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Good luck to all the various students who are working towards or taking exams during this time. The weather is gorgeous and I know how hard it is to focus on your work when you could be out enjoying the sunshine, but there isn't too long now!

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Tell me about it , got my A Levels next week! Its so tempting to just go play football in the sun , however the temptation was too much so did so i kinda went for an hour Haha :D

But good luck to everyone else :) Hope you all do well :)

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I would hate to be doing A levels again :p rather you than me!

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Yes, best of luck to everyone taking exams, including my grandaughter doing A-levels .. x It is hard when the weather is like this, but remember kids, hopefully, there will be many more sunny days that you will be able to enjoy .. so head down ..:thumbsup:

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Sorry what? I'm out in the sun being burnt. :D

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Knuckle down.........hope all goes well for everyone.:D

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It's an awful time of year to have to revise, but it'll be worth it.

Good luck.:)

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Good Luck all of you

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Well you aren't exactly doing a real degree are you :p What sort of politician does a politics degree? Maybe PPE but not politics alone :p Doesn't really take a degree to figure out your own political beliefs and preach them at people does it :p

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Perhaps a degree in divinity:rolleyes: Maybe all exams should be held in Canada in January.

Good luck Blazey.

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I think I need a miracle if I am to get through all this material in such a short space of time :p

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Well stop yapping and get on with it :D good luck Blazey

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I have attention span issues :p

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Tell him to sod off until after the exam :p

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Tell who to sod off? I am single and not wasting my time with boyfriends and girlfriends at the moment, too much stress.

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:eek: i didnt realise blazey ;):D

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good luck to all who try hard, the rest can get stuffed.:D

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I didn't realise it was important :p next time I will make sure I drape myself in a rainbow coloured flag so you know.

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since we have had convos about our *ahem* love lives, just thought it might have come up :p

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I thought we had discussed it to be truthful :p maybe you and I need to have another chat haha.

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i think you might be right :D

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Best of luck to all who are taking exams.....A levels, GCSEs, SATS, the lot. :)

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My son had his first GCSE exam today - his drama practical, I went to see the play they were doing in their dress rehearsal for parents week before last so we could give feedback on any improvements they could make... seems it went well today...my youngest said the funniest bit was them getting ready as they had to be stood outside and buckets of water thrown all over them to wet them through.

They were doing the opening scenes from Nevilles Island :D

now go google :p

The downside of all the exams coming up is he's finding it really hard to sleep, any tips??

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Good luck to all those sitting exams, I hope they have every success in them (as I did :D)

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i wish i'd revised properly for my gcse's :(

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Does that mean I don't get any good luck, or is a degree at the bottom of the hierarchy in 'the lot' lol.

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Reading before bed tends to get most people tired. I used to stay awake til I'd finished the book though so that wont necessarily work. No eating after 6.

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When I was revising for my exams i sat in the garden doing it. Then i wasn't gazing out of the window wishing i was outside.

Good Luck to all.:)

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I just close the curtains :p

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Sorry, Blazey. :o

I should have included degrees too, of course.

I wish you lots of luck and hope you do really well. :)

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All I can think of is reading,, lavender and nice warm milk

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avon bed mist! its ace and works with my hyper lad... theres different stuff in avon and they are really good

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its funny cos last night he slept properly for the first time in a while and has been alot happier today for it, he's not so much a kevin (as in kevin and perry) more just a kev now :p

We had a chat and he said the pressure of exams seems to have dropped now he has actually started them

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Did you ever get him that extra tutoring?

Hope he does great:)

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spoke to his maths teacher and he actually gave him some 1 on 1 tutoring, which was great for me cos it cost me nowt :)

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Oh thats good, bet you were both grateful of that

It's nice to see a teacher doing more than just their job:)

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My maths tutor actually wrote my coursework for me. I hated that woman, sucked all the fun out of maths.

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I've lucked out this time round, put the effort in my other exams so I've got an easy run in - 5 exams - 2 on 5th June, 2 on 16th June and 1 on 20th June. Got a long time to revise and in 3 of the exams I only need half marks to come out on an overall A because I did well in AS and the first set of A level exams in January. Should comfortably come out on AAA and that'll get me into uni with a grand a year scholarship :)

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Good luck then with that :) a grand a year extra will no doubt be a brilliant help, just don't spend it stupidly.

