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The same story is trotted out every year....'Exams are getting easier!!! bla bla bla'.......
'When we were kids this was all fields, we walked 50 miles to School.....in the snow, got the cane when we got there. But we enjoyed. Kids today....'
'When we were kids this was all fields, we walked 50 miles to School.....in the snow, got the cane when we got there. But we enjoyed. Kids today....'
Edited by MidlandDan84 on Thursday 19th August 09:12
Actually I don't think exams are getting easier but beacuse more people are getting the top grades it is harder to differentiate betweent the students. I think that an a* should be say top 5%, a the next 5% and so on. So if you get an A* in any given year people will know that you are top 5%.
anonymous said:
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Well, IMHO, I took A-levels 7 years ago now, there was a massive emphasis on getting the best mark that you could possibly get in the coursework, which I had rather a lot of, this would then give you a good head start for the exam.Also, its important to read what the A's were in, of course an A in Media Studies, Creative Writing and Turnip growing are a piece of piss, but if you get A's in the 'Core subjects' Maths (Further + Advanced or whatever the uber modules were called), Chemistry, Physics etc then that is no easy task.
I got 3 B's in Geography, History and Biology. Should have worked harder
MidlandDan84 said:
The same story is trotted out every year....'Exams are getting easier!!! bla bla bla'.......
Well, there's no denying that they are, at the very least, a lot different, and so grades attained today cannot be compared with results from 10,20,30 years ago.And, thick as I may be, what's with the 'A*' malarkey? To me, that's the most obvious sign that they're too easy (for want of a better word) - so many people are getting 'A' grades, that we have to invent a whole new grade above 'A'!
Very difficult to police effectively.
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