like with my History coursework. You got given a question two weeks in advance, which you then go off and research. On the day your alowed to take in two sides of bulleted pointed notes, and you then have an hour and a half to right up an essay. Quite easy really.

Amen to that. just finished my second year at Uni and im sick to the back teeth of just repeating lecture notes and odd journals in essays. but its the only way students will get assessed, but i agree its totally pointless

My uni course was assessment based, no exams.

I find researching assignments, dissertations et al interesting - I never wrote an essay that re-worded a lecture, that's mundane and not the point of academic study ... in fact they would fail you if you tried to do that.

They wouldnt in an exam, you'd get 40% if the essay was to be structured well, and if you were to do short answer questions a fair amount of work would be from lecture notes. you get the higher awards for doing wider reading and incorporating that into your essay/exam. Well thats how it works for me at Manc, might be completely different in Plymouth, or any other Uni, and for separate courses.
I'm starting my dissertation now, and am glad it counts as 25% towards my final degree as its something i want to do rather than some shitty compulsory courses.

Yup that's how it worked at my uni. Although the

"Comment on how motivational thoery can be used as a management tool" type questions basically give you free reign to do a brain dump.