Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[Jmothecat2]

Still annoyed that the European Football Show was cancelled. It was by quite some way the best football show on TV and seemed, anecdotally at least, to be popular so it seems like an odd decision.

[Rugster]

7 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Experiencing DA Baracus levels of exaggerated impotent rage after watching jmo spend five pages harassing people about their toilet habits after I told him last week why people are different. Even worse that he's been vindicated from several sides.

To be fair he's been vindicated because he's correct. That in itself is noteworthy as it is a very rare occurrence. 

[Jmothecat2]

How does Abi Wilkenson get paid to be a writer? Her actual writing skill is average at best and her opinions are ill-informed rubbish that most first year politics students would spew in the student union bar. Then she gets her army of Twitter followers to shout abuse at anyone who dares to criticise her opinions by writing tweets where you can practically hear the tears falling onto the keyboard as she writes. People think Owen Jones is shite, at least he is a good writer with a halfway decent grasp of the English language.

[MEADOWXI]

New exam scoring

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-40826391

Was numbers 1 - 5, etc,

Then letters - A, B, C ,D....

It now 9 to 1, with 9 being the BEST.

Just fucking about for the sake of it;

 

 

GCSE results: How the new grading system works

By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter

• 23 August 2017
• From the section Education & Family

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From this year, some GCSE papers in England are being graded numerically on a scale from 9 to 1.

Remember politicians saying GCSEs were too easy and needed to be made more rigorous?

Well that's what has been happening, as new exams have been developed and are being phased in over a number of years.

This year's students are the first to sit exams in the new GCSES in English (literature and language) and maths - arguably the biggest subjects in the curriculum.

Another 20 subjects will have 9 to 1 grading in 2018, with most others following in 2019.

New numbering system

Contrary to what you might expect, 1 is not the highest grade, 9 is.

However, 9 will be awarded to fewer pupils than A* is currently.

In fact, three number grades, 9, 8 and 7, correspond to the current top grades of A* and A.

This is designed to give more differentiation at the top end.

A grade 6 is a bit higher than the old B grade.

   

Two pass marks?

And - unlike the current system, under which a C is seen as a "good" pass - the new system has a "standard pass", a grade 4, and a "strong pass", grade 5.

The Department for Education has stressed that the old and new grading systems cannot be directly compared.

But there are points where they align.

The bottom of the current grade C and the bottom of the new grade 4 is probably the key point of alignment.

This has prompted some employers to say the system is confusing.

Measuring schools

Schools will be measured on the proportion of pupils achieving grade 4 and above.

But they will also be measured on the proportion of pupils achieving grade 5 and above.

And this grade 5 is being described as the benchmark, in line with the expectations of the strong performing education systems around the world.

Education secretary Justine Greening said she expected more pupils to get a grade 5 over time as England's education system improved.

Meanwhile, at the bottom, the new system has less detail, with grades D, E and F corresponding to grades 1 and 2, and the bottom of a grade 1 corresponding to the bottom of a grade G.

Harder GCSEs?

The short answer is yes.

The Department for Education has deliberately required exam boards to make exam content more "challenging".

The way the questions are set out in maths, for example, is very different to what has come before.

And the way the qualifications are taken, with exams at the end, rather than with modules - tested in stages along the way at different parts of the year - is also seen as more demanding.

But, and it is a big but, exam boards will use statistical measures to ensure that standards remain the same.

So despite what are really quite significant changes, broadly the same proportion of students that received a grade C or above in 2016 will receive a grade 4 and above this year.

Is it fair?

And the same share of students will receive a grade 7 as received a grade A last year.

However, if candidates find an exam paper harder than expected the grade boundaries will be set a little lower.

So they may need a few less marks to get a certain grade than they would have done previously.

Thus, continuity of standards is maintained so that the first crop of students to take these exams are not disadvantaged.

However, some teachers' leaders have complained about the level of difficulty in the new exams.

Maths has been particularly tricky - with pupils from top sets of their schools coming out of exams saying they could not understand whole sections of the exam paper.

