Slightly depressed

[M111CYY]

Got some of my grades back today from my january exams.

ICT resit - U
Geog resit - U
ICT4 - U
Geog GGA5 - U
Geog Skills - E
CDT Theory - U

totally devestated at these grades, i dont understand what happened to make them soo bad, now im a bit worried about my future career as i know im not exactly going to get into Uni for teaching with those grades

 

[Steven]

Did you work for those grades? Did you study for the exams at all?

 

[M111CYY]

Did you work for those grades? Did you study for the exams at all?

Yes, i tried my best. i didnt expect to do well in one of them as it was just after a death in the family to someone i was close to, but ive been depressed all day

 

[Chas Uno]

Got some of my grades back today from my january exams.

ICT resit - U
Geog resit - U
ICT4 - U
Geog GGA5 - U
Geog Skills - E
CDT Theory - U

totally devestated at these grades, i dont understand what happened to make them soo bad, now im a bit worried about my future career as i know im not exactly going to get into Uni for teaching with those grades

Well, it shows that you're not good with Geography and ICT. How did you do with all the other subjects? Maybe they are ok?

Surely with teaching it's important to get passes in Maths, English and a Science, with your specialist subject of choice on top of that of course? Maybe it's not essential to get Geography and ICT? Actually, Geography maybe not, but I think ICT is a pre-requisite these days seeing as so much teaching is moving over to computer usage.

Oh, and is CDT "Craft, Design and Technology"?

If ALL your grades are like the above only then should you really start worrying...

Speaking to your academic tutor for advice is probably the best thing to do if you're concerned. I found mine to be really helpful whenever concerns arose.

 

[jug]

oh dear

well there's really only one way forward, you need to get your papers and find out where the marks were lost and why. if you dont find out exactly what went wrong then you could make the same mistakes again. passing exams is about more than knowing a few facts, you need to understand what is expected of you and how your answers should be delivered in different types of papers. most improtantly- seek help from tutors dont try to hide from it.

 

[jug]

Well, it shows that you're not good with Geography and ICT. How did you do with all the other subjects? Maybe they are ok?

other subjects? what kind of college did you go to

 

[M111CYY]

Well, it shows that you're not good with Geography and ICT. How did you do with all the other subjects? Maybe they are ok?

Surely with teaching it's important to get passes in Maths, English and a Science, with your specialist subject of choice on top of that of course? Maybe it's not essential to get Geography and ICT? Actually, Geography maybe not, but I think ICT is a pre-requisite these days seeing as so much teaching is moving over to computer usage.

Oh, and is CDT "Craft, Design and Technology"?

If ALL your grades are like the above only then should you really start worrying...

Speaking to your academic tutor for advice is probably the best thing to do if you're concerned. I found mine to be really helpful whenever concerns arose.

These are all my subjects, aim at college, doing ma a levels.

other subjects? what kind of college did you go to

Lol

 

[maddogmorg]

what did you get in them first time round? luckily you can't go down on resits which is handy. i'm assuming you had to pay for all of those and at £15 a time resits can get a bit costly but you can't really put a price on getting into where you wanna go. did you mention to anyone about the death of the person? they usually take note (they do if you're ill or been off ill a lot) and can sometimes give you a few extra marks which can be handy but it has to be before the exam. Really you need to find out where you've been going wrong. it could possibly be your technique so try and get back at least one paper (it'll cost ) just to be sure.

 

[Chas Uno]

other subjects? what kind of college did you go to

Erm, a Further Education college! I did an Access to Nursing Course, which entailed doing:

Maths - GCSE equivilent.
English - Got that at Level 3.
ICT - Level 2.
Science - GCSE science equivilent.
Social Science - Got this at Level 3.
Biology - And this one at Level 3 too.

I passed all the above in one year at the highest levels available, though I worked my arse off for it. I think I worked harder in one year at college than I did in all the years I was at school (a long time ago that was )

Access is obviously different to A Levels, and is designed for students who've been out of study and want to return to education. Hence it covers so many subject areas, and in my case specialised in Level 3 Biology and Social Science as these are particularly applicable to Nursing.

These are all my subjects, aim at college, doing ma a levels.

Ah, when you said you were at college I thought you were doing NVQ or Access. If those are all your subjects then, well, perhaps it's best to speak to your tutor and find out what the issue is. You do have some mitigating circumstances (death in the family), but sadly those are normally only taken into consideration if you inform the college BEFORE you sit the exams. However, it may be worth talking to your tutor about it anyway as perhaps something can be done.

Either way, don't give up! You can always do another re-sit or re-take the year.

 

[faster4_tec]

sounds very very bad.


stop thinking abotu uni and think about what your doing now. I get lost a bit with studies every now and then, but then I do a few weeks very focussed work and it all levels out.
I'm hopeless in exams mind, especially when hte useless buggers teach ust eh WRONG cylabus, then expect us to do the exam when its NOTHNG like what we've covered, needless to say, out of a maths A2 class of 12, 1 passed properly with a C, everyone else got E's and U's (I got a U, resat, got a paper that I recognised and pulled it upto nearly a D, but still ended up with an E, when I should have had a C).

 

[dan-the-man]

feel sorry for you, like 1986uno45s said this shows your not very good at IT and geography, but you will probably be good at other subjects.

What do you want to teach?

