Mock -> Leaving

PHB

What sorta points/scores do people have to go up from the mocks?

I gotta go up

English + 8%
Maths + 7%
History + 17%
Classics + 15%
Ap. Maths + 20%[not sure yet]
Physics + 30%

Tough, spending so much time on physics its crazy

Sangre

Yeh Im putting a huge amount of work into Physics aswell, hoping to move it to a A2 from a B2,
The physics coarse is stupidly big, all those experiments are a joke imo. Whats the point in mandatory and non-mandatory, you still have to learn them all anyway. Yes I know they're in Section A.


I hoping to move up around 30-40 points

Duffman

Looking for another 15% in classics too...... hrm... Alexander dragged me down... grrr... :mad:

Duffman

Anyone have any reassuring stories about how much better their actual results turned out to be?? And the amount of work involved..

I need them... Please....

Seraphina

heh, i've got to go up about 70 points, i got 330 in the mocks, looking for arts so thats around 400
tbh i did absolutely nothing for my mocks, and irish is the only paper i bothered to complete, so meh.
need to go up about 15% in
classics
biology
french
geography

now dont you all feel better

of course i left out
classics - 25% of the paper
french - 50% of the paper(25% of overall grade)
geography - 25% of the paper
biology - bout 25% of the paper

i should really work on my attitude towards this... :rolleyes:

imp

I need 160 more, here. FUUUUUUUUUCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!

Not gonna happen. So for my *next* choice, around 350 points will do nicely...

}:>

Molly

Anyone have any reassuring stories about how much better their actual results turned out to be?? And the amount of work involved..

I went from either 350 or 390 can't remember to 465 with not much more work then i did for my pre's.

ferdi

i want to go up by 200.
sounds crazy and probably wont happen, but i'd say it'll nearly happen.

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by Sangre

The physics coarse is stupidly big, all those experiments are a joke imo.

I don't know why you're complaining, the old physics course was longer and more difficult (and easier in ways). All you've got to do know are learn a few poxy experiments (not hard), definitions (easy marks), a few formulae (only 20 or 30 there) and about 7 or 8 easy derivations (we had tripple that in the old course).

My tip, and it's just a hunch is to learn all those derivations, I don't think a single one came up last year so theres a good chance you could get 40 marks for something that's very easy to learn.

Sangre

Originally posted by Raskolnikov
I don't know why you're complaining, the old physics course was longer and more difficult (and easier in ways). All you've got to do know are learn a few poxy experiments (not hard), definitions (easy marks), a few formulae (only 20 or 30 there) and about 7 or 8 easy derivations (we had tripple that in the old course).

My tip, and it's just a hunch is to learn all those derivations, I don't think a single one came up last year so theres a good chance you could get 40 marks for something that's very easy to learn.

Ummm excuse me, but there is 70 formulae.

Its all well and good saying easy marks for definitions, but you still have to go and learn them and god knows how many of them there are.
There is also 27 mandatory experiments, plus a hell of a lot more other ones.

Note: Light experiment didnt come up last year so LEARN!

Hope to move from 445 to 540. prolly wont happen but my sis went from 490 to 580 so hopefully some of her l337 smart genes are lurking in me somewhere.

Duffman

Originally posted by Jabba
Hope to move from 445 to 540. prolly wont happen but my sis went from 490 to 580 so hopefully some of her l337 smart genes are lurking in me somewhere.

Tell me she didn't work that much harder? :eek:

Doodee

I tripled my score from my mock results to the actual leaving result, and yet, i still know deep down i coulda done even better.


mocks mean **** all, unless the papers are gotten from the printers, if its a set exam from your teachers it means didly, cause in the l.c whatever u write down is worth points.

daveirl

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Bottle_of_Smoke

Easier for some but harder on smart\maths based people

(more people doing well -> harder marking for top people, and I've been lead to believe you past syllubus folk had three of those answer 8 out of 10 questions?!)

sisob

I got 345 in my mocks but was pretty sick for those and wont
be for the LC. And I umm need 345 points so I really don't
get to complain.

I do need to bring maths up by 10% though

ferdi

Originally posted by sisob
I got 345 in my mocks but was pretty sick for those and wont
be for the LC. And I umm need 345 points so I really don't
get to complain.

I do need to bring maths up by 10% though

i hate you.

Sev

Im assuming, having not received my applied maths mock results yet, that I did 570-580 in total in the mocks, so I figure im pretty safe for my 500 mark goal. But I got 2 dodgy borderline 85% A2s, so I cant be too confident.

Sangre

Originally posted by Sev
Im assuming, having not received my applied maths mock results yet, that I did 570-580 in total in the mocks, so I figure im pretty safe for my 500 mark goal. But I got 2 dodgy borderline 85% A2s, so I cant be too confident.

i hate you

'nuff said

Squall

But I got 2 dodgy borderline 85% A2s

Oh ya theyre a whooresthose......oh hang on, i dint get any dodgy borderline A2's. Closest i came was 83% in economics. Not bad i spose but i was expecting an A