Accrington Web - View Single Post - 99% Pass rate?-Are we being fair to our teenagers?

davebtelford · 25-08-2010, 10:02

I hardly missed a day at Accy Grammar. Was always one of the top students in the middle stream (we did O-levels after 5 years, top stream after 4) and did 90 mins. homework every night & 3 hours+ at weekends. Ended up with one arm longer than the other from carrying a briefcase full of books back and forth!

I managed to 'scrape' 9 O-levels & 3 A-levels with pretty mediocre grades. Anyone getting more than one A was quite unusual.

If today's exams are just as hard then today's kids MUST be much harder working and/or much cleverer. End of.

25-08-2010, 10:02	#5
davebtelford Full Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 293 Liked: 46 times Rep Power: 0	Re: 99% Pass rate?-Are we being fair to our teenagers? I hardly missed a day at Accy Grammar. Was always one of the top students in the middle stream (we did O-levels after 5 years, top stream after 4) and did 90 mins. homework every night & 3 hours+ at weekends. Ended up with one arm longer than the other from carrying a briefcase full of books back and forth! I managed to 'scrape' 9 O-levels & 3 A-levels with pretty mediocre grades. Anyone getting more than one A was quite unusual. If today's exams are just as hard then today's kids MUST be much harder working and/or much cleverer. End of.