I've got my 1st of three January as exams in the morning. It's safe to say i'm shitting myself, as biology is my worst subject out of the 4 i chose. They tell you u'll be studying biology then dump loads of bio-chem on you....blurgh! Psychology tuesday ( i don't even think i can spell it!) and Geography thursday (im confident bout tht 1), thank god ther leaving the english exams until the summer. Wish me luck, im guna need it!
Good luck - and hang in there! Too late for biology, but anything anyone can do to help with the upcoming psych exam?
If you've got a lot of definitions, you might make you're own flash cards. Take index cards and put the name on one side and then the actual definition on the other. Worked great in high school (and a big reason why I had A's in all my science classes).
Cheers for the tip. Was a bit late cos i had already done my exam but maybe ill do that WHEN i have to do the retake in the summer
we have our GCSES (like our high school exams) then in college you do AS then A2 in College :good: Im doing them all a year early(something my school likes to do) but its hard!
Lucky you. Most of the time our classes go to slow and we could be a year ahead in some subjects. Apart from English which is really hard. Stupid poetry..... Science isn't really that hard for me, neither is IT or maths.
I was wondering how you got to take psych in high school. I'm assuming that you DO get to take a class rather than just learn this stuff on your own. Does this mean that if you do well, you get college credit for the classes? (I think AP - Advanced Placement is like that in the US ... you take college level classes in high school for college credit... can't say for sure, though, because the schools I went to didn't have an AP program)
English isn't really that hard cause we don't do much in class. But when we have an exam its going to be hard. Maths isn't always that easy. Sure a lot of the time we have stuff we've already done. but this is nowhere near the level of stuff we (should) be doing next year.
MY mistake, Matttibb. My ignorance of UK schools borders on the profound. Most people in the US graduate from high school at age 17 or 18. Most go from 1st through 12th grade ...and start 1st grade at age 5 or 6 - depends on when your birthday is. Credits... In theory, each class is worth so many credits toward a degree. How many credits depends on how many hours a week the class meets, the kind of class, how many weeks long the class is... I think...(Help me out here... Big B? Anti-Trend? anybody?...). Anyway, we PAY tuition by the credit. So if someone can get college credit for advanced classes taken in high school (which is usually free in the US) then they can save a lot of money on their education. Most classes are 3 to 5 credits, so at $200 per credit... you see where this is going. Some people start college with one year already completed.
