GCSE results on Moyles' show

[maxrider]

So, apparently you can get an A grade with 57% as Moyles sidekick Aled did in geography (with 'what is the capital of Australia' as one of the questions FFS).

No wonder everyone seems to get fistfuls of A's, how the fk can you separate the clever from the merely average when the pass figure is set so low? I seem to remember when I did O'levels you had to get something like 80% for an A.

What happened to 'education, education and education'?

[Jasandjules]

Indeed.

It seems strange to me that 1 in 5 gets an A. How can this be? Surely the A is for the top 5% or so?

[Mattygooner]

What is the capital of Australia?....i know this one...

[Frankeh]

How the hell did I get straight C's. I must be a lot more stupid than I thought.
I presume not much has changed in 5 years with %'s.

[Brabus Jord]

I too was AMAZED that 57% gets you an A

what a joke!

[Frankeh]

Mattygooner said:

What is the capital of Australia?....i know this one...

No one ever gets it right. I asked 10 people once, not 1 got it right.
Don't google now.

[speedchick]

When I was doing my exams, we were the guinea pig year for the GSCEs, they were called 16+ then as no one had a name for them, when I got my results, for those that I had taken the 16+ in, I actually got an O'level and a CSE for. But I do recall the pass marks needing to by higher, as I think they were marked with the O'level in mind.

[sammyboy]

I took mine about 6 years ago and they were alot harder than that... the answers sydney right

[Sneakers-Otoole]

Well in my internal exams 80 percent is an A with 90 bing an A*

So i have no idea how 57 percent can be an A in proper GCSE's?!

[Papa_Hotel]

sammyboy said:

I took mine about 6 years ago and they were alot harder than that... the answers sydney right

U phailed english two rite?

[parakitaMol.]

Can't believe anyone admits to listening to that thick and his puppets.

[okgo]

That is bullst.

I did GSCE Geography. And things like the capitals of places are not in the tests, its actually quite a tricky paper..

And its Canberra (sp) you thick fooks!

Edited by okgo on Thursday 27th August 11:15

[trickywoo]

okgo said:

That is bullst.

I did GSCE Geography. And things like the capitals of places are not in the tests, its actually quite a tricky paper..

And its Canberra (sp) you thick fooks!

Edited by okgo on Thursday 27th August 11:15

at having to edit to correct the spelling.

[OnTheOverrun]

okgo said:

That is bullst.

I did GSCE Geography. And things like the capitals of places are not in the tests, its actually quite a tricky paper..

And its Canberra (sp) you thick fooks!

Edited by okgo on Thursday 27th August 11:15

No it's not thicky. It's 'A'.

I'm really old and did proper 'O' levels with no calculator, or dictionary or Thesaurus and horror of horrors, you got marked down for incorrect spelling, grammar and punctuation!

The thickies did thicky exams called CSE. Then children became too stupid to do 'O' levels so they were dropped and everyone did CSE's but to stop everyone feeling like a thicky they added a 'G' and they became GCSE's. Which apparently is equivalent to an 'O' level. Except for the need to spell, punctuate, understand grammar or have any knowledge of the subject.

I've got 11 proper 'O' levels and that's worth 767 GCSE A****+ passes, so I win.

[Pints]

Papa_Hotel said:

sammyboy said:

I took mine about 6 years ago and they were alot harder than that... the answers sydney right

U phailed english two rite?

u carnt evin spel inglish rite.

[fido]

I was taught O-level Maths (outside the UK) part-time but did GCSE Maths at a local state school when i was 14 - naturally getting an A It was pretty basic even a few years ago - sadly it's now become a minimum qualification, perhaps equivalent an old CSE 'C', if that. French, however was a complete b'stard, and i was humbled by the oral/aural examination - though i suspect that component is no longer part of the exam!?

Edited by fido on Thursday 27th August 11:33

[okgo]

trickywoo said:

okgo said:

That is bullst.

I did GSCE Geography. And things like the capitals of places are not in the tests, its actually quite a tricky paper..

And its Canberra (sp) you thick fooks!

Edited by okgo on Thursday 27th August 11:15

at having to edit to correct the spelling.

Can't get FF to install on this work pc, so I don't have auto spellcheck on. My spelling is ste, but seeing as less than 1% of my written word gets seen, I don't really care that much

And furthermore, I didn't edit to change spelling, I edited to add the answer to the above question.

[ad551]

The capital of Australia question was just a joke.

All papers are moderated (I think that's the word) to ensure the spread of grades is correct - so the mark required to get an A would be different from year to year depending on the 'difficulty' of the paper.

[okgo]

Like I said the geo paper wasn't that simple.

I seem to remember having to answer at legnth why a st country should use damns or something.

[Engineer1]

What can cause some confusion here is that in some subjects you can have a higher paper and a basic paper that have different grade thresholds, a higher paper may well run from C to A* the lower from E to C.