[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by jaysay

From my knowledge SATs and GCSEs finished last week

Thank you. You have just confirmed what I said about these so-called exams. In my day we had real exams, 3 hours a time, twice a day, right up to the last few days of term. We went into the exam room with a pen, pencil, ruler, maybe a set of log tables and whatever was in your head. However hard you tried, the absolute maximum mark was 75%

Unlike the little brats of today, who will go into an exam room with laptop and mobile phone, and then having phoned a friend will proceed to put their name on the top of the paper in order to obtain 95% marks. They will then spend the rest of the exam session listening to whatever junk is on their i-pods. But even then, the nonsense does not finish there because the exam itself will count for only 10% of their overall mark because the rest is made up of 'continuous assessment'. The only continuous assessment in my day was a leather strap, applied liberally on failure to do your homework. This lot today do not know the meaning of that word. No wonder we have produced a generation of dumbed-down idle layabouts.