A level results

Originally Posted by Sean_C

knowing how hard my girlfriend has worked for her ASs I'd hardly call them worthless. It's quite demoralizing for a of of people who have worked hard to achieve their results to then hear people and the media say that they're easier, worthless or whatever.

Yes tre but that said i think AS levels were bought in to make the Aleval eaiser!! as in a half way point you can continue o the whole full A leval or stop and get half a qual. apposed to studdying for 2 years for one qual.

Wifey used to teach 3rd year undergrads at Exeter University. Many couldn't spell, had a poor grasp of sentence structure, and even less idea on how to write an essay. I used to read these offerings, they were so funny. One student kept putting semi-colons in his work: he explained that he didn't understand correct usage, so guessed that if he put one in every third sentence it would be about right. It was so bad that Anne held a brief course (for which she wan't paid) on written English and spelling. How 3rd year undergrads got so far with nobody having done anything about it defeats me.

[anna]

I know standards havent helped any over the years but having a degree these days doesnt guarantee you a job as it used to it just puts you on the same platform as everyone else going for a job.

So not only are graduate jobs less well paid then they were you have the whole student loans to repay as well!

maybe C and D etc are easier to get. A grades across 3 4 or 5 subjects must still be an incedible amount of work and knowledge to retain.

Originally Posted by Sean_C

maybe C and D etc are easier to get. A grades across 3 4 or 5 subjects must still be an incedible amount of work and knowledge to retain.

when I done A-Levels you could only do 3 subjects max, due to the ammount of work required for them.

IMO if now they can do then on that basis alone the standard must have dropped enough to allow them to cope with 5 subjects.

Originally Posted by Sean_C

maybe C and D etc are easier to get. A grades across 3 4 or 5 subjects must still be an incedible amount of work and knowledge to retain.

I did A levels in 1979. I can still remember sitting in the exam hall. I didn't do that well, mainly because I didn't work!! C, D and D. Nobody has ever asked me what grades I got, and now 30 years on it's completely irrelevant.

Originally Posted by Sean_C

knowing how hard my girlfriend has worked for her ASs I'd hardly call them worthless. It's quite demoralizing for a of of people who have worked hard to achieve their results to then hear people and the media say that they're easier, worthless or whatever.

Whether or not the subjects are getting easier or not is subjective to a certain extent.

However, what you can say for certain is that the grading is complete bollox. The whole point of grading is so you have an idea of how students perform relative to eachother. 80% of students getting A grades makes a mockery of that. A grades should only be attainable by the very best students.

If your girlfriend is one of those very best students, then it would be in her interests more than anyone elses that the halfwits who scraped 40% and still got an A are stopped from doing so.

Good point Ed, that's the other thing, as soon as I'd done my
Gcses, all the fuss died down, and then out in the real world I realized how irrelevent they are.. Especially foe what I want to do, but even how irrelevemt they were when I got to 6 form. Incidentally, at 6 form I was surrounded by idiots, wasters and slackers (that includes teachers) so then decided to leave!

[Jayneflakes]

I did not do A-Levels, but I have taught on them. I fulfilled my Degree criteria by having worked in the area I intended to study for some time. I worked in conservation and graduated in 1998 with a degree in Environmental Science. The fact that I went in as a mature student also helped.

I was recently working on AS and A2 Physics and was putting the kids through practical exams. The experiments were not so hard, but the maths required for the calculations was rather difficult.

Sadly with the EMA kids are paid to be in school once they get to leaving age, so they have to pick so many hours of study which includes academic courses for which some simply cannot do the work required, so levels of drop out are quite high to. Remember this folks when the figures come out.





Coincidentally, I noticed a young lady offering O and A levels on a business card in a telephone box, when I visited London last. I was shocked that teachers have to advertise in such a way in the capital...

[Biker Biggles]

Not sure the curriculum offered on those phone box ads has much academic rigor.Just O&A was it?