[Data]

(Original post by Dalek1099)
I haven't got rid of the big font rant-remember it only appears at the top of each page.

Shame!

[camaieu]

Not really - it's not possible to show off everything you've been taught, and all your capabilities in a harsh time limit. What's more, for an arts subject where there's no right or wrong answer, it's terribly difficult, since you're very much at the mercy of an examiner, whereas in maths or science, it's usually a 'you're right or you're wrong' scenario.

But in saying that, exams do require real skill. Managing your time correctly, and writing concisely and quickly are very useful skills, and therefore I would be led to believe that exams are 'fair'.

[pastalover]

(Original post by diggy)

Lol English coursework is pointless my teacher basically encourages the whole class to cheat, infact my whole year was allowed to cheat

WOW.... :O has anyone ever been caught for plagiarism?

[Moonlight_]

Exams are a test of both memory and how well this can be extracted and applied to problems under pressure- many factors affect this, i.e. health on the day, so in fact, no- exams are not really fair as they are not multi-dimensional in the sense of testing for academic ability.

[Agenda Suicide]

Oh the joys of taking history, politics, english.

I got ACC in my first set of exams, distraught and dumbfounded (I spent weeks and weeks memorising everything and I knew in my heart I nailed them exams) I got my papers remarked and paid to have them back to show my teacher.

They were then changed to AAA and in politics it jumped up from a measley 69 ums to a strong 90 UMS. Crazy right?

History is by far the worst though, I revised months (literally) for one exam and again thought I nailed it, got a C. Resat it by reading half way through the course, once, the night before. Got an A.

It really depends on how nice your examiner feels and how well the other people lumped in your batch of papers have done.

It's quite ridiculous, I agree that there should definitely, definitely be an option to access your papers online.


Edit: As for actual exams, they are ridiculous. How does a test of who can cram the most information in the build up weeks determine who understands it better? It doesn't. A huge detrimental effect is having an exam clash, especially more than two because by the third you just want to go home and 'get in bed and when it comes to the closing points of your essay you just lose steam and marks.

Ridiculous, they need to sort it out.

[b41nzy]

I don't think they show intelligence. I know somebody accepted to do medicine, speaking to him you'd say he was thick.

He just spent a long time memorising the information to ace the exams. I would never trust him as a doctor, surprised he hasn't tripped over his own foot and broke his face. :/

I've also heard of people sending off for remarks and moved up 2 grades (As level module philosophy aqa). It's crazy.

[diggy]

(Original post by pastalover)
WOW.... :O has anyone ever been caught for plagiarism?

no we didn't copy from each we had to do quality drafts over the weekend and then we copied for the real thing

[A.J10]

(Original post by diggy)
no we didn't copy from each we had to do quality drafts over the weekend and then we copied for the real thing

Technically not cheating, we did the same for our spanish writing and speaking in GCSE and AS, and the one timed piece we did in english.

[Data]

(Original post by A.J10)
Technically not cheating, we did the same for our spanish writing and speaking in GCSE and AS, and the one timed piece we did in english.

That sounds like cheating. Your notes should not be extensive enough to allow you just to copy them.

[tdkr]

(Original post by Agenda Suicide)
Oh the joys of taking history, politics, english.

I got ACC in my first set of exams, distraught and dumbfounded (I spent weeks and weeks memorising everything and I knew in my heart I nailed them exams) I got my papers remarked and paid to have them back to show my teacher.

They were then changed to AAA and in politics it jumped up from a measley 69 ums to a strong 90 UMS. Crazy right?

History is by far the worst though, I revised months (literally) for one exam and again thought I nailed it, got a C. Resat it by reading half way through the course, once, the night before. Got an A.

It really depends on how nice your examiner feels and how well the other people lumped in your batch of papers have done.

It's quite ridiculous, I agree that there should definitely, definitely be an option to access your papers online.


Edit: As for actual exams, they are ridiculous. How does a test of who can cram the most information in the build up weeks determine who understands it better? It doesn't. A huge detrimental effect is having an exam clash, especially more than two because by the third you just want to go home and 'get in bed and when it comes to the closing points of your essay you just lose steam and marks.

Ridiculous, they need to sort it out.

i can't ****ing believe this.

[Agenda Suicide]

(Original post by tdkr)
i can't ****ing believe this.

Me neither mate, I wrote one hell of a complaint but nothing come of it.

[RVNmax]

(Original post by EatRainbows)
This is why maths is the best subject ;D

Yet my remark went up by 10 UMS in A-level C3!

[A.J10]

(Original post by Data)
That sounds like cheating. Your notes should not be extensive enough to allow you just to copy them.

Sorry, I think that came across wrong. I didn't mean I had a written copy in fron of me, I meant that we'd done the same essay beforehand and spent time going over it and memorising structures, words, phrases and markschemes...

[faithxfaye]

(Original post by Agenda Suicide)
Oh the joys of taking history, politics, english.

I got ACC in my first set of exams, distraught and dumbfounded (I spent weeks and weeks memorising everything and I knew in my heart I nailed them exams) I got my papers remarked and paid to have them back to show my teacher.

They were then changed to AAA and in politics it jumped up from a measley 69 ums to a strong 90 UMS. Crazy right?

History is by far the worst though, I revised months (literally) for one exam and again thought I nailed it, got a C. Resat it by reading half way through the course, once, the night before. Got an A.

It really depends on how nice your examiner feels and how well the other people lumped in your batch of papers have done.

It's quite ridiculous, I agree that there should definitely, definitely be an option to access your papers online.


Edit: As for actual exams, they are ridiculous. How does a test of who can cram the most information in the build up weeks determine who understands it better? It doesn't. A huge detrimental effect is having an exam clash, especially more than two because by the third you just want to go home and 'get in bed and when it comes to the closing points of your essay you just lose steam and marks.

Ridiculous, they need to sort it out.

POLITICS - the bane of my lifeeee, the examiners are really inconsistent, in fact AQA in general for art subjects >.> Or i'm angry that I can't really afford to pay for remarks because they are expensive and not really an option in my case where money was a problem last August

[JackJack]

Not when you have incompetency in the marking. I'm sorry, but I'm just bored of examiners marking papers down by horrendous proportions and expecting people to be 'all right' with that. What is the point in a mark scheme if it's not being used?