Apache Don Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Have we ever had O-Levels in Scotland? I think there were Lowers alongside Highers in the distant past. Then we had O-Grades, which I sat during their 80s death throes. Standard Grades then got a decent run, until just last year. I'm not sure about O-Levels ever being part of the Scottish set up though. We need to ask Youngsy I suppose. No you don't. O-Levels were/are an English thingy. HTH Ps. They were by all accounts, easier to attain than the Scottish O-Grade. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vambo57 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 No you don't. O-Levels were/are an English thingy. HTH Ps. They were by all accounts, easier to attain than the Scottish O-Grade. There were definitely some O-levels (and maybe some A-levels too) offered in some Scottish secondary schools because there was no O-Grade equivelant. The subjects escape me and I can't be arsed looking for them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookies Love Me Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) There were definitely some O-levels (and maybe some A-levels too) offered in some Scottish secondary schools because there was no O-Grade equivelant. The subjects escape me and I can't be arsed looking for them. I had to use the English A Level syllabus for my Higher Engineering Drawing (and their syllabus was more involved than that required for the Higher). Anyway, back on topic. How much pocket money have the bearz got left? Edited February 22, 2014 by Bookies Love Me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 DA ya arse. the hoi polloi is a phrase of redundancy like "PIN Number". Seeing, though, as I am not a quibbling chunt you caught me bang to rights, so have a Charles. How're you doing anyway? I've edited this to say something else. You mentioned "O-Level Greek". Back before most of you were born I did O-Grades. They can't now do O-Levels in Scotland, Shirley? I didn't actually do Greek (nae sniggering from the anally fixated) at the school but did do New Testament Greek/Koine Greek at Yoonie. NT Greek is 'rougher' than the Greek of Aristotle and Plato. I hate to say it but you're right. It was O-Grades back in the 70s and it was t'English that did O-Levels. All these years I've thought I had O-Levels. I feel dirty, somehow. BTW Latin was the dead language of choice for us left-footers at 'the ecedemy' in Dundee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 There were definitely some O-levels (and maybe some A-levels too) offered in some Scottish secondary schools because there was no O-Grade equivelant. The subjects escape me and I can't be arsed looking for them. Some Scottish state schools simply chose to offer A- Levels in lots of 'regular' subjects at various points too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) I sat my exams during the transition period. Standard Grades were a new fangled thing in 1989, so I think i have a 7 O's and 3 S's or something of that ilk. What the hell are they called now? I started Standard Grade courses, but they were halted by the teachers' strike action. We therefore sat O-Grades, but got given Standard Grade type levels ie. 1-6 as opposed to A-E. Nobody had told us this would be the case so we had to read the accompanying leaflet when the envelope arrived to work out what all those numbers meant. As of this year, National 4s and National 5s will replace Standard Grades and Intermediates 1 and 2 which have been here since around the turn of the century. Edited February 22, 2014 by Monkey Tennis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I'm sorry for starting this whole flaming O-Level/O-Grade rubbish, although Kinky's got to take some of the blame, too. Can we get back on topic now? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I'm sorry for starting this whole flaming O-Level/O-Grade rubbish, although Kinky's got to take some of the blame, too. Can we get back on topic now? What? Is this not the SEB/SQA thread then? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 More mutterings of people not getting paid on time. Not the players though, so it doesn't get noticed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottxs Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 More mutterings of people not getting paid on time. Not the players though, so it doesn't get noticed. as long as fat Sally's Gregg's bill gets paid then all is well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Apparently every single payment from the club now has signed off by Graham Wallace personally. Even the smaller, normally incidental sums. Could be what is causing the delays in payments. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Apparently every single payment from the club now has signed off by Graham Wallace personally. Even the smaller, normally incidental sums. Could be what is causing the delays in payments. David Brent was forced by his boss to instigate something similar in a bid to reduce the need for redundancies. He also went and hired a new PA though. Bit like staying at Turnberry or Carnoustie I suppose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Aye Stranraer is replete with 5* hotels. He'd not know which one to choose. The Northwest Castle is a very fine establishment, although it's perhaps seen slightly better days. I had my lunch in the curling lounge there just last Sunday. There's also a nice one at Portpatrick, the name of which now escapes me. Rangers stayed there when playing Stranraer in the League Cup in the early 90s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Out working at the moment but looking forward to tomorrows game against Stenhousemuir. I am not so sure i am looking forward to the drive down to stranraer on Tuesday night lol We've already discussed this No8. It's a lovely drive down the A77. In fact Chic Young was raving about it last week in a column in a paper. In the same column, it quoted Stockbridge as being impressed that Stranraer got by on £80,000 a year. It turns out that the daft b*****d though it was £80,000 per player, per year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Stockbridge as being impressed that Stranraer got by on £80,000 a year. It turns out that the daft b*****d though it was £80,000 per player, per year. f**k off? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 f**k off? True story. My father-in-law showed me the article. It was in his Daily Express from last Friday or Saturday I think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Only in Sevconia. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Only in Sevconia. Are you going to the Stenhousemuir game? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloomogganners Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Awww poor wee you, well you need to go slumming in one of their 5 four star hotels then. Lodges at Turnberry Hotel think they use, McCoist says its cheaper than staying in Stranraer. . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Anyone guess why the bears are fizzing? Is it because they've got to buy a programme for a chance of winning, and the vast majority of the "global family" couldn't point to Glasgow on a map, let alone ibrox? Or is it because they're too thick to realise that they'd go quite well with his International kit? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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