#gcse 2020

[thysanniia]

kaboom

oh no

#this was my final GCSE piece way back in early 2020 lol #excuse it being kinda shit #i'm posting it for the funny not because i like it #paleoart #my art #thysanniasks #my posts

[ohbrightnewday]

oh to be 15 again, playing mrs lyons in blood brothers, in love with my best friend and hyperfixating on bbc ghosts

#welcome back to my tumblr comeback era #(im joking im too busy doing a levels but im thinking about first term of school 2021) #november gcses of that year really screwed me over but oh to just.. be doing improv with my friends with no care in the world #and to be hopelessly in love with my best friend (and in denial about it) #oh for the blood brothers and bbc ghosts circa october - december 2021 era #some of my late 2020 blood brothers posts got liked and it make me think

[hella1975]

♾

hello rat rodent critter how's the divorce treating u <- greeting a beloved mutual

'i was hideous and handsome and i held myself for ransom, cause i was honest and i lied, that's my doctor jekyll and mister hyde' - dr jekyll and mr hyde by ezra furman

#the car seat headrest/ezra furman playlist of lockdown summer 2020 how r u babygirl #i listened to this when i used to cycle around my village in lockdown lmao you KNOW i was going crazy if i was willingly cycling #oh fun fact taob pests that one author's notes about the hay bale would have been to the tune of this playlist #bc that happened on one of my bike rides #ANYWAY hiiii vee #you'd like ezra furman i think if you've never listened to her before! i first found this song bc i was convinced it would help me #revise for the ACTUAL text of dr jekyll and mr hyde for my english gcse #not too sure what the thought process was there but okay #ask #ask game

[studyguide22]

AQA GCSE COMPUTER SCIENCE (8520/1) PAPER 1 COMPUTATIONAL THINKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING MARK SCHEME 2020/ RATED A

#https://www.fliwy.com/item/363302/aqa-gcse-comp-science-85201-paper-1-computational-thinking-and-problem-solving-m/s-2020-rated-a

[liesmyth]

Do you think Roy is a reader pre-Ted? I read fics where he owns a lot of books, but he seems confused at being made to read Wrinkle In Time, and then is reading Dan Brown about a decade too late (surely if he read before, and that kind of fiction, he'd have read them pre-series?)

I always thought it was something he took up in retirement, probably partially because he thought that was what people did in retirement and it filled in time. Thoughts?

YOU'RE RIGHT.

Sorry. I feel very strongly that Roy was Not a reader. If you are still surprised by the plot twists in The Da Vinci Code in 2020 you haven't touched a book in the last 15 years. I understand why fandom goes with that characterisation, but I feel strongly that Roy hasn't touched a book since his GCSEs (so, like, not in this current century) unless he had an autobiography ghostwritten, in which case he maybe read a bit of it.

If anyone is a reader, that's Jamie. That copy of The Beautiful and the Damned looked veeeery well read, he's got a relatively large vocabulary, and he's the only member of the cast who's shown picking up new idioms. He has, like, three (3) malapropisms that some parts of the fandom have made half his personality, but TO ME, that side of Jamie is really giving "I've encountered this word / idiom in writing and idk exactly how it's pronounced or used in a normal context, but I'm gonna try". He vibes as much more intellectually curious than Roy imo, and because of the way current top-flight football academies are set up, he definitely had a much more thorough education / access to resources than Roy.

Anyway. Sorry but Roy is NOT a reader. He thinks Dan Brown is a genius, so he's maybe read like five books in his whole life total.

#this is mostly headcanons etc no shade to anyone who strongly feels differently! all interpretations welcome. this is MINE #ask #anonymous #roy kent #ted lasso

[the-world-wont-listenn]

Iwbft canon facts that aren't canon necessarily but they are to me!!!!!

