h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Maths - A (completed in 2002, 1 year early)
ICT - A
Science Double Award - A A
RE Short Course - A (half GCSE)
History - B
English Lit. - B
English Lang. - B
French - B
German - B
Resistant Materials - C

spook

You did better than I did at O-level!

Well done! I guess, as you've set a precedent, i should go a post mine. See my journal in a few mins.

Tango

Go you!

Have an on me Well done

Lou

Congratulations!

RhoMuNuQ

As I said to Tango, I hope those are the results you expected/wanted. I'm slightly curious about the "Resistant Materials" though. Are we talking art/craft paper wetting and fabric dyeing? Or is this a sub-section of engineering or electronics? I suppose it could be a euphemism for revolutionary or religious texts.

RM=Woodwork, Metalwork, Plastics etc.

Tango

I see - it's just been renamed again. In my childhood: it was woodwork and metalwork. As a teacher: it was craft, design and technology.

Thanks Everyone!

"Design and Technology" covers everything from RM and electronics to Food Technology (what used to be called Home Economics, i belive) and Textiles (sewing).

Tango

They really have messed with the definitions then as well as with the content level and grading.

I'm not sure it's so much the definitions, as the names attached to them. All the same subjects exist in much the same form as they did before, they are just called different things.

I'm not sure that makes sense, but there's nothing new there, so i'll post anyway.

Tango

My school has Technology with subsections of :
CDT (Craft Design Technology)
including Graphics, resistant materials
Textiles

Food Technology... which is basically cook one thing every term, and spend the rest of the time planning it... you think I'm joking. IM NOT

Yeah, well.

Well done Spook!

At GCSE level, i think Food Tech is exactly that, yes. Before GCSE we used to cook something every week, usually. We had 2 lessons a week, one for planning, one (double) for cooking.

Tango

PS Sorry, spook, we seem to have hijacked your journal...

i don't mind. use it as long as you wish!

It all adds to your cumulative "status" doesn't it, Spook.

When I was at secondary school, a rather restricted set of options applied in those areas:
1(a) woodwork + metalwork
1(b) domestic science [sic] ie cooking and nothing scientific about it!
2(a) technical drawing
2(b) needlework

No prizes for guessing which of each pair I took (though I can actually do the others too) and they didn't fit with my final, even more restrictive, exam options anyway. At primary school everyone did everything. My younger brother was quite keen on the (b) options but too scared of the macho peer group at secondary school to select them there.

When I was teaching in secondary school, CDT was basically those (a) options + plastics and went along with Art. The (b) options were presumably covered elsewhere. I was primarily teaching maths though. They had someone else who could just about cover the science but had no extra skills and they didn't need anyone in music which would have been another of my preferences.

You really like having your journal in the top 5, don't you?

Tango

yup. i also enjoy conversation, and with a subject in my journal i can happily enjoy reading and lurking in, i am happy!

also i think i have p****d quite a few people off so it's good to have something totally different to come to now and then!

spook

OOOH WELL DONE SPOOK!

I have NO IDEA what my results are. They got sent to my school in Bangkok and I don't get back til Sunday
I'll post them when I know what they are...