awwww We haven't met up very often but have had our talks. I'm sorry to see you run off (obviously). You can always frequent the forums and keep in touch with the community that way. I know of a few others who are rarely online but are still quite active on the forums. And who knows... And there is also something else to consider. Sometimes it can help to take a break, re-evaluate and then decide if you really want to leave or if you simply want to stay (but maybe find some kind of middle ground which works for you). But most of all, and this is really important, you need to do what you feel is right. And not right for the community or those players you referred to earlier, but what's right for you. I had to look up GCSE and that sounds a bit familiar to what I've done in my youth (assuming I got it right of course). And then you will definitely need to make choices. And your education, it might sound boring, but it definitely needs to come first because it's honestly important. I'll go with "Untill we meet again" Who knows, it might happen someday and it might never happen. Thanks for sharing instead of just leaving. I can understand that some people do that (because they lose interest and all) but it's always nicer for the other players to know what happened, even if the news isn't very fun at all. But yeah, you could consider to continue voting so that you'll keep your stuff and... And if you do decide to come back you'll also have a nice collection of rewards waiting for you Anyway, I wish you all the best!
I faced this dilemma a few months ago (I did, however, choose to stay - instead reducing my time here and then never regaining my groove I had, oops). I can fully understand where you're coming from and can respect your decision. Good luck in your future endeavours, Hannah. You'll smash those GCSEs. I made it through them with very little revision at all (probably would've done way better if I had) and did quite well, so I can assure you that you'll do fine - no matter if they're harder now or not. Goodbye for now, my fellow Liverpudlian
Good luck with your GCSE's they are important study for them Best of luck outside of EMC, and there are many people that are here for you if you decide to come back Bai for now
Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart. Honestly, couldn't have wished to meet better people on here. Until next time <3
Good luck with your GCSE's! - I have to agree with you on how stressful they are I wish you didn't leave but it was good knowing you <3 Remember you are always welcome to come back anytime
Are you starting mocks now, or just started year 9? And If you lose interest, just go about your life, pick up a new game and when you get bored of that you will get a spark to play EMC again like I do. Whatever happens, thanks for helping out with my video I made for EMC ^^ ended up taking me like a whole weeks to finish and didn't get into the stream team which is rip, so I don't have any reasons to come back really.
I've just started year 10. I'm so sorry you didn't make the stream team. Perhaps if you keep on trying and showing you're eager then it'll show how much you want it. Never give up on something like this because it just eliminates all chances of ever getting in :]
Being in the U.S. and having no clue what a GCSE is I decided to google it... then I read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education and now I'm even more confused than ever... what a horribly written wikipedia entry. my brain hurts just trying to make sense of what they're saying. is this just what they call normal school in the UK or is this some special track that is optional for students like a trade school in the U.S.? Look at this sentence: "GCSEs were first introduced in 1988[31] to establish a national qualification for school-leavers who decided to leave school at 16 and not to pursue further academic studies..." wtf is a "school-leaver"? is that like a drop out? who talks like that?
For those who don't know a GCSE is basically the qualifications you get when you leave school. You pick the subjects you want to take and you do tests before you leave school. They're your qualifications to help you get a job or go to university/college or any other place you want to go afterwards. The government have made them harder, I'm not going to get started. It's something that deeply upsets me. They've basically decided we weren't under enough pressure as it was so they made them harder.
They're qualifications you take at the end of secondary school - you begin studying for them around 14 years of age (might be 13 now) and take them when you're around 16. Five GCSEs are worth one US high school diploma (I have four GCSEs lmao). Everyone has to do them. The 'smarter' you are (of course based on a trivial definition) you can take more and more complex lessons. School-leavers are people who are leaving school. You take GCSEs at the end of Year 11 and leave school the day you do your last GCSE. This construct doesn't really exist anymore because continued education (you have to choose from an apprenticeship, the armed forces, or college) is mandatory until you're 18 now.
wait what? so in the UK you are forced to go to school until you're 18... or what? they put you in jail? do the GCSE's guarantee you a job or are they like a certificate that you show potential employers? can you give me an example of what area you may choose?
Your parents get fined. With a lot of money. And they do it continuously until you turn 18 or decide to go to college/join the army/get an apprenticeship. They're basically just certificates that show employers you've gone to school and how well you did there. If you don't have them though you will find it extraordinarily difficult to get a job. You're also forced to resit them. For example, my dad got no GCSEs and walked out of college a week into it and jumped straight into a job as a maintenance worker at his dad's company. Then his dad suddenly died one night, the new boss lowered his pay and upped his work hours, dad got sick of it and left to go be a caretaker at my primary school after years of trying to get accepted into a different job. He still works for just above minimum wage and it's my mum (who got four GCSEs, three A Levels in college, and a University diploma) who pretty much supports the whole family (although make no mistake, she gets more money than my dad but it's still not very good pay at all). And for an area you'd choose... you don't, really. It's just lessons. I got handed a sheet of paper one day with about ten lesson choices on them, some of my friends got a different one with more lesson choices on. Thought over it for two months, still didn't know because I thought all the lessons were crap, the day came to pick them, and I just picked five lessons at random. I think my choices were Information Technology, History (it's a mandatory choice between either History or Geography), and Leisure and Tourism (which I failed because the lesson was so boring and I also missed the exam). You're forced to do English Language, English Literature (which I failed), Spanish, Science (I got two GCSEs out of it but failed both due to my grade in Physics, even though I did way above average at Chemistry and Biology) and Religious Studies (which was very anti-Catholic lol). If it's of any interest A Levels (what you do in college when you're 16 - 18) are way better with the choices. You can pick pretty much anything you want. I chose IT, History, and Psychology and I'm very happy with those. They're pretty useless unless you go to University though, which I can't do because it's too expensive in the UK (it's free in Germany though ayyy). The only use I can think you'd get out of them would be showing employers you're dedicated and can get through something as hard and rigorous as A Levels and do pretty well.
they force you to do Spanish? no other language choices are offered? I'm just glad I'm done with school and into my career. I would dread being a kid these days for so many reasons.
It might be a final goodbye, or it might not be, but thanks for the post! I have certainly enjoyed your presence! Also, interesting stuff about the GCSE's, in this thread! It's really quite a different system than what we have, I think!
I was forced to do Spanish. Other people in my school with the higher lesson choices had a choice between Spanish, French and/or Chinese (which had like a 0% pass rate lol). In Wales you have to also do Welsh. Pretty sure Scotland forces you to do Scottish or Scots too. Not sure how Northern Ireland works but I'm fairly sure you'd have to do Irish. Most other schools across the country also offer German... not mine though, a supposed 'language college'.
