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Alexgadgetman
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7 A*'s, 2A's and a C in GerMAN  Thats what happens when you spend to much time browsing forums   Ah well, good days.
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big_D
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Did you see the story about the 4 teens in Holland this week that got their exam results rescinded, because they bragged on Facebook about how they cheated? 
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big_D
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You studied in Germany? Then those results aren't bad, they are very strict here - every subject, you get 5 points deducted per page, if you make more than 2 grammatical or spelling mistakes on a single page! 
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Fogmeister
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Lol, is that supposed to be Germany or is it a typo for German?
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forquare1
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I agree with both of you, LU and Finley. My strongest of the two methods are the exams because I'm still not comfortable with structuring a large piece of coursework, and nobody seems to be able to tell me what I'm doing wrong, only that it's "a C again Ben"  Having talked to a lecturer at the end of year two, he concluded I'd do much better if I was examined by a couple of people and I spoke through my ideas and wrote down diagrams, etc as I went to help explain myself.
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EddArmitage
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  | | | | bubbles wrote: having just gotten my GCSE results, nothing below a D thank god, ill admit there not that hard, i found english, history and maths difficult, i got a C in all of them, but business studies which i was good at, i also got a C, the other subjects i got B or A .now to be honest, i did absolutely [LIFTED] all in the 2 years till my exams, and for my exams i did no revision at all..hell i went to download festival near the end of my exams and i still did all right, sure i was predicted higher results than what i got (history and maths were expected A/B) but i dont think there hard enough, also teachers only teach what they think will be on the papers, they dont teach other stuff unless they have a free lesson which they have planned for something else (for instance, we were meant to be able to dissect a cows heart, other classes did, but we did not) and so on .all in all, i am happy with my results, and they got me into sixth form, and from what ive heard the school did very well overall, considering its one of the top 5 biggest high schools in england, i think thats rather good  | | | | |
Consider restructuring as well (8-p). I'm grumpy and lacking sleep. In other news, I don't think the comment about teachers only teaching the curriculum can be applied nationally. Some of my teachers were certainly very good.
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snowyweston
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davrosG5
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While I can't pretend I wasn't somewhat shocked and appalled by the level it took to get an A as announced on the radio yesterday I believe that this is due to an adjustment of the pass marked to reflect the difficulty of the exam.
As the level of difficulty may vary from year to year the exam boards appear to make an attempt to normalise the results so that the value of each garde is consistent over time. So in an easy year it may require 70% to get an A, in a hard year it may take only 60% to get an A.
While there is certain logic to this method it really stuffs up anyone who excels in a tough year as they are essentially marked down compared to their peers.
Also, the decision as to what constitutes a hard or easy year my be quite difficult to come to depending on the subject. It should be somewhat easier for subjects where there are definitive right and wrong answers (Maths, Chemistry, Physics and so on) but still a bit of a minefield.
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finlay666
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I think the grades should be done as a % of the UK
top 10% get an A*
then next 20% get an A
then so on
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big_D
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That is very unfair and there is no consistency. If you get a year that really does better than another, you will have people with Bs, who would have got an A the previous year and people with As from the previous year who know less than people with Bs and Cs from this year... It is the constant moving of goal posts and dumbing things down that is the problem. If the standards were kept the same over the years, there wouldn't be a problem. If more people get As one year, but the exam difficulty and scoring remained the same, it would mean that more people had done well. Lowering the percentages from 95% to 50% to get a A makes a mockery of the whole system.
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Alexgadgetman
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Lol, maybe thats why I got a A in English..... Ah well, the y key is near the n key.. right... ah... I should probably edit that post to make sure it doesnt look like the epic failure it was. TBF, I usually make loads of mistakes when I type on forums because I dont bothER reading it through properly. Ah well.
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Fogmeister
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After you're done can you edit your last post also Only joking
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Nick
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No it doesn't, not at all. The questions would be different. 95% is too high, and that's an unfair percentage. If you know 9/10 subjects like the back of your hand, and have one bad area then you could miss the A grade you deserve. When you consider that papers are split into foundation, intermediate and higher classes then there is nothing wrong with having lower percentages. It makes it more fair. _________________
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big_D
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Nobody thought it was unfair for the last 50 years or so...
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JJW009
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I'm sorry, WTF? It's supposed to be a qualification. If you don't know all the topics, then you're not qualified Look at it this way; The topics you don't know might be fundamental to the course you do the following year. How is the college supposed to teach you the next level if you don't know the foundations? They'll have to spend the first year teaching you GCSE level stuff which a lot of other students all ready know. I'm not sure what the A grade percentage was back in 1986 when I took my O' levels, but I passed it and so did all the other bright kids. People who knew most but not all the topics probably got a B. That to me is the way it should be. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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