HA! I was on the telly just now!

[Rys]

BBC1, Breakfast show with the quite STUNNINGLY attractive Natasha Kaplinski (hope I spelt that right love) and some middle aged bloke. Anyway, story about GCSE's being too weak, so I texted.

"If they are too easy, surely they should just be made harder? Even someone without 'easy' GCSE qualifications would come to that conclusion, never mind an exam review board".

And OF COURSE she read it out, licking her lips as she did. I pwned the exam review board on the BBC tbh.

Rys

[Rys]

Exam board moron? Click on this kplzthxbye.

Rys

[Bindibadgi]

Na its cause all the older thick people are jelous that the kids of today are actually cleverer then them. Its not that the exams are getting easier or anything.

[Private_mojo]

haha, pld

[Slick]

yeah...they're not getting easier. Especially with AS/A2 levels, the reason people are getting better results is because most people resit a few units now and therefore work harder instead of having all the exams at the end of the 2 years.

[Punky]

Originally posted by Rys
BBC1, Breakfast show with the quite STUNNINGLY attractive Natasha Kaplinski (hope I spelt that right love)

she's got a mullet!
exams are not getting easier! i'm waiting for my AS results (thurs....:s) and the exams were sooo hard, as was the workload throughout the year.

[oddytomtom]

the youth are just cleaver, perhaps the teachers are gettin better too lol

[TiG]

Sorry to put a downer on things, but some A-levels are now easier due to the changing emphasis on what % of the marks are made up by coursework, large sections of a-levels now are 50% coursework marks, if you have the ability to do 50% of the work before the final exam you are sure to have a fairly decent mark with teacher assistance, friends help etc etc.

I don't think the final exams are any easier but having less focus on them means that overall grades can be higher.

TiG

[Knoxville]

Originally posted by TiG
Sorry to put a downer on things, but some A-levels are now easier due to the changing emphasis on what % of the marks are made up by coursework, large sections of a-levels now are 50% coursework marks, if you have the ability to do 50% of the work before the final exam you are sure to have a fairly decent mark with teacher assistance, friends help etc etc.

I don't think the final exams are any easier but having less focus on them means that overall grades can be higher.

TiG

My exams were 25% coursework, it doesn't make them easier, you still have to know your stuff to get good marks on the coursework.

[Slick]

Originally posted by TiG
Sorry to put a downer on things, but some A-levels are now easier due to the changing emphasis on what % of the marks are made up by coursework, large sections of a-levels now are 50% coursework marks, if you have the ability to do 50% of the work before the final exam you are sure to have a fairly decent mark with teacher assistance, friends help etc etc.

All my A level's are 0% coursework, and I'm not jealous of my mates who did get coursework cos I saw how many hours work they had to put into it, doesn't make it any easier imo.

[Bindibadgi]

Originally posted by TiG
Sorry to put a downer on things, but some A-levels are now easier due to the changing emphasis on what % of the marks are made up by coursework, large sections of a-levels now are 50% coursework marks, if you have the ability to do 50% of the work before the final exam you are sure to have a fairly decent mark with teacher assistance, friends help etc etc.

I don't think the final exams are any easier but having less focus on them means that overall grades can be higher.

TiG

Namby pamby exams mebbe

I did:
Maths - 100% exam work
Economics - 1 3hr killer after 2 years was NOT good.
Chemistry - 80% Exam, 20% Practical

Only came out with BDB was predicted CBA

[Kilrov]

Personally i think GSCE's hav got a bit easier.

[[GSV]Trig]

Originally posted by Bindibadgi
Na its cause all the older thick people are jelous that the kids of today are actually cleverer then them. Its not that the exams are getting easier or anything.

I'm guessing you didnt see the thing on TV the other day where a load of A grade maths students were sent to a 1950's boarding school and given an exam, loads of them failed it and it was only the 11-15 test, 1 of the students said that was harder than my GCSE math exam and I got to use a calculator for that....

WTF.....

People are becoming thick and lazy, calcs in maths exams, are you nuts....

[tonicblue]

Isnt there this thing called evolution where each generation tries to better itself from the last. Thats what I keep telling my parents.

[Bindibadgi]

Originally posted by [GSV]Trig
I'm guessing you didnt see the thing on TV the other day

obviously not

But todays students do more varied stuff surely? So spend less time doing the "essentials" like maths? no?

[DR]

I still think someone needs to get hexus mentioned