How to get 82% WRONG and still pass...

[chip]

What a total load of bollocks. Your generation incessantly harping on about how much brighter everyone back in the 'good old days' really pisses me off. There is no way a 16-year-old in the 1960s would be able to survive my degree course, end of.

The point is not that average intelligence has changed, rather that the measures of achievement are awarded more generously nowadays. That is not a slight on younger people more a reflection on the generally poor state of the education system and the values of those who administer it.

What is your hard degree course?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Was it Maths a year early or were you in Matt Smith's RE class which was actually allowed to do RE as a GCSE.

We were not allowed to sit Fat Spliff's RE. That was a giveaway A*, surely! We took Mr Sheppe's French, once we got that out the way we did AO level French and Klingon (True) Although there was no exam for Klingon.

 

[Uncle Buck]

We were not allowed to sit Fat Spliff's RE. That was a giveaway A*, surely! We took Mr Sheppe's French, once we got that out the way we did AO level French and Klingon (True) Although there was no exam for Klingon.

Ah we were the one set allowed to do RE as a GCSE where as the rest of you did the internal exam. The only reason that internal exam was brought in was that Lancing's GCSE RE results were awful and it did not look good, as in theory the place is a religious school.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Hmmm, much as I find it hard to believe that today's kids are so much more intelligent than the kids of 20 or 30 years ago, as would appear to be the case from the exam results, it's hardly a fair comparison, is it?

I hear people mocking because a 16 year old today couldn't answer parrot questions about the capital of Surinam, or the Latin for "a cheese sandwich and three coffees please", but they study totally different stuff. GCSE geography isn't about naming all the rivers in South America, and History papers don't ask kids to name all the Kings of England, in order, since 1300.

They're more likely to be asked about glacial moraine, or life in earthquake zones, or to write an essay discussing Hitler's use of propaganda to influence the German people. It's not necessarily wrong, it's just different.

(they're still thick, though )

 

[Yorkie]

What a total load of bollocks. Your generation incessantly harping on about how much brighter everyone back in the 'good old days' really pisses me off. There is no way a 16-year-old in the 1960s would be able to survive my degree course, end of.

I didn't say we were so much brighter. I said the exams had more value.
I went to a grammar school having passed my 11+. Out of three classes of 32 in my year only 10 or 12 were expected to go to university as 'red brick unis' weren't built then so opportunities didn't arise.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Ah we were the one set allowed to do RE as a GCSE where as the rest of you did the internal exam. The only reason that internal exam was brought in was that Lancing's GCSE RE results were awful and it did not look good, as in theory the place is a religious school.

I think that is why we were not allowed to sit the RE exam, although it was never spelt out to us. Thinking further, I had Matt Smith for Latin and not RE. I did do the internal exam.

For some reason my jester smiley appeared in the wrong line Not on for a school founded on the Christian movement!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Come on then, old fashioned geniuses, here's a bit of GCSE Geography for you...

Glacial Landscapes

(A) Study Figure 1, a cross section through a corrie (cirque) during glaciation

i) On figure 1, name the features shown at A and B.

(2 marks)



(ii) Using figure 1, explain how a corrie is formed. You may use diagrams to help you.


(4 marks)



(iii) Only one of the following statements is correct. Which is the correct statement?


A. Corries are only found in lowland areas of Britain.

B. Corries are mostly found on north facing slopes in upland areas of Britain.

C. The majority of corries are found in the south and east of Britain

(1 mark)



(iv) Name three leisure activities people do in areas of upland glacial scenery

(3 marks)



(V) What can be done to reduce the impact of humans in areas of upland glacial scenery

(4 marks)

Total - 14 marks

 

[withdeanwombat]

When I took "O" level you needed 104% to get a 5,and therefore even more to get a 4,3,2 or 1.

And you had to be clever to get to University in those far gone days,and there were fewer of them ( though there were also polytechnics offering degrees,and they were hard to get in to as well).

No degrees in Aromatherapy,Flower Arranging or Media Studies.And an upper second was stunningly hard to get,and a Master's degree or above was astounding.

And a University education meant something then.Not Plymouth,Portsmouth or even Brighton University,but established places with reputation and standing.

Now one can pick up a degree on the internet,or visit sites for organised plagiarism.

We are going 82% to the dogs!

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Come on then, old fashioned geniuses, here's a bit of GCSE Geography for you...

Glacial Landscapes

(A) Study Figure 1, a cross section through a corrie (cirque) during glaciation

i) On figure 1, name the features shown at A and B.

(2 marks)



(ii) Using figure 1, explain how a corrie is formed. You may use diagrams to help you.


