GCSEs to end

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RYH64E

7,960 posts

243 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Super Slo Mo said:
You have to be kidding . I can answer most of those questions in my head, I'd get almost a clean sheet I reckon, certainly 95-99% correct answers should be achievable. Some of those questions are almost primary school standard.
You need about 50% on the Higher GCSE papers to get a B...

Blue62

8,707 posts

151 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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As this issue is in the news again, are we any clearer on why AQA decided to mark English papers down? I know we'd all rather talk about how dumb kids are today and how much tougher it was in the good old days, but I'd be interested to know the PH massive's view on the motivation behind the decision and at who's behest.