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Ethnic Russian Lithuanian by any chance? In which case most Lithuanians would call that highly privileged and not really representative given they are a small minority of the population.
Original post by Spelly456
110% agree with what you've said. I know lots of people at my school working out what they needed for a scraped A*... I'm not sure if these changes will affect the IGCSES which have very little coursework and are taken at the end of Year 11/10.


Sad thing is the British exam system completely encourages that kind of attitude. A lot of those people will find Alevels/IB a bit of a shock you'll find!
Original post by jenkinsear
Sad thing is the British exam system completely encourages that kind of attitude. A lot of those people will find Alevels/IB a bit of a shock you'll find!

Many people at my local state school told me that they're aiming for C's because their teachers told them that's all they need to get into the sixth form (and add to the ridiculous A*-C statistics). I do hope they don't end up failing due to the attitude of their teachers.
Original post by Spelly456
Many people at my local state school told me that they're aiming for C's because their teachers told them that's all they need to get into the sixth form (and add to the ridiculous A*-C statistics). I do hope they don't end up failing due to the attitude of their teachers.


That's a very good point, and one of the reasons that I will never send any future kids I have to a comprehensive school because sadly the "C grades are all you need" attitude is inherently ingrained into the system at many of them. Honourable exceptions of course, but it's hard to pick out the good from the bad without having had some experience of them I think.
If some people had it good whilst others didn't, doesn't that show that there was no equality? Once the people realised they were being taken for mugs by the ruling classes, the Soviet economy failed and the iron curtain came down. I'd hardly call myself a "slave under capitalism"... My dad was the son of a working-class first-generation immigrant and he worked his way up to get a decent job, which allowed him to support me through (state) school and enabled me to get several offers for medical school. If I've got the grades, I should have a pretty decent life ahead of me. In this country, if you've got talent and/or are willing to work hard, there are opportunities to progress. The current system is by no means perfect (I'd support a much more socialist approach), but the standard of living we have now is a hell of a lot better than it would be under communism. Even China is starting to abandon it


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Sometimes I wish the education system was similar to South Korea: they have the best one in the world, not to mention it's actually a law not to study past 10pm :3

Sick of how we can't do retakes for A-levels after this year -.-
Original post by MrSupernova
That makes no sense... Assuming the exams are of comparable difficulty, grades falling will mean that grade boundaries must have increased


Even though there's been grade inflation almost every year since GCSE's were introduced?


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Yeah...
Original post by Dave8991


This article is about SCHOOLS averages dropping due to less students being entered- not the quality of individual results.

eg. if 200 students entered an exam and 20 failed, that would be a tiny percentage, if 120 students entered and 20 failed, it would be a larger percentage so would look like the overall year did worse (which technically they did- but you catch my drift)

Also as was said- they do this every year, God knows why they enjoy scaring already stressed teenagers and their families but hey ho that's journalism for you!

EDIT: good luck to all of you on your results! I'm terrified!
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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Education/article1442312.ece


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Any news on A-levels?
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Original post by zed963
Any news on A-levels?


1 in 5 people would not be able to apply to apply to university at all even if they are capable of getting A/A*


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/alevel-reforms-based-on-flawed-data-will-deny-university-9645216.html
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This was the case last year, my first year doing GCSEs.:frown:
Can I panic now? It's not like I've been panicking since exams ended but whatever...
Original post by Dave8991

Seems like they are trying to even out the amount of people which get the certain grades, maybe they're hoping the top grades are just for outstanding students?

I feel for those who may be compromised by this...

PS - That link won't let me see the story without paying. any other links?
They want to make stories.
You wont go from an A to a C due to the government.
Grade boundaries will lower if the exam was easier - its not rocket science.
Original post by Marcusroye98
They want to make stories.
You wont go from an A to a C due to the government.
Grade boundaries will lower if the exam was easier - its not rocket science.

harder* but yes I totally agree :biggrin:
Original post by MrSupernova
If that were true, why did communism come to an end? The ruling classes in Moscow had a nice life you're right, but the farmers out in the sticks... Not so much.


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Yeah the ruling classes of USSR just built "communism" for their own children only. And you may see it yourself, cause they live at your country now.

Just imagine what felt common labours of USSR, when one usual morning they found out that all their funds had disappeared in a magic "democracy" way.
Baltic states got special orders. USSR built plants to provide luxury (in that times) goods in the western regions, so that the people overthere could feel themselves better. Main USSR political line was to make the lifes of national minorities better than the life of national majority. It had started from Lenin and continued all the history of USSR. As the result some of them became just as spoilt children, became nationalists (took the ideas of superiority over the national majority, which didn't get such life conditions from the state) and broke away. But so as their industry was worth only for USSR market, they sank in poverty without such a market. They didn't loose the market itself, but the market became smaller, much weaker, and the lack of their plants in industry system was one of the reasons.
Hey they're lowering th grade boundaries to make up for the gove effect however they're only doing it for C and A grades so that people reach there target while the government can say results have fallen again. For example 24-D 30-C 40-B 46-A 56-A* so it's 6 marks between D and C and B and A while 8 for everything else
Will this affect the Edexcel 1AM0 exam series in terms of the foundation paper? Obviously we don't want to get our hopes up on this news post from The Sunday Times because there is speculation every year the results for schools are not always what they expect.


Wishing everyone the best of luck for A-Levels and GCSE results day in the next couple of weeks.
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