Education
There isn't much to tell of my primary school education. Basically, I got bored because everything was too easy for me, got into trouble a lot, left school before my year six SATs, which I would have passed with straight level fives, had I taken them. I got into a girls grammar school, which I was quite happy about. I'd probably like it better if there were boys in my school too, but I guess then I would get, er, distracted
I took my maths SAT exam when I was in year eight. Usually you take all three (English, maths, science) when you're in year nine, but for some reason, we were the first year eights to do our maths SAT a year early. We all did the level 5-7 paper, which I think is silly because most of us could have easily achieved a level eight. Maths is the only subject you can achieve a level eight in for SATs, I think. I took my english and science SATs in year nine. I got a level seven in science, with 89% overall out of the two papers, and I'm still waiting on what I got in english.
GCSEs
I'm currently in year ten. For those who are not familiar with the English education system, year ten is the first of two years of the GCSE course. Most people start year ten aged fourteen and have their fifteenth birthday somewhere during the year. Not me, my birthday is in August
GCSE stands for General Certificate of Secondary Education, and in year eleven you take a GCSE exam in every compulsory subject and the subjects you have chosen to do (known as options). You also have to do something called coursework in most subjects, which goes toward your final grade (A*-G) along with your exam. The compulsory subjects and the options you can take varies from school to school.
The subjects I am doing are:
- English Language & Literature
- Maths
- Additional Maths
- Science (exam in year ten)
- Biology }
- Chemistry } (exam in year eleven)
- Physics }
- Religious Studies Short Course (exam in year ten) & Long Course (exam in year eleven)
- Information Communication Technology
- Physical Education (no exam)
- French
- Art
- History
Future
After my GCSEs, I'm planning to stay on at my school and do A-levels. Advanced Levels are like GCSEs, but at a higher level. People do A-levels during years twelve and thirteen at school. What I want to do changes from time to time, but at the moment I want to do Art, History, Religious Studies and either French or Psychology. I'd really love to go on to study fine art at Ruskin art college, Oxford, but I think my chances of that happening are pretty slim. Career-wise, I'll probably wind up being an
IT technician or web-designer. I'd choose something I like doing over something that makes a lot of money but bores me to death any day!