Natives doing languages at A-Level

THIS REALLY REALLY ANNOYS ME.

I'm doing German A-level and theres a german girl in my class. She answers all the Q's, makes the rest of us look stupid and frankly does my head in. She moans that she wont be able to get higher than an A (...) and laughs if we get something wrong in our oral preps. I spoke to teacher about her doing this and my teacher said that shes working well and the rest of us aren't making progress! And she said that me and the rest of the class are not up to her standard. Really? Would never have guessed!

Glad I got that off my chest...hope you all okay xxPigletxx

It just annoys me. The German girl turns up late, talks so much in class, doesn't do homework etc and it annoys me that shes going to get an A without trying. A much better grade than I will get no matter how much work I put in! Nice set of results you have there Diamondgeezer - well done!

It just annoys me. The German girl turns up late, talks so much in class, doesn't do homework etc and it annoys me that shes going to get an A without trying. A much better grade than I will get no matter how much work I put in! Nice set of results you have there Diamondgeezer - well done!

Thanks! maybe I we should send the boys round to teach her a lesson or two (not in German though!).

I'm the only one in my German class and that's hell, especially when you don't get on with teacher. It's no wonder I absolute hate German with a passion. I feel like just clicking Free Translation - Human Translation for my coursework, because I find it the most boring and uninspiring language in the world. So ist das Leben (that's probably wrong but je m'en contre-fiche!)

I would kick up a fuss to your teacher. Things get done.

When they don't take into account grade for your native language, why Imperial for all blazes demands me to have 1(=A) from my language?

It just makes it harder for everyone else.

I think you're all being sore losers here. You're all clearly under the impression that because a French person for example, takes a French A-level, then they're bound to get As. That's not true at all. Whilst we have to write to A-level standard, so too do French people - they'd be hugely penalised should they write in colloquialisms throughout. They still have to prepare speaking materials too, which means they could drop just as many marks as you - on OCR (if I remember correctly) there are 10 marks inclusive of grammar and pronunciation in the Oral exam. The rest is down to how much and well you've worked and researched. You could also put forward the argument that should we not have such fierce competition in these 'natives', the standards of A-level languages would drop immensely - that would surely render language A Levels as useless and possibly blacklisted for university entry, no?

I say just leave this whole 'debate'. You can all rant away about how much you hate natives taking A Level exams in their mother tongue, but is it actually going to change anything...?