I get very annoyed every year on results day when i watch the news and they go.... "ooooh lots of poeple passed so the examsmust be easy."... have they ever done an a level themselves... they are not easy... they are fuckin solid.. especially the likes of chemistry and biology. It's not liek we sit on our arsed and do nothing... my performance
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did you do a levels? i
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We didn't have any problems with the inevitable "standards are slipping" news stories come our exams because, in the main, I think we agreed with them.
But that was over a decade ago. The trend towards continuous assessment and modular courses that had already begun then has produced exams that simply test different things - much less focused on those blocks of three hours in the exam hall and on the ability to dependably produce good work ( ... )
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All my friends found them very taxing... non of us were in the beleif that we were sailing through them and going to get A's at the end of it. I know my closer friends all worked extremly hard revising. If the exams are easy then it's because the hard work but into learning and preparation had paid off.
Ok so modules break down the work into chunks but at the end of the day if you dont do the work then you wont know what the hell the bloody exam is asking..
I cant really comment on how exams areamrked because i dunno how it works. And my entry was looking at it from my point of view really. I didn't find them easy, i worked very hard to get what i came out with... so i find it very disheartening to be told the exams and all the work i did was a farce (as one paper described the exams today it today)
I dunno... i would come back with an intelligent arguement to what you say but i'm not intelligent enough.
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It's a shame that quite complicated arguments about drifting and the need for some clearly defined grading system get lost in the shrill "The exams are rubbish!" headlines the tabloids come up with. Bloody annoying and none of the recent governments have had the courage to do anything about it.
And the students feel justifiably upset, when the argument really shouldn't have anything directly to do with their individual efforts, and the papers fill a few pages for a week, and then everything settles down until it happens again next summer. All very pointless. :(
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I would be more happy if the newspaperreports said something like the results are fantastic, however a new system would refine the quality of the grading to give more accurate results. I doubt that any person who even passes an a level now is as thick as pig shit.
At the end of the day i always think you can get any grades and thats great but at the end of the day if your rubbish at the coruse or job you get as a result of your grades then your only gonna get booted off it anyway. Then the exams are not relevant. I fyour good at what you do then what has the grades got to do with.
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