Looks like its going to be hot again today.

And yet I STILL look white.

But at least u can sit outside and mark those fun papers you've been dying to mark And I don't really tan a lot either. But now I look a little brown. And am in the library!

I do like marking them.

I've just been taking my time over them.

Today I'm going to drink lots of coffee and get really busy.

Cool cool. Well you enjoy ur coffee and ur marking. I will...well I'm not entirely sure tbh what i'm going to do today except tidy my room, but I'll think of something.

Oh the excitement of metaphysical poetry exam today......At least it's finished now!! And I'm back to enjor some sun (though it's a little overcast) and finish off the party food!!! I spy a miniroll.........

So ur all done then Banter?

I'm getting another 20 papers in the post... That's another £60!!!

Yes, but doesnt that mean you have extra work to do?

*nods*

about another 3 hours

Unfortunately no, I'm about half way now.....but the metaphysicals are done and dusted......
Do you mark exam papers Fiona? Hmm.....

hi guys. i haven't been around here so much recently. it seems that things have gone a bit quiet and like you said so many newbies... i am missing ER!

Hello Jen. I'm hoping things will go back to normal a bit here, now that the series has finished...

Yes Banter I do mark exam papers. Dont worry, I'm sure I've asked if you study my subject before and you dont... Modern Studies.

yeah it just doesn't seem very lively round here at the moment. not a lot of new threads...
what is modern studies fiona? where is it taught?

It's a Scottish subject Little Shakespeare.

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Originally posted by Little Shakespeare:
yeah it just doesn't seem very lively round here at the moment. not a lot of new threads...
what is modern studies fiona? where is it taught?

Jen... you've been around for aaaages. you must have heard me talking about it before.

It teaches political, social and economic issues at a local, national and international level.

yeah you have probably told me before but A) i have memory like a goldfish and B) i am not completely sure i understand it. is it connected to any subjects like history or geography? is it taught in secondary school?

It is a social subject like history and georgaphy. In Scotland at GCSE level most schools get a choice of picking History, Georgraph or Modern Studies (some pupils pick more than one). But we are all under the one faculty if you like.

It is a secondary subject, with exams and everything. There is quite an even split between pupils taking those three, with geography slightly ahead as it is seen as the easier option.... less writing.

So u all done then Fiona?

Not yet. Got toll Monday to get it all in the post.

*till*

so, just so i have understood this correctly. the kids don't actually have to take exmas in all those subjects? they just choose one out of geography, history etc? that's lucky. it's a cool system! is it like that with every subject, that they only choose the ones they want to do for GCSE's and A levels?

Yup.

In Scotland when they get to about 15 they have to choose 8 subjects out of the many, many they've sampled in their junior years at secondary school. Subjects they want to continue to exam level.

It can be seen as too young an age to be so restrictive on their futures though.

They have to take English, Maths, a language, a science, a social subject, an artistic subject and then various others to make it up to 8.

Although these days its become more flexible and I've seen people dropping a language to be able to take 3 sciences for example (we had this talk elsewhere ).

Its good as a teacher to have a subject that people opt into. It means you get kids who want to be there... well most of the time.

How does it work in Austria?

well we ahve to take very subject up to A levels but only actually do A levels (it's not actually A levels just the austrian equivalent) in about 7 subjects. for example i have about 15 or more subjects (depnding on the time of year) and i have to do A levels in maths, german and english plus four other subjects i can choose. your system is better! if i have to pass all my subjects to graduate which sucks. plus we don't have any course work. whether or not i pass in maths comes down to 1 day and 1 exam where i have to know everything we did in the last four years. trust me it sucks!

But that does mean you have more choices open to you...

If someone decided when they were 15 here that they wanted to be a writer and they took lots of writing type and artistic subjects, they would be scr*wed if they changed their mind at 18 and wanted to be a doctor... cos they wouldn't have enough sciences.

Plus I assume then that you only have one year with exams?

We have 3 years of exams.