GCSE's

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

As an aside, have you noticed how people loosing an argument resort to personal abuse?

Well nibble did that a while ago. So he must have already lost.

 

[Uncle C]

In all honesty, I probably would have got similar grades with a fair bit less work, it was more so that for these last couple of weeks I felt confident.

Of course

 

[Nibble]

Well nibble did that a while ago. So he must have already lost.

I have not abused anyone personally. You just think that I have because I made a comment that you don't like.

 

[Dandyman]

oooooooooo look at me I am soooo worried about what people think of me on a internet forum.

Possibly the campest response I've seen for a long time. Safeway will be pink with envy.

 

[SeagullEd]

You are so insecure it is astonishing! I'm beginning to feel sorry for you.

Notice how people with very little evidence will not try to prove their own point, by using evidence, but will resort to pettiness merely highlighting their insecurity.

 

[Nibble]

Aha! Thanks!

No, it really irritates me (hence my involvement in some discussions on here) about the exageration of how they've become easier...to me it doesn't make sense.

We can now run faster, jump higher, cope with more stress then ever etc, so clearly we progress as time goes on... so why can't each year become more clever?

I do agree that the rate is ridiculous, but that's why less pressure is put on a pass and moreon the A's and A*'s - pass used to mean more. So with standards rising, as has expectation.

I think the one thing that can be critizised is the multiple exam boards - it's stupid.

How does an exam board make money? By being taken on by lots of schools. What, ultimately, does the school need to do each year? Get better results. Which exam boards are they going to pick? The one they deem easiest.

It's stupid!

You said it chap, not I.

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

It does make me laugh that no one has come up with any evidence that supports the argument that exams are getting easier.

 

[Nibble]

You are so insecure it is astonishing! I'm beginning to feel sorry for you.

Notice how people with very little evidence will not try to prove their own point, by using evidence, but will resort to pettiness merely highlighting their insecurity.

How insecure? I passed my exams a long time ago. I have the career I always wanted. GCSE's were easy in my day and they get easier. No big deal. It isn't going to affect your career and it doesn't mean you are less intelligent.

 

[SeagullEd]

You said it chap, not I.

Did I not cover this point already?

If I was going to sink to you level I would make just comment about you not being able to read.

Yes, I said it could happen, I didn't say it would, in the near future there is huge risk, but up till now AQA has been dominant, with OCR beginning to emerge.

 

[Nibble]

It does make me laugh that no one has come up with any evidence that supports the argument that exams are getting easier.

Seagulled has. There is no evidence except to compare a recent paper to an earlier one. Go for it.

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

that wouldnt work as you would have to sit them both as teaching is aimed at exams not at general knowledge

 

[Nibble]

why am I arguing with 15 year olds? I'm off to Sainsbury's (to laugh at the till staff who didn't pass their exams).

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

why am I arguing with 15 year olds? I'm off to Sainsbury's (to laugh at the till staff who didn't pass their exams).

Now there is someone who has been defeted if ever I saw one.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It does make me laugh that no one has come up with any evidence that supports the argument that exams are getting easier.

Are pass rates not evidence enough?

From 2007...

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of teenagers across the country receive GCSE results on Thursday, with expected record pass rates set to renew debate on educational standards.

Last year 19.1 percent of entries -- nearly one in five papers -- achieved the top two grades, with that level likely to approach or even rise above 20 percent this time.

Pass rates have shown near continuous improvement since the exams, taken by 15 and 16-year-olds, replaced O-levels 20 years ago.

Critics say students have scored high grades by abandoning harder subjects such as modern languages or sciences.

Others say schools "teach to the test", improving results at the expense of a more rounded education.


Anyway, I remember getting my results and heading down to Brighton seafront from a large (small back then) amount of 2020. Shouldn't you be larging it?

 

[Uncle C]

You are so insecure it is astonishing! I'm beginning to feel sorry for you.

Notice how people with very little evidence will not try to prove their own point, by using evidence, but will resort to pettiness merely highlighting their insecurity.

If you can master it, can you try using the quote system so we can work out who you are replying to.

 

[Nibble]

defeted [/B]if ever I saw one.

 

[Uncle C]

It does make me laugh that no one has come up with any evidence that supports the argument that exams are getting easier.

Please dont be so dense. Go back and read the thread properly.

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

Are pass rates not evidence enough?

From 2007...

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of teenagers across the country receive GCSE results on Thursday, with expected record pass rates set to renew debate on educational standards.

Last year 19.1 percent of entries -- nearly one in five papers -- achieved the top two grades, with that level likely to approach or even rise above 20 percent this time.

Pass rates have shown near continuous improvement since the exams, taken by 15 and 16-year-olds, replaced O-levels 20 years ago.

Critics say students have scored high grades by abandoning harder subjects such as modern languages or sciences.

Others say schools "teach to the test", improving results at the expense of a more rounded education.


Anyway, I remember getting my results and heading down to Brighton seafront from a large (small back then) amount of 2020. Shouldn't you be larging it?

So you dont go with the fact that as a human race we are getting smarter and as the younger generation we would be smarter than the older generation were at our age.



OOOOO i missed one letter so sorry.

 

[Uncle C]

why am I arguing with 15 year olds? I'm off to Sainsbury's (to laugh at the till staff who didn't pass their exams).

The irony is you need 5 'O' levels to work a till.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

I was talking to a teacher about this a while ago, and he says the exams aren't getting any easier per se, but the boundaries are changing as to what constitutes an A*, A, B etc, making it easier to get an A*.