Exams getting easier???

[taliesin238]

Surely when the government says that they are concerned because exams are getting easier, they are just making themselves look like fools??? Surely its a good thing on their behalf if more people are passing exams, it means that the education system and the standard of education is improving...doesnt it?????

[rojash]

Well, more passes would only mean the education system was getting better if the exams were not getting easier. But they are. This has been judged objectively (at least in the sciences) by comparing previous exam papers with current ones.

[andrea81]

I'm a little unsure about this debate, I remember working my socks off to get my GCSE's, A Levels and Degree and had to put a lot of hours in to get my results. I was always and average student so my aim was always B/C which I got for all.

My only gripe is that I know a few recent GCSE students that cramed last minute and didn't seemed bothered about revising and got B/A grades.

So what is that... they just natually brainy or are they getting easier?

[PortlandBill]

Exams are all easier across the piste. Read the exam papers your kids get, check the levels and content of their homework or read the objective opinions of the universities and independant experts. 5 grade A A Levels 11 A* GCSE, clearly the playstation generation have been zapped with something whilst simultaneously gaining critical acclaim for being lazy, anti-social and eating a poor diet. The proof is out there but the governement do not want to look too closely because much of it is evidenced in the failed policies of broad skill teaching, no streaming no grammars etc. Funny how 'streaming' is now creeping back in, my sons are being offered GCSEs a year early etc. Politics should not be in education policy, government should provide funds and governance and keep their self satisfying social engineering views out of it because they are no experts in either this field, social welfare,hospitals or defence. The largest consumers of our taxes.

[horsestache1]

I'm not sure exams are getting easier, but the subjects are, that probably dosent make sence. But kids used to take subjects like Maths English, Physics Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History etc. Now its Drama Media studies, Travel and Tourisum, Health and Social Care.

How do you get a degree where by you can get a decent job with this sort of cr*p.

We are left with no choice but to send out kids to private school. Its criminal

[NiceCupOfTea]

Not to sound horrible, but I agree with horsetache's post. We get school students doing work placements at my work. When I asked what one of them was doing for his GCSEs I was stunned and just said 'is that an exam? I though it was a hobby?'. Even the A-levels are washed down. Why? Can't they re-name these sorts of courses to be more in line with B-Tecs or NVQs or something?