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A Little 'FML'

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COYS

Allan Nielsen
This is made in response to the thread 'A Little Yay'. For those who don't know what FML is - www.fmylife.com

I'll start: Today I had a maths exam, which based on my last two modules I needed 99% in to get an A* overall. I got every question right and thought I had conquered that paper. Then when the papers were being collected in I see that there's a question on the back page. FML.
 
Well if there was over 99 questions on the paper you should be fine, however if there was and you didn't realise that you don't deserve an A* in maths anyway ;)
 
Boonie said:
Well if there was over 99 questions on the paper you should be fine, however if there was and you didn't realise that you don't deserve an A* in maths anyway ;)
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It was out of 80, and the question was 4 marks, but hopefully if the grade boundaries are low enough because everyone else in the country did brick, despite the fact everyone came out saying it was an easy paper, then on the UMS I may have got 99% which is all I need.
 
If it makes you feel better, I may be the only person in history that received a worse grade in my Maths retake than my original GCSE exam...
 
AuroRaman said:
If it makes you feel better, I may be the only person in history that received a worse grade in my Maths retake than my original GCSE exam...
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Quite a few people in my year did that, but it didn't matter as their higher grades get put forward.
 
COYS said:
This is made in response to the thread 'A Little Yay'. For those who don't know what FML is - www.fmylife.com

I'll start: Today I had a maths exam, which based on my last two modules I needed 99% in to get an A* overall. I got every question right and thought I had conquered that paper. Then when the papers were being collected in I see that there's a question on the back page. FML.
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You are a mong. You don't deserve an A*

Not as if an A will look like a blemish on a CV. Chin up
 
clownfoot said:
You are a mong. You don't deserve an A*

Not as if an A will look like a blemish on a CV. Chin up
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Well it would complement the fact I'm taking maths next year and my gold and silver Intermediate Maths Challenge certificates from the past. I'm now hoping I got other questions wrong so it wouldn't have mattered.
 
Richie said:
Education in 2012 ladies and gentlemen.
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Actually starting from the current year 10s all GCSEs are now linear so all exams have to be taken at the end of the courses and therefore you can't do any resits.

I don't understand what's wrong with keeping your higher grade, though. If you've shown you can perform then why should that be taken away?
 
Richie said:
Education in 2012 ladies and gentlemen.
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More to the point what a criminal waste of money. How much does it cost to put kids through exams time and time again even after they have attained a class grade. The only logical reason this happens is because senior educational staff get kickbacks directly or indirectly from the examiners.

That money would be better spent on kit or staying in my pocket.
 
johnola said:
More to the point what a criminal waste of money. How much does it cost to put kids through exams time and time again even after they have attained a class grade. The only logical reason this happens is because senior educational staff get kickbacks directly or indirectly from the examiners.

That money would be better spent on kit or staying in my pocket.
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If you want to resit an exam you have to pay for it yourself.

EDIT: Besides my year were only allowed to retake each module once. Personally I chose never to retake. From September resits won't exist any more.
 
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johnola said:
The only logical reason this happens is because senior educational staff get kickbacks directly or indirectly from the examiners.
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Really? Would love to know so I can get a slice. I've been in education for 15 years and haven't seen this. I put down the frequent resitting down to desperate students wanting the scrape the best grade they could and simply using the system - legally - to their best advantage.

I don't see how it is a select few that want this sort of exam system. Gove would like to do away with resits and its not gone down well right across the public.

Personally, I prefer a single end of year 11 exam. But a modular and resit system has certain advantages and I don't think it's fair to write off this lads efforts as some have done here, nor to spout unqualified conspiratorial nonsense.
 
COYS said:
This is made in response to the thread 'A Little Yay'. For those who don't know what FML is - www.fmylife.com

I'll start: Today I had a maths exam, which based on my last two modules I needed 99% in to get an A* overall. I got every question right and thought I had conquered that paper. Then when the papers were being collected in I see that there's a question on the back page. FML.
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Sorry could you just clarify something for me? You say you got all the questions right apart from obviously the one you missed but my understanding was that the papers are sent away for marking, so was this teacher marked or are you assuming you got them right?
 
chicken_badge said:
Really? Would love to know so I can get a slice. I've been in education for 15 years and haven't seen this. I put down the frequent resitting down to desperate students wanting the scrape the best grade they could and simply using the system - legally - to their best advantage.

I don't see how it is a select few that want this sort of exam system. Gove would like to do away with resits and its not gone down well right across the public.

Personally, I prefer a single end of year 11 exam. But a modular and resit system has certain advantages and I don't think it's fair to write off this lads efforts as some have done here, nor to spout unqualified conspiratorial nonsense.
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It's fine, I'm not offended. I don't see the issue with modules and resits in the slightest. I mean if someone prefers linear courses then that's fair enough, but I don't see how how forcing everyone to take linear courses has any advantages. It doesn't make us learn more, it doesn't fit more stuff in to the syllabus, it just makes everything unnecessarily harder. If Michael Gove has an issue with GCSEs not being rigorous enough, then he should just put more stuff in to the courses rather than making us suffer for no reason.

Back on the point of resits. If you do an exam and didn't do that great and then you're determined to get that grade up as high as you can so you're willing to work your arse off to learn for it and do well, then why should you not be allowed? If you take a resit you have to pay for it, so there's no real disadvantage.

Lily White said:
Sorry could you just clarify something for me? You say you got all the questions right apart from obviously the one you missed but my understanding was that the papers are sent away for marking, so was this teacher marked or are you assuming you got them right?
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I'm just assuming I got them right. Even if I did get a couple of others wrong, I still may have scraped 99% on the UMS.
 
COYS said:
I'm just assuming I got them right. Even if I did get a couple of others wrong, I still may have scraped 99% on the UMS.
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Thanks just checking as son number 2 has just finished his GCSE's and I know the papers get sent off.
 
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