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A'level results day.

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    #41
    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    How long ago was that?

    Prospects for graduates have been declining as A-level results have been going up.
    school leavers have got brainier!
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #42
      Back on subject, the BBC has got some pictures of carefully selected A level students
      Coffee's for closers

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        #43
        Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
        No comment;

        A few more graphs like that and it might become possible to convert grades achieved in the past and compare them to any other year. For example a D attained in 1980 is equivalent to A*** in 2010.

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          #44
          and this

          BBC News - The bright pupils who shun university for a head start
          Coffee's for closers

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            #45
            Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
            A few more graphs like that and it might become possible to convert grades achieved in the past and compare them to any other year. For example a D attained in 1980 is equivalent to A*** in 2010.
            That's precisely what I'm hoping for.
            And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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              #46
              Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
              How long ago was that?
              18 years ago, so I doubt runner jobs are still available these days...
              ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                #47
                Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                <lights fuse>
                This might be the real reason why many people became contractors.
                <retreats to safe distance>
                Someone just hit me on the head with a nail.
                While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                  But not all of them?

                  As a genuine example, a guy I knew at school left at 16 and went to work in the city as a runner.

                  I lost touch with him, but I'm pretty sure he made it to the trading floor and makes far more money than I do.

                  This is obviously an extreme example, but I'm not sure I'd want to slog my guts out at uni for a 2:1, only to get a job as a runner.

                  Do graduate trainee schemes even exist any more? I know client co packed theirs in 5-6 years ago.
                  How many others who also left at 16 ended up on the dole or in dead end jobs? Everyone remembers the one who made good, no one remembers the ones that didn't.
                  "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                    #49
                    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
                    How many others who also left at 16 ended up on the dole or in dead end jobs? Everyone remembers the one who made good, no one remembers the ones that didn't.
                    I wasn't mates with the thickos.
                    ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                      #50
                      A-level results 2010: A-level pass rate rises to 97.6% | Education | guardian.co.uk

                      They might just as well round it up to a neat 100%. Presumably 2.4% didn't spell their own names correctly or something?

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