WTF! 26% to get a C in GCSE Mathematics & stupid Radio1 DJs
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_...
Really can't believe it - you only need 26% or over to get a C grade at GCSE Mathematics!! - why not just let everyone pass automatically and save all the millions of pounds setting the exams and marking them?
The video doesn't show how hard the exams are - it just clearly demonstrates how any retard can work as a BBC Radio1 DJ - and to think you are paying for them!
Really can't believe it - you only need 26% or over to get a C grade at GCSE Mathematics!! - why not just let everyone pass automatically and save all the millions of pounds setting the exams and marking them?
The video doesn't show how hard the exams are - it just clearly demonstrates how any retard can work as a BBC Radio1 DJ - and to think you are paying for them!
Marcellus said:
Did you try the exam??
Mrs M got an A for 'O' Level, went to do maths for "A" Level and then a degree in maths and only got 30%!!
I tried and gave up!!
But doesn't the pass system work by percentage of how well people did in the exam - i.e. if everyone struggles they just lower the required percentage to achieve the grades?!Mrs M got an A for 'O' Level, went to do maths for "A" Level and then a degree in maths and only got 30%!!
I tried and gave up!!
Emeye said:
Marcellus said:
Did you try the exam??
Mrs M got an A for 'O' Level, went to do maths for "A" Level and then a degree in maths and only got 30%!!
I tried and gave up!!
But doesn't the pass system work by percentage of how well people did in the exam - i.e. if everyone struggles they just lower the required percentage to achieve the grades?!Mrs M got an A for 'O' Level, went to do maths for "A" Level and then a degree in maths and only got 30%!!
I tried and gave up!!
26% isn't high, if the papers are really difficult.
Emeye said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_...
Really can't believe it - you only need 26% or over to get a C grade at GCSE Mathematics!!
I'm sure that when I did GCE O-levels you had to get 40% to pass (ie a C grade). 26% is a fail, pure and simple.Really can't believe it - you only need 26% or over to get a C grade at GCSE Mathematics!!
Perhaps some more appropriate ones would be
1. Kerry earns X amount of money over a period of years and pays only Y % in tax. If Kerry continually underpays at this rate for Z years and in several years how long will it be before:
A) the debt is paid?
B) HMRC pull the plug on her lifestyle?
2. Gary is sitting in a land far away. He takes plan A to a destination several thousand miles away and then another one back. A further flight results in him returning to his original start point.
A) how many miles has Gary travelled?
B) Calculate the time that it will take for Gary to suffer some unpleasant fate at the hands of a mob of angry people?
1. Kerry earns X amount of money over a period of years and pays only Y % in tax. If Kerry continually underpays at this rate for Z years and in several years how long will it be before:
A) the debt is paid?
B) HMRC pull the plug on her lifestyle?
2. Gary is sitting in a land far away. He takes plan A to a destination several thousand miles away and then another one back. A further flight results in him returning to his original start point.
A) how many miles has Gary travelled?
B) Calculate the time that it will take for Gary to suffer some unpleasant fate at the hands of a mob of angry people?
An interesting read on this question from a 1996 paper http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/ca/digitalAs...
One of the interesting parts is
"Twenty years ago (1976) school examinations were under the wing of the Schools Council,
students took O level, aimed at the top 20% of the ability range, or CSE, aimed at the
next 40% of the ability range, leaving 40% of 16 year olds for whom there was no
specific national school leaving qualification. Less than 20% of the cohort stayed at
school beyond 16, about 15% took A levels, and less than 10% went to university - there
were only 46 universities in the UK. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland there were
nine Boards offering GCE A levels and O levels and over 20 offering CSE.
How things have changed! My O'Levls from back then are completely different in relevance to the grades we use today. Getting put forward to do the O'Level exam was a big thing in itself, getting a pass above C grade was a big achievement.
One of the interesting parts is
"Twenty years ago (1976) school examinations were under the wing of the Schools Council,
students took O level, aimed at the top 20% of the ability range, or CSE, aimed at the
next 40% of the ability range, leaving 40% of 16 year olds for whom there was no
specific national school leaving qualification. Less than 20% of the cohort stayed at
school beyond 16, about 15% took A levels, and less than 10% went to university - there
were only 46 universities in the UK. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland there were
nine Boards offering GCE A levels and O levels and over 20 offering CSE.
How things have changed! My O'Levls from back then are completely different in relevance to the grades we use today. Getting put forward to do the O'Level exam was a big thing in itself, getting a pass above C grade was a big achievement.
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