Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE Religious Studies B Unit 3 – 23 May 2012

For me, the latest in this season of exams was this morning’s Religious Studies examination, which saw me answering questions on Religious Attitudes to Matters of Life (Medical Ethics),  Religious Attitudes to the Elderly and Death, Religious Attitudes to Crime and Punishment, and Religious Attitudes to World Poverty.

Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE English Lit Unit 1 – 22 May 2012

The morning began with somewhat of a panic for me: my own incompetence had led me to mistakenly believe I’d be in the Sports Hall for today’s English Literature Unit 1 (Modern Texts) exam, as indeed I had been for both the Drama and yesterday’s Biology papers. In fact, no, I was to sit the paper in the library with a minority of people, but after a quick phone call home I managed to sort myself out and get myself into the right place.

Our class were very unusual in the books we studied; the vast majority of our fellow Year 11s had learned about the 107-page 1937 novella Of Mice And Men and JB Priestly’s 79-page play An Inspector Calls. We, however, had the 224-page Touching The Void (Joe Simpson) and the 296-page To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) books to read. I must confess, though I enjoyed the language of both books (especially the latter) immensely, their sheer length meant I probably didn’t read them enough times.

Post-Exam Thoughts: GCSE Biology B3 – 21 May 2012

This being the first exam of my busiest week of the exam season, I’ve little time to write this post, but just quickly here are my post-exam thoughts on today’s Biology B3 paper.