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Started by Shaun, Jun 06 2004 11:26 AM
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:38 PM
| QUOTE (Laura @ Jun 6 2004, 01:34 PM) |
What do you guys get as prizes? Do you just get certificates, or do you get an actual prize? At my school, Standard grade prizes get £15 worth of book tokens per prize, and for Higher it's £20 worth of book tokens per prize. Last year I got the Standard Grade prizes for English, History and German, and with my book tokens I bought a medical encyclopedia!  |
a certificate and a pat on the backoptimisations problems - i think its calculus problems (e.g. differentiation)
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:40 PM
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Thats so unfair. No we get certificates and thats it. I cant use that thing I got 89% in for appeal as it was only worth 100 marks. Everything depends on the exam and even if I do get the endeavour I dont get any reward and my parents are not rewarding me unless I get at least 3 As. If I get that I get about £50! But I think I'm only gonna get 2 As!
even tho its some marks short its fine
they can use it
as long as there is an adequate proportion of A/B coverage and all outcomes are assessed then you should get the appeal as long as there is also appropriate cut-offs, marking schemes enclosed etc
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:40 PM
Ok, we never called them that in Higher Maths at our school so I was unsure.
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:41 PM
Yeh optimisation problems is when u differentiate a formulae to find the maximum or minimum volume of a shape. Its 30 marks short and their wasnt enough units 1 and 2 in it! I got a B in my prelim which didnt have enough unit 3 in it so we did a unit 3 test worth about 30 marks. Then we did this thing to reitterate unit 3
Most of it was on unit 3
Most of it was on unit 3
Half ideas,half quality, half a million pound law suit!
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:41 PM
| QUOTE (fearfactor47 @ Jun 6 2004, 01:38 PM) |
| I'm not entirely sure but there are three of us joint winner for the physics prize, First place is £100 and Second place is £50, so they added the 2 prizes together and divided by 3 so it's £50 each for the joint winner for the physics prize. |
Wow! Is it book tokens or actual money?
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:41 PM
if you get the top mark for a subject nationally you can win £500 for most higher subjects
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:44 PM
It's money. I'm also the winner of the Dr. Montgomery Prize for Maths, and I think you get £100 for that. I'll let you know on the 18th, if so, the drinks are on me! 
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:45 PM
| QUOTE (james1 @ Jun 6 2004, 01:41 PM) |
| if you get the top mark for a subject nationally you can win £500 for most higher subjects |
Where did you find that out?
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:45 PM
O my god I so want that! Please computing have done that for me. Very unlikely but anyway. One can hope
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:46 PM
A person at my school got the highest mark in Scotland for Higher Music and he got £100.
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:46 PM
| QUOTE (fearfactor47 @ Jun 6 2004, 01:44 PM) |
| It's money. I'm also the winner of the Dr. Montgomery Prize for Maths, and I think you get £100 for that. I'll let you know on the 18th, if so, the drinks are on me! |
What school do you go to? This hardly seems fair lol!
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:47 PM
| QUOTE (Laura @ Jun 6 2004, 01:45 PM) | ||
Where did you find that out? |
Teachers
Unfortunately its usually private school students who always seem to get it
I know for sure they do it for H Biology and Chemisty
I have heard that it applies to most Higher subjects that are high in popularity
The money comes from sponsors not the SQA e.g. insitute of biology, royal society of chemistry etc
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:49 PM
I don't think the school give out any money to students, the money from winning prizes comes from organizations. I.e. Dr Montgomery from Irvine left money in his will to give money annually to the best person in maths. The prize I'm getting for computing is the 'Irvine Seagute Rotary Trophy" I think it just depends on what organization backs your school up...
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:49 PM
So they wouldnt do it for Computing?
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:51 PM
I think they do it for H and AH Computing!
Im not sure how you find out for sure. I suppose the SQA tell you as they presumably pass on the information directly to these organisations.
Im not sure how you find out for sure. I suppose the SQA tell you as they presumably pass on the information directly to these organisations.
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:52 PM
I immagine they would, but you would have to have got every question correct more than likely and I don't think you find out for a while. The person that got the highest mark for music in Scotland (who goes to my school) found out at assembly that he got the highest mark a few weels ago, and he sat the exam in 2003....
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:54 PM
Usually you find out September-November
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:54 PM
| QUOTE (james1 @ Jun 6 2004, 01:41 PM) |
| if you get the top mark for a subject nationally you can win £500 for most higher subjects |
I thought they didn't tell you how well you done in a subject...
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:55 PM
Aw. Well we can but hope. I mean £500 or even £100 is a lot of money to me!
That'd easily pay for my past papers for next year and that drama course!
See for computing, can you ask our school how much u got in your coursework, think they'd tell u?
That'd easily pay for my past papers for next year and that drama course!
See for computing, can you ask our school how much u got in your coursework, think they'd tell u?
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Posted 06 June 2004 - 01:56 PM
| QUOTE (ally @ Jun 6 2004, 01:54 PM) | ||
I thought they didn't tell you how well you done in a subject... |
Only if you get the top mark.
Unless you are taking a subject with component marks this year e.g. AH Chemistry in August you can find out exact mark for Section A, Section B and Report.
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