Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[Mike]

Good luck to the GCSE peoples tomorrow.

It's truly horrible, and you may be cacking it, but you may be suprised with the results. I was expecting straight U's. I seriously thought i had messed up my gcse's after missing the last year of school. I ended up with 4 D's. Infact, as this thread has been running for yonks, if you look back, you might see my posts this time last year. So don't get too nervous, and don't put yourself down until you see the actual results

[Hugh.]

Meh.... 1 A*, 7 As and 2 Bs...

It's good really, and probably better than I was expecting, but I didn't get an A* in History, which I was expecting and all my mates have at least 4 A*s...

I know I shouldn't be disappointed but I can't help it!

[Spev]

They're brilliant results, Robbo!!!! You should be really proud of yourself - getting an A*in anything is a brilliant result - and 7 As, that's just fantastic. Don't compare yourself to your mates, you still passed all your exams with flying colours and that's the most important thing.

[Rik]

I took my french a year early and i got an A today

[craigh]

i did Gcse english resit of which i dont get the result until next week ans AS level dual ICT i got a U

oh well

my GCSE English was a D which was a nice improvement:)

[Jono]

Grace got all A*s, As and Bs. The show off...

[KingTutsWWH]

Yay! Good times. I've been hanging about on here all morning awaiting Grace's results.

Felicitations Rik, and well done Robbo and Rob.

[sebdevlin]

Well done Grace at least she did better than Comedy Dave

[Hugh.]

Don't people realise that GCSE results being good doesn't mean that they're ridiculously easy, and that we might actually be working hard, and thats what gets us the results?

"What is it these days, spell your name right and you get a pass?"

[Rob]

In my opinion, B is the optimum grade to get. Anything higher means you actually concentrated in the subject and didn't have any fun at all. Anything lower means you didn't concentrate enough and probably put other people off.

I got 1 A, 7 Bs and 3 Cs.

[Grace]

Not really Rob, I had the most fun in Media Studies and English out of all my subjects.

Right, my results:

Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Music - B. No idea how I pulled that off with regards to science, as I came out of Chemistry and Physics in tears. Maybe the examiner liked my illustrations all over the paper.

Maths, English Lit, Law - A. Gutted about Law, I wanted an A*. Pleased about Maths as everything I'd not revised/couldn't do came up on the paper.

Geography, Media Studies, English Language - A*. Nicely predicted Nati! I'm pleased about Media, it means I got over 97% on the paper and they thought my ideas were original.

I'm happy with that, and I got the documentation for the A and A* I got last years today too.

[Mike]

Woo! Well done everyone! And i may have been waiting for Grace to come and tell her results too Nati lol

[KingTutsWWH]

That's fantastic Grace.:woo: Hope the parents are pleased too. Celebrations are definitely in order.

[Grace]

Woo! Well done everyone! And i may have been waiting for Grace to come and tell her results too Nati lol

That's fantastic Grace.:woo: Hope the parents are pleased too. Celebrations are definitely in order.

Haha, thanks both of you. My mum seemed a bit disappointed on the phone, I'm not sure why, oh well. I can't wait to get enrolled at college now.

Well done to Rik, Robbo and Rob too. (And anyone else who's got their results today.)

[Hugh.]

I'll do the full review if anyone's interested...

Design Technology and English Lit - B... Not too surprised about DT - did the best I could as I only picked it as I didn't want to do Art or Music. Bit gutted about English Lit, as I was predicted an A and I'm doing it for A-level, but Oh well.

RS, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, Physics, History, English Lang - A... Surprised about RS, as the teacher was rubbish, and I was finding it hard, but apparently I got 94% on the 2nd paper, which is rather nice. I can't believe I got an A in Maths.. I was thinking a C, and Bs in the Sciences, so that was a nice surprise. English lit is fine, as A was what I expected, but gutted about History - I got the top mark in the year in my mock, and 49/50 on the History coursework, but obviously didn't do too well on the paper, as my teacher said it was only a mid-A.. Really wanted an A* as I want to do it at University, but, oh well, I had a look and a B at A-level seems to be good enough for history.

French - A*... Yay.. shame it's the only one, but I'm happy enough with that.

Congratz Grace, you did great!

[Kelly]

Congratulations to you all, you should all be very proud of yourselves.

[Charlotte]

I got 6 B'S AND 4 C'S im really happy with that, i can go to the college i want to go to (which happens to be the same one as Vernon Kaye and Luke off of bb went to:) ) and to take the courses i wanted to congratulations to everyone else who got there results hope you got the grades you wanted

[Jono]

Well done Charlotte!

[Ema]

Well done! I know exactly how you felt getting your results, I actually felt worse this year for my AS's!

Whats everyones plans then?

[Jono]

I did actually wake up this morning wondering why people panic so much over GCSEs. I think the further up the ladder you go, the less significant previous exams seem. But they're still a test of your education and how smart you are, so I can see why people care a lot.

Whats everyones plans then?

Might get a sandwich, how about you?

[Ema]

I did actually wake up this morning wondering why people panic so much over GCSEs. I think the further up the ladder you go, the less significant previous exams seem. But they're still a test of your education and how smart you are, so I can see why people care a lot.

Might get a sandwich, how about you?

Im off to the gym!

I know exactly what you mean, to me (sorry people, dont have a go) GCSEs feel so much easy now compared to A levels!

Just remember to not only work hard but play hard next year too!

[FreakaZoid101]

I can say the GCSEs are much easier than A-levels but (can't believe I'm going to say this) they weren't as fun.

Further Maths this year was the best ever maths I've taken. It was actually fun because it was difficult *ducks* *covers*

But I'm kind of twisted like that.

Well done to all of you. Have as much fun as you can have of what's left of this summer.

[Spev]

Tara you're just like Charlie off of Numb3rs... Although he did graduate when he was 13 and wrote his first maths paper when he was 14 and .... well what I'm trying to say is I'm sure he'd find A Level Further Maths exams enjoyable too!!!!

[FreakaZoid101]

Tara you're just like Charlie off of Numb3rs... Although he did graduate when he was 13 and wrote his first maths paper when he was 14 and .... well what I'm trying to say is I'm sure he'd find A Level Further Maths exams enjoyable too!!!!

I love Charlie!

Does anyone else find any exams that little bit fun?

[Spev]

I love Charlie too - in fact I named my cat after him!! Cos I'm a saddo. And also cos Charlie's a proper boy's name and my cat is a proper boy cat. He looks like his name's Charlie if you know what I mean. Anyway. Numb3rs is great. The End.

I do remember really looking forward to all my English exams, especially Language where I could just totally let rip with writing a story. I loved pulling books to pieces in Literature as well and just get everything out of them that I possibly could.

So yeah I'm a weirdo too!!!!!