-rowan can walk in platform boots no matter the height (lister is like Bambi on ice)

-one time jimmy went to his grandads for the weekend and on day 2 of him being gone, lister sent him 14 videos of him and Rowan doing just dance

-they get a cat

-they all took re gcse (lister got a 4, Rowan a 9 and jimmy got an 8)

-they all got build a bears that look like them

-jimmy hates the big light so he forced them to get a salt lamp in the living room for movie nights

-rowan is constantly singing under his breath and lister mouths to it behind him

-rowan tried to clean listers wardrobe and when he opened it 40+ monster high dolls flew out

-rowan - apple bloom, lister - scootaloo, jimmy - sweetie belle

-they post muggies of each other on their private Instagram stories on their birthdays and lister once 'accidentally' posted a picture of Rowan with loads of chins and his eyes half closed on his main Instagram with 3.6 million followers

-they collaborated with Trisha paytas (Trisha rock pop era)

-when they all eat at the dinner table, lister crams all of his food into his mouth while Rowan watches in horror and has had to leave the table several times because it makes him feel ill

-they all look at each other and say something random in interviews that makes them piss themselves laughing while everyone else is so confused

-lister has the online footprint of timmothe chalamet

-they all avidly listen to Nikki Minaj, lady Gaga, Ariana grande, Rhianna, Taylor swift and Beyoncè

-lister made those cringey tiktok povs in 2020 thinking he looked well hard

-they disappeared from the Internet for months then randomly posted a video of them dancing sped up to Lister singing really badly when he was tired

-they all stared in a zombie apocalypse TV show like the walking dead once bicci happened and Rowan and lister were married in the show, making them kiss several times and they did such a good job people started shipping them rather than jowan

-rowan has read atyd and crimson rivers (he cried to both of them)

I'll think of more later

#the iwbft obsession is back #i cant do this #rowan omondi #im supposed to be doing my geography homework #lister bird #iwbft

[blazepug-blog]

Anyone who took GCSE's between 2020 and 2022 should have their qualifacions revoked and be forced to sit an actual exam.

Change my mind

#gcse #disk horse #discourse

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

Xmas Fanfic Plug Alert 🚨

Ho ho ho! 🎅 With it once again being the season of long, cold nights and shopping stress (and a bit of festive cheer, too, for the kids), I thought I'd take the opportunity to shamelessly plug this little old fanfic I once wrote and have since never shut up about:

After the deaths of his parents, Rick certainly isn't looking forward to Christmas this year. Nothing and no one can put him off his misery - not even Vyvyan, whose relationship with Rick has changed monumentally since the near-fatal bus crash. The house's only chance at a happy Christmas has somehow fallen into the hands of a certain imaginary friend. Hopefully, Fred knows what he's doing...

A Bastard's Carol is, unsurprisingly, a Young Ones parody of A Christmas Carol. Well, I say a Young Ones parody - there are characters from across the Rik 'n' Ade 'verse running amok in this. I wrote it in 2019/2020, a time period now an almost scary number of years away from us.

Don't get me wrong, ABC is by no means worthy of comparison with the work of the great Charles Dickens (or the work of the great Rik Mayall and the great Ade Edmondson, either). Yes, it is overwritten (why'd you think it ended up double the size of A Christmas Carol?); yes, it features too much interiority (Rick is one of my darlings okay); and, yes, maybe sticking to the five stave format, thus ensuring some of the chapters hit 15K, when I was writing for people whose attention spans meant they'd ditched traditional novels for fanfiction was a bit of a mistake (love you guys).

But that all being said...

It was written with love, and passion, and a quite large dollop of staying-up-'til-the-sun-rises-to-get-this-next-bit-finished-damnit. Despite its imperfections - and there are many - I am still proud of it. I wrote it for me, but I also wrote it for this fandom as it existed at the time. As I said above, 2019 was a while ago, especially in fandom terms (back in the B.C. years), and I'm sure most Young Ones fans on Tumblr now have new and vastly superior fanfic to get stuck into. I'm just offering ABC up to you this December as a ghost of scumbags past, if you like.

I know I've slagged it off a bit, but seriously: there's at least one person who read it and had their GCSE-fuelled hatred for A Christmas Carol somewhat overturned by it.

And it's got Rick and Vyv being gay. I probably should've started with that...

Happy Holidays! ❤️

#the young ones #tyo #fanfic #a bastard's carol #rivyan #oof a self promo

[oldpotatoe]

hiii this is. slightly odd i think?? but i just wanted to say thank you for something, because it's really changed my life. when i first started reading flwogb i had just finished my gcses and was picking my A levels, and i saw here on tumblr smth u posted about how you'd done a degree in a bioscience subject and that you were going into intellectual property. i'd never heard of that kind of career path before, but it sounded so interesting so i looked into it and thought i'd probably like to do something like that in the future. which is why i ended up doing 3 sciences and law at A level (MIGHTT have been a mistake doing all 4 bc it nearly killed me but hey)

fast forward to now, i'm doing a biochemistry degree and hoping to get a placement at a law firm dealing with life science intellectual property, all because i stumbled across your fic way back in 2020 by complete accident!! it's genuinely changed my life bc i would literally never have known about a career that feels so tailor made to my specific interests in science AND law together 💞 soooooo thank you haha, i really wouldn't be as happy now if it hadn't been for a random post u made like 3 years ago lol xx

