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I stand corrected then mate.
Apologies, but I haven't been around this stuff for years now.

Cheers for all the replies folks, still undecided which course to go for (leaning toward the public service course) but I’m having a discussion with a bloke from the collage and shall make the decision ASAP.

Just want to make sure its the right course I choose, because un-less I get badly injured or some other serious crisis (touch wood this wont happen) then I’m set on joining up when I’m 18, so there’s no time to dilly dally around changing courses after a year etc

Either way I’m sure I’ll have a smashing time on all fronts and hopefully come out with some useful pieces of paper at the end of it all.

Mind you I’ve still got me main GCSE exams to crack first One step at a time Stokey, one step at a time

All the best

Stokey

stokey, you'll be fine mate.

General Certificate for Sitting Exams = GCSE.

That being said, you've got a solid head on those scrawny shoulders of yours

All you need now is a girlfriend (I hear Harry is on the prowl) and you'll be set

Illustrious wrote:stokey, you'll be fine mate.

General Certificate for Sitting Exams = GCSE.

That being said, you've got a solid head on those scrawny shoulders of yourse

All you need now is a girlfriend (I hear Harry is on the prowl) and you'll be set

Cheers mate, (I think ) not to worried about my GCSE's just a pain to be honest... all my course work etc is looking good, so setting me up fine.

And just to let you know, 'needing' female friends certainly isn't something I struggle with... especially with my scrawny body, just show them me ribs and they all come running

As for this comment '(I hear Harry is on the prowl)' would someone please send him AJ's way... from what I’ve been lead to believe he bats for that team anyways

All the best

Stokey

Stokey_14 wrote:As for this comment '(I hear Harry is on the prowl)' would someone please send him AJ's way... from what I’ve been lead to believe he bats for that team anyways

All the best

Stokey

No mate, I was just pointing you in the right direction ok schnkums.
Anyway, discussing that sort of humour with a 16yr old does make me uncomfortable so let's leave it at that.
GCSE's aren't something to get worried about, honestly. Just turn up and get on with it. Revise, do your coursework, revise more and then smash the exams. Come summer when you open up your results you will then realise "what the bloody hell was everyone worrying about?" or something like that.

Wish you all the best for those exams.
Do your absolute best and nothing less.

AJtothemax wrote:

Stokey_14 wrote:As for this comment '(I hear Harry is on the prowl)' would someone please send him AJ's way... from what I’ve been lead to believe he bats for that team anyways

All the best

Stokey

No mate, I was just pointing you in the right direction ok schnkums.
Anyway, discussing that sort of humour with a 16yr old does make me uncomfortable so let's leave it at that.
GCSE's aren't something to get worried about, honestly. Just turn up and get on with it. Revise, do your coursework, revise more and then smash the exams. Come summer when you open up your results you will then realise "what the bloody hell was everyone worrying about?" or something like that.

Wish you all the best for those exams.
Do your absolute best and nothing less.

Think you'll find I’m 15 mate.... just to make it even more worrying, as for leaving it at that, I think its best!

Cheers for the encouragement though mate hope to crack them like you said

Stokey

Cheers for all the replies folks, still undecided which course to go for (leaning toward the public service course) but I’m having a discussion with a bloke from the collage and shall make the decision ASAP.

You've said your GCSEs are coming along nicely and you're doing well with your coursework. From what you've posted on these forums I can tell you are also quite articulate and can communicate yourself in writing to a good level. I think it's in your best interests to do A-levels in subjects you are interested in (Physical Education could be one of them, for example).

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PE A levels are useless. One of the Mickey Mouse A Levels.

E5_Man wrote:PE A levels are useless. One of the Mickey Mouse A Levels.

It has some good points within, its not up there with the sciences in terms of an academic qualification; but I can't see how you can claim its useless you can gain good knowledge and experience on the course and for people who wished to go down a route including physio therapy, physical instructor teamed up with other A-levels (biology/human biology would sit nicely) then it could be considered useful. Even if you were aiming for university even the top univerisities for non-pe based courses will still accept PE as part of a good mic of courses so I don't see how you've come to you conclusion that it is useless. I think you need to repost with a more in depth post for how you feel a PE A-level is useless.

Certainly in this case my advice with going into the forces is who knows what you may do when you come out, what if you were medically discharged for example, going down the A-level route as mp suggests would give you a better back up than a BTEC in a specific area. I know you don't always look negative, but the marines will take you which ever you choose, if you have 2 spare years I would spend it just building a safety net just in case. A-levels would open up the same routes in later life plus more, if you had PE etc. then all the same routes would be open.

AJtothemax wrote:I stand corrected then mate.
Apologies, but I haven't been around this stuff for years now.

No worries there, what you were stating is the ideal world theory behind the UCAS tariff; but due to the mismanagement of it by UCAS the universities will not view it like that. UCAS have decided what is equal seemingly randomly, making it very difficult to use it as a direct comparison.

Was just in some of the national newspapers. A-Levels like Drama, Media, Sports, Photography are classed by the top Unis as Mickey Mouse Quals because they claim they are easier.

I thought they claimed that they were less academicaly challenging, and as such students should avoid having a majority of their A-levels made up of these courses should they wish to pursue study at the institutions that have made this decision (it is not universal). Only subjects such as Drama and Theatre studies are deemed non acceptable; and even in these cases if you are pursuing study in that specific area it can be acceptable. As I said earlier, to call it useless makes no allowance for what you wish to do with the course, even if the goal was to go to a top university though, the course is not useless. The top universities never claimed it was useless, or a mickey mouse course, only that it was one course which did not fully prepare students for the academic rigour of university, and so should be teamed with courses that do.

On the subject of PE quals,

I did the the PE GCSE, learnt some really good stuff in the lessons, bones, muscles, motivation, etc all that sort of thing, some of it was quite scientific, some was common sense. Then took the exam and it was pathetic. I reckon there was only one or two questions that were actually PE related,some were like, "What would would you do if you cut yourself?" and "Highlight three dangers in this PE lesson?". Crazy. Nothing on most of the stuff we had learnt. I reckon you could have got a C/D on that exam without ever having gone to the lesson, and for those of us that did go to the lessons, well, I don't think anyone got below a C. I got a B. The exam was in 2006, if anyone remembers!

David

davidemmerson wrote:On the subject of PE quals,

I did the the PE GCSE, learnt some really good stuff in the lessons, bones, muscles, motivation, etc all that sort of thing, some of it was quite scientific, some was common sense. Then took the exam and it was pathtic. I reckon there was only one or two questions that was actually PE related,some were like, "What would would you do if you cut yourself?" and "Highlight three dangers in this PE lesson?". Crazy. Nothing on most of the stuff we had learnt. I reckon you could have got a C/D on that exam without ever having gone to the lesson, and for those of us that did go to the lessons, well, I don't think anyone got below a C. I got a B. The exam was in 2006, if anyone remembers!

David

On the course right now, done a mock exam plus loads of past papers... they really are that bad. questions like, 'In what named sport is strength required'... For my mock exam I got a bit cheeky and went on for ages talking about how I was un-able to answer the question clearly as it had not stated what type of strength was needed, there being many different forms of strength and that all sports to a certain degree will require some for of strength even in tiny quantities.

Wouldn't do that in a proper exam but new it would give me teacher a smile as she frequently refers to me as 'smart arse'.

But really if they are trying to teach us stuff surely it should be the right stuff?

I'm not a cheek git... just a stickler for the fine details

Stokey