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  • System
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    Does anybody know when the GCSE results come out?
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    Gem7321 wrote:
    Hmm

    And I'll whistle it?

    :lol:
  • System
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    :P
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    :shock: This time two years ago I was waiting for my GCSE results. How scary. Why does the time go so quickly when you're older? :(
  • System
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    Gem7321 wrote:
    Does anybody know when the GCSE results come out?
    No doubt when Gordon's associates have finished cukking the books to show that children today are just continually getting better and better than ever before.

    Anyone want a sportmans bet that they set new records for pass rates yet again? No, I didn't think so...

    Oh - and people should absolutely lose marks in an exam for poorly written letters. Since they're supposed to mirror reality, if we received a letter from our bank using crap English, all we'd focus on would be their abysmal lack of written skills rather than what the letter is actually telling us.

    GGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrumpy today, aren't I?
  • System
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    Don't be so grumpy just because I probably got better GCSE results than you did O-Levels because the exams are getting 'easier' :P

    Ooooh I'm in trouble now :twisted: :lol:
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    Gem7321 wrote:
    Don't be so grumpy

    Quite so!

    Blobbyh - you need to watch Shep with the sound off. That would soften you up a bit.
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    Gem7321 wrote:
    Don't be so grumpy just because I probably got better GCSE results than you did O-Levels because the exams are getting 'easier'

    Cheeky mare... I passed all 8 of my O' levels - the maximum allowed!

    However, now I have NVQ2 Foundation under my belt I have the pro-rata'd time equivalent of around 300 GCSE's... or summat like that.
    Baggybooks wrote:
    Blobbyh ... that would soften you up a bit
    Not possible...
  • System
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    I passed all ELEVEN of my GCSE's so ha :P

    Soz, psd levn gcses :P
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    blobbyh wrote:
    However, now I have NVQ2 Foundation under my belt I have the pro-rata'd time equivalent of around 300 GCSE's... or summat like that.

    Someone worked it out to be 273 - it was the Student Resources page.
  • System
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    :shock: r u bein serious?
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    Seriously though the maths really don't add up for O' levels and GCSE's against NVQ's.

    Anal as I am, I worked out that over the two school years I spent studying 8 O' level subjects, I did almost 293 hours per subject to gain just one pass per subject.

    For NVQ2, I did approx 3 hours per week for one school year - approx 117 hours - and gained the modern equivalent of FIVE passes!

    Statistics, eh?
  • System
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    I thought NVQ2 was the equivalent of one GCSE/O-level? :?
  • System
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    "50% of all statistics are false"

    There's one to get your head round :wink:
  • System
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    Not included in the 50% is that o-levels are harder than GCSE's :P if anything they're easier!
  • System
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    Gem7321 wrote:
    I thought NVQ2 was the equivalent of one GCSE/O-level? :?

    Nah - apparently it's worth five. I'll try to find the link since I know I've posted elsewhere about this - maybe Hellen can find it seeing as she may have quoted me earlier?
  • System
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    And is it true that NVQ3 is worth 4 a-levels? :?
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    Gem7321 wrote:
    And is it true that NVQ3 is worth 4 a-levels? :?

    No idea, I think it's only worth two, but to keep in line with inflation, I'd expect to see it rise to five soon...
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    :P
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    Baggybooks wrote:
    Farmer G - you're always in our gang...

    Did you find the soap?


    Not yet, still looking :twisted:
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    Gem7321 wrote:
    :shock: r u bein serious?

    I read it on here. It must be right.
  • System
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    I've worked it out and I did about 50 hours for NVQ 2 :shock: and probably about the same hours at school as Blobby to do 11 GCSE's. Do you see how hard I'm worked? :P
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    blobbyh wrote:
    No idea, I think it's only worth two, but to keep in line with inflation, I'd expect to see it rise to five soon...

    Inflation - is that in metric or imperial?
  • System
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    What are they? :?
  • System
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    Imperial is a kind of mint.
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    I took my GCE's in the year that CSE's were introduced. You had to get 90%+ in your CSE for it to count as a GCE. Since then, the two exams have been combined, taking the lower standard.
    A few months ago a TV company took a group of A+ standard children, gave them some 1960/70's education and then gave them the old GCE's to sit, not one of them passed, they all found it too hard.
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    In year 9 we sat an o-level maths paper then afterwards sat a gcse paper and we all passed the o-level with flying colours :?

    And all through school if I ever needed help with my homework my Mum and Dad used to admit they never did anything like that when they were at school.

    But the standard of my old school is dropping actually. When I was there we had to do 11 GCSEs (except for those with learning difficulties), we had to take double award science, we had to take a language, and we had to take Religious Education. Now, my brothers year don't have to do any of that, so most of them are only doing 7 or 8!
  • System
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    In the old days were the O-levels graded or did you just pass or fail?
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    farmergiles wrote:
    A few months ago a TV company took a group of A+ standard children, gave them some 1960/70's education and then gave them the old GCE's to sit, not one of them passed, they all found it too hard.

    And no doubt they all complained of suffering from dyslexia and needed apologist therapy afterwards.

    Still, education's great today if all you want to be is either a web designer, journalist or graphic designer along with a few hundred thousand others sitting the same courses...
    Gem7321 wrote:
    In the old days were the O-levels graded or did you just pass or fail?

    A to C were passes, D & E were fails with U being ungraded. In order words, the examiner had a quick flick through and thought "No chance" so didn't even bother marking it. I got U at maths and a grade one GCSE - supposedly the equivalent of a C at O' level. Yeah right...

  • System
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    I did graphic design for my technology GCSE :oops: only because I had to do a technology and I was rubbish at everything else :oops:

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