Is this Fair ? (GCSE Russian)

russian is hard though...

My school, announced in the local rag last week that they were dead chuffed that they'd achieved their first ever A* by their first ever candidate to take Russian .... he was Russian.

We're not talking about Russian, as a subject taken, in the same, in depth way we take English (& Lit), we're talking about the same fundamentals we learn in Modern FOREIGN Languages (French, German, Spanish, Italian etc) - so it was obvious that he was going to get an A* from the offset, we even have stories of him correcting his member of the teaching staff, who acted as a personal tutor.

I know what you mean. A girl in my Sixth Form was from Belgium (or somewhere) and naturally grew up speaking French, German and English. Can you guess what her A-level grades were?

A-level French: A
A-level German: A
A-level Maths: C

With them grades, she went on to do a Maths degree.

now that is unfair..i am suprised that any decent maths department would accept her with that.

My school, announced in the local rag last week that they were dead chuffed that they'd achieved their first ever A* by their first ever candidate to take Russian .... he was Russian.

We're not talking about Russian, as a subject taken, in the same, in depth way we take English (& Lit), we're talking about the same fundamentals we learn in Modern FOREIGN Languages (French, German, Spanish, Italian etc) - so it was obvious that he was going to get an A* from the offset, we even have stories of him correcting his member of the teaching staff, who acted as a personal tutor.

thinking about this post though, the guy who took the GCSE is only cheating himself. It just shows he can speak russian, which he could already do anyway.

If you are fluent in russian, do you need a GCSE to prove it?

yes, my point.

Thats well bad although i went to High school with some Russian Lads who passed their Russian and Maths. Although is Russians can get A* in their first Language why do so many people have problems with English when is there first Language

Yeah but i cant speak Welsh and German and have a GCSE in both. It looks good. Having said that you can all talk flaunt english and i take it everyone has a GCSE in that

However GCSE English is slightly different to a GCSE in a Foreign language - at GCSE you don't have to annotate French poetry, or read and answer questions on a German novel do you? Its at a different level, so a Russian person taking a Russian GSCE isn't the same as us taking our English one really, if you get my point. I had to learn Russian at my school as my second language for 2 years but I dropped it cos it was really hard. However some people did take it to GCSE and there were 2 A grades (but equally as many E grades!).

I was born in Ukrain and speek russian, and let me tell you that it is not as easy as it sounds. I moved to liverpool when I was 8 years old, and I had learn english language from scratch. When I got to year 11, I tried to apply for a time extention on the english exams, but it was against the rugulation. This was realy hard on me because I think and write about a third slower then all the other people. Saying that, people have posted that they find normal french classes hard: well immagine that english is my second language, but thexam was about ten times harder then a "normal" french exam. So my point is that although it was easier for me to do russian GCSE then other people, I whent through hell doing English and all the other subjects. Altough I still maniged to get 2 B's in english.
Oh and by the way, I did not get any E's
Math = A / Science = A* A* / English = B B / Russian = A* / Geography = A / Business studies B (and english oral = A*)