So here we are at the beginning of September with all the new students looking forward to going to 'uni'.
I am soooooooooo going to have a 'uni' RANT soon.
Anyway to get back to this rant................... It has only just come to my attention that if kids these days don't get the marks they think they should have............... exam papers can be re-marked???
As a 'ranting middle aged spinster' who did exams in the 1970's there was never such a thing as 're-marking'??
In my day, you sat in an exam hall in complete silence (apart from the click, click, click of the exam invigilator's knitting needles) and when you got your results you just accepted them.
A couple of years ago, my very clever nephew got As & A*s in all of his exams. To me that was a great achievement. But because he hadn't got an A* in one of them he said it was his teachers fault??? Why???
And also.................... to recall a conversation that I had with my 13 year old niece about subjects I hated at school, couldn't do and failed the exams in......................
................Her comment was....................... 'Oh you mustn't have had a very good teacher.'
........Nooooooooooooooooo...................... I just wasn't the brightest cookie in the box. Duh!!!
Why does everyone seem to want to put the blame onto someone else these days?
Apparently the A level markers these days are given 3 mins to do it. Which means that any kid who doesn't get the grade they think they should, can have it re-marked. The school can request to have it remarked. The parents can request to have it remarked. The kids can request to have it remarked.
Obviously this happens a lot because 'pushy parents' and schools that want to 'up the league tables' obviously want better results.
BUT................. I think it would be really interesting to see if kids that had been predicted lower grades and then got higher grades.......................
...................Said, 'Please re-mark this'?????
Can't see that ever happening???
