Anybody else fail their RE (Religious Education) GCSE? ?

Question

I did. Deliberately.

Answer 1

Well I'm an athest who had to sit a paper on Catholic Christianity! I didn't revise for it at all, but I decided that I might as well answer it seriously, and got an A. Just in case I needed an RE type GCSE to do Philosophy for A level!

If I was your examiner and I saw you write about the FSM, I'd give you an A*! Haha!

Now the thing is, did the paper really go against your beliefs? As in, did it say "What did God say to Abraham" or something, or did it say "What do Christians believe God said to Abraham"? In mine, stuff was phrased like the latter, so I wasn't exactly lying through my teeth. I thought of it more like a history exam using innacurate sources tbh!

Edit: Now that's a bit of a rubbish exam paper then! It's encouraging close-mindedness and is just aimed at Christians then. Even mine wasn't totally against the faiths of people who don't believe in it. You could write a letter of complaint to the exam board or the school, it would be more likely to elicit a response than an answer paper of complaint!

Answer 2

Haha, i haven't done mine yet. But if the questions are biased and won't allow me to express my opinion, then i will oppose the religion even more, and show it in my answers.

The U is fantastic.

Answer 3

:O

at first when i read your question i was shocked that you would purposefully fail a RE exam just because you are an atheist (or agnostic- w/e), because i am but i still got an a* because all our exam asked us to do was give lots of different viewpoints on a topic then argue your own- which was fair enough.

However, the exam your school made you do seems very unfair. :O how can it be ok for an exam to only give you marks if you are religious yourself, or if you are willing to pretend to be.

So in fact, i may well have done too if that had been my test.

But at the same time- it may seem useless to you but it can be important to have understanding of other religions, so it prevents ignorance and stuff...

oh, well that was a stupid test.

Yeah, ours was more of a generalised religious studies test, like, it asked us the definitions of certain terms. But the main big questions asked us to discuss a statement or something "showing you've considered the views of other religious traditions as well as your own opinion." Our school taught christianity and Islam, but not any real holy book detail.

Answer 4

yeah, just like you it's the only gcse i failed (achieved a u lol). i hated it  bacause i'm an athiest and don't believe any of the bulls***.

but i regret not trying because on my esults slip you see:

A

A

B

A

C

B

then U

don't look nice does it?

Answer 5

I haven't done my GCSE'S,

but kudos to you.

Im glad you stood up to what you believe in :}

Answer 6

No.

That was kinda a stupid thing to do. You're surrounded by religion, everyone is, so by deliberately failing, you're just showing the world you're ignorant of other people's beliefs. Plus, compared to your other grades, that U just looks kinda pathetic...

Answer 7

Yeah - got a D and I only went to two of the lessons

Answer 8

The U may look pathetic, but it looks like you got a U for a reason like you failed it on purpose, which you did.. and that portrays you in a sense, to be assertive and to have your fixed opinions about stuff like that. Just looking at it in an optimistic light.

Answer 9

I did the GCSE RE paper and none of those questions were in it....maybe it was a different exam board. Anyway, no I didn't fail I got an A. Think of it this way, it was 2hrs out of your life? All you had to do was make something up. How do you think that will look on you now? Look, I'm probably one of the most argumentative anti-religious person you'll know and all I did was just go along with the whole thing and make it up. That's all you had to do, but there's no use dwelling on it now. It's over with.

EDIT: Just read some of the other answers but thinking about it now, mine didn't have much to do with Jesus. It was all about abortions, animal rights, funerals and the big bang. It was basically a case of memorising a few quotes from the lesson and putting them into your own words.

Answer 10

Well I didn't fail it, though I got a C because it was the subject I cared least about :p I got 100% in my coursework, but when it came to revising I ignored all my RE and focused on Science and Maths.

One of the questions im sure I failed horribily on was something like, "What are the 5 types of love". I think they all had specific, stupid names for them so I just ended up scribbiling down 15 lines of non-sense.

I acctually always love to go away from the typical expected answers in my RE so I think I might have got carried away with them also.

I don't see how some people would even care about getting a low grade. I only care about getting high grades in subjects I care about, and getting average grades in subjects i'm slightly intrested in. I got 2A*s, 5A's, a B and a C.

Answer 11

In mine, i kept taking subtle digs at the christian religion, as i don't believe an of it. At the end, i wrote a short paragraph asking why our r.e. only consisted of Christianity, when there are so many more religions out there, like islam, and the Norse religion. Then i said it is biased towards people who believe in god, and who go to church every sunday (i have been like 7 times in my life). Then i said there is no such thing as god, and if jesus did exist, he was a normal human being. P.S. i am an atheist. I got a C :)

Answer 12

no i got a A*

why did you fail thats retared all gcses are imprtant

and its not exactly like its hard was it

you are a r****d.

who cares about your belifs, they dont count do what your taught its rebels like you that reck this coutrey i hope you get diported.

oh btw im dislexic so you cant say S.hit bout my spelling

****** w***e Slu.t