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    A-level day

    Disapointing effort from the BBC so far:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6946728.stm
    Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

    #2
    A-Level Day. So called, because everyone gets an "A"... in every subject. Next stop: Uni to do Basket Weaving & Meeja Studies. Double-First virtually in the bag for all.

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      #3
      Agreed.
      Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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        #4
        Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
        Disapointing effort from the BBC so far:

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6946728.stm
        Yup. Last year's shots were much better.
        Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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          #5
          From that linky:

          Some universities have said that exam grades are no longer sufficient for them to use to select undergraduates.
          Sounds both right & worrying.

          Exam officials are stressing the hard work and determination that students have put in to earn their results this year.
          Crap.

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            #6
            Originally posted by richard-af View Post
            A-Level Day. So called, because everyone gets an "A"... in every subject. Next stop: Uni to do Basket Weaving & Meeja Studies. Double-First virtually in the bag for all.
            I really do lament of NL and their "problem solving". Every young adult is not suited to higher education, yet NL insist on pushing them to remain in school/college/uni as long as possible.

            It's a shame because folk who work hard get put down by comments like the above.

            My brother has worked his arse off trying to pass Maths, Further Maths, Physics & Chemistry basically on his own as the scholl he went to was so crap. We'll find out today whether Cambridge is going to happen or not.
            ‎"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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              #7
              Originally posted by richard-af View Post
              Exam officials are stressing the hard work and determination that students have put in to earn their results this year.
              Crap.
              **** off, could you get 80% on an a-level maths paper today? Probably not without a fair bit of hard work.
              ‎"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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                #8
                Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                **** off, could you get 80% on an a-level maths paper today? Probably not without a fair bit of hard work.
                Ah! But 80%, according to most A-Level maths pupils, is 0.8/10, so yes, I could achieve that.

                Your kids getting their results, today, are they?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                  **** off, could you get 80% on an a-level maths paper today? Probably not without a fair bit of hard work.
                  Quite so. I have been tutoring someone in A-level maths, someone very good, I'm happy to say. Not only does it still require real intelligence and real work; there is stuff in there that I didn't do until university (or in some embarrassing cases, skipped at university).
                  Wissen ist Macht, aber nichts wissen macht nichts.

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                    #10
                    Brother gets results today (Maths, Further Maths, Physics & Chemistry). If he doesn't get into Cambridge then he's going to have to go to Durham. Poor little sod.
                    ‎"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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