GCSE Results; can we compare?

[GimmeSomePK 10]

Originally posted by march

Wow, you are a clever bunch! I thought I did quite well at GCSEs and A-Levels, but then I did do them in Hull! Where something like 3% get 5 A-Cs at GCSE.

 

Also went to school in Hull, well East Riding technically, just outside Hull but i guess i'm part of the 3%!

 

GCSE's:

 

Maths A

Science AA

Sports Studies A

Spanish A

Geography A

Technology B

English C

Art C

 

A levels:

 

Biology B

Physical Education C

General Studies C

Spanish D

 

Degree (Leeds Met):

 

Half Physical Education with teaching

Half Physical Education with Sports Science/Nutrition 2:2

 

So from a generally sciencey sporty theme throughout my education, i took the natural progression into a job selling beer

 

-PK-

[march 10]

Originally posted by GimmeSomePK

Also went to school in Hull, well East Riding technically, just outside Hull but i guess i'm part of the 3%!

 

GCSE's:

 

Maths A

Science AA

Sports Studies A

Spanish A

Geography A

Technology B

English C

Art C

 

A levels:

 

Biology B

Physical Education C

General Studies C

Spanish D

 

Degree (Leeds Met):

 

Half Physical Education with teaching

Half Physical Education with Sports Science/Nutrition 2:2

 

So from a generally sciencey sporty theme throughout my education, i took the natural progression into a job selling beer

 

-PK-

 

I think East Riding has it's own stats which are a lot better! They give hull it's own so they don't drag down the rest. I wander if Hull's 3% is down having probably the highest concentration of Chavs in the UK

[GimmeSomePK 10]

Originally posted by march

I wander if Hull's 3% is down having probably the highest concentration of Chavs in the UK

 

Is Bransholme still the biggest council estate in europe? Or whatever it's claim to fame was, although i expect every city sees it's own worst bits as worse than anyone elses worst bits. (If that makes sense?)

 

What school did you go to? I was at South Hunsley from 91-98.

 

-PK-

[igm1 10]

Originally posted by psyn

I did A levels in 2001 / 2002 and got

English lit - A

English lang - A

Geography - A

History - A

Sociology - A

Psychology - A

 

Went to Hallam and will graduate this year, probably with a 2:1.

 

 

1) Are you allowed to do 6 A-levels?

 

2) Did you do all of those over a 2 year period

 

3) Are they AS or A2 grades?

 

4) With those grades how come you went to Hallam?

 

(bloody excellent results btw

[Mel_K 10]

went to school in suffolk, and like someone said earlier about their school it was pretty high results all round so was like a competition most of the time!

 

gcses,

history, english lit, A*

double science, food, english lang, geography, A

maths, statistics. french, B

drama C

 

a levels

history, geography, general studies, A

english lit, B

 

now doing a history degree at sheff uni, but think all my motivation has gone so god knows what what mark i'll be coming out with!

[isha 10]

Well, my school messed up and let me do subjects that didn't fit on the timetable so they said if I kept quiet I was allowed to not do the compulsory PE!

 

In the spare time I had (which was when there were no PE sessions, that's why I didn't do it) I did two extra GCSEs so I ended up with 12

 

English Language A*

Geography A*

 

As for this lot:

 

English Literature

Biology

Chemistry

Physics (I did the separate sciences)

Maths

French

German

Drama

 

and Bs for:

 

Graphic Products

Religious Education

 

Unfortunately, whilst waiting tentatively that summer for my results, I disocvered alcohol. In the following months I discovered driving and got a car, and suddenly skiving college was far easier and far more exciting than skiving college was so my A-levels were (I think, I actually can't remember!):

 

English Language B

General Studies B

French C

Drama and Theatre Studies D

AS level Maths C

 

I went to a mixed comprehensive in Cheshire just south of Manchester and a very big state 6th form down the road.

