2020 Exam Results and your children..

[UNG]

The fall out from 2020 will take many years to be forgotten in some sectors and education will be one of those sectors.
The handling of the "exam" results has been a total fiasco and the algorithm that was used seems to have been majorly flawed and biased couple that with the lack of flexibility of the uni's and you have the perfect storm the real outcome of which may only be known in a few years time

While it is all about exam results this year the students that have been forgotten are those in the year before the GCSE and A level exams they have lost a lot of teaching time and have a lot to catch up to meet next years grades

My kids left the education system as students 6 & 8 years ago the current situation hasn't affected me but my niece is just about to start the final year of her pharmacy degree, she is one of the luckier ones in that she is within a commutable distance of the uni campus so doesn't need to be paying for student accommodation that she may not get full use of with the possibility of a second spike come the winter months but she is a bit bothered how this last year of her degree will go if there is any repeat of this years lockdowns

One thing is certain 2020 has been a stressful year to date for many people and looks like it will continue to be for some time to come

 

[EricMark]

There has always been a who you know, my son got into the trade because who he knew, me, an employer wanted me, he said what can I offer you to get you back, and I said job for my son.

Also the all other things being equal then looking at anything from leisure activities to schools attended. I got my first job over a talk about chess.

But you can't say any children have an advantage or disadvantage if no exams taken and as a result no exam results, only when you fudge up some results is there a problem.

The problem today revolves around the league tables, before them I could walk into a collage and sit any exam I wanted, it did not matter if I passed or failed, but the league tables resulted in no external candidates as it could bring down their rating, so you had to take the course and be recommended to take exam by the teaching staff to be able to have a stab at the exam.

As long as that is removed then any students can return to school or collage to take the exam. And they will need to, as employers are not daft, they will in the future ignore any 2020 exam results as they all know there was no exams, so a 2020 'A' level will become worthless.

There is really no option, they need to be given a chance to sit the exam. The problem will be how well did they learn during lock down? Some will have been taught by parents also on lock down and it will depend on parents skill, so some will have learnt more, and some will have seen it as a holiday. So the actual results will not be as predicted as no teacher can predict how good the parent is.

There is also the fact that 'A' level books are not always correct, I did 'A' level physics about 4 years ago, if I did three subjects it was £10 if not £80 per subject, so I did physics as thought I would know most of it, but the circuit diagram for a fluorescent light completely missed out the ballast, so had there been a question on it, I would likely have given a different answer to most students.

This of course happens in all walks of life, as an electrician the question what should you do if you find a damaged tool will be different to an ordinary persons answer.

 

[Zerax]

This of course happens in all walks of life, as an electrician the question what should you do if you find a damaged tool will be different to an ordinary persons answer.

Is the answer "Ask him when's the water going back on ?"