Revision

[comrade_general]

[Tom]

It's not that fun though :/

[comrade_general]

Why study things that aren't fun?

[Pentagathus]

Jobs and armadillo.
I'm not revising, because I'm a freshaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Although I might do some learning later. But probably not today.

[Jubal]

Exams are often done in a way that make things dull regardless of whether they *should* be fun, I find.

[comrade_general]

So you don't have to do exams in your first year?

[Pentagathus]

Yeah but mine are easy.

[comrade_general]

I'm so confused.

[Pentagathus]

About what?

[Othko97]

I'm currently revising for AS levels :-/ horrifying amounts seeing as how I want to get like 95% on everything

[Jubal]

I remember when it was possible to get 95% on everything

(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.)

[Tom]

Othko, you and me both buddy, I'm aiming for those 95% which doesn't make my life fun atm.

[Cuddly Khan]

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.

[Tom]

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. :/

[Jubal]

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.