(i do kind of want to kill myself when it comes to january exams on organic chem, genetics, thermodynamics, and biochem tho 😭😭 i love science but at what COST 😭)

hello! first of all:

not odd at all! this is one of the sweetest asks i've ever received i think??

also 3 SCIENCES AND LAW AT ALEVEL??? just thinking about that made me want to lie down. i admire your very undoubtedly wrinkly brain

i'm so very glad i was able to help you on your career journey like this! even i didn't know being a solicitor (specialising in life sciences intellectual property) or a patent attorney was a thing until i was in my final year of my biomed degree, so it makes me very happy that i was able to spread the knowledge about it this way!

best of luck in your jan exams (thinking about my biochem modules from uni still makes me queasy) i'm sure you'll do very well! and i hope you get that placement-- definitely look out for resources such as Aspiring Solicitors, Rare Recruitment or STRIVE that help students get access to the legal field and can help out with applications/interviews! Aspiring Solicitors in particular do a very helpful STEM mentoring scheme with a few IP law firms, so definitely one to check out

you got this <3

#asks

[wik-likes-studying-and-films]

studyblr (re)introduction

04-05-22

i'm changing the look and style of my blog + tumblr + instagram, and there's a lot of new people following me, so i thought i'd do another intro post!

name: wik, she/her

studying: maths + further maths, triple science, english, spanish, history, and economics (GCSE system)

lanaguages: c1 polish, c2 english, b1 spanish, a1 dutch

socials: my blog, instagram, storygraph, pinterest - follow me on those so that i can get validation from strangers online :)

favourite films: birdman (or the unexpected virtue of ignorance) (2014), the royal tennenbaums (2001), nomadland (2020), the grand budapest hotel (2014), whiplash (2014), 2001: a space odyssey (1968)

favourite books: 1984, handmaid's tale, deaf republic, such a fun age, we have always lived in the castle

hobbies (feel free to talk to me about these in my dms!):

reading

watching films

writing stuff

cycling

playing netball

crochet

doing practice sat tests (i swear i'm not crazy but i genuinely find them relaxing???)

ambitions: write a feature screenplay, study economics at nice uni, get a border collie, direct a film - not neccessarily in that order

thank you guys for the overwhelming support, i'm so happy to be a member of the studyblr community :)

if you ever need study advice + tips, you can check out my blog or ask me! my dms + asks are always open, even if you just want to talk :)

also, let me know what you guys think of my new theme (it's a lot more obvious on my studygram) by filling out this form! personally i really like how it's much cleaner and minimalist, but i'm open to any and all suggestions!

#studyblr #student #study #studying #notes #revision #students #productivity #writing #studyspo #study community #study motivation #study aesthetic #study blog #study notes #stem #stem student #stem studyblr #biology #studyblr intro post #studyblr introduction #studyblr intro #introductory post

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

GCSE results day 2022: Third of students failed to achieve standard pass grade of 4 in English and Maths

This article is apparently written by someone who doesn't understand how grade boundaries work in England 🙄

There's not a specific pass mark that students have to hit to get a 4, or a certain number of skills they have to demonstrate.

In England, what happens is that everyone takes the exam, the papers are marked, and then grade boundaries are determined, this year I believe these were pinned to 2020 and 2019, but regardless, the point is every year a proportion of students will get less than a 4 because the exam boards have to allocate grades 1, 2 and 3 to some students.

If you want a system where everyone can pass, which yes, would be a great thing, then GCSEs need to change radically. And this article implies it's down to students lacking skills, poor teaching, the economic conditions of students... No, this is the system working as intended...

