Being bald doesn't countReally surprised, with my underlying conditions, I've not had notification yet.
Just looking at the new pass marks for exam grades, and they are an absolute piss take.I don’t agree with it because it could be one of those “who you know not necessarily what you know” cases for pupils. Those with pushy parents on school councils or whatever it’s called, or those just friendly with teachers will benefit.
I had pretty modest expectations at school in terms of mock exam results and suggested grades, but I over performed because i put the effort in during the final 6 months. It’s always been my strategy, doss about but work hard at the end devoting your life to it
Anyway, point is, some pupils do better with the pressure than expectation equally some crumble. It’s not about the crumbling but it’s not about giving every pupil an A because it’s easy.
Equally, I don’t have a solution to doing it any other way. Perhaps an algorithm?
Just looking at the new pass marks for exam grades, and they are an absolute piss take.
Most subject if you can get between 50% and 65% you get an equivalant A pass.
The grade 4 which equals the old C pass in maths is just 19.6%.Imagine getting 5 out of 10 in our day, you'd have got a smack round the head for fecking about.
Some exams these days 40% is a pass
New GCSE Pass marks and grade boundaries - School ...Aren't these exams graded on a curve?
I'm getting rather bored of posh kids moaning about teachers assessments and using mock results for their grades - because they didn't revise, they were doing preparation work for fucking Japanese at Oxford.
Dad says the clue is in the title - they are mock exams - they aren't important so I said don't worry about them.
Yes, the clue is in the title, mock exams to show where your fucking weak points are.
I nailed my mocks and got complacent, should I go and sue somebody and bitch when the truth is, I fucked up?
Any parent who said that this year of all years is a bit of a fcuk wit I’m afraid.
It was obvious that students needed to smash their mocks
1 - because of the risk of the schools shutting again which was a real risk since the school year started last year and ..
2- the mocks were used in assessments last year.
We made it massively clear to junior 1 that his mocks were important and in fact I remember joking that if he smashed his mocks then we could do with another lockdown as they would be used .
I got kicked out of my mocks for playing hockey with a fruit gum.
True story that.
Really surprised, with my underlying conditions, I've not had notification yet.
By rights you should be in the same group as me Fear! Especially as I think we are both classed as having neurological conditions? Could be the postcode lottery at play, or differences in how Birmingham and Redditch are going through their lists?
I had the Oxford one on Wednesday, and honestly for the past 2 days I've had almost every side effect on the list, it really knocked me around, it's only in the last few hours that I've started to feel more like myself again.
Mom and dad both had the Pfizer one and have breezed through it with no afters!
From the briefing today and also the news at the moment, maybe people are getting ahead of themselves, excited by the end of all this and raised expectations of total (?) normality by June... and not heeding the still required rules now?
Some areas of the UK are "burning quite hot" with rising levels of new coronavirus infections, England's deputy chief medical officer says.
Although coronavirus levels are still decreasing across much of the UK, there are hotspots that buck the trend.
These are in the Midlands and east and west coast of England and some parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Prof Jonathan Van-Tam told Friday's Downing Street briefing the battle is not yet won.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56210665
This is what happens when they keep putting exact dates on things - just 'early March' or 'mid-to-late June' would be far better.From the briefing today and also the news at the moment, maybe people are getting ahead of themselves, excited by the end of all this and raised expectations of total (?) normality by June... and not heeding the still required rules now?
Some areas of the UK are "burning quite hot" with rising levels of new coronavirus infections, England's deputy chief medical officer says.
Although coronavirus levels are still decreasing across much of the UK, there are hotspots that buck the trend.
These are in the Midlands and east and west coast of England and some parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Prof Jonathan Van-Tam told Friday's Downing Street briefing the battle is not yet won.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56210665
By rights you should be in the same group as me Fear! Especially as I think we are both classed as having neurological conditions? Could be the postcode lottery at play, or differences in how Birmingham and Redditch are going through their lists?
I had the Oxford one on Wednesday, and honestly for the past 2 days I've had almost every side effect on the list, it really knocked me around, it's only in the last few hours that I've started to feel more like myself again.
Mom and dad both had the Pfizer one and have breezed through it with no afters!
This is what happens when they keep putting exact dates on things - just 'early March' or 'mid-to-late June' would be far better.
Yes, it's more drawn out (and rightly so) than I was expecting, but of course the media have predictably overlooked the 'no earlier than' and homed in on the exact dates quoted and will now use them as a target rather than an earliest point.whilst I sort of liked the fact they went with 'no earlier than' as the qualifying phrase, I did wonder if a more vague 'towards the end of the month, possibly early next month' approach might have been wiser.