I remember my A levels being stressful as fuck, would hate to do them again. Had an easier time at university to be honest.
Working at the moment. Anyone that says the working world is more stressful than studying for major exams is talking shite. Atleast when working you get paid and don't stress about it even in your free time.
So far the working world has been a LOT less stressful than school IMO. School is a 4-8 year sword of damocles
Utilizing tests to measure the competence of students in general is a fundamentally flawed idea that is extremely disconnected from actual functional reality while simultaneously placing horrific amounts of pressure on completely innocent kids.
If you want to tests how good someone is at something, make them work on it practically and see how well they do in an actual functional environment, there is a very large chance that someone who would do very poorly in an official test environment would be completely fine in the actual field because they may have a completely different alternatively valid approach to doing it.
Good. They're too easy
To be fair we had those people in our day too,crying and stressing, and those were the ones that passed.
useless troll posts arent welcome here mate
Making a levels harder was basically a vanity project for Michael Gove to avoid dealing with the idea that the education system was improving and producing better results because students were doing better than his generation did.
On the work Vs school argument, when I started my internship, all of the people saying "schools the best period of your life" and "you just wait for the working world" had worried me but by the time I was done I didn't really want to go back to uni (and I certainly wouldn't do a levels again).
Nothing like making people artificially grateful for a bullshit system by scaring them into believing that it only gets worse, nice Stolkholm syndrome.
I am currently in an internship this summer, training for exactly what I would be doing once I graduate and get a job.
This is by far and away much less stressful than college. The stresses that working here have provided me feel like nothing compared to the stress of constantly worrying about grades, exams, and standardized tests.
If this is any resemblance of the "real world" I cannot wait to get here. It is MUCH less stressful.
shoutouts to the teachers who make it seem like gcses are the be all end all of education and you have no future without good ones
I mean when you base their livelihoods on these metrics of student performance, of course they're gonna respond.
Lol the working world is honestly less stressful than the pressure to get A's in school exams.
I compare high school to prison - it sucks and is 100% more stressful then working. It was harder then college for me too.
When you're continiously told 'your entire life depends on these exams' it's no shit that people think they matter?
Oh I know, I was told the same thing. I just don't understand why the myth is perpetuated so much, your job interview will only care about experience and job-skills like customer interaction, teamwork and leadership qualities. All the A-levels are good for are getting you to Uni so you can spend 3 years for a small chance at a job at what you've actually studied in, unless you studied something worthwhile like engineering or healthcare. Otherwise you're getting a job in fucking anything you can get your hands on. It's a stupid system, I got a D, E, E, E and a U on my A levels and I still got into Uni. It's a big joke.
Which is where my complaint lies
I have a cousin who has struggled with suicidal thoughts and depression for the past few years now and I think a big cause of it is school. The implication that it gets even harder after you get out of secondary isn't helping.
a-levels were shite
i managed to get into uni with a C, D & E then graduated first class and landed a neat full-time job last year. bad a-level grades aren't the end of the world and should stop being pushed as such imo
If you think school was all chill with friends then I invite you to come do the course workload I've had for my engineering studies, plus the actual work I have to do to put food on my table.
Oh btw it was 12 hours per day (9am to 9pm) Monday to Thursday of school, being lectures and labs, mostly labs, plus papers outside of class, oh and then Friday you'll be working from 5am until 4pm and doing homework the rest of the night, and then Saturday and Sunday you'll be working from noon until 10pm, or 11am until 9pm if it's winter hours.
Yeah I'd gladly give up my 78 hour minimum "work week" for being able to chill with friends all day too but unfortunately once you get out of high school, it isn't actually that easy.
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Going through my second year (last) of A Levels right now and yeah the stress just lingers in the back of your mind and I've seen people break down by the sheer pressure mostly due to the 2 year course just shoving so much shit onto you on top of AS and such. Although I'm doing quite decent in my studies, I still feel like I would've gotten more experience practical-wise and most likely a whole lot less stress if I've opted for something like the 3 year engineering polytechnics instead.
Doesn't help that around here, alternatives to A levels are still relatively knew and there's this stigma/peer pressure of going for those instead of A levels as people who take A levels are seen as intellectually superior and this makes families reluctant and in some cases ashamed of kids not taking them.
I wonder why
Haha, gottem dude! Stupid fuckin kids caring about their future being in the hands of a group uncaring for student welfare and possibly being forced into a life of minimum wage jobs.
Fuckin snowflakes! They don't know what it's like to pull themselves up by their bootstraps like we did!
At the same time, companies tend to scrutinize applicants because there will be a bulk of uni grads if uni is too easy, like what happened to Japan, tons of uni grads but none able to find a stable full time job.
It's already too late for us in India, in theory schools aren't supposed to filter out/force students, especially the ones with failing grades, to take specific electives during high school, but unless a parent makes a hue and cry about it (and they usually are persuaded to not do so under threat of the kid being expelled) nothing usually comes of that. And the worst part is that you stand no chance of the highest valued college courses at all without a 4.0 GPA equivalent, or a 3.9. It's no perquisite for success (because after all, hustle is what matters when it comes to success, not your grades) but it's miserable watching a spate of suicides and attempted suicides occur every year when the high school results get published.
I must say A-Levels this year were particularly awful. I did Economics and they asked something on one paper that is only meant to be on a different paper. Without tooting my own horn, I'm pretty decent but even I was thrown off by the strange structure. And yes, schools are still pushing the "NO A-LEVELS? NO LIFE!" agenda that has resulted in almost 1 in 3 students going to Uni when you know that quite a few may be better off in apprenticeships or standard work.
Exams aren't a good measure of how someone will perform in the working world, especially since half the content has little practical application. It's a lot to heap on these kids.
One of the largest problems involved with this is teachers and other school administrators being a grade paint drinking retards about them, hamming them up to be "DUDE IF YOU DON'T GET THESE YOU'LL LITERALLY BE JUST SITTING IN A PILE OF MUCK YOU'RE SHIT"
Never ever had a teacher who didn't do this. Some of them were good, but they all acted like A Levels were the bee's knees
"Growing up" giving you a perspective is bullshit. Things sucked when I was a kid and they damned sure suck the exact same now, the only difference is there's more shit for me to be depressed by. My awareness of the world at large hasn't decreased anything, it's just made me even more paranoid and terrified of the world beyond the campfire around me. "Growing Up" being something that intrinsically makes you "tougher" is a crock of shit and you're a fool for peddling this fucking deceit and buying into it. All it's done is made it harder to deal when shit gets bad, because people like you say that, because I'm an adult, I shouldn't have emotions. I should just be a perfect, polished aluminium cyber-prick who appreciates the shitty little ticky-tacky box I've been plastered into as a result of my low income upbringing.
Adulthood instantly making things better is a fucking myth and I'm sick of it. I haven't gotten more freedoms as I've gotten older, I've just gotten more responsibilities, most of which I don't even understand because I was told that I'd figure them out when I was older.
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