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Posted: Monday August 15th, 2005 21:56 |
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Posted: Monday August 15th, 2005 22:45 |
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| They're still harder than those piss easy SATs in USA
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Posted: Tuesday August 16th, 2005 08:33 |
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Im sorry but these type of comments cause problems.
A- Levels Easy Please!
Its a good thing that people are able to do well, maybe its formatted better, teachers are becoming more resourceful who knows?
I personally think it's a ploy to stop too many people going to university.
But Im Damn Sure that if people were failing you would hear that it is ALL the teachers fault!
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Posted: Tuesday August 16th, 2005 08:42 |
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The actual standard of the work itself is not easy. The A level is still hard to do.
However, it is the amount of chances they give you, re-takes. The low grade at which an A or a B grade is granted. It gets lower each year.
The top students with the best marks at A-levels are the ones who suffer because all the mediocre or scrape through ones get lumped with em lol When the PASS mark for an exam is less that 50% you know the system is messed up. How can you PASS by getting less than half right?
Pretty soon the only grade Uni's will care about is an A* it shouldn't be like that.
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Also modular, group work, less competitiveness, less practical based teaching favours girls and it has been shown but that's another discussion.
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Posted: Tuesday August 16th, 2005 18:28 |
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The reason why so many people are passing A levels is because students are given the opportunity to retake exams as Drunk Monkey already said.
I know someone who got C's and a D for their AS level exams and then worked really hard in their second year and ended up with A's in their A2 exams giving them A's and a B overall.
Without retakes lots more people would be failing or getting low grades.
Also, I think to make exams more fair and a bit harder, in subjects like English there should be more closed text exams and also exams with questions on unseen texts because essentially a good English student should be able to analyse poetry/ prose that has not been analysed for them by teachers. Exams particularly in English lit. are based too much on memorising rather than actual thinking unless you're doing a subject like maths. I think this is because they recycle the same exam questions over and over so a student that has answered all past paper questions cannot go wrong really.
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Posted: Tuesday August 16th, 2005 18:46 |
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| The subjects the majority of subjects are easy thats why the rates of passing are high. Subjects like sociology,psychology,media studies and other bubble gum courses are the ones raisning the pass rates. I remember when i was at college my maths and science classes had very few students and even worse with black students .
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Posted: Tuesday August 16th, 2005 19:02 |
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Phonte, why are you referring to these as bubble gum courses??? Didnt you ever hear of the saying "The proper study of mankind is man?" Its absurd to refer to them as bubblegum, when you wont dare say that about zoology, which is the sudy of animal life. Do you find that animals more important/worthy of study/interesting than ppl? Why is zoology a science and sociology is not?
I dont get it......
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Posted: Tuesday August 16th, 2005 19:23 |
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| SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY ARE NOT BY ANY MEANS EASY COURSE...IMO...IM ALSO TAKING LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY AND IM sh*tTIN MYSELF FOR THURS WHEN I GET MY RESULTS. I DONT KNW WHETHER IT IS TRU BUT THEY SAY A-LEVELS ARE THE HARDEST!!!
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Posted: Tuesday August 16th, 2005 21:06 |
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| Am sorry those subjects are too easy compared to maths or sciences thats why people that do those subjects are considered second to people with harder subjects.Bubble gum as in only a person without 5 senses would fail them.
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Posted: Thursday August 18th, 2005 17:50 |
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| The donkey will have someone to write the answers down for it. A friend of mine doing her teacher training had to do this last year. Some kids had such bad handwriting that she had to take their scripts and transcribe them, complete with spelling mistakes. Other teachers had to explain the questions on a history paper to kids who "didn't understand" them.
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Posted: Friday August 19th, 2005 08:23 |
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Students count multiple A grades  Li Yan also has two AS-levels - grade A The rising achievement in A-level exams has produced a crop of individual stellar success stories. An 18-year-old student in London has accumulated 10 grade As.
Li Yan took maths when she was 16 and physics a year later, when she was living in Norwich.
She then studied biology, chemistry, economics and government and politics at City of London School for Girls, getting her results this year.
In her spare time she also taught herself further maths, statistics and general studies and, in just one month - for a challenge - law.
"I have always been really fortunate to have a memory that works in my favour," said Ms Yan, who was born in China and came to England when she was three.
She said her experiences at a less fortunate primary school in Leeds had made her all the more determined.
She said: "I started off life in England at quite a poor school.
"That stuck with me for life and it made me so much more socially aware. It made me want to take up every opportunity I was given."
She has been accepted to Trinity College in Cambridge to study natural sciences from September.
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At Colchester County High School for Girls in Essex, a total of 18 pupils each achieved five grade As.
 Three heads were better than one for the Prescott triplets In Durham triplets Katie, Alison and Helen Prescott acquired 10 A grades between them and now aim to go to university to study medicine.
The 18-year-olds said they had benefited from having three brains working on homework problems.
In Gloucestershire, identical twins Lydia and Caroline Chambers, 17, achieved five As each in the same subjects: maths, biology, physics, chemistry and general studies.
Both are now going to Cambridge University to study veterinary science.
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Lydia said she had always been competitive with her sister as they grew up.
"I'm absolutely amazed we got the same results but I'm so relieved," she said.
"Otherwise one of us would have had bragging rights over the other."
 Twins Sophie and Alexa Horner have nine A grades between them Another pair of twins with five As is Henry and Ken Zhang, who studied at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
Wycombe High School in Buckinghamshire can boast two sets of successful twins - both called Sarah and Laura - who between them have 13 A grades.