 

Now at Hallam and just finishing my second year of a law degree

[Lotti 10]

See that's interesting! That's another thing I wanted to confirm, why pay for a private school when it looks like you get just as good results from a mixed comprehensive?

 

Lottie

[psyn 10]

Originally posted by IanMitchell

 

1) Are you allowed to do 6 A-levels?

 

2) Did you do all of those over a 2 year period

 

3) Are they AS or A2 grades?

 

4) With those grades how come you went to Hallam?

 

(bloody excellent results btw

 

You can do as many A Levels as will fit into a timetable. I did 4 of the subjects as 'normal' A Levels over 2 years. In my first year, I did English Lang as a 1 year night class and did the same with history in my second year. They are all A2 grades and I went to Hallam because teacher training is pretty much the same all over the country (although Hallam is highly rated).

[miniminch 10]

Originally posted by Lotti

Wow! well done Psyn! I wish I was that bright!

funny, that's what we were wishing too

[zerocool 10]

Well, my partner went to school in Retford, Nottinghamshire and got in 1999 1A, 3B's and 4C's.

 

2001

ALevel Business - D

Advanced GNVQ Health and Social Care - Distinction (Equivalent to A and a B)

 

Degree from SHU - 2004

 

And i went to school in the Orkney Islands and got

1A 6B's 1C, well equivalent to them at least, then came down to Retford, and got a couple of A levels, now doing my degree at SHU!

 

Our school (Ordsall Hall School), is now getting worse results as my partners brothers go there and overall their year groups are worse and worse.

[BrainThrust 10]

While I like the idea of this study, none of its result will provide any results or conclusive data whatsoever. There are too many variables even to suggest a correlation. You have several independent variables such as:

 

Year

School

Grades

Subjects

Academic Ability (I'm not calling it intelligence because being able to jump through hoops is all exams are about, they are not about knowledge, nor even logic, something our supposed age of reason is based upon)

Drive to succeed (lets face it, many people couldn't be arsed to try. I know I never could, some people work incredibly hard for subjects though, for whatever reason)

Teachers

 

The list could go on, I find it hard to believe even generalisations can be determined from this because there will be no one instance where only one factor separates two of you participants.

 

Still having said that, I'll contribute because maybe someone way smarter than me will be able to find something quirky.

 

GCSEs = Wath Comprehensive School 2000

 

A - Maths, English Language, Spanish, French, Latin

B - Biology, Chemistry, Physics, R.S.

C - English Literature, Design Graphics, Young enterprise Business qualification

D - Information Systems

 

AS levels = Wath Comprehensive School 2001

A - Mathematics

C - Chemistry, Physics

D - General Studies

 

AS levels = Norton College 2004

A - Media Studies

C - Psychology

C - Information and Communication Technology

 

 

Other grades from Norton last year (2004)

OCN level 1 qualification in counseling

OCN level 3 qualification in governance

 

I'd be interested to see the difference between paid for and private education. I know that if i have the money I would pay for private education for my kids (if I end up with any), as long as they know their working class roots and don't 'go all posh' on me

 

Wilf

[DanSumption 10]

I went to Grey Court School in Ham, Richmond upon Thames.

 

In June 1984 I took O Level Maths. Got an A.

 

In Jan 1985 I took O Level Graphical Communications. Got a B.

 

In June 1985 I got:

English Language - A

Computer Studies - A

Physics - B (my teacher told me I ought to get an A, but I mucked about too much. She was right)

Chemistry - B

Maths (AO Level) - B

History - C

German - D

English Literature - D

 

The I went to Richmond upon Thames College.

 

In June 1986 I took O-Level Photography, got a B.

 

In June 1987 I took my A-Levels:

Economics - A

History - B

Pure & Applied Maths - C

 

Then I did BSc Psychology at Bristol University, got a 2:1 in 1991.

 

A couple of years later, I did A-Level Philosophy in evening classes, got a B.

 

And that's it. Though it feels like time I went back to school, I do miss formal education.