#uk politics #education #gcses #gcses 2022 #English and maths #exams #qualifications

[hollysoda]

I’m gonna get a bit emotional for a bit because I suddenly remembered how much I miss my Year 3/4 teacher. She was honestly the kindest, funniest and most understanding teacher I ever met. Shit was so rough for me as an undiagnosed autistic child as so many other kids would pick on me for my inability to control my emotions and/or intense interests. I would always be getting in trouble for lashing out without meaning to, and while most adults severely punished me she made sure to talk to both me and the bully. I also took longer to understand/learn how to do things, and while my horrible maths teacher destroyed my confidence my main teacher let me do things at my own pace and encouraged me. She loved how creative I was, and encouraged me to continue writing and drawing. We had the same birthday and one year she bought me a little bracelet (which I think I’ve lost now). When I left her class she would always look for me on the playground and chat to me about how I was getting on. The rest of my teachers in junior school were great, but I always wanted to go back to her class.

Obviously I eventually went to high school and didn’t see her for years until there was a fete at the junior school. She was there. Her hair was still neat and curly, but it was grey. She still wore the same shape glasses and was starting to get wrinkles. The funniest part was how small she was next to me (I was 14 then). She hugged me, asked me how I was getting on and what GCSE’s I was doing. We couldn’t chat for long but I remember her wishing me luck with my exams.

I didn’t visit my junior school again until September 2022 when they had a grand reopening after having a huge remodel. My Year 6 teacher was still there and gave me and my mum a little tour and I obviously asked about her. She retired at the end of the 2020/21 school year and moved probably as far away from where I live in the UK as you could. My Year 6 teacher didn’t have any contact with her. Maybe at the time I didn’t really think anything of it, but now after I’ve been diagnosed with autism I wish I could see her again. I think she knew long before anyone else did. It hurts a little, and maybe I wish she’d said something, but I think all I want to do is just say thank you and hug her one last time. I just hope she knows what a positive impact she had on my life.

#sorry this is kind of personal #I’m just a little sad rn and thinking of simpler times #my school life was horrible but at least I had her ig #hollysoda speaks

[auggietopia]

i started this blog in december 2019. it was the first tumblr i was ever truly active on, and i had no idea how tags or anything worked. i was freshly 16 and at the age where i was just starting to discover who and what i was, and a lot of it came through in the poetry i posted here. i had very rigid ideas of what literature and poetry was, as i had stopped doing it for a very long time. i wanted attention. i was eager, although i didnt know it then. i was hopeful.

covid hit three months later, in march 2020. i was in the year group whose gcses were cancelled. i posted one poem right as covid hit, in march, and then my last poem i posted in september of 2020 around when i started sixth form, after the longest summer i will ever have in my life. it was also the best summer i have had in my life. i spent 5 months calling with my best friends so constantly to the point i woke up at 6pm and went to bed at 9am just to talk to them. i realised my identity and tried to come out to a mother i would quickly find out was transphobic. i made a lot of friends. i started to gain some real footing on who i was.

i blinked and i am in march 2024. it is four years and a few days since i posted my second to last poem, which is a number that feels truly shocking to type out as it feels like it has been a year at most. in 2019 i turned 16, but in 2024 i will turn 21. this fact upsets me as the absolute formative amount of ageing i went through between the ages of 13-16 feels like it was my entire life and that there isnt room for anything else worthwhile to occur. on my 18th birthday, i held the frog teddy i bought for myself and listened to lord huron at full volume to block out the fear blurring its way into the edges like a migraine. on my 19th birthday, i was alone and terrified in my university dorm. i can't even remember my 20th birthday because of how insignificant it was. ageing, past the age of 18, went from being something exciting to something terrifying in a way i told myself it never would. and yet i am still here, and yet i still age. in a few months, it will be my 21st, and it will likely be at home, and it will likely be alone.

in the space between 16 and now, a lot happened. there were some pretty good things. they sit tiny next to the fact i lost my best friend in 2021 because they turned out to be quite literally the worst person i have ever known on this planet. i will never forgive them for what they did. realistically, every problem i hold against them is so small in the scale of the universe that maybe it isn’t worth holding onto at all, but i have not learned that lesson. i am aggressively refusing that lesson, in fact. at least for right now.

my mental health also took the biggest nosedive it has ever taken. sixth form shut down all sense of self discovery i had once i begin to nosedive in my academics and lose all of my friends. i still havent regained my footing. it has been 2 years since i left sixth form, and i still havent regained my footing.

but it is nice to look back over this blog and not regret a single thing i wrote.

all of this is to say i am going to start posting here again. and, in the most cliche way possible, i am going to do it for me this time. and i am going to post whatever i want without caring whether or not it is refined enough, because life is scarily fleeting and i can do whatever i want.

i was first allergictodrowning, and when i thought that was stupid i became autumndrowns, and now i will be something else that i havent decided yet but it will definitely be equally as stupid. :)

#writers on tumblr #writing #my work #poem #fiction #literature #my writing #do most of these tags apply? no #can anyone stop me? also no #poetry #poems #covid #covid 19 #mental health #art in covid #i am cringe but i am free

[studyguide22]

AQA GCSE COMPUTER SCIENCE (8520/2) PAPER 2 WRITTEN ASSESSMENT MARK SCHEME 2020/ DOWNLOAD TO SCORE AN A.

