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I was in a top set English class in secondary school and I have to say it was pretty good looking back on it. Everyone knows ICT is shit anyway. For a final piece we had to make a website, I ripped a dreamweaver template, changed it up a bit and got the highest mark on it (I've never told anyone that haha).
GCSE English is incredibly flawed [sp]I do not have an English GCSE because I'm incredibly lazy and spent most of my last 2 years at high school sleeping. Regardless of that:[/sp] A chunk of the whole qualification is coursework. Coursework that is done inside a 2-4 hour time period, in a "controlled environment". Think of it as simply writing an essay in a classroom. These assessments are to be done under the same conditions an exam is done, however they never are (at least not in my case). Everybody was talking, you could just lean over to your mate and copy what he was doing. Hell, I even "drew inspiration" from an online article on my mobile in the middle of one of them. The point I'm trying to make is that it seriously needs reworking. The whole qualification was an unstructured mess.
[QUOTE=The DooD;39507433]GCSE ICT is so fucking shit though.[/QUOTE] Shit as it may be, it's like 10% of the ENTIRE GCSE system. [editline]7th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=zerotwelve;39507563]GCSE English is incredibly flawed [sp]I do not have an English GCSE because I'm incredibly lazy and spent most of my last 2 years at high school sleeping. Regardless of that:[/sp] A chunk of the whole qualification is coursework. Coursework that is done inside a 2-4 hour time period, in a "controlled environment". Think of it as simply writing an essay in a classroom. These assessments are to be done under the same conditions an exam is done, [B]however they never are (at least not in my case). Everybody was talking, you could just lean over to your mate and copy what he was doing. Hell, I even "drew inspiration" from an online article on my mobile in the middle of one of them. [/B] The point I'm trying to make is that it seriously needs reworking. The whole qualification was an unstructured mess.[/QUOTE] Says more about your school than GCSEs. My controlled assessments were taken very seriously.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39506287]ICT was a joke, all we did was copy a load of crap, then in the second year the new teacher had no idea what she was doing and my progress just halted. And somehow someone who did absolutely nothing got a distinction yet I only got a merit.[/QUOTE] I genuinely knew more than my teacher. Whenever I tried to bring up stuff like HTML out of interest he would get really iffy, blatantly just reading from some BS text book himself. All the teachers were the same. Only the technicians seemed to be somewhat computer savvy in the entire building. College was a little bit better. At least my A Level teacher could answer some of my questions, but he still didnt seem to know anything except what he needs to teach. I got a distinction but level 1 rather than level 2, because the school refused to enter any of us for level 2. Even though its the same fucking coursework. So not only did they teach me fuck all, they basically took away my chance of getting the best possible grade, which I earnt and gave me the best possible retard grade instead.
Same, talking in a CA is a no no for us
PSHE or whatever it is called is rubbish as well. It tells you the stuff you will come across but dont particularly need to know whilst not really covering lots of things you will come across and really need to know. Theres so many things that happen after you leave school and half the time I would think 'Why the fuck did we not learn about this in PSHE' English teachings seem outdated to me as well, but that might just be more opinion than anything.
When I did GCSE's (only in 2010) we didn't have controller assessment for English coursework, it was the whole take-it-home-for-4-weeks jobbie. I see no difference between a controlled assessment and an exam to be honest.
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;39506297]That smiley doesn't mean what you think it means.[/QUOTE] Hah. I actually don't know why I used the downs smile. I really do want to move to Finland.
Good, it would mean people in 40 years will be like "what's a gcse?" I would rather my highschool education not get de-valued.
I took GCSE Computing instead of ICT. We actually fucking learnt stuff about how computers work, binary code, and all that coding jazz.
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