| I feel violated 19:32 - Aug 12 with 1422 views | bluelagos |
Listening to the debates around the govt handling of the A'level grades and I keep hearing teachers stating that sometimes they down mark mock exams to give lazy students a kick up the arse to ensure they work hard for the real thing.
As a student who did sfa work prior to getting rubbish mock grades, I am now doubting those grades as nothing more than a well intentioned (and successful) attempt to give me a kick up the backside.
What annoys me, is that I never realised I was being played. I know it was for the best, but... [Post edited 12 Aug 2020 19:39]
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| I feel violated on 20:12 - Aug 12 with 1342 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Not surprising really.
I didn't used to revise for mocks. Part laziness, but part testing what I actually knew. |  |
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| I feel violated on 20:32 - Aug 12 with 1317 views | WD19 |
Standard.
I had a university lecturer who was the same. My first year assignments didn’t count towards my grade. Practically everything I wrote got about 40-50% In the second and third year writing of exact same merit got 60-70%.
Silly cow. |  | | |
| I feel violated on 20:40 - Aug 12 with 1301 views | TractorWood |
Make sense. I struggled on mocks.......and the real thing. I remember my A-Level Biology papers, wow they were turgid. |  |
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| I feel violated on 22:02 - Aug 12 with 1225 views | monytowbray |
We’re still being played because standardised testing is simply memory application and doesn’t test practicality and the ability to problem solve.
Amount of people who wax lyrically in old offices I’ve worked in about being Google Analytics certified yet still had to ask me how to do what I consider simple stuff you could figure out via Google or clicking about. I’m self taught on it mostly with a lot of other tidbits I’ve learned from others.
Old job made me do said test once, I just took the exam and Googled the questions as I went. I’ve told clients that too. LOL. |  |
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| I feel violated on 09:03 - Aug 13 with 1099 views | GeoffSentence |
I did ok in my mocks, apart from my Maths one in which I was suffering from a hangover. |  |
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