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It's...over.

More than anything, I feel a sense of relief now rather than a feeling of accomplishment or sadness. Getting a high school diploma isn't really that difficult after all, and there were too many people in high school that I hated for me to be sad about leaving. I'll be sad to leave my friends behind though. I just feel relieved because I'll be off to college soon. I remember everybody counting down the days until graduation, but I was busy counting down the days until I leave for college. I realize that school will be more difficult, but I just want to be on my own. That's all I've wanted for a very long time. And hopefully in college, some women will have grown the f*ck up enough to the point where I might actually want to date some of them instead of searching for some drunk girl at a party that I'd never see again after that night (which didn't succeed very often, but I tried).
 
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D3m190d said:
GCSE is some kind of test, right...? That's all I know about it... And what, do you think there won't be any tests after that? It's only getting worse.
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GCSE's determine pretty much what job you get when you're older.

And I will fail them.

OH DEAR.
 
HobbeBrain said:
Velocity is one thing I can remember, the formula is distance times acceleration or something?
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One way to easily remember it is the unit for speed: Distance divided by time. (like, 6 meters per second). Therefore: v=x/t. Also, it's logical that if someone is going, say, 16 meters per two seconds you can do: 16/2 = 8 -> 16 meters per two second is 8 meters per one second.
Also, from the formule v=x/t you can build two other forns. This is easier to understand when you know the mathematics applied:
I want the formula to calculate x: v=x/t. To isolate x, I need to remove the t from its side. Let's say x=3 and t=2 (3/2). You know that 3/2*2=3 again. So what we need to do is write x/t*t. This is the same as x. We must also apply this to the other side of the equation, so we get: v*t=x. (Well, it looks better like x=v*t, but still). And its also logical in the sense of units: x is a distance; v is a distance/time; t is time. So v*t essentially is distance/time*time. Which is distancec, and thus x.
Oh, lastly, you can do the same trick to get t=x/v.

Although, I don't know if this helps you in any way. Or if you even read it in time. :P But I had fun tryong to explain physics so briefly.

Oh yeah: a=v/t (well, delta velocity, delta time) and x=1/2a*t^2
 
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HobbeBrain said:
GCSE's determine pretty much what job you get when you're older.

And I will fail them.

OH DEAR.
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That's just nonsense from start to finish, Hobbe. GCSE's do have some importance, yes, but they are not the be all and end all when it comes to employment - not anymore. Doing well in them is something you should all (everyone currently taking them) strive for because you should do your best to get a good education but if you don't get an A in geography or whatever, it's hardly going to end your employment opportunities.

Granted, some universities will have entry requirements which involve at least maths and english but if it comes to the crunch, you can get those qualifications for free at any time during your adult life, sometimes even alongside studying for a degree. Some employers will also give you time off work to get grades you missed out on if it really is that important but honest to goodness, your ability to do a job and being willing to learn new skills is much more valued these days than a bit of paper which says at 15/16 you were awake enough to turn up for a 3 hour paper on Pythagorus' Theorem and algebra.

I have 10 GCSE's and 4 A-levels, a counselling qualification and hundreds of hours of voluntary work experience under my belt. Can I get a job? No. I could have A stars coming out of my backside and it still won't win me a job compared to, say, someone with experience. I've lost out on goodness knows how many jobs because whilst I had the "right" grades, it wasn't enough to show I could actually do the work.

Now if you've done nothing but mess about for the last two years and have retained nothing then yeah, you will most likely fail and it'll be your own fault. But if you are hinging every ounce of your future on this one set of exams then you're being silly, quite frankly, and you should just try your hardest with what you've learnt and that's all you can do. If you don't come out with gleaming results then you can always retake if absolutely necessary but it really really is not the end of the world. Steve, as you know, has zero qualifications and he's doing just fine for himself so it's not all bad news ;)
 
Angel said:
I have 10 GCSE's and 4 A-levels, a counselling qualification and hundreds of hours of voluntary work experience under my belt. Can I get a job? No. I could have A stars coming out of my backside and it still won't win me a job compared to, say, someone with experience. I've lost out on goodness knows how many jobs because whilst I had the "right" grades, it wasn't enough to show I could actually do the work.
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Ive been in the same boat, i had qualifications in numerous things as well as good grades in all my GCSE's, GNVQ's and A Levels and they have done nothing to help me get a job. Infact every job i actually went to and had an interview for i didnt get the job. The excuse they said to me was that i was overqualified in some cases which was like a slap in the face and quite degrading as they were basically saying 'You dont like getting your hands dirty or manual labour and merely want to sit behind a desk' as most my qualifications were in the computer field. Then the other excuse was that i had no experience, but with no-one willing to take a chance on you there isnt any way to get experience besides volunteering which not everyone can afford to do.

