On 16/08/2019 00:33, Brian Reay wrote:
Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:15:52 +0100, Brian Reay wrote:

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.

Certainly correct in recent years.


It is a standard approach and has been in place since GCSEs started- it was
integral to their replacing both CSEs and O levels.

In the old O level days, rather than doing the Intermediate paper, the
weaker pupils would probably have been entered for a CSE in the same
subject as an €˜insurance. Im pretty sure some of the people I went to
school with who, shall we say, didnt pay attention did this.


The SATS/NATS use the same basic approach, different papers which overlap,
and have some common questions. The hardest one in Mathematics offers a
Level 8, next one 7, and then 6. Only Mathematics has a paper which goes
to 8, at least unless things have changed since I retired.

Steve is just deluding himself.








we didn't have any of that crap in the near of scotland.....