Unchallenged by GCSEs???

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I'm not a scapegoat. You're a tit.

You were pretty naive to think they would, tbh.

However, that's you, taking things at face value and thinking in only one direction. Because, of course, English is the only language spoken in the world and search engines provide all the answers.

Hmm, just wanted to shut you up really (gosh that backfired).

Let's not beat around the bush, yeah; I humiliated you in front of the whole forum and you couldn't take it so now you've come back for cheap shots and I've ridden them all thus meaning you have to resort to this - openly admitting I am getting to you and not being able to do a thing about it.

I am admitting defeat here, and shamfully so. Nighty night.

GCSE's are designed to be a measure of intelligence, ie the understanding you have of a subject.

Dedication commitment are personality traits, which shouldn't be measured by GCSE's.

Obviously personality traits will have an effect on your grades but they should not be the determining factor.

There is a proven theory, I can't remember what it is called but in effect it says ' everyone has a maximum potential of intelligence, which is determined by genetics. Reaching as near to their potential is governed by environmental factors'

Applying this to GCSE's simply means 'natural intelligence' is your potential to get top grades and the grades you do get are governed by environmental factors like persoanlity traits, upbringing, wealth, standard of school etc

Hope this clarifies

I'm so bored with GCSEs and jumping through hoops. Anybody unchallenged by them and has anyone found themselves anything else interesting to do?

Just because you work unnecessarily and stupidly hard, and are clever enough to take 6 AS levels doesn't mean that GCSEs are are a "mockery of education" and are only for morons like you claim. Maybe you should take a step back from the textbooks and take a look at the real world around you, before you become so engrossed in education the only future you could ever possibly have is as a disillusioned scientist working for BT on a very poor wage. Seriously. If you're as arrogant and un-balanced in what you do as you make out there, you don't have much to look forward to. Education is far from the only thing which makes a successful person a success, and while I can see and understand that some people didn't find them hard, to say that it's "patronising drivel designed for morons" is actually quite pathetic.

Some of my teachers were really sympathetic and gave me A level work to do, which I was very grateful for, but in the end they couldn't change the curriculum for me... I'm so glad to have finished Year 11 at last. There were times when I felt I could have quit school out of sheer frustration.

designed for morons.

I am talking about a Curriculum which is dumbed down to the extent that students that should be achieving the highest grades fail because the exam system is tailored for middle and lower ability students only.

Surely the fact that I kept doing them despite disliking them would make me employable - it shows I don't give up easily.

Besides, I'm not gaining qualifications just so I'm employable, I'm working for them because they teach me stuff I want to learn.

And if it was only my opinion, I'd agree with you that 'morons' is harsh - but the fact is, it's not just my opinion, it's also the opinion of my friendship group at school, my teachers, and my family. I'm not the only person who thinks that GCSEs are too easy.

dem dere gcses were ****ing easy.

Because you have such rigid ideas, don't you?..

Do you know how arrogant you sound? This is really false pretense when you think about it; I know some very intelligent and bright people who find some aspects of GCSE highly toilsome and more importantly, highly complex. A friend of mine, who works his arse off, has been predicted mostly A*s, yet he still finds GCSEs a challange...
It was your opinion that GCSEs were designed for "lesser abled" students - I'm sorry but this is an opinion which is ignorant beyond belief, and I feel that this was highly insensitive of you to post it on a student forum such as this.

I'm sorry I sound arrogant, I didn't intend to.

In some ways, it's not content of GCSEs I criticise, but their structure. I bet your friend will find A levels easier than GCSEs because they're more straightforward to approach answer and coursework wise. I think if GCSEs were more broad in structure and catered for different types of learning, then more people would be able to get the grades they are capable of instead of having to conform to certain types of learning.

I do believe that GCSEs are designed to make it easier for lower-ability students to get better grades; you only have to look at older papers to see how standards have changed. I don't consider myself to be 'ignorant' - I've done 12 GCSE exams. I know the system. I also know that not everyone has the same experience as I, and that's fine - but I wanted to share my views. I hoped to find some people who share my opinion, but obviously not many of you do.

I wish you luck with your exam results anyway... and I hope your friend gets the result he worked for too...