 

[M111CYY]

feel sorry for you, like 1986uno45s said this shows your not very good at IT and geography, but you will probably be good at other subjects.

What do you want to teach?

Im hoping to teach primary, i spent the majority of my free period with the careers advisor on what i can do if i dont get the grades i need to get to Uni, so ive got a few backup routes. i hope.

I know the problem in ict. its the way we are taught, the teacher just talks, no handouts or anything, doesnt even get us to do questions during the lesson or research tasks, just sits and tells us the sylabus really. sometimes he goes off on a tangent to on totally irrelevant topics.
like last week he told us that he got caught speeding and stuff.

 

[SkinzCinqSporting]

Hehe I get my A2 Geography tomorrow, and my As German reist results.
I wouldn't worry TBH, as you can resit in summer, and drop ICT, it's ****e

 

[Chas Uno]

Im hoping to teach primary, i spent the majority of my free period with the careers advisor on what i can do if i dont get the grades i need to get to Uni, so ive got a few backup routes. i hope.

I know the problem in ict. its the way we are taught, the teacher just talks, no handouts or anything, doesnt even get us to do questions during the lesson or research tasks, just sits and tells us the sylabus really. sometimes he goes off on a tangent to on totally irrelevant topics.
like last week he told us that he got caught speeding and stuff.

You could actually do an Access to Teaching course at college rather than A levels :idea: Access courses tend to be very well run and geared to more mature students (in attitude as well as age), and after a 20 year break from education I was able to go back to college and get excellent grades in mine. I was a failure at school so it shows how good the teaching was on my course. Access also covers ICT, Maths and English which will be requirements to get into university. I think you need science as well, but I'm not sure about the teaching course.

Access students are loved by Universities too! Pass the Access with good grades and the Universities will snap you up. Both Universities I applied to accepted me unconditionally, which shows how good the Access courses are.

Might be worth looking into?

EDIT: Gaz, I'm pretty certain that Mickey HAS to get ICT to get onto the Teacher Training Degree course. Probably only at GCSE level, and it's really not that hard. Sounds like his teacher was rubbish though which doesn't help.

 

[Luke]

Just keep plouging through I found it was hard to adjust to a-level learning - coming from being spoon fed at GCSE and acing exams. Its alot more self learning (where i shine really) but just abused the freedom and dossed instead (complacency from getting ace gcses and doing feck all to get em).

But those 2 years put you in good stead at uni.. You realise that you have to do so much more work off your own back and develop your skills to get anywhere - and if you put in the work it will show.

Mind, that said i got a U in my AS statistics cos our teacher was teaching all the wrong stuff. out of a full paper id only come across one of the topics. suffice to say he dont teach statistics no more and i dropped it and did the full ICT A-Level in place of stats A2.

But Jug said the most valuable information - get your papers. You can know everything there is to know about a subject, but if you dont put it across right then you dont get the marks. Alot of the markers dont know anything about the subject - so they cant understand what you put and give you the marks even if you were right but didnt put it in the correct way (wrong terminology etc). Exam training is probably the best revision to get good exams - getting into the right frame of mind and hitting every criteria point head on. As my teachers say, they're looking to give you marks not take them away - so give them every excuse to give you marks

 

[M111CYY]

Well i was thinking, if i wasnt really successful at the whole a level thing that id get a job as a teaching assistant, then just see what happens

 

[jug]

You could actually do an Access to Teaching course at college rather than A levels :idea:

i agree. i've done my a-levels, and later also did an access to computing course (then found out i didnt actually need to do it coz i had a-levels :bang: ), and i can definately say that the access course was A LOT easier, so if a-levels dont work out its definately an idea to at least consider an access course instead. its the quick and easy way to get into uni.

the only problem you may have is satisfying the admission criteria, you need to be a "mature student", usually that means you have to be out of education for a while and be over the age of 21, but you can still get on an access course after failing a-levels and even if you're only 19. on my access course there were a few a-level dropouts who got on the course no problem.

i did my access course at hartlepool college of further education, which is lucky since you live in hartlepool i can pretty much guarantee they'll let you on the course. also as a bonus, the staff at hartlepool are willing to tell a few fibs so you can sign on at the jobcentre while you study for an access course, meaning you get paid to study! :slayer:

 

[SkinzCinqSporting]

Seems you do a different geography syllabus to me micky, I sat GGB5, and got a B grade not gloating mind, I'm just quite chuffed.

 

[Chas Uno]

also as a bonus, the staff at hartlepool are willing to tell a few fibs so you can sign on at the jobcentre while you study for an access course, meaning you get paid to study! :slayer:

Full time Access course are 'officially' only 15 hours a week on campus, therefore are classified as 'part time' in the eyes of the Job Centre allowing you to claim JSA. Just don't declare the outside study hours!

The colleges know this hence stating the course is only 15 hours per week, plus all the Job Centres know that by letting someone get an Access means they will end up in University and with more chance of getting a job at the end of it. Unofficially the Job Centre will do everything they can to make your life easy while you study i.e. give you your benefits and not force you onto jobsearch schemes etc.

Don't ask me how I know this...

 

[M111CYY]

Seems you do a different geography syllabus to me micky, I sat GGB5, and got a B grade not gloating mind, I'm just quite chuffed.

Yer, what was yours about, we did travel and tourism