deviant ART

*bananaslug77:iconbananaslug77:

..is a fangirl of many things :B  

  • Status: deviantART Subscriber
  • Procrastinator
  • Female/United Kingdom
  • Offline for 3d 21h 11m 58s
  • Deviant since Aug 30, 2004, 12:36 PM
  • Subscribed until Oct 6, 2008, 4:23 AM
  • 68 Deviations
  • 20 Scraps [browse]
  • 1,141 Deviation Comments
  • 148 Deviant Comments
  • 2 News Comments
  • 716 Forum Posts
  • 10,165 Pageviews

Standard Grades are a pile of shit.

Journal Entry: Mon May 12, 2008, 11:30 AM
  • Mood: Frustrated
  • Listening to: KT Tunstall
  • Playing: Guild Wars
  • Eating: Pineapple
  • Drinking: water


If you don't know; Standard Grades are the method of assessing pupils aged 14-16 in Scotland, and every candidate sits 8 subjects in this time period. You can sit standard grades at 2 of three levels.

Credit; 1
2

General; 3
4

Foundation; 5
6

1 is the highest award you can achieve in any given subject, and 6 is the lowest. Everyone sits the general exam, but depending on the level you are at, you can sit foundation or credit as well as it. The general exam acts like a safety net if you fail the credit. The foundation also acts like a safety net if you fail the general.


Now, this is why it is crap:

Any grade below a level 3 is worthless. You cannot continue your secondary education unless you push your guidance team into letting you, otherwise you have to leave school, basically. (either go to college or just bum about afterwards)

Subjects such as French, English, German, Art, Graphic Communication, Craft and Design and Computing all have a folio of work collected throughout the course that is sent away at the same time as the exams. The grade of your folio is added to your exam grade to give you a final mark for the end of the course. Now, this means you can fuck up your final exam, and still achieve a 1 in certain subjects, even if you got a 3 in your exam for some reason.

Other subjects however, like Maths, History and Geography, don't have a folio, so your exam is your only chance really to show your stuff. If you screw it up, your only other option is to appeal for a higher grade at the expense of lots of paper work and teacher involvement.

The second reason why it's crap;

For the History exam, you have an hour and 45 minutes to write about 11 pages (in my case anyway) worth of answers, which total up to about 24 Knowledge & Understanding marks and 33 Enquiry Skills marks. Most people are writing frantically right up to the last second to try and finish the damn thing.


Now, today in my computing exam, I had one hour of doing jack shit because I'd finished. So I think, okay, not a big deal, I've just maybe missed out a back page or something - but no, everyone else is sitting there, finished. We wait, for an hour, doing nothing. It's totally unbalanced.

The varying degrees of work you have to do to achieve a 1 is recidulous too. The art examiners are such a bunch of elitist snobs with sticks rammed up their arseholes that only about 6-9 people out of like 60 candidates get a 1 for their final grade. That's like, 11% ish. In other subjects like Computing and Chemistry you get almost double or even triple that getting a 1 because it's all ticky boxes and fill in the blanks.

Ha, and get this. They put a question in the Maths Credit exam that we were actually unable to do, because it wasn't even from our course. It was from the Higher syllabus (Higher being the next course level up from Standard Grade) and all the teachers have agreed it's totally stupid to try and get us to answer something we have no clue about. I totally screwed up that exam and right now I'm too angry to care.

Standard Grades must be shit 'cause they are abolishing them in a few years anyway. Therefore, my point is proved.


Anyway. On a lighter note, collarbone is healed - gonna go back horse riding when June comes, gonna get back on that bugger that chucked me off and finish what I started ;)

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 16
  • Current Residence: Under your bed... :B
  • Interests: Drawing, Reading, Horse riding, Writing, music... nice things...
  • Favourite movie: Donnie Darko, DOGMA!!, Crash, Anything Ghibli or Tim Burton, The Butterfly Effect
  • Favourite band or musician: Eminem, Evanescence, t.A.T.u, Sigur Rós, Linkin Park, Blink 182, Hans Zimmer.
  • Favourite genre of music: Pretty much anything, except rap. But Eminem rocks.
  • Favourite artist: Rumiko Takahashi, CLAMP
  • Favourite poet or writer: Marianne Curley, Daniel Tammet, Mark Haddon, Audrey Niffenegger
  • Favourite style of art: Digital painting is the shizz.
  • Operating System: Linux, Windows XP
  • MP3 player of choice: Samsung something or other.
  • Shell of choice: One with a hermit crab in it =D
  • Wallpaper of choice: Pretty stuff.
  • Skin of choice: any, no place for racism.. <3
  • Favourite game: Guild Wars, Tomb Raider, UT.
  • Favourite gaming platform: pack of cards! =D
  • Favourite cartoon character: God... you actually have to ask?
  • Personal Quote: I like the word 'Willy'.
  • Tools of the Trade: Photoshop CS2 for Digital, sometimes Flash too. Watercolour for most of my traditional.

Devious Comments

~Breaking-Branches:iconBreaking-Branches: Jun 13, 2008, 3:36:24 PM
Hello :)

You're watching me (?) Wow!
lol...

its good you're going back to the stables.
Cya round :)

--
Vending machines kill more people than sharks do!!!
...Fact!!!
And Sharks now face Extinction from Humans!!!
~kawaii-katie:iconkawaii-katie: May 18, 2008, 7:56:49 AM
you're welcome...i love sessrin!

