Does anyone still believe exam standards haven’t dropped?

[EmmyK]

oh good god. I’m 20 next month so young enough to remember all this

I don’t think the exams themselves have got easier, but the layout has, the breaking down in to coursework, modules ect, allows for people to be spoonfed, and as some of the ‘better’ schools are simply results factories with some fancy PE options (i went to one!) this is exactly what they do.

Although in all honesty I don’t think it matters. You can argue that **** floats, but on the whole cream will rise to the top, and that’s why they bought about an A* at a-level, it’s hard to get 90% and above in all your modules, so it’s not a law of averages like the other grades are. And it’s comparing you to people who you are being educated with, not people who were educated when they were still called o-levels.

I think the standard of teaching may well be progressively getting better, and the wider range of exams means that kids who are good at sport but not so much maths and english can get a result to be proud of. We don’t need to produce swathes of people who are Oxbridge standard, but it’s nice to get a good grade in a GCSE. A young lad who i used to loan a horse to was not bright, but he wants to be a dancer and got A* for his dance GCSE, no it wasn’t academic, but he was proud of that and gives him hope and drive for his future career.

I really don’t think it matters, and there are far bigger problems to address in education, such as targeting the serious problems that take place in innercity comprehensives, rather than simply bitching about how people 30 years your junior have it easier than you. grow up.

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