Has now taken four out of five exams. It seems a bit pointless waiting a week to do the “lowdown” so here it is, minus the Economics exam to be taken next Friday.

I am currently, at this very second, being molested to buy a cheeseburger by Yves and Baldy, which is under Yves jumper and he’s stroking it in a rather seductive manner, they actually tried American-accented flirtacious talk in order to sell me it. It’s comical. I said no.

Edexcel Core Two.
Harder exam that I expected, but I was far more prepared than I was in June (missed out ten marks of trigonometry, haha). I only needed 2 extra UMS from last time (76 to 78) to get me an A in AS. Still missed out seven marks worth of questions. I’m pretty confident I got that, if not higher. I just wanted an A in AS Maths certificate to stick on my fridge.

Edexcel Decision One.
I did a lot of Solomon papers/old spec to prep for this exam, which shot my nerves right up. The actual exam was easy, except for the definitions. Is always great when your hardest question is ‘what is a tree.’ The grade boundaries are always beastly for D1 but I’m pretty sure I got an A of some description. Taught Baldy most of the syllabus before we went in and then made a bet with him that I did better, then realised we got all the same answers except he got the definitions and did more thorough working. I won’t pay him even if he does win.

Edexcel Core Three.
I have a feeling this will be my highest UMS score. It was hard exam, but I was fully prepared. I made a few stupid mistakes, but the minimum percentage I will get SHOULD be 80% which is more than enough for an A. So I was happy when I came out. Although I made some criminal mistakes which I want to beat myself up over. But if I could get an A at A-Level Maths…well…that proves there’s hope for anything.

OCR US Government & Politics.
I planned to retake this anyway, because I barely revised for it (C3 was on Wednesday PM, this was Friday AM) and I hadn’t written an essay in three months. I “wung it” (whatever the past tense for ‘winging it’ is)  as best as I could; but the questions weren’t the ones I wanted. I know Presidential Elections inside out and there wasn’t a question on it! I was gutted. For that reason alone I may retake. My essays weren’t as strong as my AS ones I don’t think, but then again I barely remember what I put. I need a 70% average this year. I think I may have earnt that, but I honestly don’t know.

Anyway, I have lots of Economic revision to do.

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