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| Thread ID: 50577 | 2004-10-25 08:24:00 | [ OT ]Exams | ApeNz (4220) | Press F1 |
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| 284492 | 2004-10-26 08:16:00 | and what about the 90 % merit and the 56% merit - two extremes if you suck you get the same mark as someone who was one question of execellence | ApeNz (4220) | ||
| 284493 | 2004-10-26 08:20:00 | EXACTLY! Maybe they should have thought about having 5 levels or something? Split it up a bit more? I dunno... |
fergie (424) | ||
| 284494 | 2004-10-26 08:20:00 | all level ones have maths on the 11th - that my mates bday ( what a shame ). After this im going to get my A + Hardware certification and my restricted ( yay ) | ApeNz (4220) | ||
| 284495 | 2004-10-26 09:12:00 | Heard the cambridge song? www.twenty20.co.nz | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 284496 | 2004-10-26 10:41:00 | yeah, like in IGCSE, you get an A*(star) if you get 90%+, an A if you get 80-90%, a B if you get 70-80%, a C if you get 60-70%, a D if you get 50-60%, an E for 40-50% or a U for anything below that. Getting anything from an E to A* means you pass. So that means you have to get about 40% to pass, which isn't hard. But sometimes, if a subject is particularly hard, or the marking is tough, then those grades move down a bit (for eg. I was told that this year 70% in Business was sufficient for an A grade). And it keeps changing by about 1 or 2 % each year (all subjects). But apart from that, this is a much better system than NCEA. |
static (4108) | ||
| 284497 | 2004-10-26 20:42:00 | + More on IGCSE Grades actually run right down to G before you get the U. Yes, it's easy to pass, but its dam hard to do well. The marks as static has said are scaled specifically for New Zealand only. In place such as England, they only get a grade. So yea, you can be one year and get 48% and be offered thousands of schlorships.... (as it has being a few years ago). You do not get your raw marks back, only your scaled mark. About now, static should be sitting his English exam.... |
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 284498 | 2004-10-27 01:10:00 | Yep, 9.30pm to 11.45. I must tell you, that exam was really easy. I expected at least the English IGCSE exam to be harder than the internal exams. Ahh well, gotta wait and see what tomorrow's one is like. Having said that though. last year, no one in Auckland Grammar got an A* in english. And its predicted that this year no one will get it either (based on internals). I've averaged about 84-85% this year in internals so i'm hoping I'd be able to get an A* (hopefully, I do tomorrow's exam well). Wish me luck guys :) |
static (4108) | ||
| 284499 | 2004-10-27 01:25:00 | Off course, all schools make their practice exams WAYYYYYY harder than the real external ones. Yea, I also hear my friend say it was relatively easy. Don't be put off by one easy exam, the externals are marked much harder remember.... However, I have one thing to say. All the guys who take the English (First Language) at our school all achieve late 70s early 80~ish. No doubt, it's their easiest subject too. But I warn you, wait till next year, and you're understand what us other Literature guys face.... what a real exam really is. |
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 284500 | 2004-10-27 03:16:00 | > Hey prescott what specs you got on your rig - my > computer sits beside where i study and it has a > window so i keep looking inside and seeing what i > can move around to increase airflow blah blah and > then i start thinking about the upgrades ( new PSU > and double the ram ) , start thinking about putting > it in and the speed increase and hey im not studying > and i realised i havent been for the last five > minutes - ahh oohhh thats me lol, meh i just have a mere 1.8ghz(its not a prescott) but it will be when i get a new rig, only have 256ram and a gecube radeon 9600se, not the best but it goes....... i had my system in my room but i was soo ditracted buy it like i had it downloading demos but the noise and the shear presence distracted me, i look at it and i wonder what can i do to it.... those 5 minutes turn into 45minutes and i just give up, so now i have my system in another room for the time being, when exams are over its back into my room and into the games...... only a few weeks away and counting down...... hopefully the grades will improve with this technique....... |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 284501 | 2004-10-27 03:27:00 | I know what u mean sy. My best friend does AS literature. But i dunno, that s not really english. English should be the way you apply and use english and how you can interpret stuff and express yourself. Literature is more like, "Here's all this poetry, go learn it off by heart." Not really using your brains now is it? Also, our teacher marks us very hard. Dunno why really, but although we're the top 5th form class doing IGCSE, we still manage to get crap marks (I came first all through the year and my top mark was only 87%). But yeah, I was told before that the externals are marked pretty harshly. |
static (4108) | ||
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