Stephen Cole wrote:
Brian Reay wrote:
On 15/08/2019 17:30, Stephen Cole wrote:
Brian Reay wrote:
On 15/08/2019 15:24, Stephen Cole wrote:
Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 15/08/2019 09:14, Spike wrote:
On 15/08/2019 11:56, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

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Deadline for exam applications for the current syllabus

Posted: 14 Aug 2019 06:32 AM PDT
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We would like to remind everyone that the cut-off date for applications
for the current syllabus is this Friday, 16 August. Once booked,
candidates will have three months after the date of their exam to do
resits under the current syllabus if necessary. Due to the standard
process of giving two weeks notice for examinations, []

this must be a new meaning of the word exam hitherto unheard of ........

Apparently, the 'exams are easier these days' policy us due to vibrant,
diverse multiculturalism and the perceived need to boost figures for
minorities - at least that's what I think the chap said on the BBC last
night, although he may not have put it in quite those terms - I was only
half-listening at the time as the BBC isn't worth one's full attention
as the propaganda is very easy to spot.

I passed my Maths A-level with a modest grade that these days would
result in the award of an A-star. How times have changed...

I got a higher C grade here in the near of Scotland in 1969.... I have
forgotten all my maths ...even reinforced concrete design which had a
lot of maths in it.....just something I could do at the time but has
completely gone now.....

I was in the top set for maths for the first three years at grammar school
but lost interest when we started doing complicated algebra by the fourth
year that I couldnt quickly understand, so the teacher lost her rag with
me and moved me to the bottom set, which limited my GCSE grade to a maximum
of a B no matter what score I got. I ended up pretty much answering
everything in the exam correctly so should have got an A* by rights but got
a B instead; **** it, tho, not one person has ever asked to see my exam
certificates, which has pretty much reinforced the belief I always had when
I was at school that GCSEs were beyond pointless.


If you were limited to a B you did the one of the lower papers. No sure
what is was called when you did your exams- probably the Intermediate.
The papers have some common questions but, the middle one you probably
did, doesn't have the harder questions which carry the marks for the A
and A* grades. From memory, the lower paper (below the one you probably
did) you can only get a C.

So, if you've don't do the Higher paper, answered the same questions,
but struggled with the more complex ones, you'd not have got a A* or
even an A, as some of the easy (available) questions you picked up marks
on would have been removed to keep the overall number questions etc the
same.

What you say sounds sensible but the reality of it for me back in 1997 was
that both maths sets (there was only two tiers at my school; top and
bottom) sat the same paper at the same time; identical like. Mental, eh?


That doesn't agree with your earlier post, unless they all did the
intermediate paper- which would be very strange. In fact, it is quite
unusual for a (good) grammar school to use the Intermediate paper for
whole class, even a 'bottom' set.

It is quite normal for those doing the Intermediate paper and those
doing the Higher paper to not only do so at the same time but in the
same room. Remember, some questions are common.


The papers were dished out from a single stack, not named or otherwise
indicated as different, and I recall talking with lads in top set that it
was daft that lower set were capped at B despite sitting same paper as
them.


The exam board mark the papers and have no idea which class / set you are
in.

Tiered papers arent uncommon. They work as I described. True all my pupils
were entered for higher paper but I know the system, it is also used for
NATS (used to be called SATS).

You sat a paper €˜capped at a B. The rest is your own delusion.