Revision Sucks.

[SciFiBoy!]

my ****** "catholic" school made me do R.E, i didnt bother with any of the homework (didnt get in any trouble though, no-one in my class (bottom set) did any homework) and i put the shortest answers possible in the exam, wasting my time, they got what they deserved, my complete and utter contempt.

To be honest, if the results count for nil in the long run, effort is better spent elsewhere. I strongly wish I could have done something similar for school Drama lessons.

i put most of my effort into English, Maths, Science and History, and i got C's in all of them, which is good, because im crap at exams, i got a C in French too, **** nows how i did that though!

 

[Charter_Mage]

Wait, you get exams on RE? That just clicked with me as back in high school, when we had to do RE, we never got exams for it at all. We got two assessments which once completed, was it. Nothing else at all. There was probably higher RE and such, but i don't know many people, if any, that took that in our year.

I was really surprised a year or so ago when my sister was doing her GCSEs and she wasn't doing RE.
I didn't think RE was something that I chose to do, but i guess it must have been! I'm glad I did though since I got an A.
RE is a great subject to do, all you need is a moral conscience and an idea of different opinions and you can get a decent grade since at least half of the exam is on subjects such as abortion and euthanasia!

 

[kupocake]

RS was a seperate subject among the humantities choices, alongside History and Geography at my school. The half-assed, shot in the foot version people are talking about here sounds a lot like PSE, or citizenship or something.

PSE lessons were f***ing brilliant though. A full hour of watching 'now, be open-minded' VHSs of crazy mentalist spirtualists. Best one by far was the woman (british!) who believed she could channel a native american called 'Blue Mountain' by sitting in a chair and groaning for a bit, and switching to a huskier voice. Feed my cynicism ofsted, feed it!

 

[Zin5ki]

Feed my cynicism ofsted, feed it!

Ahh. Reminds me of the time when local schools would proudly boast - using large posters outside their grounds- that they'd been recognised for their significant improvement. I.e, they were finally out of Special Measures.

 

[Tachi]

lol i also loved PSE lessons,

i remember our first ever lesson, our teacher said "you hear all these rules in school and you have to abide by them without question, well...this lessons different. its broad. so you all decide one rule you'd like me to follow"

we sat about talking it over as a tutor group....finally decided "not alot of writing work" (without realising that PSE had hardly any writing envolved anyway. its just watching video's and talking) the teacher agreed and laughed....then replied "you took so long deciding that.....and nobody ever thought to say no homework?" that moment was pretty much the biggest facepalm gathering in this generation.

 

[shira]

lol i also loved PSE lessons,

i remember our first ever lesson, our teacher said "you hear all these rules in school and you have to abide by them without question, well...this lessons different. its broad. so you all decide one rule you'd like me to follow"

we sat about talking it over as a tutor group....finally decided "not alot of writing work" (without realising that PSE had hardly any writing envolved anyway. its just watching video's and talking) the teacher agreed and laughed....then replied "you took so long deciding that.....and nobody ever thought to say no homework?" that moment was pretty much the biggest facepalm gathering in this generation.

:lol: Owned by teacher, much?

 

[Charter_Mage]

I hated PSE! I was sure PSE was created with the sole purpose of embarrassing me as much as possible!
PSE was where they stuck sex education and first aid (including mouth to mouth resuscitaion), where all your usual teachers were put out of their comfort zone trying to teach you about life while the class just sits there cringing.