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17 August 2006 11:34Awwww! My widdle Enibrother got his A-level results through today, and he's going to Cambridge!! Following (more or less) in the footsteps of his big ol' sis!
'Binson, watch out!
Now there's the usual media whine over A-level exams getting easier...nearly a quarter of people now get the top A grade on exams. I can see why this might be a complaint - how does that distiguish "the best" from merely "the quite good"? Maybe they should be controversial twerps and do something like the Tripos grading system - the best 10% of students, regardless of their actual mark, get As, the next 30% get Bs, the next 30% Cs, and so on... But I guess for that to work, there has to be a minimum standard over which you cannot fail - it'd be stupid to say the bottom 5% fail regardless of their score if one year half those "failers" got a perfectly respectable score and were just unlucky that others did better... Dunno. Introducing the A* grade at A-level should be useful anyway.
I just wish British exams were less about being taught the bare minimum of syllabus to pass exams and more about teaching as much knowledge as the kids can gobble up.
'Binson, watch out!
Now there's the usual media whine over A-level exams getting easier...nearly a quarter of people now get the top A grade on exams. I can see why this might be a complaint - how does that distiguish "the best" from merely "the quite good"? Maybe they should be controversial twerps and do something like the Tripos grading system - the best 10% of students, regardless of their actual mark, get As, the next 30% get Bs, the next 30% Cs, and so on... But I guess for that to work, there has to be a minimum standard over which you cannot fail - it'd be stupid to say the bottom 5% fail regardless of their score if one year half those "failers" got a perfectly respectable score and were just unlucky that others did better... Dunno. Introducing the A* grade at A-level should be useful anyway.
I just wish British exams were less about being taught the bare minimum of syllabus to pass exams and more about teaching as much knowledge as the kids can gobble up.
