AS Results, and the feelings prior to, and after Exam results

Officially:

IT: A
RE: B
English: C
Psychology: C

[Critical Thinking: D]

However, I was one point overall off a ‘B’ in English, so this counts my ‘C’ counts as a ‘B’ in my mind.

Hence:

IT: A
RE: B
English: B
Psychology: C

I couldn’t really care less about Critical Thinking, hence it has been removed from here. I didn’t want to take it, I didn’t choose to take it, but I suppose I did enjoy the lessons somewhat, hence I went to most of the lessons.

Now, the low-down:

IT: I knew I was going to do well in IT, as I got two A’s in the other two modules. I found the exam easy – we had covered most of it for GCSE, or else it was stuff that I had learnt, so was good. I knew I would get the good grade, so this was no surprise.

Verdict for next year: Probably going to be dropped. Reasons below.

RE: Right, well, this was comprised of two modules, coursework and exam (50%/50%), and the coursework was good – 42/50. I thought the exam was good too, did lots of essay practice, memorised answer essays, and the questions were what I had prepared and memorised, so thought I had done very well. However, obviously I can’t have done as well as I thought, as I only got an ‘B’, not an ‘A’. Well, never mind, I am happy with this. I must remind my self that a ‘B’ is still the second highest grade to get, as opposed to GCSE where one can get an A* as the highest grade. This is where I get confused and think the system is silly: I still sometimes think that I can get an A* at A level level, even though I can’t, so think I could have done better, when I couldn’t have. But never mind. The truth is, I love(d) doing this subject, as I really enjoyed everything in it.

Verdict for next year: Doing next year.

English: I was quite disappointed with this result, for several reasons. Firstly, I thought I had done brilliantly in the exam, as did most other people, I loved the exam paper questions, and thought that I had answered the questions brilliantly. I put in hundreds of quotes, answered the question correctly and wrote about what I had to. I had expected at least a ‘B’, but it seems I only got a C. (First reason for disappointment).
As stated above, however, when I got home and worked everything out, I found I was one mark of a ‘B’ overall, I was even more gutted.

Verdict for next year: I want to keep this and do it next year.

Psychology: Straight ‘C’s in modules, = a ‘C’ overall. Not impressed with this, I could have done better, and indeed thought I had. But, there are several reasons which may explain, excuse whatever my poor results. Firstly, the first module I took was a ‘C’, but this was a lucky result because I completely messed up the exam paper – this was the paper that had the new content on that I hadn’t covered next year,


//unfinished, more to come - I am typing it as I speak. Just posted this so I didn't loose/had a back up of what I have written already.
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