[Wiflewood]

Anyone got their exam results back from this summer? Mine came this morning:

A Graphics
A Psychology
A Physics
B Critical Thinking
B Maths

[TheEnglishman]

My GCSE's are next week. How... worrying.

[Caael]

My Brother got his results today

A- Film studies
A- Drama
A- English Lit

[Folcon]

I'm going out on a limb here to guess your talking about summer classes and it hasn't taken this long to get results from spring term to come in.

[FlamingDuck]

No, I think it's spring term. I haven't got mine from then either.

[Someone Else]

On a scale of Far Below Basic, Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, to Advanced (in ascending order of course)

English-Language Arts: Proficient
Geometry: Below Basic (ask anyone in my class, the teacher was terrible)
World History: Proficient
Biology: Proficient
Life Science: Proficient

There are loads of other sub-sorts to each subject, such as Reading Comprehension in English-Language Arts (which I scored 100% on, holy carp) but there are too many of them and I doubt you guys would care too much.

[TheEnglishman]

Is that really how they mark your exams? I'm just used to A,B,C.
For some reason everyone saying 'You'll do fine' to me about my GCSE results doesn't make me feel much better. Curse my lack of confidence and pesimisstic nature! (Not to mention my spelling)

[Someone Else]

These are for the SATS/CAT6's (they're the same thing) and are unique to California. It might be different in other states of the US.

[Ironsight]

i took the STAR Test to. I just got my restults bace a little while ago:

English-Language arts: Advanced
Math: Proficient
Scientce: Advanced
History: Proficient (Missed Advanced by one point :P )

I might have messed up, because i dont know were my scores are right now and im recalling them from memory. but i think this is pretty acurate.

PS: HAHA WD I BEAT YOU!!!! XD

[Split Infinity]

We don't get lettered results. We just get a mark and a percentage.

[Eugine]

xD Wifle, you pwnt me again (killed me in GCSEs remember). I only did three CAPE though (the Caribbean answer to A Level)... My only save face is that we didn't do the same exam lol'd.
Geography - A
Physics - B
Maths - C ... was so terrible. If I can find it, I'll email/PM it to you Wifle, just to see if you can do it, xD

I think I did pretty well, considering I did little preparation (was playing WoW so often x.x)

One of my friends got 4 As (Maths, Chemistry, Biology and Communication), while another who did law got 4 As from subjects I can't recall. They are making headlines accross the Caribbean I think. I refuse to listen to CAPE news.
They always pwn me. Oh well.

All in all, my year did better than all previous years, raising the percent pass. What a joy. Record scores in my school.


"Moving along" (that was my reaction to the poor results) ^^.

EDIT: Darksword and WD, I assume Advanced - A, Proficient - B, Below Basic - C?

And Me111, you'll do fine. Trust me, we all have the feeling of failure after doing an exam. When I did GCSE, I thought I was going to fail like 5 subjects. Didn't though.

[Ironsight]

^ something like that i guess. i think its:
Advanced: A
Proficient: B
Basic: C
Below Basic: D
Far Below Basic: F
dont know why they would change the names though

[Someone Else]

I think they're based something off of ratings of everybody who's taken the test where as "Proficient" would be a bit better than the average.

[My Best Wishes]

Spam King, on Aug 17 2007, 10:50 AM, said:

We don't get lettered results. We just get a mark and a percentage.

Maybe not for Year 12 3/4's but you should in your reports.

For my last semester I got: (1/2 being Year 11 subjects and 3/4 being year 12 (last year of school))
Accounting 1/2-A
History 1/2-A
English1/2 -B+
Maths 1/2-B
Biology1 1/2-C+ (My marked got dragged down by my exam. My SAC's (School Asessed Work) were great though
IT 3/4- No middyear exam so no mark, but on a scale about a B.

[Wiflewood]

Yeah go for it Eug, I'd be interested to have a go.

National results got published for A Levels today (Not AS, but I expect the results would be similar)

Only 10% of entrants got A's in Critical Thinking, compared to about 20-30% in all the other subjects, so I expect that that exam was just naturally harder than most.

The % of girls getting A's was also bigger than the percentage of boys in every subject except the foreign languages, interestingly. (Spanish, German, French).

[Split Infinity]

watch, on Aug 17 2007, 07:06 PM, said:

Maybe not for Year 12 3/4's but you should in your reports.

In my reports, I get a single page of results for each subject with a list of criteria, and five checkboxes of increasing positivity to show how well I fulfilled each of those criteria (homework handed in, efficiency in a group, bringing materials to class, etc). At the bottom of the page is a brief paragraph from a teacher describing my progress in that subject. That's it.

[My Best Wishes]

That's becasue your 15. In year level, what, 9 or 10? When you get to VCE it'll be different.

[TheEnglishman]

Woot! GCSEs!
Graphics: D (Not my favourite subject)
English: A
English Literature: A
Media: C
Maths: B
Religious Studies: B
Business Studies: B
French: D
History: A
Science is worth two grades: AA

[Someone Else]

Woot Me111, I almost failed French this year but pulled a C. Not to rub it in your face or anything.

[TheEnglishman]

To be fair:
I was doing the foundation course where the highest you can get is C.
I passed.
Who cares about French anyway?

[Someone Else]

The French do!

But I took French mainly because eeevveeerrrybody takes Spanish in my school.

[TheEnglishman]

It was a case of either French that I'd been doing for 3 years previously or German that I'd done for 1.

[Aquamarine]

Well, I had been studying French for 6 years in High School, and then when I went to Middle School I chose German, even though I could have chosen French. I just dislike it that much.

[Ironsight]

Wind Dude, on Aug 23 2007, 12:38 PM, said:

But I took French mainly because eeevveeerrrybody takes Spanish in my school.

Thats becuase everybody in CA speaks Spanish already, but just want an easy A ;)