Aaah,that blessed of days,RESULTS DAY.

My friends all did rather poorly,i get my GCSE results next week eeeeek!How did you all do?

Oh yeah, "the exams are getting easier"????? DONT THINK SO!!!!!!

No the exams are not getting easier!!! Good luck with your results next week.

Unfortunatley for me I have to sit my Egyptian History exam in uni next week cos I didn't go to the first exam and so failed. Lucky me!!

Exams are about as fun as showing up at school in your underwear(or so i have heard) Seariously though, I think exams put a lot of unnesacary pressure on kids. When I had to take them I just thought them as big tests and tried to keep a cool head. A rule that always helped me was answer the easiest questions first and save the harder ones for later if that helps any.

I dun think the exams are any easier, I jus think the curriculum is less strenuous. I saw an A level syllabus a couple o years back, an there was some calculus stuff on there that I did at O level. I mean, c'mon!!! I barely scraped me maths A level when I did it, an I could pass it easily now...

The average engineering degree nowadays requires AAB at A level, an when I did mine it was two D's... that alone tells me the grades are meaningless these days...

What's a GCSE?

GCSEs are the exams you sit at 16 to get you into college/sixth form. AS are done the year after, then A2s are what get you into uni.

Exams are not getting easier. Paula Ratcliffe broke the world record for the marathon, no one said the race is getting easier, a good runner 20 years ago would not be as good as the current runners.

The only argument that holds any water is that we are getting so much exams practise that we know how to perform in exams, but is this really making the exam easier? I think not.

Most people do past papers. We have a book of chemistry questions from the past 20 years, the modern ones tend to be harder because they mask the question in extrenious information.

You also have the extra coursework and modules meaning we are being taught for less and in addition are under pressure, it is common for children/students to break down in tears during results. This is unfair.

If A levels are meaningless how the hell are we meant to be sorted to get into university?

I have just spent 2 years doing GCSE, 1 year doing AS and 1 year doing A2s. I resent people saying that my grades are meaningless, I worked damn hard for them. If you are so bloody brilliant why dont you go back to college and try the new system? Trust me, it isnt nice

AS maths currently has a fail rate of 33%. This is rediculous, the government have admitted that the course is too hard, theres too much content and not enough time to cover it and the jump from GCSE is too great. Amazing how no one talks about this.

please do not insult me, I am not thick, I cannot help the fact I was born in 1985 and therefore have to do my exams this year.

GCSE results are posted up in my school on Thursday, but I really can't be bothered to go up there and find out what there are. I'll just wait till the results get posted to me. I'm not hung up on them, all they determine is whether or not I've gotten into college, and I know I have (I need five C grades, big whoop).