Thanks! I think this song suits my character more, and the show it's from is about bunch of college kids fighting evil (how appropriate). I'll be updating those little things as time goes on.
Hachi Machi
comes back. That way all our hard work isn't wasted. (I might even take over full time since it is highly suspect the GM will ever come back, I haven't finished my CS anyways, so my effort is probably better used to continue this)
Hachi Machi
's attention to detail, and the beautiful lore in the encyclopedia. That's what really got me hooked, though the inital idea was rather interesting as well. It wouldn't feel right to me, if it wasn't the same person GMing, since I was really looking forward to all of their responses regarding my characters' actions. I also don't find CS's hard to make, though I am a little disappointed both my characters are going to die just after their debut, so it isn't that big of a deal for me in regards to effort or 'hard work'.
MiraAutumn
tho, so keep me posted 
I started the first day of the second year of my GCSE-course today, so I know what you're going through. I literally have mocks again in a few months, despite having mocks just before the summer holidays(I even had to complete a whole drawing project for art as holiday homework ;-; ). Da stress tho.I'd wait, personally, considering how I've got the start of my GCSE year in like a day (kill me lmao I've done no work) so I won't be joining any more for some time now, if I'll even have time for this :v I'm probably in the same boat as
Oommgg babe yes art coursework??? I had basically my whole project to do over the holidays because I did nothing all last term and I've done like two more pages haha. so much s t r e s s s sI started the first day of the second year of my GCSE-course today, so I know what you're going through. I literally have mocks again in a few months, despite having mocks just before the summer holidays(I even had to complete a whole drawing project for art as holiday homework ;-. Da stress tho.
Sorry to see you go, but good luck with all your studies too!
I'm taking art and computer science from column A, history from the humanities options and french from column B(you literally had to pick a language, or do something like health and social care or directed studies, etc.)
SATS = Primary education(Primary school) final exam qualification thingies I guess. Doesn't really matter in the long run.
I'm doing art, history and Germannn... Haha it was a bit of hyperbole there, 'cause I've mostly completed my first artist study and I'm just onto my second, which is still preeetty far behind. I'm doing the OCR board, so I'm not sure if we've got the same coursework requirements? Also, I have no idea. But it's chill ((((:
Basically what
MiraAutumn
said... I don't think there's a Canadian equivalent, but it's an exam in every school subject that you start studying for in year 10, with a mock exam to get an idea of what you'll get before the actual test at the end of year 11. Because they've just changed to the number system, though, I've heard they're going to be more lenient with our year's results because for some subjects we have just the one example paper that they've set to study off of, which is still actually the worst :v
Plutoni
Damnamam.. I don't think we do, just by the way you've described how your subjects work - we don't have 'columns' for choosing subjects or the option to do things like social studies instead of a language, and so on. Either way, my school's roughly around Bath area, so..
...I'm also doing the OCR board(cambridge-located board)...? This is quite a coincidence, could you give me a general location of where your school is?
Just slightly wondering whether we attend the same school, or you attend a school I know etc. Of course the chances of that are very unlikely.
Artist studies? We don't have those as projects. We have the ??? project, printmaking project, painting project, drawing project(done as summer holiday h/w). These are ordered by when we did them. Need to prepare for final pieces now ;-;
I used to be at the top of my classes. All except PE. 'Used to' is the key phrase in that statement.
We have multiple mock exams. We take all the subjects at around the same time, except the sciences for some AQA stuff. Except my computer science teacher, who doesn't know what programming is, failed to order the mock papers. Therefore we had to take the mock at a much later date than planned.
Plutoni
mentioned, they should be lenient when marking the first year after revisions to the exam. I am also wondering if you would receive standardization in order to ensure your results are comparable to results from past exams. I know that for both our provincial diplomas and IB exams, the results are examined and are then boosted or lower based on how everyone did. For provincial diplomas, they have certain "benchmark" questions that are similar from exam to exam and then they can judge how hard this year's exam was compared to others and then accordingly adjust your grade. For IB exams they look at the general performance of everyone writing the exam and then adjust it using some unknown mechanic.
No problem, I found it a bit difficult to follow, due to my current lack of sleep, but it was interesting learning about another's country's educations system ^^Ah ok, by SAT I thought you were referring it to the Scholastic Aptitude Test, used for US college applications. So your secondary school would be equivalent to our middle and high schools. I feel your pain, in Canada, most of the provinces (and territories) do not administer provincial-wide standardized finals, which my province Alberta has. They are given out in Grades 3, 6, and 9(UK System - Year 4, Year 7, and Year 10), where they are known as Provincial Achievement Tests (PAT), and are similar to your SATS in that they do not account for anything the long run (mostly as a reflection of what you have learned up to that date). Then when we reach the final year of "secondary school" or complete the subject that was intended to be learned that year (denoted by subject name then the number 30), we have to write a final exam for each subject known as the "diplomas", which accounts for 30% (used to be 50%) of the mark you use to apply to universities. (The other 70% consists of your class mark) These diplomas vary from subject from subject, but it is usually one multiple choice exam for mathematics and the sciences, and a m/c exam along with a written portion for the humanities. So I think in Alberta it is similar except that the time given to study is substantially less(about 5 months). (Not that I would use it anyways, I'm a big procrastinator lol) However, on top of that I have my IB exams, which are university level and are completely separate to the regular diplomas, although the information covered has some overlap. For EACH subject there are about 3 exams(called papers) which are different for each subject, but are written over a period of two days. In addition, you are also expected to complete an IA (Internal Assessment) for each subject, which for the sciences are an independent lab report that is about 20 pages, an investigative report in math, and a 2,000 word essay for social. Along with multiple practice exams and essays along the way. (Not sure about the others since I did not elect to complete the full IB program since they also have to complete a 4,000 word Extended Essay and 140 hours of mandatory activities outside of school known as CAS) So I really need to buckle down and work hard this year.
Regarding your revised exams, even though the grading system is changed, the content should be similar right? In my experience, past exams were not useful beyond testing the extent of your knowledge since they never repeat questions and usually change topics tested from year to year. Also as
Sorry for the long post, I just kept writing in response to your posts and didn't bother to continue in another post. xD
Math, science and english are mandatory. It is also mandatory to pursue one of the humanities. Then you may take 3 other options to pursue, which can literally be any of the subjects you've studied in previous years, or one of the new additions(catering, dance, music, art, ICT, computer science, languages, another humanities, Graphic design, buisness studies, PE etc).
That's not far off, really, but we do have A levels in the sixth form that's usually the final say on what university you can get into, although apparently with the changes that have also been going on those, universities are putting more of a focus upon GCSE results as to who they give out their offers to. Which is no pressure.
