Anyone else have 0 faith in the exam system?

TBH I think the exam boards should be nationalised or replaced with one state board or non-profit board.

The profit motive REALLY cannot work here, it financially benefits them to fail people, we pay for resits, we pay for remarks, we pay for photocopies, and we pay high prices for those! They cut costs by cutting corners and risk our futures by doing that!

Maybe we should try to form an alternative idea to the current system's state, and as OP I'll set up a petition or something !

TBH I think the exam boards should be nationalised or replaced with one state board or non-profit board.

The profit motive REALLY cannot work here, it financially benefits them to fail people, we pay for resits, we pay for remarks, we pay for photocopies, and we pay high prices for those! They cut costs by cutting corners and risk our futures by doing that!

Maybe we should try to form an alternative idea to the current system's state, and as OP I'll set up a petition or something !

I despise exam boards, I despise the system of exams, the costs, the lack of information, the fact all the boards do is look to make profit (obviously) but the fact that creeps into negatively effecting so many peoples lives through education disgusts me. All the errors they make for example!!!

However, I have never believed exams require great knowledge, merely technique.

My personal example is AS Business, last year, I failed the second unit (received a U). I couldn't believe it, so I got a remark, and they made it a few marks into a E(Costing upwards of 40 quid...which I never received back!). So obviously, I applied to resit for the January exam period just gone, however because I decided to concentrate on my other subjects, I did ZERO business work all year, I dropped A2 Business right at the start, and I managed to get a high B?

How the hell is that possibly? When revising like a donkey and attending classes I get a U? And then doing no work and remember nothing I blad a high B? It makes absolutely no sense and further deepens my distrust of the exams system and especially AQA as they bear the brunt of my many negative experiences.

Anyone else feel like this or has experience this too!?

You really have no idea do you?

I despise the UCAS system, so do I fit in this boat?
Applying before having any grades is innacurate and the confusion just adds stress. I feel like gap years are somewhat forced onto applicants.

While the exam system may not be great, from what I'm reading it does just sound like people are blaming all their exam problems on markers and "unfair" exams.Have you considered that it may actually have been you that was the problem?

My experience is that only people who get bad grades have no faith in the exam system

Do your work and you'll get the grades. I don't see the problem.

The sciences and maths are fairer in the sense that the marking is very objective, I feel that you can do lots of revision for the sciences and it will make a big difference whereas with the more essay based sujects your actual writing ability is just as important, if not more so then your subject knowledge.

There's no bigger example of this than when I sat both AS Business Studies modules at the same time one after the other. My Business unit 2, the harder unit, came back an A. My business unit 1 came back an E. The only thing I can think happened was in my unit 1 the person marking decided my answers did not match the preset list of mark scheme 'valid' answers despite making actual business sense - and this is the problem with a subject like this. In my A2 I studied the mark scheme more than the actual subject and when it came time for the exam I pulled facts and figures out my ass but structured my answer exactly as they wanted, and guess what, I got an A despite what I wrote being absolute garbage in reality.

Also I completely agree. The majority of us spend our entire lives in education from around the age of 5, and whilst it may be compulsory, it's definitely demanding, stressful, irritating at times and requires a lot of hard work. The least we can expect up to this point is for examiners to mark our damn papers properly.

I have a feeling that the examiners own perspectives on the answers given the exam papers may affect the grade e.g. a politics student may get marked down for being pro-Labour when the examiner is pro-Conservative. As well as this, I bet the examiners own lives have an impact on the paper e.g. stressful events, family problems and social problems.

TBH I think the exam boards should be nationalised or replaced with one state board or non-profit board.

The profit motive REALLY cannot work here, it financially benefits them to fail people, we pay for resits, we pay for remarks, we pay for photocopies, and we pay high prices for those! They cut costs by cutting corners and risk our futures by doing that!

Maybe we should try to form an alternative idea to the current system's state, and as OP I'll set up a petition or something !

I agree that it is annoying when papers aren't marked properly but, honestly, it is a little ignorant to expect that you are owed something for the work you put in to your own education, which benefits you at the end of the day. It might just be the way you worded it but it half sounds as if you would prefer that education wasn't taking up such a large amount of time and effort in your precious life.

I wish people would remember that they are very privileged to have a free education up to 18 at all. Sure the system is flawed in some ways but it's a damn site better than a lot of places!

(Also... examiners are human too!)

Also I completely agree. The majority of us spend our entire lives in education from around the age of 5, and whilst it may be compulsory, it's definitely demanding, stressful, irritating at times and requires a lot of hard work. The least we can expect up to this point is for examiners to mark our damn papers properly.

I have a feeling that the examiners own perspectives on the answers given the exam papers may affect the grade e.g. a politics student may get marked down for being pro-Labour when the examiner is pro-Conservative. As well as this, I bet the examiners own lives have an impact on the paper e.g. stressful events, family problems and social problems.

This may all sound stupid and I may even be wrong, but until someone actually proves me wrong, it's definitely a thought worth thinking about.

I do. I take both types of subjects. I know which ones are easier. Please do not tell me that Geography/Business can even compare to complex mathematical theorems, something that your mind could not grasp. I am so sick of people who take easy subjects acting like the sciences are rote-learned rubbish. Utterly untrue. Try it before you say anything mr "you-have-no-idea-I-am-superior-because-I-take-the-easiest-subjects-available". Art is difficult - that is true subjectivity. History certainly ain't. Just copy what they say in the text-books.