I got lucky and spent 8 months working in a car factory with my dad (by chance an agency found me the job). Then after i was 'laid off' by them after an incident with one of the managers i got another job at a Garden Center over Christmas helping them move all the Christmas Trees, slabs, paving and get all the heavy things cleared out. They told me it was temporary to permanent so i worked my ass off to impress them and got the work done 3 weeks before they expected me to. However then they told me they didnt need me anymore but would give me a call when they needed me again as they were happy with my workrate. Then i didnt get any call and i was out of work for nearly a year, then again by chance got a call to help out at a second business owned by my mums bosses. Then that went out of business and was sold and they employed me to the main business because of my computer knowledge (not qualifications) and ive been stuck there for about 6-7 years now (ive stopped counting). :lol:

So its not always about qualifications its more about luck, taking chances and doing anything for some experience and cash at the time.
 
...Yeah, just to chime in, your qualifications don't necessarily mean ****.

I got a $30,000-a-year full time job. I worked in the library system for going on five years hourly, and I only got that cheap job because I knew the branch manager. Applied once for the full time job, didn't get it, applied again, got on the list to get a position if one came up and no current employees wanted it. Opening came at a notoriously bad branch, nobody wanted it, I took it.

So now I'm making $30,000 a year just because I got lucky and was friendly with the right people.
 
Obviously if you have the added pressure of parents expecting you to pull a rabbit out of a hat, so to speak, it doesn't help when you're doing exams but at the end of the day, they just want you to do well and probably better than they did. So long as you try your best, that's all anyone can expect of you. The rest is up to you - show drive, motivation and above all a willingness to try and learn anything and it will help you more in the world of work than lots of wonderful-looking grades.
 
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D3m190d said:
One way to easily remember it is the unit for speed: Distance divided by time. (like, 6 meters per second). Therefore: v=x/t. Also, it's logical that if someone is going, say, 16 meters per two seconds you can do: 16/2 = 8 -> 16 meters per two second is 8 meters per one second.
Also, from the formule v=x/t you can build two other forns. This is easier to understand when you know the mathematics applied:
I want the formula to calculate x: v=x/t. To isolate x, I need to remove the t from its side. Let's say x=3 and t=2 (3/2). You know that 3/2*2=3 again. So what we need to do is write x/t*t. This is the same as x. We must also apply this to the other side of the equation, so we get: v*t=x. (Well, it looks better like x=v*t, but still). And its also logical in the sense of units: x is a distance; v is a distance/time; t is time. So v*t essentially is distance/time*time. Which is distancec, and thus x.
Oh, lastly, you can do the same trick to get t=x/v.

Although, I don't know if this helps you in any way. Or if you even read it in time. :P But I had fun tryong to explain physics so briefly.

Oh yeah: a=v/t (well, delta velocity, delta time) and x=1/2a*t^2
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That wasn't even in the test anyway....

Angel said:
Obviously if you have the added pressure of parents expecting you to pull a rabbit out of a hat, so to speak, it doesn't help when you're doing exams but at the end of the day, they just want you to do well and probably better than they did. So long as you try your best, that's all anyone can expect of you. The rest is up to you - show drive, motivation and above all a willingness to try and learn anything and it will help you more in the world of work than lots of wonderful-looking grades.
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I suppose you're right, but if I do fail some exams they're still going to be all "Letting down the family name" kind of thing...
 
Yeah, I do know what you mean - but that ultimately is their problem and you can't take it on as yours. You do your best, no one can ask for more than that. So try if nothing else and you might just surprise yourself. Otherwise you end up doing things because it pleases other people and doesn't get you where you want to be in life. If academia isn't your thing - and it really isn't for everyone - then at some point your family is going to have to accept that and get over it. In the meantime, you do your best with the exams you have to do and see what happens in August.
 
i'd just like to put forward that i just finished my first year of college where i didn't stop showing up and fail a semester. one could argue that it's because my current university divides its years into quarters rather than semesters, i reply "i didn't stop showing up and fail any quarters either, smartass".
 
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