Are exams too easy?

Are exams too easy?

The A-Level results are in! This year more than one in four results were an "A" grade, up 24% on last year.

Are the exams really getting easier or are young people working harder? Should we get rid of coursework and modules and go back to traditional exams? Have your say.

 

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  1.  
    liz from bournemouth says:
    Sep 17, 16:28

    I'd like to see the people who sat O-levels back in the day try the GCSEs.....let them see if it as easy as they think.

  2.  
    oneil from Caribbean says:
    Sep 12, 09:57

    You think your a level exams are easy? Well the Caribbean Examination Council A Level equivalent are so easy, many subjects are getting 100 percent pass in some schools and colleges. When those students go to university, they cant cope. Their performance is very low and now the universities are hurting and are now speaking out against what is going on

  3.  
    -hammy- from london says:
    Sep 4, 09:17

    erm...i dunno...
    exams r hard mayyn!
    newaiisz...yh..
    lol
    chips are nice...

  4.  
    uh from huh says:
    Apr 3, 13:28

    It depends what it's for. A generic exam like an A level just builds up yor tolerance for studying not vocational skill. It's an intermediary exam in reality when it's thought of as advanced.

    That is because when the current generation of policy makers were at school a level was seen as gold standard and not many people went to uni or higher education.

    What we don't understand is that the system has changed since then and the rules that applied to them don't apply to this lot the today generation so you can't compare like with like. Still thinking in the 60's when it's 2008?

    After a degree you still need experience too possibly mastering and possibly phd all in all for someone to get that star salary the needed 10-15 years of uninterrupted education.

    Next to that the traditional apprenticeship thing is gone beyond all recogition.

    When you are faced with an official all they judge is the bit of paper in your hand say nothing of the person or their potential so you either got the 10-15 years education or you don't in which case they aren't interested.

    Never mind that you can be just as able if you had the same opportunity and the same education.

    Standard means 'the same for everyone' if a standard ruler is 30cm long then an a level means that everyone who passed the exam, for example knows that.

    So, grading the quality of the results is a little faux to begin with because you either know something or you don't you just got figure out what in god's name on earth do you want out of people?

    If you need windows cleaned get a window cleaner!

  5.  
    An old rocker from Nottingham says:
    Feb 15, 20:37

    Is this an exam? if so just wait till I look the answer up on the web.......

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