The cambridge S level

Twenty years ago students would have sit the S level before getting a place at cambridge. This System was stop in the 1980s beacuse it was seen as unfair towards the working class. 50 years ago any one who had been to a good school was given a place. With so many students having High grades at A level, something need to be done about this. Students can now retake As level to get a better a grade for A2, so are able to move up sometimes two grades to get that A grade. My view is that cambridge should start to use the S level again to find the best of the best from the A level students. It would find the best students rich or poor? Should the S level be used again?

Twenty years ago students would have sit the S level before getting a place at cambridge. This System was stop in the 1980s beacuse it was seen as unfair towards the working class. 50 years ago any one who had been to a good school was given a place. With so many students having High grades at A level, something need to be done about this. Students can now retake As level to get a better a grade for A2, so are able to move up sometimes two grades to get that A grade. My view is that cambridge should start to use the S level again to find the best of the best from the A level students. It would find the best students rich or poor? Should the S level be used again?

Cambridge should start to use it for all exams not just for maths.

Cambridge should start to use it for all exams not just for maths.

I though they used STEP for maths?

The STEP is essentially the S-Level, under a different name.

The STEP is essentially the S-Level, under a different name.

Hmmmm... I'd disagree with that statement. I don't think they are, because I don't think S level was Cambridge-specific whereas STEP always was. In terms of difficulty they're probably similar; although the people who took S levels at school always said that it was more that it was so broad than anything else. I'd say that holds true for the AEA and that's why I think the AEA is S level's successor, whether it's acknowledged to be or not. Whereas STEP, from what I've heard, is quite simply ****ing hard...

I thought there was also a distinction in the that STEP requires A-level knowledge but more thinking and AEAs/S-levels required a level of knowledge beyond A-level but wasn't as tricky as STEP in the thought required for questions.

Alaric.

Twenty years ago students would have sit the S level before getting a place at cambridge. This System was stop in the 1980s beacuse it was seen as unfair towards the working class. 50 years ago any one who had been to a good school was given a place. With so many students having High grades at A level, something need to be done about this. Students can now retake As level to get a better a grade for A2, so are able to move up sometimes two grades to get that A grade. My view is that cambridge should start to use the S level again to find the best of the best from the A level students. It would find the best students rich or poor? Should the S level be used again?