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Its this time of year where everyone in Year 9 has there English, Maths & Science
What im basicaly saying is ive got my SATs coming up and at the moment im the the following Sets,
>English – Top Set
>Science – Third Set
>Maths – Moved from third set to fourth
And we use a learning system online called Sam learning, http://samlearning.com
And ive got some results and things and we had maths today last period and my teacher who brought sam learning to the school was helping me along, he gave me a task GCSE Maths I was abit taken back but I did some of it and I found it hard I scored 68% out of a 100, I don’t fully understand all of the questions on sam learning, and wondering if there is any other way I could learn more About Maths & Science mainly maths due to the fact ive moved down.
Many thanks,
Jay
What im basicaly saying is ive got my SATs coming up and at the moment im the the following Sets,
>English – Top Set
>Science – Third Set
>Maths – Moved from third set to fourth
And we use a learning system online called Sam learning, http://samlearning.com
And ive got some results and things and we had maths today last period and my teacher who brought sam learning to the school was helping me along, he gave me a task GCSE Maths I was abit taken back but I did some of it and I found it hard I scored 68% out of a 100, I don’t fully understand all of the questions on sam learning, and wondering if there is any other way I could learn more About Maths & Science mainly maths due to the fact ive moved down.
Many thanks,
Jay
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thats proberly the best
Yeah, i found the bbc bitesize revision stuff helpful when i was doin GCSE's
I'd also not worry about SATs, much as teachers like to pretend they're important, they're not in the slightest bit important. It's the teachers getting marked, after all.
Agreed. I can't actually believe that the teachers made more of a fuss about SATs than they ever did about GCSEs... :rolleyes:
Can you not?
SAT results determine teachers' pay.
And students get nothing, which is just wrong...
What do you mean, they get nothing?
You shouldn't be getting paid to do well at school.
Well, it's true. Students get nothing from it, apart from from shit loads of pressure to do well in them...
Apart from the monitoring of teaching standards. I'd call that a benefit, personally.
Isn't that what the inspections are for?
Personally I think if you can't handle the "pressure" of SATs you need to be worrying about your own state of mind right now. It's never real pressure and in fact can be a helpful guide to see how well you're really doing. SATs don't mean anything but they can tell you one way or the other if you're keeping up and if you can revise (if you bother, I didn't) well enough to get good results in an exam. Use them as a tool to warm up for your GCSEs
Most schools have it easy, at mine we had full blown exams (or coursework for a couple) for every subject every year (baring PE). At year 8 that's, two languages, art, design & technology, history, geography, RS, maths, english lang/lit, sciences, IT, music and drama, and I still feel like I'm missing something. Followed by that except replace maths english and science with the oh so pressuring SATs in year 9, GCSE mocks at year 10, and just after christmas in year 11, and then your actual GCSEs, then As levels, where we were all expected to do 4 and an extra on like general studies or sports coaching courses then A-levels.
I got really bored of exams, and as far as I can tell, that's not a usual number of exams for most schools, but I never whinged about their purpose. You got good at handling pressure, and you got good at knowing how you needed to revise. It's a great practice tool.
That's not an anti-SATs rant, and I don't especially agree with Sofie that we get "nothing" from them, but I think some schools handle SATs very badly indeed.
all mine did was decide what sets i'd be in for english, maths and science GCSE and they still put me in the wrong english group
I remember girls at my school crying over it..yes it's a bit pathetic but some people do get more stressed than others and there are too many exams now. Being taught how to pass exams isn't necessarily a good way to learn.
I agree, some schools do, but it's important to bear in mind that you knew at the time they meant nothing for your future, it's important to be able to rationalise the value of any given exam. For example, my maths exam that's worth 60% of a module is much much more valuable than the themo exam that's worth 80% of that module, because of how I've done in coursework.
I found this as well. I was put in the tops stes for maths, english & science. After a term or so of maths, I asked to move down because I was really struggling, same with english. However, with english I got asked if I wanted to moved down and so I said that I'd move down. For science though, it was different - I was fine where I was but they did something so that with the exception of 2 sets, they were all mixed. I was put in a mixed set and did terribley because I wasn't being tauht what I needed to get double B at the end of Year 11.
Yeah, it's true that SATs are an indicator for GCSE sets, but like I mentioned above, that doesn't mean anything at all.
You probably don't need to learn it then.
Then in english i was just off a level 7, so should have been in the top set (theres some in that set who got 5s!) and they put me in the middle set! So i told them that i should have been in the top set, so they put me in the 2nd set and i feel im not being pushed as much as i should be