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Monday, January 17, 2005
You Couldn't Make it Up
This really has to be a joke. Apparently you get a B grade in GCSE Maths by getting 17% of the questions right. That's 83% wrong (by my calculation!). The world is going mad.
As someone who not too long ago sat their GCSES and A Levels i am not suprised. Easy was not the word. Even the dropouts who hardly attended any lesson ended up getting Cs and Bs, whilst the high fliers (me included ;P) got full marks the english papers and sociology. The government is ruining the UK education system. The thing i found the most infuriating about Jacksons defection was that he felt Labour would be good for universities. Ha! As someone at a top university i can safely say things here are declining and if it were not for the private sector and their generous sponsorship things would be a lot worse.
A relation of mine who has just got straight A GCSEs was proudly telling me how she got 100% in English literature and history. I couldn't bring myself to tell her that it ought to be impossible to get 100% for any subjective essay. Life ain't like that. Well, it wasn't in my day.... God, I sound like an old git.
This really is a silly debate! This almost certainly comes from the Higher paper where the minimum you can get is a B because the questions start off harder than they would on the intermediate paper. Therefore you might get most wrong (ie. the A and A* questions) and end up with a B. Maybe you should look a little further into this...
I'd like to increase the old git rating by remarking on the lack of grammar and fluency in the posting by 'Anonymous' who says s/he is at a top university and did so well in recent A Levels, etc.
As someone who not too long ago sat their GCSES and A Levels i am not suprised. Easy was not the word. Even the dropouts who hardly attended any lesson ended up getting Cs and Bs, whilst the high fliers (me included ;P) got full marks the english papers and sociology. The government is ruining the UK education system. The thing i found the most infuriating about Jacksons defection was that he felt Labour would be good for universities. Ha! As someone at a top university i can safely say things here are declining and if it were not for the private sector and their generous sponsorship things would be a lot worse.
ReplyDeleteA relation of mine who has just got straight A GCSEs was proudly telling me how she got 100% in English literature and history. I couldn't bring myself to tell her that it ought to be impossible to get 100% for any subjective essay. Life ain't like that. Well, it wasn't in my day.... God, I sound like an old git.
ReplyDeleteThis really is a silly debate! This almost certainly comes from the Higher paper where the minimum you can get is a B because the questions start off harder than they would on the intermediate paper. Therefore you might get most wrong (ie. the A and A* questions) and end up with a B. Maybe you should look a little further into this...
ReplyDeleteI'd like to increase the old git rating by remarking on the lack of grammar and fluency in the posting by 'Anonymous' who says s/he is at a top university and did so well in recent A Levels, etc.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder... country... dogs. Etc!