Because f***ing exam boards can't f***ing write a book that gives us any kind of understanding of the subject we're fuckings studying.
Example: I take computing A2. For the COMP4 unit we have to do our own researched, planned and executed project i.e make a program.
Firstly my college is wank. We're using Delphi/Pascal. THAT HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE THE f***ing EIGHTIES. I'm learning it just to learn a new language in a years time at Uni since Delphi is utter shite.
AQA is my exam board.
Firstly delphi has no easy way of making a clock. I want to make it run so 1 game minute = 1 real second. This underpins my ENTIRE game for my end of A level project. No, its not just setting a timer so every 1000 miliseconds a variable increments by one and is written out. Its "hey make a new f***ing class, do all kinds of shit and then because i'm a shit program to do ANYTHING meaningful in, i'm not going to work".
However. This is a limitation with the program i'm using to write my game. You can work around it.
The reason exams are so easy?
EXAMBOARDS CAN'T WRITE A BOOK. My text book has about 4 lines on making classes and then some shoddily organized code with breaks, so you don't know if its 1 program, 8 programs, if they're units in the same program, new classes, anything.
No wonder exams are easy, we can only do whats put in front of us and they put in front of us what their specifications says we need to know. If their book is based on their spec, then you can base the difficulty of the exam on the book/spec.
Utter utter wank course, a HUGE level of understanding required because its a totally new subject for students at my college since the school don't offer it (until next year that is) and they supply a book that doesn't provide anythign meaningful apart from what THAT BIT OF CODE IN THE BOOK DOES AND EVEN THEN ITS POORLY WRITTEN AND TELLS YOU f*** ALL.
SO older generation, if you want to know why exams are easy, its because they can't really test us on things their EXCLUSIVELY ENDORSED book don't teach us.
Example: I take computing A2. For the COMP4 unit we have to do our own researched, planned and executed project i.e make a program.
Firstly my college is wank. We're using Delphi/Pascal. THAT HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE THE f***ing EIGHTIES. I'm learning it just to learn a new language in a years time at Uni since Delphi is utter shite.
AQA is my exam board.
Firstly delphi has no easy way of making a clock. I want to make it run so 1 game minute = 1 real second. This underpins my ENTIRE game for my end of A level project. No, its not just setting a timer so every 1000 miliseconds a variable increments by one and is written out. Its "hey make a new f***ing class, do all kinds of shit and then because i'm a shit program to do ANYTHING meaningful in, i'm not going to work".
However. This is a limitation with the program i'm using to write my game. You can work around it.
The reason exams are so easy?
EXAMBOARDS CAN'T WRITE A BOOK. My text book has about 4 lines on making classes and then some shoddily organized code with breaks, so you don't know if its 1 program, 8 programs, if they're units in the same program, new classes, anything.
No wonder exams are easy, we can only do whats put in front of us and they put in front of us what their specifications says we need to know. If their book is based on their spec, then you can base the difficulty of the exam on the book/spec.
Utter utter wank course, a HUGE level of understanding required because its a totally new subject for students at my college since the school don't offer it (until next year that is) and they supply a book that doesn't provide anythign meaningful apart from what THAT BIT OF CODE IN THE BOOK DOES AND EVEN THEN ITS POORLY WRITTEN AND TELLS YOU f*** ALL.
SO older generation, if you want to know why exams are easy, its because they can't really test us on things their EXCLUSIVELY ENDORSED book don't teach us.
, not due to being thick (for a change) but because the pressure gets to me
