Exams getting easier

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SueEllen replied

23 May 2008, 07:21
Originally posted by threaded View Post

I wonder how p1ssed off the ones who get a fail will be....

I bet there are a lot of gutted kids out there who decided against choosing music as it was the "harder" option.

Anyway I'm sure music GCSE has a performance part to the exam as well.
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threaded replied

22 May 2008, 18:49
I wonder how p1ssed off the ones who get a fail will be....
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Pondlife replied

22 May 2008, 11:04
Originally posted by Advocate View Post

I thought everyone got As now anyway for fear of upsetting and traumatising the little cherubs!

Apparently some of the more vocationaly adept ones will obtain a level of deferred success.
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Advocate replied

22 May 2008, 11:00
I thought everyone got As now anyway for fear of upsetting and traumatising the little cherubs!
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DiscoStu replied

22 May 2008, 10:44
Originally posted by moorfield View Post

I'm a little rusty on my statistics these days but I think that only works if you have one very very very thicko at the bottom of the pile.

She's called Dawn Primarolo.

HTH
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scooby replied

22 May 2008, 10:44
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7414129.stm

How can you be disadvantaged in an exam by having the answers on the back?

there was a comment from OCR about "it's OK, not every candidate noticed!"

Made us laugh here, however my client is a competitor!!
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moorfield replied

22 May 2008, 09:37
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

New labour education policy is to make everyone above average, and it's working.

I'm a little rusty on my statistics these days but I think that only works if you have one very very very thicko at the bottom of the pile.
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TimberWolf replied

22 May 2008, 09:29
Sounds like a good idea, that way everyone can get an A** (or however many asterisks we are up to now).

With educational results like this we will be the envy of the world. New labour education policy is to make everyone above average, and it's working.
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VectraMan replied

22 May 2008, 08:34
Is it worth worrying about when it's only GCSE music? Just let them take the A.
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moorfield replied

22 May 2008, 08:33
Do they still do exams? How quaint, I thought it was all internet-assisted coursework these days.
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DimPrawn started a topic Exams getting easier

22 May 2008, 08:27
Exams getting easier

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7414129.stm

Thousands of pupils sitting their GCSE music exams could face having to do a retake after papers were discovered with the answers on the back.

The paper apparently featured a list of composers on it, which related to the answers to questions written on the other side.

Examination board Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR) has said pupils will not be disadvantaged by the error.

How can you be disadvantaged in an exam by having the answers on the back?
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