exam-codes

[t_guest]

hi all

 

does any one now what the exam grades are

e.g A B C D E F G

 

and what they mean

 

thank you

[Gatt]

Erm.. Thought u'd know this better than the rest of us callum as u should have them today!!

 

Far as i Know A is top mark (or is that A*?) and G is one mark from a Fail (F)

 

What ya get anyway?

[t_guest]

errrmm.......

 

science: E

 

mathes: G

 

english: G

 

food tech : F

 

but im going college to study mathes and English and IT and also been accepted in the police:office staff and waiting for my apprenticeship

[Gatt]

Yeah about that apprenticeship.. :?

I've had no info on that and i have a feeling the school isn't qualified to do apprenticeships...

[t_guest]

yer thats what i though i never got a straight answer out of anyone

and the should of asked you 1st as you network manager

 

how is Ricardo and and you these days

its great to be away from evil kids :twisted:

heheheh

[ConTheITGuy]

Surely E = Excellent, G = Good and F = Fantastic

 

Re Apprenticeships, one of our local(ish) colleges runs an apprenticeship and we have a fellow working with us on his placement. He is actually our employee, and the college takes care of the apprenticeship stuff. Not sure about being being qualified to do them or otherwise - maybe worth looking into?

 

 

Andy

[Gatt]

@Andy - Think its to with examinations side of it

The spin i'm getting is that to take on an apprentice you need to be qualified to do so - something to do with examinations

 

If you arent qualified and you do take on an apprentice - a school can be banned from hosting all forms of exams - including GCSE!!

 

So callum - i dont think its gonna happen here as im pretty sure we dont have the relevent ticks in the correct boxes ..

 

But then again knowing certain staff as i do..... :?

[petectid]

Yeah about that apprenticeship.. :?

I've had no info on that and i have a feeling the school isn't qualified to do apprenticeships...

 

We have an apprentice ICT Technician here Gatt, he comes from a government backed training agency works for us and is trained by us.

 

The spin i'm getting is that to take on an apprentice you need to be qualified to do so - something to do with examinations

 

What you appear to say Gatt is that you are not qualified to engender your knowledge to an apprentice. The training agency provides for any qualifications our apprentice takes, not the school.

[Gatt]

Well im not sure at all whats happening cos the school have left me out the loop entirely!!

 

Nice considering that callum wants an apprenticeship in my dept!!

 

Oh the joys of the public sector...

[t_guest]

gatt we make a good team

heheheheh

[webman]

A* - C = pass

D - G = fail

U = sat exam and failed

X = didn't sit the exam at all

[srochford]

Not exactly true for the grades. When GCSE was introduced (20 years ago? Long time, anyway!) the idea was that instead of just saying "pass" or "fail" you measured how much people could do rather than simply ranking them.

 

If you look at the syllabus, that specifies what someone should be able to do. If you have a grade A* then it means you can do pretty much all of it; grade C means you can do lots of it but there are areas you can't do and so on down; grade G means you get some of it OK but most of it you can't do. Grade U means that you can do so little it's not possible to classify you ("Unclassifed" - I think)

 

Of course, most people (particularly journalists and politicians!) don't seem to have grasped the change in grading.

 

If you want to look as if you know what it's all about, drop the terms "norm referenced" and "criterion reference" into conversation or read http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00002257.htm to find out all about it :-)

[dave.81]

srochford i know what you are saying is true and that only U is really classed as a fail for GCSE's but in the real world that just isn't the case. That is not how i see my results from way back anything under a C was a fail in my eyes and it was the same for employers and Uni's after i left College.

 

I class my self as having 8 GCSE's for the ones above a grade C and the 2 under i feel i failed, although RS and French are not ones i'm worried about. ALthough now after a few years in employment my GCSE's are not important anyway it's the experience i've got.

[webman]

Well it was four years since I completed my GCSEs and I was always told anything beneath a C and you didn't pass that course...

[Friez]

Regardless of what they *MEAN* most Employers / Higher Education look for GCSE's Grades A-C. Doesn't mean everyone does, but most places tend to look for at least a C in something or other.