Emotions Run High After GCSE Results Yesterday

By Laura_Spodula | Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 11:32

Well, it’s that time of year again and after the A Level

results comes the GCSE results. These results tend not to get so much coverage

as the A Level results, perhaps because they are seen as less important. No

matter what exam an individual is taking the pressure is immense to do well and

the constant reminders how much power comes from the results is never ending.

There is the old chestnut of an issue about exams getting

easier because grades are far improving year after year. Why isn’t Britain

embracing the fact that perhaps our young minds are working harder rather than

the exams being made easier?? It’s an insult to the people that have worked

hard and got excellent grades!

Girls are still, but not by much, doing better than boys

overall but in some subjects boys are actually doing better than girls.

Statistics found on the Guardian education

page say that overall 72.6% of girls passed with A*-C grades and 65.4% of

boys did the same.

I overheard on Heart FM either yesterday or this morning

that 98% of pupils at the Wisbech Grammar School passed with A*-C grades which

is absolutely fantastic for them and congratulations to anyone that had that

good news in those envelopes.

Do you know anyone who received their results yesterday? How

did they do? Do they have to rethink their plans?

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Luckily the last government never got round to wrecking the International GCSE or the International Baccalaureat (big in the EU). That is why a lot of Independent Schools are going over to those two exams.

By prziloczek at 07:42 on 28/08/10
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That's right. This is what is happening with the universities and the dwindling number of university places available to students. It isnt neccessarily the number of places going down but the number of wannabe students going up. Universities can be more picky about who can enter because more and more people are getting the required passes. I can only assume its the same with colleges and sixth forms, althought I havent heard about it.

By Laura_Spodula at 23:19 on 27/08/10
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Edna, nobody is their senses is attacking the students. Those who want to are working harder than we ever did. The problem is the examinations which are now so very much easier. That means that employers/colleges can't sort out the suitable students from the unsuitable ones.

By prziloczek at 16:23 on 27/08/10
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What annoys me is when they say exams are too easy now they have to make them harder, because the pass rate is getting higher. Dont they think that the students are studying harder to get better marks?

By Edna_W at 11:16 on 27/08/10
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OK so the people who can afford £10,000 a year per student get super results. What about the 'vulnerable' though who cannot afford it? Well, they get just a 27% pass. Sad, but - hey - it takes a long time to turn a big organisation round. Tell that to the teachers at Marshland, Peele School and Neale Wade where 45 - 50% of candidates achieve passes at Grade C including English and Maths. Don't you care about ordinary punters?

By prziloczek at 10:18 on 26/08/10
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