--
Fair soul is rarer than fair face
~katsu-neko:iconkatsu-neko: Mar 20, 2008, 4:46:12 PM
Your gallery is amazing, wonderful work, keep it up!
And thank you for the fav, much appreciated :aww:
~ClubInuyasha:iconClubInuyasha: Feb 19, 2008, 5:49:57 PM Mood: Joy
Hello! I wanted to let you know, that our club is holding another contest! I wanted to drop by, and ask you to join in!

Send a note if you're interested!

--
Big fan of Inuyasha? come join us at ~ClubInuyasha

Bow down before the ultimate fans :bow:

Sign up for our newsletter! Just send your email via note to the club!
~Yukkari:iconYukkari: Jan 24, 2008, 2:15:09 PM
No problem! Thanks!
*bananaslug77:iconbananaslug77: Jan 22, 2008, 5:30:30 AM
Sounds good - you'll have to send me the specifics in a note sometime after January - I have exams just now :)

--
Be a person, not people... your opinion is yours and no one elses, and only you should make the descision to change it.... ~:heart:
~DarkinaMaledetta:iconDarkinaMaledetta: Jan 12, 2008, 11:14:00 AM
Nice gallery .D

--
~ If you love me,
Won't you let me know?
~Totalimmortal86:iconTotalimmortal86: Jan 12, 2008, 10:30:43 AM
wish i could bottle your artistic talents and sell it off...i'd make a fortune! ^ ^ wish i could draw like that!!
~Yashy:iconYashy: Dec 22, 2007, 1:33:01 AM
:33333333333333333

--
[[ To Take Me Out You Must Fight Like A Man ]]
~Yukkari:iconYukkari: Dec 21, 2007, 11:01:56 AM
I'm looking for a picture of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru (not yaoi) or a picture of Inuyasha in his three forms (human and demon on the two sides, with half demon in the middle).
*bananaslug77:iconbananaslug77: Dec 21, 2007, 9:14:42 AM
Yeah sure! It depends what it is though and if I can fit it in ;)

--
Be a person, not people... your opinion is yours and no one elses, and only you should make the descision to change it.... ~:heart:
*bananaslug77:iconbananaslug77: Dec 21, 2007, 9:14:08 AM
YAAAY!! You ARE alive! :3!!

--
Be a person, not people... your opinion is yours and no one elses, and only you should make the descision to change it.... ~:heart:
~Yukkari:iconYukkari: Dec 20, 2007, 11:58:20 PM
do you do requests? just curious. great job!
~Yashy:iconYashy: Dec 15, 2007, 2:48:55 AM
HELLO THERE SILLY GIRL. <333

--
[[ To Take Me Out You Must Fight Like A Man ]]
~red-winged-angel:iconred-winged-angel: Sep 15, 2007, 3:46:08 PM
omg youve umdated! Ilove the new art XD Keep it up! <3

--
Ari chan
~pixie-cvdm:iconpixie-cvdm: Aug 15, 2007, 10:26:54 AM
i like ur gallery.. gonna watch u :D

--
...Avoiding the real world :earth:... getting lost in my own world :diny:
.... and LUVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!! :love:....
I am Tsukino Usagi from Sailor Moon in UchihaAkio's Online Anime C
~dh-89:icondh-89: Aug 12, 2007, 8:08:22 AM
Nice Gallery! :)

--
Click here to visit my gallery [link]
*bananaslug77:iconbananaslug77: Jul 28, 2007, 7:43:48 AM
Hi! :)

--
Be a person, not people... your opinion is yours and no one elses, and only you should make the descision to change it.... ~:heart:
~evilmuffins:iconevilmuffins: Jul 26, 2007, 7:37:20 AM
Thanks for the fav! =)
~squishy3000:iconsquishy3000: Jul 19, 2007, 7:44:57 AM
hey katie its kirsty nd isla here , we thought we would drop in by and say weeell heeeeeloooooooo! and thats about it :P
hope your having a nice holiday in jersey and we will see you soon
mucho hugs
xxxxxx

--
The devil vomits upon my crumpet again

"How slow must you be not to outrun algae?!" Sandi Tosivig, News Quiz
=I-n-u--Y-a-s-h-a:iconI-n-u--Y-a-s-h-a: Jul 14, 2007, 10:06:40 PM
Hi! :wave: :+devwatch: =D

--
~Your Favorite Dog Demon :heart:
~InuYashaIsMySexPuppy:iconInuYashaIsMySexPuppy: Jul 11, 2007, 8:18:48 AM
:3

--
|I|N|U|Y|A|S|H|A| my anti-drug

"This is InuYasha asking for a cream cheese bagle...Gimme a damn cream cheese bagle!" - Richard Ian Cox
~VampHunter777:iconVampHunter777: Jun 30, 2007, 6:55:47 PM
Thank you so much for the :+fav:! :heart:

--
Would you like me to turn you into a vampire? (Sorry guys, girls only) All I need is permission to use your photos.

Visit my gallery to see what I can do to you.
**And all my pictures are for FREE!**

Vampires by Alana :rose:
~amy-art:iconamy-art: Jun 14, 2007, 11:57:32 AM
Thanks for the fav!!!!!!!

--
BUY SOME CHIBI ANIME PINS AND STICKERS @ [link]

COMMISSION STATUS: CLOSED!