G.C.S.E's

I just heard on the news that g.c.s.e results went up for like the 20th year on the trot

but more than that 25% of people sitting them received an A or A*

Whilst I am all for education, I just don’t see the point in having exams where a quarter of the people get a grade A.

I think it completely devalues the examination system and there’s no way to differentiate between people

I remember when strictly the top 5% of those examined were awarded the top A grade

when they used kelvin rank coefficent curves to ranks the students

the whole thing is one huge scam to get the students to go on and do a levels and then go to university

thereby keeping them off the jobless total then they end up in huge debt and can’t get a job because they went and did a worthless degree.

Yes agreed, and this majority of people who will walk away with super impressive grades will be the ones thinking they are over-qualified to work in bog-standard jobs, and be disaapointed after finishing stdying to find they can not just walk into a job they are skilled for

this is exactly what happens

i recall a time when i like only knew about 4 or 5 peole got say 4or 5 a's at OLEVEL / GCSE

i aint going to mention how many years ago this was but it was a long long time ago (in a galaxy far far away) ANYWAY the bottom line was like 1 of those people went to oxford uni and ended up with a second class shonours degree in maths and then eneded up working for the minsitry of defence on mucho wonga

these days that person would probably come out with like 10 A*s

i mean why do we need a*'s its because everyone was getting A's and so they had to invent something else

it makes everyone think they are mint , every1 goes to uni....politically its a dreamFOR SUCCESSIVE governments to have everyone going into academia as the jobless total stays lower but its just storing up the problems for the long term like

you end up with people doing degrees that are not going to be valued in say 4or 5 years time and it saddles a generation with ridiculous levels of debt and no way to pay it back and the ruling classes then wonder why people get disaffected and turn to an easier route to get the things they want i would say qualified people who suddenly come to the realisation that everything in the garden aint rosey are as much of a ticking timebomb as uneducated unqualified people

BRING BACK VOCATIONAL APPRENTICESHIPS

if I had my time over again i would have done IT / MATHS / ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER degree rather than a pure science degree

however, my degree has come in very useful and it has opened the doors on occasion to even get to the interview stage when the job spec has demanded its preferable to have a degree but degrees in some tin pot subjects are not useful at all.

I agree society can't turn the clock back but I would say go and study a subject you have a fair idea theres a shortage of qualified people in.

anyway back to subject more youngsters work harder now but you dont go from 5% of population to 25% of population getting grade As in a period of 15-20 years

there was a programme onchannel 4 or 5 a while back and they made these A grade gcse students take a 1960s or 1970s style eductaion with O level style exams and people getting mint grades and coasting it at gcse were ending up getting grade c's d's and e's so i dont need convincing otherwise.

if you get a whole range of top grades you buy the notion that you are well bright then you go on and do A levels which are all modular these days whihc some argue makes it easier again , you then come out with mint a-level grades so you bomb off to university and discover life, rack up debt and hey you may just get a job at the end of it

how to be a troll on message boards

i graduated with first class honours mate

if you do something you love and are good at then your are more likely to do well at it and become successful

from success comes money / fame / all the other nice~ities in life

these days people want money and fame without any of the leg work that goes before

I blame BIG BROTHER

rossy are you still at college / uni or the like!???

arent you an engineer turned psy trance wizard

Nail on head Rossy, careers advice was so shit at our school, basically just told us to go to college and do A levels which looking back was the wrong choice for me and a few of my mates. And yeh i agree with melt GCSE's are far too easy..

My eldest got 5 A lvls

Totally agree, I never went to college or Uni and I know few people in my circles who earn more money than the ones who built up career experience over the years or can even brag that they work in a role remotely relevant to their degree? and the very few that do have the pleasure of carrying a £25,000 rope round their necks for the next 20+ years. No thanks!

20years? People who take that long do a degree with no job prospects at the end of it.

many did you get Melt????lol i bet all yours were A's

5A's 3B's and a C.

i asked for a remark of my C and it got upgraded to an A.



this is when A's were REAL A's

yeah i though youd be one of the high fliers in school, remember when me and johnson got d's in the last EVER O level in maths we took it a year early too, and got demoted to the top set , lmao

i wouldnt call it a demotion lol lower set 1 had all the sound people in I WAS stuck with all the wankers



ps: when 900 years of age you reach look as good you will not - YODA - DAGOBAH - 1983