Well…radio 1 DJs have been doing GCSE's and got their results yeasterday.
Producer Aled did Geography & got an A. To get an A, his %age of correct answers was 57%!!
So you can get almost 1/2 of the answers wrong and still get an A!!
Comedy Dave did Biology & got a B & a D (there were 2 papers). For the B, he got 18/45 answers correct!! That's 40% to get a B!!
That just seems plain wrong to me. If you are setting your grading so low, surely the exams become meaningless? Someone mentioned to me yesterday that there has been an improvement in grades every year for the last 17yrs. If standards were really staying the same, surely that is statistically an almost impossibility?
I feel sorry for the children. I did my GCSE's early 90's and 12 subjects was considered a lot. 4 A-levels were considered the absolute max that anyone could do well at.