If you have kids getting English GCSE results tomorrow I'm sorry

[Rincewind]

I did a nightschool English GSCE. Think I got a C. Don't know where the paperwork is.

Think that was partly judged on the course and exam. Had to take a newdpaper article and carry on the story. Also did Romeo and Juliet and the Bently/Craig case from the 50's

I quite enjoyed the course. Is there anyway of finding past results? I may have some of the course work but not result.

Should have put that this was at a nightschool. I suppose I should include it on my CV but never think to. Would have liked a higher mark because of my interest in writing so not that proud of it.

[TrentFox]

My lad needs 5 A to C to get into Ashby 6th form, its a good school and I`ll be well pissed off if it goes tits up. He`s been in the top set in all subjects since he went to secondary school but his confidence is not as high as it could be.

Fingers crossed.

I genuinely hope he did well and everyhting is as good as he could have hoped for ? Either way, if confidence is an issue, there's a brilliant book called 'The Optimstic Child' by Dr. Martin Seligman. Superb and practical ideas for parents and teachers for building strategies that turn pessimism into optimism. Should be compulsory reading for all trainee teachers !!! And existing ones, come to think of it.

[Rincewind]

Just looking for info regarding replacement certificates. Found this. What do you notice anboutthisquote? Remember it's on an education site.

If you loose your GCSE results, you should apply for the certifying statement of results, which is an official copy of result slip and is accepted in universities and at employment. If a third party wishes to verify the results, than they should contact the OCR customer contact centre for application forms.

[I am Rod Hull]

I genuinely hope he did well and everyhting is as good as he could have hoped for ? Either way, if confidence is an issue, there's a brilliant book called 'The Optimstic Child' by Dr. Martin Seligman. Superb and practical ideas for parents and teachers for building strategies that turn pessimism into optimism. Should be compulsory reading for all trainee teachers !!! And existing ones, come to think of it.

Cheers.

He passed but his grades were not as good as they should have been.

A kick up the arse as been administered.

[AoWW]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19438536

Ouch

[ADK]

Trouble with English is, it is so subjective. I always had a phobia of subjects where i did not have much of an idea as to how the marks are actually awarded. Maths i knew if i had answered a question correctly, of course i could have made a mistake but i knew i had probably got the marks.

[Rincewind]

True and would the one marking it grade you higher if it was better than they could do? Maths is ether right or wrong. English as in essays is a matter of opinion or taste.

[Saxondale]

Maybe you just need to learn more, GCSE students told

PUPILS protesting GCSE results have been asked to consider whether they might get better grade if they learn more things.

As protests over lower grades intensify, education chiefs have offered an alternative explanation to a massive conspiracy between government departments.

Exam board director Roy Hobbs said: “I know kids have been getting progressively cleverer every single year and that schools have been getting better and better for the last two decades because somehow our evolution is hurtling toward us becoming a race of glowing, hovering brains.

“But that doesn’t mean you don’t need to pick up a book once in a while and look at the words contained within.

“We’d love to make it all really easy so everyone feels good, but when kids start getting pass grades just for daubing inky hand prints on exam papers you have to tighten shit up.

“It’s somewhat tough luck if you get caught up in that process, but otherwise in a few years’ time a lot of planes will be falling out of the sky and the role of teachers will be just to smoke cigarettes behind the ‘resources room’.â€

A large delegation of protesting pupils with poor geography results accidentally ended up in Wakefield rather than London.

The group believed they were heading toward Downing Street, which at least three of them are aware is where the king lives.

Hobbs said: “Tell you what, I’ll give an instant English A grade to anyone who can tell me what a Wilfred Owen is.

“Nope. Thought not.â€

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/maybe-you-just-need-to-learn-more-gcse-students-told-2012083039507

[Rincewind]

I kinda agree. These days because all our industries are fecked and there are fewer trade appentices vacancies the governments in their wisdom let those less brainy pass exams then send them out the way to universities for a few years. When they graduate they then become teachers, white collar workers or MP's.

