GCSEs (again)

well, yes, when I did O levels it was. Apparently it's not a fail grade
now for GCSEs.

"GCSEs are the most common exams for the subjects studied at this
stage. The exams are graded A* - G and although there is no strict pass
or fail grade, many employers, universities, etc look specifically for
Grades A-C. "

 

I hope you also told him to google for "perpetual motion machines,
the fallacy of", just in case he didn't trust his Dad.

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When I did mine in '79 I was sure that I remember my Maths teacher
telling the class that the mark for each grade varied since it was a
fixed percentage of the candidats that got A, B, C etc. rather than a
static percentage forming the grade boundary. I've no recollection of
it being an experiment.

This was the "Cambridge Board" GCEs if it makes any difference.

 

Wind is eroding it so it's getting shorter.

 

Surely the snow being dumped on it is making it higher?

 

It's rising, eroding, shifting and sinking.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12977,1398870,00.html

 

I knew that but I was waiting to see what deadmail came back with.
It's also getting 'easier' to climb due to technological improvements.

 

Couldn't be arsed to come back with anything. I doubt much snow is
falling but would expect that plate movement would cause more variation
in height than wind erosion. But wtf do I know.

I do know that AnyDVD works to remove the regionlock on Win MCE so I'm
about to watch a coupla DVDs I bought recently; family guy probably...

 

Only when it comes to actually using, ie. getting a job or into College.
Until then it is perfectly legitimate! Just like a "G" grade with bells on
it.

 

Which was more or less the same time I did.

 

Rope wrote:

Teachers can be right cunts like this.

My lad had to engineer himself being dropped a group in maths when he was at
school as the teacher was crap, he knew it, but she knew that he knew.

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Wonder why.

Yeah, cos, obviously, the teacher sat the exam paper, right?

 

Aren't GCSE grades based on a high percentage of coursework as well as
the exam?

 

Prolly marked the coursework though. Still Ross must have pissed the
teacher off a lot if the teacher was willing to chance their career to
give Ross consistent low marks for the coursework element.

 

Depends on which course with which exam board.

 

Rope says...

And it never occured to you to find a different school that could
support him through this?

 

I feel some sympathy for some of the things you type about your
experience as a parent, you're often being criticised by people with no
relevant experience of being a parent (and it is different from being a
child).

However in this case I'm afraid I've got to doubt you. Do you seriously
expect people to believe that teachers deny dyslexia exist? They may
deny that Ross has it but that's not the same thing at all.

 

Our school has had a full day of INSET training specifically on Dyslexia and
designing lessons that help and support pupils that suffer from this
disorder.

Our school has a variety of coloured paper and we have now stopped buying
bright white for the photocopiers as this has been shown to make matters
worse for many sufferers.

We have a dedicated special needs co-ordinator and dyslexia is encompassed
in her remit. She creates a detailed report on each child, their specific
difficulties and strategies that we as teachers can put in place to help
them.

As a teacher, I also liase with parents if a pupil has a more specific need
like using coloured overlays, coloured glasses, requires a specific colour
for photocopying and I also produce additional notes for pupils in specific
fonts if it is required, so that they can take them home and use the as
revision notes if they struggle to keep up with classroom note taking or
lessons.

It is also now customary for exam boards to produce exam papers on yellow
paper (Especially foundation tier).

We also give all our dyslexic pupils additional time in exams.

From a teachers point of view it is our job to help EVERY child succeed,
irrelevant of background, behaviour or ability.

Finally, I do not believe for one minute that a teacher would EVER mark a
piece of coursework down because of an issue with a child. Why would they? A
few courseworks are randomly selected by the exam board and sent away by the
head of department. They are then remarked by the board and if found to be
more than 3 points (Out of 30) out from the boards grades then the whole of
the schools grades are reset. A teacher is under enough stress and pressure
without creating additional problems, and at the end of the day, to a
teacher, even the most difficult child is just that, a child, and you learn
not to take it personally.

 

Have you thought of a different approach?

Get ross some glasses with yellow tinted lenses, then he can use normal
paper..

 

Ginge says...

To some that may sound like a stupid suggestion, but that's exactly what
my middle daughter was prescribed with when she was diagnosed with a
very mild form of dyslexia. She's since overcome it and did very well in
her GCSEs this year.

Well done Jess.