#https://www.fliwy.com/item/363319/aqa-gcse-computer-science-85202-paper-2-written-assessment-mark-scheme-2020-download-to-score-an-a

[economic-echoes]

Finding My Way To Economics

Suki here,

Many moons ago, when I was a mere 15 years old, I was choosing my A-Levels. I went looking for a shiny new subject that would combine all my skills and interests. Would it be sociology, psychology or maybe even business studies? Those classic subjects that all prospective A-Level students seem attracted to. 

To find the answer to my question, I decided to research the subjects I found most enjoyable and the ones that would go best with maths. The first place I decided to look was in my school library where I knew there were magazines designed specifically to help people choose their A-Levels. Having looked through several publications, while I found them all interesting, it wasn't until I picked up the November 2020 issue of Economics Review that I was truly entranced.

I stumbled upon an article that talked about the economics of pubs and evaluated their declining numbers. First the page examined some of the key economic issues involving the pub industry and then ended with a question: Should their fate be left to the market, or should the government intervene? I found this discussion very fascinating because I had rarely thought of the world through an economic lens much before, other than in geography case studies (which looking back, I enjoyed the most). The article introduced new themes to me like division of labour through the pin analogy from Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations) and how it can improve productivity. It also touched on topics like economies of scale and oligopolies. It was all so exciting and interesting, I found out there was a whole secret world behind the one I thought I lived in, and I was desperate to learn more.

To advance my knowledge in this subject I decided to find a book to read. After having googled economics books for beginners, I found myself enticed by Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt. I thoroughly enjoyed it as an introduction to economics because its humorous notes made it very entertaining. The authors also did an excellent job at helping me understand statistical concepts at an intuitive level, and how I could use the concepts to better understand the real-world problems discussed in the book.

After more research into the subject, I found out that not only did economics consist of microeconomics; the branch of economics that considers the behaviour of decision takers within the economy, such as individuals, households and firms, but also macroeconomics; the study of the actions governments and countries take to influence broader economies. So, this was where I decided to research next. At the time, ChatGPT had just been released and I was fascinated to know how this would affect the labour market. As part of my English GCSE coursework, we were assigned to write a speech on a subject of our choosing so long as it was compelling and interesting so then I decided to pick the topic The Economic Impact of AI. (I will upload this speech at a later date with current insights and reflections alongside).

Now I'm a 16-year-old amid my A-Levels; Economics, Maths, Further Maths, Computer Science. I'm getting stuck in and learning a lot.

#economics #economy #a levels #academics #artificial intelligence #freakonomics #blogger #featured

[zot3-flopped]

The twins grew up not knowing what it’s like to be financially unstable. Money was never a problem in their life or something to worry about. They never once had to think about their own future in terms of financial stability because no matter what happens they have their rich millionaire brother who can always help them out. And Louis got rich out of luck, not because of good education and neither does anyone else in that family seem to have advanced education or degrees to make money from. Louis mom was a nurse as far as I’m concerned and she got pregnant at 19. Teenage pregnancy is a running thing in that family. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that they don’t seem to have many goals in life other than getting pregnant early and posting lingerie pics on ig. That’s what Lottie and everyone else taught them. Education probably isn’t something that is attractive to them. I wonder at what age they left school. It’s sad because they’d have all means to get great education and take on so many opportunities. But it’s not in their universe. They don’t seem to be aware of that, at all. Kind of frustrating if you think about it.

The twins left school at 15, thanks to the UK lockdown of early 2020. The pandemic meant they didn't have to take any GCSEs, but were automatically awarded their predicted grades.

Louis said in an interview that he wanted them to continue into sixth form but because Lottie left school at 16 to join OTRA as Lou Teasdale's assistant, they defied him and decided they would leave too.

#phoebe tomlinson #daisy tomlinson