[ADK]

Maybe you just need to learn more, GCSE students told

PUPILS protesting GCSE results have been asked to consider whether they might get better grade if they learn more things.

As protests over lower grades intensify, education chiefs have offered an alternative explanation to a massive conspiracy between government departments.

Exam board director Roy Hobbs said: “I know kids have been getting progressively cleverer every single year and that schools have been getting better and better for the last two decades because somehow our evolution is hurtling toward us becoming a race of glowing, hovering brains.

“But that doesn’t mean you don’t need to pick up a book once in a while and look at the words contained within.

“We’d love to make it all really easy so everyone feels good, but when kids start getting pass grades just for daubing inky hand prints on exam papers you have to tighten shit up.

“It’s somewhat tough luck if you get caught up in that process, but otherwise in a few years’ time a lot of planes will be falling out of the sky and the role of teachers will be just to smoke cigarettes behind the ‘resources room’.â€

A large delegation of protesting pupils with poor geography results accidentally ended up in Wakefield rather than London.

The group believed they were heading toward Downing Street, which at least three of them are aware is where the king lives.

Hobbs said: “Tell you what, I’ll give an instant English A grade to anyone who can tell me what a Wilfred Owen is.

“Nope. Thought not.â€

http://www.thedailym...d-2012083039507

Funny thing is the telegraph has been pretty much saying this with a straight face for the last 15 years.

[Tielemans63]

You can thank Michael Gove. I hope your lad is ok but his generation have been shat on from a great height.

This scandal appears to be targeted at C grade students in order to force their schools into special measures so the Govt can force them to convert to academies.

Very much so. My take on it, as a teacher, is this:

I agree that exams have become too easy and need to become harder. I believe it would have been fair if the government had said that over the next 3 years exams will become incrementally harder until they're satisfied that the exams are challenging enough. That way teachers would have known exactly where they stood as would the students and schools could make provisions for the increase in difficulty.

To fudge all these kids marks and say "tough, we're not going to change them" is ****ing scandalous. That is not the way to treat anyone let alone a generation of 16 year olds who are competing in an increasingly tough workplace with fewer opportunities.

I've challenged my kids' coursework marks as the raw marks have all been reduced even though the UMS and raw scores are both out of 45? Another thing that has pissed me off is that the number of marks needed for each grade has gone up by around 4 or 5 marks from last year even though the coursework tasks and spec are identical to last year's. Of course nothing was ever mentioned before this summer and we're all expected to swallow what is outright dishonesty from the exam boards under order from Michael Gove who is a ****ing moron btw.

A huge factor in this fiasco is Gove's announcement that he plans to create one central exam board that controls everything. The result of that is the exam boards are all now competing to appear to be the most robust outfit and they've done so by moving the goalposts in a quite outrageous manner. You would not believe how these people are manipulating the marks to create the statistics they seek. They all claim to have education at the top of their list of priorities but ultimately, like any other business, their goal is money. Don't forget that a few people stand to make a lot if money from re-marks that will inevitably be dismissed.

Rant over. Getting off my soapbox now!

[ADK]

Just more proof really that qualifications are nothing more than pieces of paper.

I hope those who got grades lower than they expected are not discouraged from further learning.

[Tielemans63]

I hope those who got grades lower than they expected are not discouraged from further learning.

So do I. The problem is that some are now prevented from taking their chosen paths because they haven't achieved their predicted grades - grades which teachers anticipated in good faith before we knew that the grade boundaries we were working from were obsolete.

I might come across as ranty here but on GCSE and A-Level results day I had kids in floods of tears because they hadn't got on to the courses they wanted. It's not just the C grade kids who achieved D's etc, it's also the A grade kids who have now got B's and so forth. The thing that makes me so mad is that teacher's have been made to look like twats as we have to explain to kids and parents why little Jimmy didn't achieve the grades that WE predicted he would.

As I said in my last post, I thoroughly agree with raising standards and the challenge of exams but this was a cynical, ruthless and callous way to do it. Totally wrong.