It's not just O-levels, A-levels... it is degrees as well.
I did mine in Process Engineering (a real mans degree, non of this pussy footing meeja studdees crap: building heat exchangers, designing distillation columns to produce moonshine of the finest qualities using the Rachford Rice equations, Heaviside step functions, Bessel, advanced thermodynamics etc etc)
Even during the 80's we were astounded at how much the papers had changed when the previous entrants had taken them. The degree of difficulty of the content had been pretty static up to then, but then they started to drop some of the advanced maths and thermodynamics.
Someone showed me a paper during the mid 90's from the university I went to and I was horrified at the simplicity compared to the earlier years. And no, the argument of "things have changed in the industry" does not factor. There's no point stuffing numbers into a computer program if you have absolutely no concept of the feel of the answer that are coming out.
... and the fact that HSE has gotten it's tenticles into everything practical and experimental that students are only empowered to pour water from one flask to another save the fear of potentially suing the university.
A fecking disgrace...
"Antony, you're fired! And take that gurning, bouffant slapper with you..."
I did mine in Process Engineering (a real mans degree, non of this pussy footing meeja studdees crap: building heat exchangers, designing distillation columns to produce moonshine of the finest qualities using the Rachford Rice equations, Heaviside step functions, Bessel, advanced thermodynamics etc etc)
Even during the 80's we were astounded at how much the papers had changed when the previous entrants had taken them. The degree of difficulty of the content had been pretty static up to then, but then they started to drop some of the advanced maths and thermodynamics.
Someone showed me a paper during the mid 90's from the university I went to and I was horrified at the simplicity compared to the earlier years. And no, the argument of "things have changed in the industry" does not factor. There's no point stuffing numbers into a computer program if you have absolutely no concept of the feel of the answer that are coming out.
... and the fact that HSE has gotten it's tenticles into everything practical and experimental that students are only empowered to pour water from one flask to another save the fear of potentially suing the university.
A fecking disgrace...
"Antony, you're fired! And take that gurning, bouffant slapper with you..."
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