Stadt Posted 16 May 2015 Share Posted 16 May 2015 If you wrote the WJEC English Literature AS Level paper, you're an absolute champ.Do you teach Lang Lit as well? The sound analysis that WJEC require is shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilo Posted 16 May 2015 Share Posted 16 May 2015 Do you teach Lang Lit as well? The sound analysis that WJEC require is shit. No, just Literature. I personally prefer dealing with AQA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadt Posted 16 May 2015 Share Posted 16 May 2015 No, just Literature. I personally prefer dealing with AQA. I did literature for a week but changed it for Lang lit, I'm glad tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonfox1884 Posted 17 May 2015 Share Posted 17 May 2015 I've been loving literature this year! We did our paper with AQA and it was quite a nice one on Friday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 18 May 2015 Share Posted 18 May 2015 Delighted by yesterday's exam questions, it seems as though the questions were on more or less exactly what I'd delivered to 'em. A week of coursework submission and exam stress has a positive conclusion, few things better than seeing students come out of an exam grinning. As a teacher do you feel it is more important to teach your students how to pass the exam and so if you receive intelligence of what the questions will be to just focus on that or to teach the topic as a whole and hope what they retain comes up on the exam? I ask because when I did history A Level it was on the English Civil War and I really enjoyed the topic, felt like I knew about it but got a U in the exam. In hindsight, I should have appealed and had it remarked because I have never come out of an exam feeling as confident as I did and then failing it! Fortunately I did well in the other aspects of it and had a high AS grade to still get a C overall (I didn't appeal because I still got into Uni and it made no difference at the time) Whereas some modules at Uni it has been drilled into us what will be on the exam paper and what areas to revise in, I took note of it and scored 82% in the exam but it feels like I don't know anything about the module and would struggle to verbally answer questions in say an interview on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadt Posted 18 May 2015 Share Posted 18 May 2015 I find history is 90% exam technique, you could have a pretty dreadful argument but as long as you compared sources/factors nd linked it back to the question you'd get the marks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADK Posted 18 May 2015 Share Posted 18 May 2015 All exams are exam technique really. So long as you put down what the mark scheme requires you get the grade. Surprised there are still all these exam boards, thought the Cons were going to scrap them and replace with just the 1? Always seemed odd how there are about 5 exam boards competing to set the easiest exam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavrentis Posted 18 May 2015 Share Posted 18 May 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonfox1884 Posted 19 May 2015 Share Posted 19 May 2015 Had an absolute pig of a physics paper today, pretty gutted. They seemed to leave out everything I'm good at, and only put in what I'm decidedly dodgy at... Oh well, got stats tomorrow-I like stats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted 19 May 2015 Share Posted 19 May 2015 Just did my as economics resit. So easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpe's Fox Posted 19 May 2015 Share Posted 19 May 2015 Obviously fake. Napoleon died in exile on Saint Helena in 1920 not in a battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 19 May 2015 Share Posted 19 May 2015 Obviously fake. Napoleon died in exile on Saint Helena in 1920 not in a battle. He didn't die in 1920 either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 19 May 2015 Share Posted 19 May 2015 He would have been pretty old if he had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilo Posted 19 May 2015 Share Posted 19 May 2015 As a teacher do you feel it is more important to teach your students how to pass the exam and so if you receive intelligence of what the questions will be to just focus on that or to teach the topic as a whole and hope what they retain comes up on the exam? I ask because when I did history A Level it was on the English Civil War and I really enjoyed the topic, felt like I knew about it but got a U in the exam. In hindsight, I should have appealed and had it remarked because I have never come out of an exam feeling as confident as I did and then failing it! Fortunately I did well in the other aspects of it and had a high AS grade to still get a C overall (I didn't appeal because I still got into Uni and it made no difference at the time) Whereas some modules at Uni it has been drilled into us what will be on the exam paper and what areas to revise in, I took note of it and scored 82% in the exam but it feels like I don't know anything about the module and would struggle to verbally answer questions in say an interview on it. We don't have any idea of what will be in the paper as such, but we know what won't be by looking at past papers. The questions are always much of a muchness in terms of format, it's just the themes around which the questions will be based that change. We usually work on exam technique as well, that's always pretty critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpe's Fox Posted 19 May 2015 Share Posted 19 May 2015 He didn't die in 1920 either. I was a typo and a year out gimme a break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areyounotentertained? Posted 22 May 2015 Share Posted 22 May 2015 paper was 3 hours 45 minutes long today. Wrote 15 sides of A4 and a couple of sides of calculations. No ****ing clue what was going on, just said all the shit I knew vaguely related to the topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theessexfox Posted 22 May 2015 Share Posted 22 May 2015 9 down 9 to go. As an aside, I'm stuck between Politics and Philosophy for A level, any recommendations or advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMBlcfc Posted 22 May 2015 Share Posted 22 May 2015 Halfway through A/AS levels lads, 5 down 5 to go. Can't ****ing wait for them to be over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W LCFC Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 I've got 6 exams left after half term. 4 of them being maths. And I can do only 3 of them well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonfox1884 Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 9 down 9 to go. As an aside, I'm stuck between Politics and Philosophy for A level, any recommendations or advice? Both solid subjects. At the end of the day, which one do you see being more useful to YOU? Apparently Politics is slightly harder work than Philosophy, but then again my mates can be lazy s***s so you may want to take that with a pinch of salt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zak_lcfc Posted 23 May 2015 Share Posted 23 May 2015 Just finished my second year uni exams in History with French, Was a fairly painless process, many of the questions are just rehashed from previous years so revising past papers is essential! The french exam was hard, languages are much more difficult than I ever imagined and even after doing it for a year and a half it still constantly confuses me, I have to give people who can speak a number of languages credit it's a skill I would love to have. To anyone still taking them just keep going, think about all the free time you'll have after, exams are a pain but there shouldn't be anything you don't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dipak83 Posted 28 May 2015 Share Posted 28 May 2015 Ive got to take exams for work which is a right pain, but just have to think that it will be worth it in the end. 3 done. Another 9 to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpaM Posted 28 May 2015 Share Posted 28 May 2015 Saw this earlier, made me giggle How to cheat in an exam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted 28 May 2015 Share Posted 28 May 2015 that'd work, if you didn't have to have the label removed from any bottle of water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theessexfox Posted 4 June 2015 Share Posted 4 June 2015 12 down 6 to go, the end is in sight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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