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Post by kittygobonkers on May 2, 2006 16:50:45 GMT
lol i'd be blubbering like a baby if he started yelling at me  Ooooo i wonder if they will all pass their 'O' Levels |
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Post by Jimjamz on May 2, 2006 19:56:32 GMT
We'll see tonight  I think I could pass them, with the exception of maths  That subject is bad enough but 1950's style...gah! |
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Post by kittygobonkers on May 3, 2006 17:18:59 GMT
well they only passed a few, and then they sail through their GCSE with A's and B's just goes to show it must be a lot easier these days!
Ugh maths is just horrible, i think carol vorderman stole my brain and swapped it with one that will never grasp the concept of mathematics!
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Post by DreamDangerously on May 3, 2006 19:03:35 GMT
no no, don't say that. As I argue ad nauseum, GCSE aren't easier than O Levels, they're just testing different elements and its only natural that a bunch of kids who have spend their whole school career being prepared with the skills for GCSE type testing wouldn't do so well with only a term or whatever it was of preparation for O Level type testing.
I know in History, the skills elements that GCSE History students are expected to have in terms of understanding evidence and how historians deal with historical events is far in advance of whats expected for O Level history. The GCSE's are hard, hell I was looking at a SAT's paper for Year 9 today and I couldn't do half the question. It's complete bull that GCSE's are easier.
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Post by kittygobonkers on May 4, 2006 16:54:31 GMT
no no, don't say that. As I argue ad nauseum, GCSE aren't easier than O Levels, they're just testing different elements and its only natural that a bunch of kids who have spend their whole school career being prepared with the skills for GCSE type testing wouldn't do so well with only a term or whatever it was of preparation for O Level type testing. very very good point i take back what i say about GSCE's being easy gotta say that Biology and chemistry looked so much fun back then, i wish i could've blown things up and dissected eyeballs and things!......gosh that makes me sound a bit freaky doesn't it lol |
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Post by matt on May 4, 2006 18:17:37 GMT
I know in History, the skills elements that GCSE History students are expected to have in terms of understanding evidence and how historians deal with historical events is far in advance of whats expected for O Level history. The GCSE's are hard, hell I was looking at a SAT's paper for Year 9 today and I couldn't do half the question. It's complete bull that GCSE's are easier. So what skills would 'O' Level History look for then compared to the GCSE grading on skills for analysising and being able to pin-point different sources and form your own opinion based on differing views? Or is that A-Level? |
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Post by DreamDangerously on May 4, 2006 21:09:44 GMT
O Levels were more based on knowledge recall.
They still have to do that but in addition they have to do all the source based stuff as well as being able to explain certain controvercial events in history and why certain historians have different oppinions on the same event. The GCSE has become more based on skills that were traditionally A Level skills.
There are three assessment objectives that GCSE's are testing for basically, analysis, interrpretation and knowledge.
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Post by kittygobonkers on May 5, 2006 22:30:08 GMT
Ooooooo i'm up late watching most haunted live, you gotta love this show hehehe....i find myself staring at webcams for like an hour or so just watching an empty room  oh but its good fun. I love Yvette  |
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Post by matt on May 6, 2006 7:44:39 GMT
O Levels were more based on knowledge recall. They still have to do that but in addition they have to do all the source based stuff as well as being able to explain certain controvercial events in history and why certain historians have different oppinions on the same event. The GCSE has become more based on skills that were traditionally A Level skills. There are three assessment objectives that GCSE's are testing for basically, analysis, interrpretation and knowledge. So the 'O' Levels were more like: "Name the parties that Bismarck allied himself with to get what he wants?" than "Bismarck manipulated the Reichstag to get what he wanted. How far do you agree with this opinion?" |
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Post by DreamDangerously on May 6, 2006 16:26:08 GMT
exactly the gist of it.  Both are difficult but in different ways. |
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Post by kittygobonkers on May 10, 2006 18:10:41 GMT
Does anybody else watch Sensing Murder on Living TV?....a new series has just started. Basically they take a couple of Psychics and they give them an unsolved murder case and see if they can pick up on what happened to the victim and any clues as to who the killer is! Its brilliant.....but also very very sad Just wondered if any of you guys watch it? |
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Post by fenris on May 25, 2006 18:27:23 GMT
Has anyone seen Funland? It was first screened last year on BBC3, and although I thought it sounded intriguing, I didn't see it as it clashed with something else.
It's now being repeated on BBC2 on Sundays at 22:00. The series has a hour-long opening episode, followed by ten half-hour instalments. BBC2 are showing two half hour episodes back-to-back each week, which I think works in the series' favour.
Set in Blackpool, the opening title sequence has a person in a gorilla costume climb to the top of Blackpool Tower and then throw themselves off. The entire series is told in flashback, leading up to that incident.
The main storyline concerns a London-based private investigator whose mother has just been murdered, and he's come to Blackpool seeking those responsible. He promptly finds himself in the middle of a feud between the town's two most feared gangsters - who just happen to be mother and son.
Personally, I'm finding one of the show's subplots more interesting, as it focuses to a character played by Sarah Smart, who's one of my favourite actresses (she was the only good thing about At Home With the Braithwaites, and was sensational a couple of years ago in the BBC drama series Sparkhouse).
In Funland, Smart plays the nervous and repressed Lola Sutton, on holiday in Blackpool with her useless clot of a husband Dudley (Kris Marshall). Having wed in haste, the two of them are now trapped in a dull, passionless marriage. Then Dudley loses several thousand pounds that he doesn't have in a rigged poker game with some of the local heavies, and in order to pay off the debt, Lola is press-ganged into working in the sex industry. In the process she discovers a sensual, wanton side to her personality that she didn't know existed.
Funland is an addictive little show, one of it's main attractions being that - so far - you genuinely don't know what's going to happen next. It also succeeds in portraying Blackpool as an incredibly corrupt, seedy, and ugly place. If anyone working for the Blackpool Tourist Board watches the series, they must cry themselves to sleep afterwards.
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Post by DreamDangerously on May 25, 2006 18:33:27 GMT
Blackpool IS seedy and ugly!
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Post by Darkqueengalore on May 28, 2006 12:34:11 GMT
I'm watching funland too....seedy dirty stuff  . Prison break:, didn't watch t first, thought it w s a "guys" show, well that allll changed when isaw Michael oh and the story line is pretty good hee, and slightly over the top which i love. Green Wing: So sad it's ended, last ep was annoying in a ay, they better tie up all the lose ends in the speicial apparently going to air ar xmas woo. |
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Post by matt on May 29, 2006 21:57:53 GMT
The last two episodes of Prison Break juston were BLOODY brilliant. I can't wait a week!
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