Setting the tone May 15, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Rants, School , trackbackSo I just got back from my first exam of the season, Maths Pure Core 2. I suppose I can sum it up by saying I’ll be lucky if I even get a grade. Yes, it was that bad. Turns out when I said I was going to fail this exam I wasn’t actually that far off.
This exam was so bad it was almost spooky, it literally included everything in the syllabus that I don’t know, twice if it could manage it. I’m not sure I’ve ever had an exam so tailor made to my failure. At the moment I’m just so pleased that none of my university offers include maths, it doesn’t matter how well I do.
At this point I’m contemplating whether I should even try for the next exam. I already know I’m not gonna get a good grade in maths and since it doesn’t matter…is it even worth trying? I’ll probably do ok in the exam with little effort because it’s Mechanics and as such is quite physics based, I tend to find maths quite hard in some areas because the use of the maths seems to be lost somewhere along the line and things I can’t put to a use I forget.
If anything this is a testament to just how hard you have to work to do well in Maths AS and A level. I did about a bit less than half the work I should have done and missed a good few lessons and I’m pretty bright but have almost failed. I can’t imagine how hard it would be for someone who wasn’t so bright, you would just have to work so ridiculously hard. Let this be a warning to anyone planning to do it, you’ve got to work. If you’re reasonably intelligent you can get a C in GCSE maths without really trying (or you could two years ago, some things have changed a bit but I doubt this has). When I did it a C was 15%. Come on. At AS level, a C is 60% and the maths is substantially harder. It’s a massive leap, perhaps the biggest of all the subjects I’m familiar with.
So yes Mr Maths exam, you have successfully set the tone for the entire exam period, the tone of sweet sweet agonizing failure.
Tagged as: A level, AS level, Education, Epic Fail, GCSE, Maths, Rants, School
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