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Exam results - news overkill?
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I know the students must be individually excited and their families proud, but is there any need for every news bulletin on TV and radio to be reporting on their successes/failures, to show people we don't know opening their results.
Whilst I congratulate them, I am getting just a little bit fed up with hearing it all day long today. Students have been getting their exam results for many years - its not a new thing!
When I got mine nearly 50 years ago, we got ours through the post. I was on holiday at the time and had to spend nearly a week imagining the results in the letter which was sitting on our doormat awaiting my return! PS it was worth waiting for ......
Whilst I congratulate them, I am getting just a little bit fed up with hearing it all day long today. Students have been getting their exam results for many years - its not a new thing!
When I got mine nearly 50 years ago, we got ours through the post. I was on holiday at the time and had to spend nearly a week imagining the results in the letter which was sitting on our doormat awaiting my return! PS it was worth waiting for ......
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Have to agree. Results in holidays. Decide what you want to do with your future. Not exactly breaking news! Also...remember 11+ results. They arrived in the holidays and you got a letter telling you where you would be going in September. No "Transition programme"......just get on with it. Totally molly coddled generation. I worry for the future.
The statistics about grades may be newsworthy; the exams being easier or harder is a matter of public interest or concern; but nothing else. But we'll still get pictures of pretty girls looking delighted, because that's what newspapers like.
Waiting for results by post? How quaint. My professional exam passes were printed in The Times and the Daily Telegraph. As we students were all based in Fleet Street, that meant that we all got drunk and staggered down the street to get the earliest edition 'hot off the press' at about 10.30 pm to read the results with one eye shut!. At least we were numbed to any failure.
Waiting for results by post? How quaint. My professional exam passes were printed in The Times and the Daily Telegraph. As we students were all based in Fleet Street, that meant that we all got drunk and staggered down the street to get the earliest edition 'hot off the press' at about 10.30 pm to read the results with one eye shut!. At least we were numbed to any failure.
My two girls have only recently gone through the exam system. Try this. My eldest has always been a total bookworm. She is by far the most intelligent of the two. My youngest hates reading. They both took A level "English Literature." My eldest, after much studying, took the exam. My youngest can't stand reading and so didn't bother actually reading the books and just bought the "study guides" and watched the DVD films of the books. She gained a much higher grade. She knows how to write "exam speak." The whole system is ridiculous in my opinion.
Well,invisiblelady, exam technique was always important, even 50 years ago. Examiners always wanted certain key points in answers; however brilliantly you wrote on the others, if you missed one you lost a good many marks. And there was a technque for catching the examiners' interest from the start, so they thought your answer out of the ordinary and different from the repetitive stuff in the other hundreds of papers they had read.
But now, that is all taken to extremes it seems, and pupils are taught to study 'to the exam', with the techniques demanded, rather than actually know the subject itself in depth, with all its variety. That's probably why your reader child didn't fare as well as the DVD user.
But now, that is all taken to extremes it seems, and pupils are taught to study 'to the exam', with the techniques demanded, rather than actually know the subject itself in depth, with all its variety. That's probably why your reader child didn't fare as well as the DVD user.
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