And head teachers say they are concerned about the scale of pressure being placed on pupils, due to the high stakes nature of these new exams.

The rest of the UK

This year also marks a divergence in qualifications between the nations, with candidates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland now all studying different exams.

In Wales, exams in English, Welsh and maths (six GCSEs in total) have also been toughened, but the qualification is still taken in units. New GCSEs in other subjects are being phased in.

In Northern Ireland, pupils are generally sitting old-style GCSEs in all subjects this year, but changes are ahead.

Scottish students already study completely different qualifications.

[nsr]

Well, that isn't going to confuse anyone...

[Iminavest]

[Dee Man]

1 hour ago, nsr said:

Well, that isn't going to confuse anyone...

It won't confuse me because I won't be fucking reading all that.

[nsr]

It won't confuse me because I won't be fucking reading all that.

^ got a 1 in GCSE reading comprehension.

[invergowrie arab]

2 hours ago, MEADOWXI said:

Standing up at your desk, pcking up your phone and putting it in your pocket and wandering off is the modern equivalent of

standing up, putting a paper under your arm and wandering off to the bog.

Time for a read of P&B, check the news on the phone while sitting relaxing in the cubicle for 10 mins.

That's literally what I'm doing now.

[GordonD]

1 hour ago, Dee Man said:

It won't confuse me because I won't be fucking reading all that.

^^^^^ Lips get tired

[The Moonster]

1 hour ago, nsr said:

^ got a 1 in GCSE reading comprehension.

[Sergeant Wilson]

5 hours ago, The Moonster said:

Such ridiculous logic. Do you not use your toilet at home in case your Mrs has had a shite either? Or are her shitey germs okay?

Does your work not employ cleaners?

Yes, what a weirdo.

Aye, like that serial, obsessive shite nipper will have a burd.

[Scary Bear]

How does Abi Wilkenson get paid to be a writer? Her actual writing skill is average at best and her opinions are ill-informed rubbish that most first year politics students would spew in the student union bar. Then she gets her army of Twitter followers to shout abuse at anyone who dares to criticise her opinions by writing tweets where you can practically hear the tears falling onto the keyboard as she writes. People think Owen Jones is shite, at least he is a good writer with a halfway decent grasp of the English language.

Had to Google to see who she is. Probably the pin-up girl for sad lonely politics students up and down the country.

[Adam]

Genuinely cannot understand why anyone wouldn't have a pony at work, absolute madness these past few pages.

I had three today in work (had chilli nachos for dinner last night), but an average day is typically two, one after my 11am snout and a 2.30pm post lunch turd.

[Miguel Sanchez]

47 minutes ago, Adam said:

Genuinely cannot understand why anyone wouldn't have a pony at work, absolute madness these past few pages.

I had three today in work (had chilli nachos for dinner last night), but an average day is typically two, one after my 11am snout and a 2.30pm post lunch turd.

What are you eating for lunch? Castor oil?

[die hard doonhamer]

1 or 2 shits a day at work for me as well. Getting paid to shit is definitely a must.

[mizfit]

Go for a shit 2 hours into my shift is a guarantee for me irregardless of my working hours.

Usually follow it up with a quick walk to the toilets for another attempt or at the least a piss about an hour before I finish.

[BFTD]

When YouTube has a fit and randomly decides I live in America. Specifically, when I've got a YouTube playlist running on the other side of the room while I'm engaged in something I can't break away from (steady), and suddenly a half-hour long video appears promoting some US religious charlatan, promising to soothe the overwhelmed minds of gullible idiots by using only a bible and a credit card reader.

You get adverts mistakenly streamed from all over the world, but the American ones are invariably terrifying, and often apocalyptic. By comparison, I'll take a Hindi ad for a shit Bollywood film anytime.

[19QOS19]

Go for a shit 2 hours into my shift is a guarantee for me irregardless of my working hours.

Usually follow it up with a quick walk to the toilets for another attempt or at the least a piss about an hour before I finish.

Pray for mizfit.

[Unleash The Nade]

Beasts !