I never know what you guys are talking about when you say "revision". :P
Is there a different word on your side of the pond?
You'll have to explain what it means first. :P
It's where you look back over all your school/university work to re-learn it before an exam. :)
Ah. We would just call that "studying before/for a test". Revision makes me think of revising a paper that one has written.
It is soooooooooooooo portugaling boring :(
Which is why I rarely did much of it, like maybe the night before a test. :P
Yeah, but I feel like I have to to get in to a good uni
Split and moved so we're not cluttering up the Antares subforum. :P
YAY a revision topic :/
We do need somewhere to complain after all :P
Today I'm revising peasants again :)
Is that now a mod statement as well? What the hell Jubal! :P
I'm a historian. From Norfolk. Peasants just happen. :P
You dirty feudalists!
Lol, science stuff for me :(
(http://i.imgur.com/yV6DD.jpg)
It's not that fun though :/
Why study things that aren't fun? :(
Jobs and armadillo.
I'm not revising, because I'm a freshaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Although I might do some learning later. But probably not today.
Exams are often done in a way that make things dull regardless of whether they *should* be fun, I find.
So you don't have to do exams in your first year?
Yeah but mine are easy.
I'm so confused.
(http://076dd0a50e0c1255009e-bd4b8aabaca29897bc751dfaf75b290c.r40.cf1.rackcdn.com/images/files/000/256/962/original/original.jpg)
About what?
I'm currently revising for AS levels :-/ horrifying amounts seeing as how I want to get like 95% on everything :P
I remember when it was possible to get 95% on everything :P
(The fact that this is now impossible is not simply because the work is harder; Cambridge history marks basically stop at about 80/100, it's nigh impossible to get higher. Anything over 70 is first class, and most marks are in the high fifties or sixties.)
Othko, you and me both buddy, I'm aiming for those 95% which doesn't make my life fun atm.
In maths at the moment I'm aiming to get 4 A's and 1 B (at-least) in the end of year Exams. That way I get the highest mark. :)
Yeah, in A levels you can't get A* (the highest mark) until the second year so you need to get 90% plus in your first year exams to get an A* in your second. :/
Unless they've changed it, that's not the case, Tom.
Certainly when I did it you could indeed only get A* at A2, but it relied on 90% on the A2 modules and an A overall. So you actually needed less in your first year*. I'd check the rules on that - it's not at all unlikely that they've changed, but that's not how it worked when I did it.
*Which leads to the odd thing of subjects potentially being your best AND worst, as was the case with me in History. 100% in first year, 89.5% in second year. Best total mark, only one I didn't get an A* on. :P
Yeah thats how it rolled when we did it, but we're old dinosaurs now Joobs. Or should I say Jubasaurus Rex? I think I should.
Yeah, that's odd but I expect you're right. It's what my teachers have been telling me but I bet they just say it to get you to work harder. The only issue is is that unis look at your AS results so if I want to get in to a good uni I'm gonna need 90% + :)
Not unless good uni means Oxbridge only. But still, best to aim high anyway.
Aim high and when I fail then I should still be able to get in to uni :)
Aim small, miss small.
Indeed
I don't remember my uni caring what I did at AS level (which is good, because I took Citizenship, what an embarrassment), it all came down to UCAS points. And I'm at a redbrick university.
But then that info is about four years outdated.
I know Oxbridge don't use UCAS points at all, but they will probably be more likely to be exception rather than rule (as usual). Cambridge focus most heavily on AS results of any Uni I think. Oxford use a mix of GCSEs and their own testing (though that means sitting extra entry exams midway through A2 year).
I have many an Oxbridge-related chip in my shoulder, and now I have an excuse for even more. Thank God I came to a sensible university :P
Quote from: Jubal on April 17, 2014, 12:19:12 AM
I know Oxbridge don't use UCAS points at all, but they will probably be more likely to be exception rather than rule (as usual). Cambridge focus most heavily on AS results of any Uni I think. Oxford use a mix of GCSEs and their own testing (though that means sitting extra entry exams midway through A2 year).
I think most of the Russel group do this sort of thing now. Of the places I applied (Bristol, York, Sheffield, Manchester & Cambridge) none of them paid any attention to a points tarrif and instead cared about grades & subject choice.