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The Doc
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 Posted - 2006/11/18 : 02:13:31
no f**king way! GCSE's today are like p*ss easy! Anyone my age will know! O'Levels were rock hard! wish I was 10 years younger because I'd be a f**kking genius now! (I am anyway lol!)
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XtarsiA
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 05:28:53
i didnt do any revision for any of my GCSE's and did most of the course work in in the same week.
i got straight A's (C in english... but thats cos theres no logic n the questions.. "how do u feel that romeo blah blah?.. i dont feel jack all about it...)
and an E in I.T. LMAO (i missed the exam but still passed some how XD)
i hated every boring second of school. only to find when i got to college it was just the same.
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Underloop
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 08:10:35
I'd hope I'd be able to pass an O'level heh
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 10:46:55
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I'd hope I'd be able to pass an O'level heh
Yes, I would be quite concerned if I could not pass an O Level either!
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djDMS
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 13:16:58
Me too.
I did a mixture of 'O' levels and experimental GCSE's when i did my exams, erm.......a few years ago!
O levels were pretty tough but i did well, GCSE's - might as well have just given me the certificates when i started em!
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Da Cunney Bugz
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 13:46:19
i didnt do a bit of work all way through year 10 and 11, and got all b's but teachers at my sku where good so i were lucky, my hsitory teacher even did my courseowork for me and got an A :) happy days
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 14:26:56
^^^ Doesn't surprise me about your History teacher Cunney!
Teachers these days are rubbish as teachers! They don't teach, they condition pupils for exams.
I do a bit of personal tutor work on the side, and every single one of my students I've had has only needed help because they've been taught parrot-fashion rather than taught to understand what they're being taught. Theres too much emphasis on league tables etc. As soon as I started explaining stuff to them about why you do this and that, and why its needed then they started putting stuff together in their heads.
I'm not saying its the teacher's faults, its the whole system tbh. Classes are too big due to a lack of teachers and facilities, which in turn is due to a lack of funding into education. Every pupil is different, and needs a different style of teaching, and with a class of say 30-40 its just impossible, and the only way to get each and every one of them past the exams is parrot fashion.
If this situation wasn't as it is then there would have been no need for the boards to dumb down GCSE's in order to get a "better qualified" work force.
Thats just my view on it though
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 15:18:05
i think its more because deep down she knew she'd lost it n i was tellin the truth when i said i handed it in :)
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Underloop
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 15:44:41
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i think its more because deep down she knew she'd lost it n i was tellin the truth when i said i handed it in :)
or theres that heh :-)
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clarke101
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 16:28:20
Yes i think i could quite easily pass one depending on what subject it was. I also think that given a few weeks revision i could pass a few.
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 16:29:44
I did GCSEs I didn't do very well? Easy? Thats just something people say to make them selves look more 'educated' than 'the kids of today' I dosn't impress me!
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Nooney
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 18:00:57
Smoogie you could easily pass an O Level, using your trusted Wikipedia!
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 18:07:09
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I did GCSEs I didn't do very well? Easy? Thats just something people say to make them selves look more 'educated' than 'the kids of today'
Perhaps, although I know of another explanation...
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djDMS
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 18:31:36
I don't feel the need to make myself look 'educated'.
I left school in 1988 - my exam results stopped being of any use to me 15 years ago!
It's well proven that Exams (or whatever they call em nowadays) are easier to pass, mainly because of what Underloop said earlier - kids aren't taught anything other than how to pass them. The schools are more interested in how they look than what the students learn.
At least when i was at school i actually understood what i was being taught - didn't just learn to memorise loads of stuff that i hadn't a clue about!
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 19:23:14
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I don't feel the need to make myself look 'educated'.
I left school in 1988 - my exam results stopped being of any use to me 15 years ago!
It's well proven that Exams (or whatever they call em nowadays) are easier to pass, mainly because of what Underloop said earlier - kids aren't taught anything other than how to pass them. The schools are more interested in how they look than what the students learn.
At least when i was at school i actually understood what i was being taught - didn't just learn to memorise loads of stuff that i hadn't a clue about!
I left in 95. I dont think i would have wanted to leave much later as standards seemed to be droping when i was get ready to take my exams.
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Underloop
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Posted - 2006/11/18 : 20:37:38
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I did GCSEs I didn't do very well? Easy? Thats just something people say to make them selves look more 'educated' than 'the kids of today' I dosn't impress me!
Its got nothing to do with impressing anybody Smoogie. Apart from DMS :P, everybody in this thread is in the same generation as you (ie we took GCSEs). I'll quite happily confess that I was mostly taught parrot fashion with the exception of one or 2 outstanding teachers who actually took the time to teach me. It wasn't until I got to University that I actually started to understand stuff.
I've already put my thoughts on this matter into my post above, and it is by no means meant as a slur on "kids today". As I said, I teach kids aged 15 - 20 on a one-one basis. They come to me because more often than not they're struggling. I haven't found a single one who has been thick, or as you so elequantly put it "uneducated". 99% of them have been to the best schools in the area, yet they're being taught to remember, not to understand. As soon as I sit down with them and explain why something behaves like it does, or you have to use a certain equation to calculate something and they actualy understand, a whole load of stuff clicks into place. Kids aren't being taught to understand these days, simply to remember.
Ironically it actually a harder method of teaching, and nowhere near as interesting as explaining stuff properly.
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