) You're lucky. I've still got exams on the 15th and 30th of June for my maths retake and business studies.nwtv2003 wrote:Well which of you lucky bastards other than myself have had Exams for the past week. For myself today has been the worst day for Exams as I had 6 hours worth! This morning I had Media Studies (Where we analysed Sky News) and this afternoon I had ICT (I was retaking Paper 1), though you get used to it, it can be really boring, even worse than GCSE's!
Though they're all over now, I don't have to be back in College until Wednesday, so I get to do bugger all on Monday and Tuesday. (I am working this weekend
There must be other people on this forum who've had them this week or next week, even though Study Leave ends on the 16th there are still loads of exams for others who I know.
Good luck to anyone who are doing them at this period of time, as they're a right shit.
It's just Results day I am not looking foward to!
I know, the picture was a real poor quality. I couldn't have given a toss for the exam as I'm not doing IT for A2 (yay!) I didn't bother to revise for it and managed to answer most of the questions. The picture gave one of the answers away, which was explain 'Stand Alone', I didn't know what it meant but after I saw it, I changed my answer, it's their own stupid fault really.Chris wrote:Regarding the IT retake this afternoon, wasn't the 2nd paper pretty easy? And wasn't that picture of the desktop on the loose sheet so blatantly obivious it was Windows and yet they decided to edit the picture heavily and then compress it just for good measure.
Unfortunately I'm doing it for A2 as wellnwtv2003 wrote:I know, the picture was a real poor quality. I couldn't have given a toss for the exam as I'm not doing IT for A2 (yay!) I didn't bother to revise for it and managed to answer most of the questions. The picture gave one of the answers away, which was explain 'Stand Alone', I didn't know what it meant but after I saw it, I changed my answer, it's their own stupid fault really.Chris wrote:Regarding the IT retake this afternoon, wasn't the 2nd paper pretty easy? And wasn't that picture of the desktop on the loose sheet so blatantly obivious it was Windows and yet they decided to edit the picture heavily and then compress it just for good measure.
Like last time (in Janurary I mean) and with the Paper 2, they took no time at all, they give you 90 minutes, every does it within 60, I managed to do Paper 1 in about 45 minutes!
Though I'll probably fail it, but as I said I couldn't give a toss about A2 IT. Have you seen the Coursework for A2? It's worse than AS!!!!
Good luck for your other exams, I didn't know they went as late as June 30th?!?
I feel sorry for my friend as he has to attend a University Open Day at Plymouth on June 16th and then he has to be back for 9am on the 17th for a Young Enterprise exam, clashing with his Birthday too!
We haven't been told ours, my project went tits up with the whole program but I tried as hard as possible to get it up as much to the specification as I should, so I'm guessing an E at least. Though one guy in our group only did 13 pages, if that! Though apparently he only got 3 marks for it.CraigF wrote:Oh BTW - what did we all get for the coursework? According to my teacher's marking (this isn't the moderators mark) I got an A, but I was on the borderline with a B. I'm not surprised, I did virtually all of it the day before the deadline.
It always annoyed me how easy ICT was compared to Computing, especially when they're considered to be virtually identical in the eyes of many employers.Psythor wrote:This afternoons IT exam was the easiest exam I have ever taken. It irritates me how someone can get an AS level by stating the obvious, whereas others have to do a horrendously difficult mechanics exam (OCR, last Wednesday afternoon) and Physics.
Incidentally, I finished paper two within half an hour and I was home by the time the exam was officially over.
"Someone is word processing a document, name two functions that can make the heading stand out". Seriously. If I was an employer, I wouldn't consider ICT AS worth the paper it was written on.
It's like being able to choose to do "French" or "Slightly more difficult French", I suppose.tillyoshea wrote: It always annoyed me how easy ICT was compared to Computing, especially when they're considered to be virtually identical in the eyes of many employers.
