[sueldoc]

Can someone tell me what the teams exam results were? I can't play videos at work.

[Yudster]

Aled got 19% (fail), Dave got 14% (fail) and Carrie got 24% (C).

Although my daughter just got her GCSE results - in maths (advanced paper) she got 64% in her coursework and 54% in her exam - and she got a D. Makes no sense to me.

[DevilsDuck]

24% is a C

what the *?

thats a proper piss take!

[Yudster]

Well if you look at my daughter's result - which was a real exam, not a publicity stunt - you can see that it isn't.

[Munki Bhoy]

24% is a C

what the *?

thats a proper piss take!

I wondered that. I think they're right after all - exams are not getting easier. It's just the pass mark is now so low it makes everyone look better than they actually are.

[Yudster]

24% is a C

what the *?

thats a proper piss take!

I wondered that. I think they're right after all - exams are not getting easier. It's just the pass mark is now so low it makes everyone look better than they actually are.

Well if you look at my daughter's result - which was a real exam, not a publicity stunt - you can see that it isn't.

Why does everyone think this fake exam was real?

[catherine]

Well they didn't do coursework so it was only based on what you would need to get a C in one exam, Maths GCSE is two coursework and 3 exams I think.

[The Stig]

Aled got 19% (fail), Dave got 14% (fail) and Carrie got 24% (C).

Although my daughter just got her GCSE results - in maths (advanced paper) she got 64% in her coursework and 54% in her exam - and she got a D. Makes no sense to me.

The paper that the team did was a past paper therefore the mark scheme will be totally different. Also a grade will be given to the team based purely on the paper, when you throw coursework in to the equation again the mark system changes. I did my GCSE's this year too.

[Yudster]

You must be right Stig, I know its more complex than that. But I still believe that any examination where less than 25% can be considered a good pass (ie a C grade) is ludicrous. As such, the whole "doing the GCSE to empathise with our audience" caper was a dead loss, there was no common ground to empathise over! Especially when they (well, some of them) pretty much treat it as a big joke anyway.

[Munki Bhoy]

I did wonder what kind of example they were setting. I never heard what Nick Grimshaw put for his answers, but Scott Mills certainly didn't take it seriously. So what message is that sending? Put what you want in your exams, it really doesn't matter cos you could still go on to fame and fortune anyway?

[Yudster]

At least the Moyles team members took it a bit seriously, as did thingy....oh, what's his name? Gregg James, that's it. Grimshaw and Mills were just taking the piss - and if the aim of it really was to empathise with the audience, well, what they did was actually more like giving their audience the finger.

[Boboff]

Ow Err Misses!

[QWERTYo8]

We all needed a great memory to be good at exams. We can be bright as fcuk, but if we can't remember shit, we gonna fail. Maybe a hour a week at memory classes at school would be a good thing.

[Andy B]

I signed up for one of them but I keep forgetting what day the class is on.

Oh and my Maths GCSE paper was 100% of the marks. How can you do maths coursework anyway?

Oh don't forget they were doing the higher paper so the questions will have been harder hence a lower mark needed for a pass. Incidently I got an A in mine.

[Ezza]

I'm cleverer than you. I actually enjoyed my maths coursework.. It was about a school, and you had to draw graphs and stuff. Good times..

[Yudster]

Oh don't forget they were doing the higher paper so the questions will have been harder hence a lower mark needed for a pass. Incidently I got an A in mine.

Lou did the higher paper.

[Andy B]

Maybe it was a different exam board? I don't know how these things work.

[catherine]

Aren't they all AQA?

[MK Chris]

When I was doing GCSEs, the exams were set by two or three different boards.. I think AQA, Edexcel and maybe another. I would imagine that the maths paper is set by the same board right across the country though.

[S4B]

Aren't they all AQA?

There are many exam boards. Ed-excel, AQA and WJEC are the main 3 now I think. When I did my O levels there were at least 20 exam boards but that seems to have been rationalised now.

[Andy B]

Same here. There were loads of exam boards when I were a lad. Like gas and electric companies they were! My school alone used at least 5 cos I've got certificaes from 5.

As far as I was aware AQA is that text service where you text em a question and they answer it and charge you a quid.

[catherine]

No i mean aren't all maths gcse exams AQA.

[Ezza]

Mine wasn't, mine was edexcel.