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I seem to remember from the frantic gcse posts in july quite a few people are at about the same stage in education as me - so this is my random (alrready) panicking AS level rant thing.
I mean omg!! It's not even like the work is to hard (although chemistry... p orbitols??) but there is so much pressure and so little time! I think GCSE's got me into the mode of 2 years studying then big exams and it hasn't really hit me that we have more exams this year in like months and these count towards uni and stuff like that.
Right, rant over... I'm taking Bio, Chem, Maths and classics - and I'm loving 75% of them (ahem chemistry...) what are other people taking and are you finding it really hard to focus on homework etc etc?
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Well, i've taken Phsycology, History, Media Studies and English literature. as you can imagine i have tonnes of writing to do, i'm talking over-night essays. In Media we've done 6 practicles so far, which have been soooo time consuming and difficult. and on top of all of that i've had to do 7 presentations AND it's a new school for me! talk about hard work
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Im doing Eng Lit, Eng Lang, Classics and Art.
hating lit-- bad teachers and set texts.. argh
classics not so bad
art, well its sooo relaxing... until you hit a wall...
eng lang omg its awesome!! never done anything so fun in my life! decided to study linguistics at uni
and i only chose it because i had to fill a block
but as you can probably guess... its a heck of a lot of reading and essay writing, im getting so confused over whech books are which... tis a nightmare!This is a reply to this message.
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I feel your pain! GCSE I had latin, english and classics so sooo many set texts etc - even with just classics, as you will know, you have the trajedies and set texts etc - but have you done the Bacchae?? How much for you love pentheus! - maybe that's just me but - after going off on a tangent - I know what you mean about set texts!
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haha my gcses were latin and art. didnt do classics.
latin... was so difficult! came out with a B. but we did Amor for the poetry, which was really nice, and i got the poems i have for my mocks.
at the moment we're doing Agamemnon and the Odyssey, the weve got medea, bacchae, some more aeschylus and something else. next year its the illiad and aeneid. so excited! lolThis is a reply to this message.
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Ye - those Amor Poems were all so... dodgey! Did you study Nisus and Euryalus as your prose lit? I learn't it off by heart except for the last 4 lines, literally, and then they came up and i was like - grrr! I'm supposed to have read the whole Odyssey over half term but I'm only up to book 14!! Ah well - back to homework it is!
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I like it. There's a lot more work but I think I can cope with it.
Okay, I'm doing essay subjects (harder in many ways but perhaps simpler to understand) but I was just shocked. Start of yr 10, or even 11, there was hardly any work, only picking up at the end of yr 11, exam time. But now the pressure's been on since the first week. Luckily I've always been stupidly organised so I have been keeping on top of the work.
It's sooo good though, doing your own choice of subjects. It means you don't mind when you have the same subject for a double every day.
Plus is it just my school or is everyone so much nicer at 6th form. All the idiots who shout out etc. have gone, and it's just nice normal people left.
Luckily I only have 1 exam in January, but that'll mean the pressure'll all be on in June.
I'm doing English Lit., History, German and Maths, by the way.
I'm liking Eng. Lit., if you don't count getting frustrated and ranty at the annoying characters/writers.
History is suprisingly good. I did Class Civ at GCSE and I'm enjoying History so much more. There are a lot of facts though.
German is hard...the problem with languages is that you're always aware of what you don't know. My teacher says I'm doing all right though. There's only 2 of us in the class though so it's a bit uncomfortable.
Maths is actually easy! A lot of it so far is a repetition of GCSE and I did an extra qualification which was a lot of Core 1 as well so it's all relatively easy. Haven't always been in a top set though it's a bit of a (probably good) shock though, in a slightly more mixed ability class.
Is anyone else doing my subjects? What do you think of them?
IzzyxThis is a reply to this message.
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Awesome - did you do additional maths at GCSE?
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Meant *Have always been in a top set so...*
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Thanks (I guess you're replying to me?) Yeah, I did Additional Maths. It was a bit crazy though. We only started looking at it in mid year 11, so we had to do in in half a year rather than the more normal one year. Plus my teacher decided he didn't have enough time to teach us most of the syllabus, wanting to concentrate on GCSE stuff, and rushed through what he did teach, so we had to learn a lot of it ourselves. It's nice now to be able to go through the stuff more slowly and really understand it, rather than just learning the formulas.
I guess you did it? OCR? What did you think of it?
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I found it pretty hard - The two A* sets at school learned it but only a handful took it, it clashed with so many gcses (R.S, German and IT) that we all had to be incomunicado and I remember thinking - i honestly don't know any of this!
Its good now though, I feel at AS I already know how to do everything - which just eases the work load etc!!
Does your school have loads of lectures next year - we have a day of maths lectures which sounds kind of dull and I wasjust wondering if any one else does?This is a reply to this message.
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Hi U14120117 (do you have a name/nickname I could use?)
You seem to have had to do it pretty much the same way we did. I think mine clashed with German so all of us doing Add maths had to do it in the morning and then hang around in the sports hall for four hours before german (in case we told someone the answers!) That was dull.
No, my school doesn't do a lot of lectures. We're going on a school trip to see some lectures in a few weeks but ohther than that, not much.
Izzy
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I have History, Media Studies, English Lit and ICT.
History- too much work and too little headspace
English Lit- is amazing, I love it, can't get enough of it! but the workload is waaaay too much
Media Studies- fun, workload is not too shabby
ICT- i like the practicals not so much the theory, but i get by.
Now im panicking about my Media module that I have in Jan...
what modules does everyone else have in jan? anything?
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Hi
Izzy - my nickname is [Personal details removed by Moderator]but it doesn't show for some reason - so u can call me scarlett
Whitefire - I don't have any modules in january, luckily!! I was going to take double maths theni thourght can i really be bothered with exams that soon? and the basic answer was no!
As long as school doesn't close for swine flu like it did just before GCSEs I'm hoping I will revise and be prepared for AS levels...
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I've only got Maths. But it'll be a lot of pressure in June!
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hey everyone!
so i'm kind of imposing on this thread because i've finishedschool last summer. but i thought i'd say keep at it because if you put the work in and get good results it is so worth it!
i had times when i hated all my subjects because the teacher was annoying/had too much work/didn't like a certain area of study/just too plain lazy and couldn't be bothered with anything at the time!
but if you try and forget about that and absorb yourself in the subject you get so much out of it.
also when i was struggling to enjoy things, i tried reading around the topic a little, either to help me understand it, or just to put it in perspective. which is hard when it's 3 in the morning and you've just finished a particularly hard essay, i know!
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