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I apologise if I came across as rude or unpleasant

No need at all and you didn't

Whatever you decide to do in life - do it to the best of your ability and enjoy it, then you will have few regrets.

I remember watching a series called something like "Back To School" Were people did O Levels and GCSEs. Apparently O levels where designed to make you fail and GCSEs designed to help you pass.

The whole system has changed now. Coursework is going out the window in the next couple of years, which is a shame, because a lot of people rely heavily on coursework, such as myself, to get a good grade. I was told by the head of English that I was the "best" pupil in English in the entire school and she told me I SHOULD get an A*. I got a B. Why? Because I'm terrible at exams. Just the silence of the exam hall, which is often smelly, and hot in the summer, the constant foot steps of the teachers lurking around and them whispering at the front doesn't help the matter either.

My friend in the year below has told me that, now, instead of doing one exam at the end of the two years and having to revise everything they've learnt, they simply study a course, and have an exam at the end of it JUST on that one topic. They do that with all the topics, then everything gets added at the end, and that's the GCSE. WHAT THE HELL? That's so unfair!

But when it boils down to it, I think exams mean tosh. Most people today lack common sense and morality, that's what we need at the moment.

I moved schools (and half way across the country) at the end of year 10, the tests are a few months into year 11.
Meaning i was a year behind in most lessons and had to start 3 from scratch.
I could of done a lot better without coursework, that really dragged me down.
(two english As/A*s pulled down by D coursework to make two Bs)
Excuses, excuses

lots of people like coursework, i personally don't:
1. parents help - ruins the whole point
2. too much added stress with 5 bits at once
3. could be revising for the tests.

As far as my parents are concerned GCSE's have got a lot more complicated.

Thank god they are over