ARE GCSE's too easy!?

:O THAT MUST MEAN THAT GCSE ENGLISH INS'T HARD ENOUGH, THIS SHOULD BE MOANED ABOUT UNTIL IT IS MADE HARDER.
seriously, who actually goes are picking out grammar mistakes when i'm trying to point out how much i hate everyone. Tsshh.

You can't just get a GCSE without doing any work and you have to work very hard and revise a lot to get an A (at least I do), not to mention an A*. I don't think they're too easy at all.

1. That wasn't the OP I was replying to.
2. That was a joke.
3. O-Levels are noticeably more difficult than GCSEs, therefore, it's my belief that the difficulty of public examinations has decreased - btw, I already said this, so I have addressed the question.
4. Your generic attempt at giving the internet tough guy (me, in your opinion) a taste of his own medicine by attempting to plant seeds of doubt by undermining his (my) abilities by implying that I'm insecure is just juvenile and boring.
5. Calm down.

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:P

Regardless of who is was to, it did not seem like a joke. No indication in your response at all. Just a full stop. The fact that you say they are more difficult is entirely your opinion, which I appreciate fully, but it seems stupid to use someone's results to substantiate your view - especially when belittling them in the process. Even if your view that I am trying to be 'the internet tough guy' was correct and I was being 'boring'; it does not diminish any truth that may be in my argument whatsoever. For the record, I hate watching people attack other people's results that aren't to that person's 'standard' or similar to their own ability. There's no intention of trying to be an internet tough guy - which you would gather from all of my other posts/threads I have started. You may have been playing 'devil's advocate', but your style did not seem to convey that. Joke or not, it's still unkind and a very prominent method of degrading someone in TSR - which I'm sure you of all people will have knowledge of.

What you find difficult may not be to someone else - as I said subjective. It is completely fine to express your view, you cannot use others' results however to justify it.

Wrong.

Care to explain how? I'm doing the new modular courses, and I can assure you, the usual number of exams per course is 3, usually 1 in year 10 and 2 in year 11 June.

When I did GCSEs I had less than 20 exams (I did 10 subjects).

1. Debating the semantics of an off-hand comment is beyond futile, in fact, it's asinine, considering the terse nature of my remark.
2. I said that you thought I was the "internet tough guy", not the other way around.
3. Has anything ever been achieved by one person telling another person, over the medium of an internet forum, that that person ought to play nice? Nope.
4. There was nothing malicious in what I said, whatever you inferred from it is subjective, just like how the difficulty of GCSEs are, right?
5. I didn't use his results to substantiate my own view. I merely made a quip based on his results, i.e. it went results ---> remark, not remark -> dispute -> use of results to support the validity of aforementioned remark.

Comprende?

At the time they seem hard, but when you get to A-Levels looking back you feel like laughing at how easy they were!!

Indeed, what I inferred is subjective. However, someone else similarly pointed out that what you said was unkind. I think, by and large, that people would say that you stating that a person who is studying A-levels was revising for the work of Key Stage 2 - a few 'Key Stages' under - because of the CCD is quite malicious.

Sorry for my misunderstanding of who you were referring to as the 'internet tough guy', but why you even made the remarks you did? Considering his decision to pursue A-levels and relating it to 'Key Stage 2' suggests you are intelligent. Your criticism seems to make a link between grades and the easiness of a paper. Which I believe to be flawed. People still have to work their arse off for a C.

If you would like to continue this, PM me or e-mail me. Why make the OP's thread a stage for debate? Let him read comments that answer the question. Not a sub-debate.



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Last year I argued that GCSE's were not easy. I worked reasonably hard and got 2A*s 8.5As and a BTEC distinction*. However im in year 12 now. The amount of effort I have to put into my 4 As Levels is MUCH MUCH MUCH!!! more than i had to put in to pass my GCSE's with good grades.

I don't think they're too easy - just that grade boundaries need to be adjusted to that the proportions of A*, A, B, C etc grades remain roughly the same throughout the years.

I go to a well-achieving school, and me and many others feel that for some subjects (Maths in particular) it's too easy to obtain an A*, and the good and the really good candidates can't be differentiated - a shame for the most intelligent students.

Edit: Does A-level do this?

Cba to pm, I'd rather just conclude it here and be done with it.

1. I think you need to redefine what constitutes a "malicious" comment, malicious would be if I said, with no possibility of it being a joke, "CCD? If you had to work hard for those ****ty grades, you're a moron and you have no future in life, in fact, in 10 years time, I bet you're going to be cleaning my car!" - THAT would be classified, categorically, as a malicious comment. What I said pales in contrast.
2. What? I never made a link between grades & the facility of a paper - although there clearly is a link, seeing as O-Levels yielded much less top-tier grades.
3. The mere fact that I referred to KS2 (primary school) should be more than enough to realise that I am JOKING. Or are you suggesting that I was genuinely querying if he, a GCSE student (not A-Levels, I don't think), had been reviewing primary school material in preparation for his exams?
4. The emboldened part doesn't make any sense; how does what I said suggest that I'm intelligent? Is that a typo?
5. Who else said I was unkind?