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minor things that make you fume
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UsernameEverton
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Had a pen burst in my pocket yesterday pretty annoying.
The Cowboy
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Having a birthday, meaning I have to call my dad AND my mum. On the same evening. Be arsed with that!
Toast
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A birthday.. A new ground..
Sake mate..
All you need is Rooney announced for.. Best Birfday ever.
Donald Twain
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nightmare that!
chrismpw
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It's deliberately confusing since, to win votes various governments over the last 25 years have been dumbing down the system to get good grades and make it look like they have a good handle on education. Obviously this has had to stop, so the current idiots are making the exams much harder (nearly back to o level) and anticipate getting shocking results. To hide that they've introduced this vague and confusing system of grades.
Of course, if they're truly shocking results, they can still get their pals in publishing (who own the exam boards) to let us down gently, each year, and that way they can just blame the schools.
It's around a high D as far as I remember (I quit last year). 1 is a top a* 2 is a*/top a, 3 is a/B 4 is high - mid c 5 is low c/D.
It's deliberately confusing since, to win votes various governments over the last 25 years have been dumbing down the system to get good grades and make it look like they have a good handle on education. Obviously this has had to stop, so the current idiots are making the exams much harder (nearly back to o level) and anticipate getting shocking results. To hide that they've introduced this vague and confusing system of grades.
Of course, if they're truly shocking results, they can still get their pals in publishing (who own the exam boards) to let us down gently, each year, and that way they can just blame the schools.
The Cowboy
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http://www.plotr.co.uk/advice/articles/new-gcse-grades-in-2017-how-they-work/
5 appears to be a B/C.
The Cowboy
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I'd love to find out exactly how much the luvvies on Graham Norton's couch have given to Comic Relief from their own pockets.
chrismpw
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Gagh! - sorry. I got the scale the wrong way around! Then again, I have been out of the game nearly a year. Thanks for fixing.
See what I mean though? I lost count of the number of meetings where that was explained in heads of department meetings, and I still got confused. 5 was deffo c/D when it was last explained to me, so either the site's wrong or they've changed it again.
Makes better sense the other way around. So of course 9, not 1, is top a* equivalent. This opens the door for them to introduce a 10 later on, (like they did with a*) as they dumb it down again in the future.
I remember, several years ago, they* abolished the top grade Level 8 for science KS3 tests.
(* some suits at Whitehall that needed to put something on their cv).
Several years after that, some other 'they' were so amazing, they discovered a need to discriminate between the good students who scored a 7, and the very best. So they suggested a level above 7. Guess what it was.... Go on....
No. It wasn't 8, that would admit that the previous 'they' were idiots and undeserving of their new spot in charge of health or something. The new 'they' proposed 7* (or some such).
They spend YOUR TAXES doing crud like this.
...folk correcting other posters spelling mistakes on this site. As long as folk make themselves understood it's fine with me if they say 'your instead of you're' or 'there instead of their'. You don't know the academic problems some people have with dislexia and the likes or even an unfortunate upbringing.
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The Cowboy
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Agreed, it's tedious beyond belief. And usually the last refugee of the beaten in an argument.
JLW
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You're over confident, it may land in trouble. Mirror, signal, manouvre, be courteous.