AQA Exam papers missing for GCSE Humanities

[reddwarfer]

Today I had my first offical GCSE examination - Humanities.
With this exam you are given a 'sources booklet' a couple on months beforehand to study in lessons and at home. This allows you to concentrate more on the questions that are likey to come up. You are allowed to annotate this as we please as we are given a fresh copy in the exam to avoid cheating.
We need this booklet to answer most of the questions in the paper as it contains vital information that isn't in the sylubus and statistics to be able to answer the questions properly.

After entering the exam room today we all sat down to find an invidulator informing all of us that: "The sources booklets were not sent to us, this is the same for all the 150 schools taking this examination. Please carry on and answer the questions as best you can, this mistake will be taken into account when marking your papers."

see this page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5005642.stm

[Vincent]

yet another cock up in the exams situation.

I'm glad I'm not still at school waiting to sit mine.

Hope you do well in your exams despite the ineptitude of the government :-)

If you ask me thisis just another way to fiddle the exam results and make them seem improved by "taking into account" the lack of these handbooks.

They got to take a copy of the handbook home months in advance too.

Did anyone else here get such an obvious aid for cheating when they sat any exams in the past?  No, I thought not.

The exam papers today are easier than they were in the past too.  It's not just the papers saying for headlines, it's the truth.

I've seen them.

[reddwarfer]

It isn't an aid for cheating mate!
The subject in question is such a wide one which contains everything from politics, war, geography, religion etc... so it isn't humanly possible for your average student to learn everything in detail in the time we get. We scrape the edge of all of these subjects over the two years and then when given the sources booklet WHICH CONTAINS NO DIRECT QUESTIONS we can guess what subjects the paper is going to specilize on and so we can go into great depth in lessons on the particular subjects.

I strongly diagree with you Nicholas as you are obviously significantly older than we GCSE and A level students and so have had more education in life and possibly further education and so you probably could answer the paper possibly easily. We on the other hand have not had as many life experiences and significant history to learn of these in life or further eductation.
Heres an example - I took my KS3 SATS paper 2 years ago and that was moderatly hard going but if given a paper tomorrow I could answer it very easily - you see!

If you don't agree with that you're just jealous :lol:

I am a qualified teacher reddwarfer. :-P

Trust me when I say that the exams today are far easier than they were 15 years ago.

[reddwarfer]

Think what you like matey!
There was a programme on television about this controversial debate and it was found that they were no easier than before.

We are a growing technological generation, moreso than before and so are better and evolution tells us that things improve slightly through the generations.

I'm holding my ground on this issue, we are put under more examinaination pressure than say thirty years ago.

reddwarfer wrote:
Think what you like matey!
There was a programme on television about this controversial debate and it was found that they were no easier than before.

We are a growing technological generation, moreso than before and so are better and evolution tells us that things improve slightly through the generations.

I'm holding my ground on this issue, we are put under more examinaination pressure than say thirty years ago.

Really, the exams kids have today are much easier than they used to be.

I no longer teach as I can't stand gobby little herberts who are thick as two short planks and get into college with A grades and are incapable of doing the work needed.

[Vincent]

nicholas wrote:
I no longer teach as I can't stand gobby little herberts who are thick as two short planks and get into college with A grades and are incapable of doing the work needed.

So that's why we are Chav Kingdom?

Because the exams are too easy.

Bring back the ruler! :-D

Vincent wrote:

nicholas wrote:
I no longer teach as I can't stand gobby little herberts who are thick as two short planks and get into college with A grades and are incapable of doing the work needed.

So that's why we are Chav Kingdom?

Because the exams are too easy.

Bring back the ruler! :-D

That is exactly why we are Chav Kingdom.  That and the fact that the parents of these little darlings are "Children of Thatcher" themselves, who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I have gone back to coding for a living.  Twice the wages, half the hassle. :-)

[reddwarfer]

You lot are so stereotypical :-P

reddwarfer wrote:
You lot are so stereotypical :-P

You are obvisously going to fail the English Language GCSE.

Well, you would have 15 years ago.  You'll probably get an A* these days for using that sort of grammar.

I digress....... What are Vincent and I supposed to be stereotypical of in your opinion?

[odin]

Grumpy old b*stards? ;-). You know: 'kids these days' =).

[Vincent]

reddwarfer wrote:
You lot are so stereotypical :-P

I've been called many things but never stereotypical :lol:

@nicholas

What did you teach?

[Vincent]

odin wrote:
Grumpy old b*stards? ;-). You know: 'kids these days' =).

Hey, less of the old please, I'm not 30 for another 2 years yet :-P

Vincent wrote:

reddwarfer wrote:
You lot are so stereotypical :-P

I've been called many things but never stereotypical :lol:

@nicholas

What did you teach?

Thick {bleep}s with grade A GCSE's mainly.