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maomao said:
The Tories are obsessed with grade inflation, there's a terrible article on Dominic Cummings blog about it which convinced me once and for all that the man's an imbecile. Given that year 11 have just been fucking abandoned this year would it really hurt that much if a few of their grades were slightly higher than they might have managed in exams? Despicable vermin the lot of them.
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He's the big data genius, he should understand that exam results are not awarded according to an absolute standard but calibrated according to a pre-determined distribution of grades. It's Gove and his 'all schools must be above average' all over again. They're demanding something they don't even understand.
 
I've not been following this - did they really send out loads of results telling people "you've got a B" (for example) and had to contact them again saying "oh sorry, you've only got a C"?
 
SpookyFrank said:
He's the big data genius, he should understand that exam results are not awarded according to an absolute standard but calibrated according to a pre-determined distribution of grades. It's Gove and his 'all schools must be above average' all over again. They're demanding something they don't even understand.
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He spends thousands of words insisting that there's no other possible explanation than exams having got easier but the only evidence he looks at is some dodgy IQ test. It's like no-one has told him that the actual papers and marking schemes still exist. If he wants to see if they've got easier why doesn't he just look at the bloody exams.
 
maomao said:
He spends thousands of words insisting that there's no other possible explanation than exams having got easier but the only evidence he looks at is some dodgy IQ test. It's like no-one has told him that the actual papers and marking schemes still exist. If he wants to see if they've got easier why doesn't he just look at the bloody exams.
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He's a maverick genius, he doesn't need to do any actual work.
 
SpookyFrank said:
He's the big data genius, he should understand that exam results are not awarded according to an absolute standard but calibrated according to a pre-determined distribution of grades. It's Gove and his 'all schools must be above average' all over again. They're demanding something they don't even understand.
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Haha I missed that :D
 
Sadly the Williamson 'quotes' floating about (eg. “Increasing the A Level grades will mean a whole generation could end up promoted beyond their abilities") are the result of people paraphrasing him to 'make the implications clear'. His actual article in the Telegraph is here

The system for determining A-level results in England is both robust and fair - Telegraph (archived)

I still remember that nerve-wracking morning, heading off to my sixth form college in Scarborough to get my A-level results, wondering if I would get the grades I needed. Results day is an educational rite of passage, a life-defining moment, a milestone that marks the culmination of years of hard work and this year it’s no different for the hundreds of thousands of students getting their grades this morning.
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(...) we had to make sure that the national picture is not vastly different from previous years by standardising grades. If we didn’t, we would have seen them shoot up, which would devalue the results for the class of 2020 and would clearly not be fair on the classes of 2019 and 2021. But worse than that, it would mean that students this year would lose out twice over, both in their education and their future prospects.
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Pass the sick bag.

(I say 'his' article - I doubt the thick cunt wrote it himself).
 
Smangus said:
I think this edgumacation thing may well have more lasting effects on their popularity and image than the COVID stuff. It's affecting peoples kids futures in a very direct way along with all those university aspirations and employment prospects. It's also got "fiasco" written all over it. That's not going to be forgotten by people very quickly.

Luckily we have that top performing and highly respected minister Gavin Williamson in charge of all this :facepalm:
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Agreed. Lots of angry parents mean lots of angry voters
 
Smangus said:
Rinse and repeat *3 for the GCSEs next week. Unless they magic up a a solution before then, but that would need a smidgen of competence being demonstrated.
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And the beauty of it is that, having lashed themselves to the mast over A-level results, they simply can't be seen to back down on GCSEs, so they're stuck with repeating the same complete disaster all over again...only now everyone's going to have their ducks in a row and the protests are going to be legendary.

Oh, and smart move to piss off that part of the demographic most likely to start chucking rocks and setting fire to things when the pot does eventually boil over.
 
Smangus said:
Rinse and repeat *3 for the GCSEs next week. Unless they magic up a a solution before then, but that would need a smidgen of competence being demonstrated.
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absolutely. We just know that simply is never, ever gonna happen. Normally I'm delighted at a Troy megafuckup, but this time, every single GCSE and A level student is collateral damage:mad::(
 
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