Does this even make sense? The universities will fill their places regardless.
As it should.
People shouldn’t just be given exam grades
Pre-Covid grading? Do they mean “actually doing the exams” ?
So they actually had to sit an exam
Excellent news.
I’m sure the majority of students who got grades mid pandemic deserved the grades they got. However it isn’t surprising that this has also happened. My colleagues son got 8s across the board (apart from one 7) and apparently he’s never had an 8 in his life, was never predicted 8s in anything, didn’t do revision (though he did turn up to the classes and such) and lucked out really hard. Apparently his older brother was really cross about it because he got similar grades a couple years earlier and worked really hard for them and is very academically inclined and has always done significantly better than him in school.
My colleague doesn’t think her youngest son would have done nearly that well had he sat exams in a more traditional way. While she’s pleased for him, she said it caused a lot of friction at home.
There’s definitely gonna be people who lucked out (although I suspect it’ll likely be a minority?)
Wait. Not everyone will get what they want? Horrific.
getting arbitrarily fucked over for factors completely beyond their control should be good practice for the adult world these kids are about to fall into
You mean they are getting the grades they deserve instead of best guess.
Oh well nevermind.
If you’re not smart enough to get decent a-levels then you’re not smart enough to go to university and shouldn’t be going
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Does this even make sense? The universities will fill their places regardless.
As it should.
People shouldn’t just be given exam grades
Pre-Covid grading? Do they mean “actually doing the exams” ?
So they actually had to sit an exam
Excellent news.
I’m sure the majority of students who got grades mid pandemic deserved the grades they got. However it isn’t surprising that this has also happened. My colleagues son got 8s across the board (apart from one 7) and apparently he’s never had an 8 in his life, was never predicted 8s in anything, didn’t do revision (though he did turn up to the classes and such) and lucked out really hard. Apparently his older brother was really cross about it because he got similar grades a couple years earlier and worked really hard for them and is very academically inclined and has always done significantly better than him in school.
My colleague doesn’t think her youngest son would have done nearly that well had he sat exams in a more traditional way. While she’s pleased for him, she said it caused a lot of friction at home.
There’s definitely gonna be people who lucked out (although I suspect it’ll likely be a minority?)
Wait. Not everyone will get what they want? Horrific.
getting arbitrarily fucked over for factors completely beyond their control should be good practice for the adult world these kids are about to fall into
You mean they are getting the grades they deserve instead of best guess.
Oh well nevermind.
If you’re not smart enough to get decent a-levels then you’re not smart enough to go to university and shouldn’t be going