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14 % YES you have passed!!!!
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I did O Levels 1968 and would say they were tough.
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wasn't going then
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yes im aware of different boards I would say the cambridge board exams would be available for way back in the 60s or 70s.
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If you consider A Levels to be a joke the equivalent BTec 'vocational qualifications' are worse. You would have to not turn up for most of the course not to pass. Even then there are ways to pass.
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Cambridge 2002:https://pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com/download/Maths/A-level/Past-Papers/CIE/Paper-1/June 2002 QP - P1 CIE Maths A-level.pdf
Cambridge 2017:https://pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com/download/Maths/A-level/Past-Papers/CIE/Paper-1/June%202002%20QP%20-%20P1%20CIE%20Maths%20A-level.pdf Doesn't seem to be a big difference |
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Not really in a position to judge but do you have the corresponding pass rates and grade boundaries?
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So there's no point in saying my exam was tougher than yours etc...
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That's not true dt. Exam results have been inflated for years now that's why the number of students achieving A grades, and so on, had been going up. It's nothing to do with students getting better it's to do with institutions wanting better grades as they get more money.
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I am not saying students are getting better. I know universities in UK have increased unconditional admission offers, especially since Theresa May cracked down on them in 2012, forcing a lot of high paying foreign students out of the country. They need money so they'll not leave any places vacant in a classroom.
All I am saying is just because the raw percentages were leaked this time does not necessarily mean that back when you were giving these exams, your raw percentages were any better. People conveniently ignore the fact that they don't had out raw percentages yet when they are leaked this year people sound so alarmed despite the fact that they don't have anything to compare them with. |
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I have to say though that the british system of education has to be the easiest in the world to crack. They even hand out examiner reports and detailed mark schemes. If you are good, and study enough past exams, you can easily predict what knowledge the examiner wants to test in a quesiton. You can literally predict the flow of the paper.
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I got an A grade in 'A'level maths in 1984 and although I don't know exactly what I scored but it must have been over 70% I would have thought.
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I've forgot the correct terminology from teacher training. As you've pointed out one is percentile based and one is percentage based. From what I remember it used to be percentage based i.e. you needed, say, 40% to pass for a D Grade, 50% for a C grade and so on which was regardless of the number of people passing. It was then changed to percentile based so that an equal number of people passed at each grade each year (as in a bell curve). Which was changed to more students pass at higher grades and now changed to purely percentile grades so it's difficult to fail. |
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I was under the impression that 70 and above was an "A" (not sure where the A* came in),
60-69 was a "B" (and still very respectable), 50-59 was a "C" and 40-49 was a "D". 30-39 was an "E" and 29 or below was "ungraded". It's one thing making the exams "easier" (which is bad enough because it seems the whole system becomes devalued) but actually making the pass marks lower seems a bit daft. There are already loads of young adults out there with useless degrees (let alone "A" levels) as employers aren't so impressed as they used to be by the word "degree" (because practically everyone's got one!)  |
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What qualification was that and when? |
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C4 news covering the results. Inevitably as it's C4 news, it's just another story about "diversity". Of the 100 or so faces in their story, I think only 2 who were white were a teacher and the interviewer. So a typical C4 news school visit. You might say "I've never seen so many BAME people in one place" but C4 news wouldn't like that, not that they are hypocrites or anything.
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but the standards will be just the same whatever level you set the bar ..... the highest grade will simply enable that candidate to go to Uni much as it did before That's not true because there are far more people going to uni now than before. Getting a place at a uni used to mean something now it's the norm. |
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Diane Abbott read History at Cambridge.
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About university entry ,when i was at that age ,around 1978,it was very,very, difficult to achieve the required grades to get to University,it was only the really clever kids who had any chance ,then they decided somewhere along the line that everyone should have
a chance to go ,i cant see how that benefits the country myself . |
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Sid Waddell graduated from Cambridge in the 1960s.
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Lots of punts there.
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Guy got an A but when asked what percentage he achieved replied, "Don`t know, I can`t fathom percentages".
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He was in the top 105th fraction of a percentile.
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Diane Abbott read History at Cambridge.
her lips moved |
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PC Madness strikes again. Why don`t they just give everybody a pass and then no one`s self esteem will be hurt.
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grade A 84 pretty decent
0 for me at A level 82  |
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How much respect is a British A leve A grade in maths now going to comand?
If you are good at maths then go else where for your grade |
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i wuda been beaten up by my teacher if i had scored 14% in any exam
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You got at least 5% fit getting your name and date correct
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Weren't these the new tougher exams this year?
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