A Levels
Monday - August 20th, 2007
My experience at school was that teaching standards seemed to be getting worse each year, but yet again A Level results have improved upon lasts years. If this trend is anything to go by in 50 years we will all be super smart and capable of moving things with our minds. It does make you a bit suspicious doesn’t it. I’d love to get my hands on some of this years A Level papers.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Sweet Christ Crispies, just be glad you’re in the UK… do you know how many adult, graduated-from-high-school, probably-had-some-college people I know who would either flip out at the algebra “problem” or only arrive at the answer after puzzling it out aloud?
November 29th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Dude, I like your stuff but the implication here is that you dont have to work to get A Levels and I reall resent that. I worked damn hard
November 30th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Hahaha… yeah, I worked pretty hard as well, but I also accept that they are getting easier. I mean, I got a C average for my GCSEs, and I never attended a single class. I would have got a B, but I scored an E in history.
Then I moved to canada for university, going to a major canadian university (UBC), and discovered that my a-levels actually qualify for the first year of university… maybe exams get harder the father east you go?
December 1st, 2007 at 1:34 am
I’ll admit GCSEs are (in my opinion) pretty simple… but I’m doing chemistry, maths, biology and art at A level atm, and they’re all damn hard. Even art, yeah.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Well, I did IB no A levels, and my experience at school was that if you did A levels you got half of the week as free periods, whereas if you did IB you have a few a week.
My implication was that when exams results are getting better year after year and yet teaching standards are getting worse there is clearly something fishy going on.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
I never realised how much of a doss GCSEs were!! I’m in AS year, did about 3 times as much revision for 3 modules as I did for 12 GCSEs, and I’m pretty sure I’ve failed at least one module…
Oh well, at least I can retake in June…
January 25th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
yeahh I’m in pretty much the same situation as Jenny, best advice i can give is to cram the night before!