(4 marks)



(iii) Only one of the following statements is correct. Which is the correct statement?


A. Corries are only found in lowland areas of Britain.

B. Corries are mostly found on north facing slopes in upland areas of Britain.

C. The majority of corries are found in the south and east of Britain

(1 mark)



(iv) Name three leisure activities people do in areas of upland glacial scenery

(3 marks)



(V) What can be done to reduce the impact of humans in areas of upland glacial scenery

(4 marks)

Total - 14 marks

1) A-Sea and B-Beach.

2)I'm not telling you if you don't already know.

3)What is truth?

4)dogging, baby seal clubbing and littering.

5) Shoot them. Or, failing that, a 'Just say NO' campaign similar to the grange hill anti-drugs one from the 80's.

 

[Uncle Buck]

I think that is why we were not allowed to sit the RE exam, although it was never spelt out to us. Thinking further, I had Matt Smith for Latin and not RE. I did do the internal exam.

For some reason my jester smiley appeared in the wrong line Not on for a school founded on the Christian movement!

Had forgotten about Jim Shepp, another man on another planet pretending to be a teaher.

Oh that place was such value for money.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

i) A = Arrete
B = Glacier


ii) Various forms of erosion take place, such as plucking - blocks of rock are loosened and torm away from base or bedrock by the freezing of water in fissures; Freeze-thaw etc.

iii) Cwms are found in upland areas of Britain. A prime example can be found at Cadair Idris, Snowdonia.

iv)

Rambling
Dogging
Abseiling

v) - Building footpaths to keep people on the beaten track, easily sustainable.
- Enforced sterilisation of those unitelligent enough to realise the damage they do to the environment.
- Construction of Falmer Stadium to stop us from spending our weekends rambling on glaciers.
- National park status and charge either tolls on cars or entry into the park.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Had forgotten about Jim Shepp, another man on another planet pretending to be a teaher.

Oh that place was such value for money.

It was like a Gentlemans club. Nice guys in, serious teachers out! The trouble was that the top sets always used to get the best teachers, despite heading for top marks anyway and then the other sets were left to compromise.

Mushy Metcalf was let loose on the Maths students, when all he could do was coach football!

 

[Uncle Buck]

It was like a Gentlemans club. Nice guys in, serious teachers out! The trouble was that the top sets always used to get the best teachers, despite heading for top marks anyway and then the other sets were left to compromise.

Mushy Metcalf was let loose on the Maths students, when all he could do was coach football!

Metcalf taught me GCSE Maths, he was not good. I also had gems like Granny Whittey teaching GCSE English and Veggie Barrett teaching GCSE Biology as part of the Combined Science Cause. Oh and that made bloke of Czech orgin teaching Chemistry and all he wanted to do was help us make homemade explosives.

I think I had somebody that was meant to be an English teacher, teaching me French.

As I say, that place was real value for money.

 

[dwayne]

Dwayne?

...has a degree

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Mr Wielhowksi - the man missing three fingers from his successful experiments.

I had Grandma Whitty as well - she would have been a very good teacher if she had veered from the 1952 syllabus.

I read that it has got a great deal better, as they have wheedled out the pretenders. Having girls seems to have pushed up the exam success rate

As you say...Value for money?

 

[Uncle Buck]

Mr Wielhowksi - the man missing three fingers from his successful experiments.

I had Grandma Whitty as well - she would have been a very good teacher if she had veered from the 1952 syllabus.

I read that it has got a great deal better, as they have wheedled out the pretenders. Having girls seems to have pushed up the exam success rate

As you say...Value for money?

I suspect it was before you started there, but Whitty came back from her summer holidays with her leg in plaster and it would seem she had spent some time in hospital as it had needed pinning etc.

It turned out she had broken it white water rafting and in 1992 she must have been well the wrong side of 60.

Oh, Dave Austin taught me Physics, possibly the most boring man on the planet teaching the single most boring subject known to mankind.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

try getting a job that pays 20k without one

I have got a job on more than 20k and haven't got a degree.
I left school at 17 and did an apprenticeship!

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Electricians, Plumbers, Carpenters, Buliders, etc... All on over £20k by doing an apprenticeship (4 years of commitment on low money).

I did an apprenticeship and wasn't on low money, they pay well nowadays too, although it depends on who you work for.

 

[El Presidente]

gcse's were possibly the easiest thing i have ever done in my LIFE

You clearly have never met my wife's sister then.........

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

yeah, well done,

thank you for proving my point


YOU CANNOT GET A FIRST JOB PAYING OVER 20K WITHOUT A DEGREE



thanks GG

Da Man Clay says he did.