In the case of the identical Blakey girls they were in identical subjects - biology, chemistry and sports science - and both are going on to study for degrees in the same subject, psychology - though at different universities.
Harveer Dev, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, is going to Cambridge - to study medicine - after getting six A grades in biology, chemistry, physics, maths, further maths and general studies.
His mother Sarinder, 43, a police officer, said: "There is nobody in my family that has achieved such a level of academic success. I am just so proud."
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Another intending medic is Oliver-James "O-J" Dyar, 18, who achieved no fewer than seven A grades at Magdalen College School in Oxford, where he is now going to go to university.
He is currently starring in a play he helped to write at Edinburgh's fringe festival.
"I'm flying back to Edinburgh later this morning as we've got a show this afternoon and a bed-time curfew of 11pm," he said.
"But I'll certainly be having a celebratory Scotch or two on the Royal Mile tonight."
 Ilia studied economics for something to do Jeremy Skinner, 18, from Knaphill near Woking, Surrey, went online to get his results from Farnborough Sixth Form College in Hampshire - using a program he wrote himself.
He got grade As in general studies, history, computing and law and an A grade in AS-level electronics.
He was also told that he had one of the best marks in the country for computing.
He said at least 900 other students at the college used his programme to access their results.
Wigan Athletic reserves striker Michael Hazeldine scored As in A-level biology and chemistry and AS-level maths.
The 18-year-old, from Manchester, was released by the club for one-and-a-half days a week to study at Preston College.
One of this year's younger candidates was 14-year-old Ilia Karmanov, who achieved a grade B in economics - after studying for just seven months.
When he was 11, Ilia notched up a B in A-level computing at Ryde College, near Watford, Hertfordshire, where he also took his economics course.
He said he was really a keen sportsman and painter - economics was just something to fill his free time.
"The course was interesting. It was hard at times and boring at times but overall it was good."
LAST DIARY ENTRY Student Amy Longsden wrote for the BBC News website about the trials of the exam season and - after a long wait - has finally got her results. She was very pleased.
 I was up all night worrying about whether I had my place at Manchester University but I surpassed my grade offer of ABB to get AAB.
It was great to see everyone today - most of them with happy faces - after such a long time away from them.
We all congregated outside the school doors at 9am and rushed up the stairs as soon as we could, crowding around the table with the results and trying to find ours as quickly as possible.
They were not in envelopes so it was nice to not have to use my shaking hands for anything and just see straight away what I had got.
A few people were disappointed of course - especially with some of the French speaking marks being lower than expected - but hopefully these problems will be sorted out quickly by the exam board.
It is worrying when people who have been predicted A grades are barely reaching the level of a C, particularly when a similar situation occurred last year.
This week has been difficult as the papers were full of articles saying A-levels are "too easy" and "not worth anything", which made me feel annoyed at the level of ignorance about the large amount of work it requires to get a good grade.
As I read earlier, most often the only evidence people can give for A-levels becoming easier are their own memories of school, and everyone is going to remember Year 13 as bring a stressful time no matter how difficult their subjects truly were.
What is often forgotten is that in general, students are encouraged to take as many subjects as they feel capable of doing and drop their weakest subject when they move up to Year 13, giving them a better result overall.
Most people would be hard pushed to explain the AS/A2 system as it is now, and they should take the time to examine the system themselves before judging those who are inside it.
Like most of my friends, I will be setting off for my first choice university in September (or October, for some) and know I have worked hard to get there.
The stress of exam time and the waiting period afterwards is nothing compared to the happiness and relief we feel now! 
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Posted: Saturday August 20th, 2005 22:04 |
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I think that is complete and utter sh*te to say that ANY A level course is easy. How would you possibly know.
Sociology is a writting based subject in which there are really no right or wrong answers because alot of it is based on opinions. But that in no way makes it easier than maths. You still have to learn alot of theories and do alot of reading. And i mean ALOT. Same with physcology. Whereas with me i study maths, biology, chemistry, sociology and critical thinking. I find sciences quite easy because i have a passion for it and it interests me. Maths is basically learning a concept and then applying it to different situations. But you cannot say it is harder. And i think that all A levels should have equal weighting. It all depends on what you plan to do in the future.
AS/A levels arent really difficult in themselves, its just that in 2 years you have to cram alot of information. You have to do your own personal work on TOP OF what you learn at college. You have to be dedicated. It is also hard to adjust from the change in the amount of work to do.
At hte end of the day just because more people are passing their A levels does not NECCESSARILY mean that they are getting easier. More people are now doing A levels than before, teaching methods are changing, there are more resources available and maybe just maybe as hard as it is to believe maybe the youth are getting smarter.
They are just NEVER SATISFIED they dont want us to fail and they dont want us to pass. They are so quick to put teachers down but never give them praise when due
Id like to see them sit an A Level exam. Give us some credit. kmt.
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Posted: Wednesday August 24th, 2005 13:19 |
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from hearing all this stuff ova the past week about a level students, wats gonna b sed bout us GCSE students 2moro?? aargh
all these Government so-so-and-so minister ppl sayin all this stufff.... how do we kno theyr not jus bitter cos they flopped Bubblegum Studies 101/ Politics a level?
nt evry1 chooses the "easy" subjects cos they cant b arsed doin sumthin testing. they mite actuali want 2 get in2 that field for a career. they JUST MIGHT have worked hard. yet its like they want all of us to be failing and stuff so they can go "ooooh told ya so" and blame the teachers for takin too long to go on holidays backpacking or watever.
*rolls eyes* honestly.
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p.s gud luck 2 evry1 else hu's gettin gcse results 2moz
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