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Pathetic Shark said:
Junior Shark received her A-Level grades which were exactly in line with projections and what she was expecting. She had an unconditional offer in place from Nottingham Trent University.
But she has told me that the only ones bitching and complaining about the grades they got from her 6th form college are the ones who had done sod all work, dossed through their mocks and had false impressions of what they would get. This of course is not the full picture across the country but very clear from where she was sitting.
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Congrats to your daughter!
But that post simply demonstrates that you don't understand the 'problem'!
 
Pathetic Shark said:
Our usual two trolls are in full flow today. My daughter had simply made a comment about the only A-level complaints at her college coming from students who had no business expecting anything better. She knew that was not indicative of the national position and I posted the same. But that was far too basic for a couple of people to understand.

Time to employ the ignore function on this forum for the first time. I can only imagine how unpopular these two are at their own clubs. Sad really.
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I'm not a member of any golf club. Ha. Jokes on you.......
 
PhilTheFragger said:
Guys let’s wind our respective necks in please, Shark & Ethan particularly

There’s ways to disagree with people without insults and personal remarks,
Please adopt them

Thank you
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Anyone calling me a troll for a perfectly reasonable response to a wildly pejorative and self-evidently false generalisation such as his post above will receive a robust response. no bad language was used, whoever justified.
 
Ethan said:
Anyone calling me a troll for a perfectly reasonable response to a wildly pejorative and self-evidently false generalisation such as his post above will receive a robust response. no bad language was used, whoever justified.
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“”You chose your username wisely, at least the first part.””

It’s little digs like this you need to stop, it’s not big and it’s not clever.
 
You can’t judge someone’s results on mock exams that not many will care what result they’ll get or how they are in a classroom environment. Otherwise why have final exams at all?
Unfair.
Schools should of done more, plenty of schools have been empty and social distancing wouldn’t of been difficult for these to take place or still can still take place. The first few months at uni are a jolly anyway full of alcohol and visits to the clap clinic.
 
Jamesbrown said:
You can’t judge someone’s results on mock exams that not many will care what result they’ll get or how they are in a classroom environment. Otherwise why have final exams at all?
Unfair.
Schools should of done more, plenty of schools have been empty and social distancing wouldn’t of been difficult for these to take place or still can still take place. The first few months at uni are a jolly anyway full of alcohol and visits to the clap clinic.
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This is where the school you go to really plays a part

My old school could use mocks because Mock week is treated like proper exams.

Other schools will do them in different ways

It's a very unfair process

Teachers view the only way

However as others have said a levels GCSE etc all meaningless in long run.. when they are replaced by the next qualification it will all be forgotten
 
pauljames87 said:
This is where the school you go to really plays a part

My old school could use mocks because Mock week is treated like proper exams.

Other schools will do them in different ways

It's a very unfair process

Teachers view the only way

However as others have said a levels GCSE etc all meaningless in long run.. when they are replaced by the next qualification it will all be forgotten
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'A' Levels are like all qualifications: a stepping stone to the next rung up. They can only be forgotten once you have cleared the hurdle.

Using a Teacher's view is far too subjective. Some teachers take their job seriously and would take time to consider what grade to allocate. However a considerable number are rubbish and will rush through the list to get it off their desk.
 
Foxholer said:
Like teaching proper English!
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If that’s the only fault you could find I’m happy. My attendance was 58% in the crucial years and most of that was just turning in for register and then leaving. :ROFLMAO:

Edit; to be frank it’s a dialect issue due to being from Yorkshire as that’s how I talk. We’ll sort of I don’t pronounce the ‘f’.
 
drdel said:
'A' Levels are like all qualifications: a stepping stone to the next rung up. They can only be forgotten once you have cleared the hurdle.

Using a Teacher's view is far too subjective. Some teachers take their job seriously and would take time to consider what grade to allocate. However a considerable number are rubbish and will rush through the list to get it off their desk.
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I have to admit I've been very fortunate in my up bringing that I have only had dedicated hard working teachers

Any failings are fully on the students in their classes as they give every student their all
 
Jamesbrown said:
If that’s the only fault you could find I’m happy. My attendance was 58% in the crucial years and most of that was just turning in for register and then leaving. :ROFLMAO:

Edit; to be frank it’s a dialect issue due to being from Yorkshire as that’s how I talk. We’ll sort of I don’t pronounce the ‘f’.
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Still no excuse - though perhaps explained by your 58% attendance! Dialects/regional accents excuse spoken abberations, not written ones! There's a totally valid alternative/abbreviation - 've!
 
drdel said:
Using a Teacher's view is far too subjective. Some teachers take their job seriously and would take time to consider what grade to allocate. However a considerable number are rubbish and will rush through the list to get it off their desk.
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I may have said here or elsewhere, but my experience of predicted grades is less than positive.

Throughout my lad’s time at high school his teachers across the board predicted grades above what we knew he was capable of. He has never been a straight “A” student but that was what they were telling us. He passed the lot, but did not get anywhere close to the predictions. Many of his peer group were the same.


So, whilst predicted grades are perhaps fairer than an algorithm, they are by no means an accurate reflection of what students are likely to achieve in an exam either. All a bit of a mess.
 
drdel said:
...Some teachers take their job seriously and would take time to consider what grade to allocate. However a considerable number are rubbish and will rush through the list to get it off their desk.
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I'd suggest that 'The vast majority' would be a more appropriate description! After all, that's their primary task!
Certainly, some, are forced to rush both their task of teaching pupils and assigning grades by the amount of petty bureaucracy foisted upon them by 'the system'! As the husband of a teacher and Deputy Head, I've certainly seen plenty of that!
Unless you can put some actual stats (your field of expertise I believe) on your numbers though, I'd suggest you really don't know what you are posting about!
 
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BTec results day...shambles - what shambles?

Just as well we have a government of competents in charge to sort it all out. Sorry?...what?...they have been in charge?...for how long?
 
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