One thing I have learned at University is that A levels are suddenly irrelevant, and the people who have the 'best' or most A levels feel like they have been conned because of people like me getting into uni with rubbish grades. You meet some extremely clever people who have done rubbish at A level and some ridiculously stupid people with brilliant A level results. In other words, try not to get to uni and think your brilliant for getting 3 A's at A level, because you'll soon realise nobody cares!

What degree are you going to be doing and which Uni are you going to?

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notice you were very grateful blazey.:rolleyes::D

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No I'm not grateful because at the time I wasn't bothered about her doing it, but I look back now and feel a bit of a liar about that maths result. I was more than capable of doing the work to the standard I achieved, but I just didn't. I don't think you should be grateful of somebody encouraging your lazy attitude to something :p

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Reece starts his SATS tomorrow, good luck Reecey :D xxxx

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good luck reece xxx

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Computing for Business Applications @ University Of Manchester

And yea, I know the results aren't an accurate representation, some subjects are so much easier than others, my girlfriend is just as if not more intelligent than me however because she does maths and sciences she's going to struggle to get the 3 B's she needs where I'm walking in the 3 A's in law, psychology and computing.

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Aww, good luck to him, hope he does really well:)

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Good Luck Reece:D

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Out of interest, do people get their children to revise for SAT's and things? I never did, but times have changed a bit now from what I understand and there is more pressure on exams... apparently :p

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I really think the SATS especially in year 9 should be scrapped, the schools heap on the pressure when they do nothing what so ever for the pupils. It has a negative effect in two ways - firstly it puts the children under unnecessary stress and secondly the way schools go about it they make it seem really important, which they then repeat for 2 years for GCSEs however once the pupils realise the SATs were worthless they get the doubt of "Well are GCSEs actually that important or are they having us on again ?"

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yes, Reece has been on Revisewise on the net at home for months now, he was really nervous when he went into school this morning, i just told him to try his best and not to worry about them

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All you can ask is that he tries his best

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I think SAT's should NOT be scrapped because they are very important when it comes to putting students into a class that suits their ability.

I also never found mine stressful, nor did I revise for them. I don't think it is wise to practice in preparation for SAT's because it gives a bit of a false representation of what you have learned and actually focuses more on what you are capable of memorising. It's a bit like an IQ test, only accurate if not practiced for.

Of course everybody wont agree with me, and that is fair enough, but I can see the benefit of SAT's and your right to an extent Sam because I don't see the real relevance of GCSE's, mainly because you get up to this level and they are never mentioned again except in the odd conversation with friends.

I think the unnecessary stress surrounding exams cant be blamed wholly on teachers, parents often encourage the stress to in my opinion. The people who I find worry most about them are the people who's parents focus on exam results too much, and it just shouldn't be about that, and thankfully it isn't like that at uni otherwise I think I would've lost all faith in education.

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i know a lad from Accy who started at Lancaster Uni last September

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There are 39 weeks in a school year. I would class it as poor teaching if they can't tell how good a child is in that time. Scrap the SATS

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High school teachers teach several classes a day, it's hard to have the same relationship with the pupils there that you would have with primary school children that you teach every day, all day.

You have SATs at the end of primary school to be put into your classes at high school, then reassessed in year 9 to make sure you are in the right sets for GCSE. I don't recall anyone finding them stressful, they were just something you did. I don't recall anybody revising for them :confused: I certainly didn't anyway.

How long have SAT's been used for this purpose? Where they used when you were at school?

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Chances are I wont know him, and as Medicine is the only course that actually begins at Lancaster Uni in september, I definitely wont know him.

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Although year 6 SATS results are used to decide which set to put children in at secondary school, their main purpose is to assess the performance of the primary school.

Children tend to get very nervous about these exams and although they are told to relax it's easier said than done as it is such an intense week with lots of tests to be done.

However, if they fall to pieces on the day, don't get the results they deserve and finish up in a lower band at secondary school, the teachers will soon realise when they start secondary and see their work that they should be in a higher band and it is easily rectified.

The main thing to remember is that it is the school under examination, not the child.