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What was your best and worst grade at school?
enudzio
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as today it is GCSE results day , thought i would start this thread , what was your best and worst grade in school and in which subject?
mine was
Best - C in Maths
Worst - F in Georgraphy.
mine was
Best - C in Maths
Worst - F in Georgraphy.
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Best was an A* in French
Worst- D in IT (and I got a B in the exam, it was just my failure to do any coursework that dragged it down. I retook it in my first year of sixth form and passed, so we can all die happy.)
and the worst were e's in physics,social studies,office studies and english - but it was 1988 and one of the crappiest schools in the area where even the dobermans travelled in pairs where they didn't even bother to get text books for the new gcse exams as they apparently were told the old O level books were fine so queue a lot of studying to find that most of what we did in mocks based on o levels was of as much use as a sausage at a barmitzpah
And highest the same year, a Distinction in the JMB's Special Paper English - higher than A Level. At the time, I was told it was the highest distinction gained but I dunno how they knew that. JMB was notoriously the toughest board in that subject, too. At the same time I got an A in A Level English - the only one in my year at my crap comprehensive. When I got to uni I never met a single person who even passed the English S Paper. And they'd all gone to public schools and grammar schools. So I went from the lowest grade possible to the highest, in one set of exams.
At A-level I got Bs in everything.
Worst - PE, French, Religious Studies (I spoiled the RS paper deliberately)
D in English Literature was my only grade below C. So glad that I scraped the English Language C as otherwise I would have been retaking it . . . . .
Best: A, Worst: B
Worst: An A in GCSE English Language.
Best: I got an A* in all my A-levels and 9 of my GCSEs. Out of those, I'm most happy with my score of 595/600 in A-level Chemistry.
I did get full marks in GCSE Chemistry and Physics, but so did a hell of a lot of other people and "full marks" nowadays doesn't actually mean "full marks" because of the way exams are scaled from "raw marks" to "UMS marks".
I sat my GCSEs in 2012 and A-levels this year. Say whatever you will about grade inflation and the state of modern qualifications.
Outside of proper external examinations, I've probably got a number of C's in subjects I'm terrible at such as Art, Music and Technology.
This was before Dyslexia was known about.
Was put in the dunce class for most of my school life.
I often wonder how I would have fared these days with exams and with the knowledge of dyslexia. Or in the US where I might have got a scholarship because of being great at sport
The worst grade I ever got was 2 grade D's in AS Level units - an AS Literature exam (after doing the worst in it at GCSE, I really should have reconsidered taking it) and a General Studies paper. That one came as a surprise, as I knew what I was talking about in that exam, compared to the other paper that I got an A in despite guessing most of it!
F in French
Worst - C in friggin Mathematics.
I didn't want to take Chemistry as an o-level option but I was already doing every subject that was an alternative for it so I was stuck with it.
With hindsight, it was probably a bit of a daft idea to let 14 year old kids pick the subjects they took exams in by themselves, without any help, 'cos it was all rather confusing.
If I'd had a bit of help I probably could have arranged my options so I was doing another subject I was actually interested in.
Worst grade: C