This is really depressing. It comes from a recent article in the Telegraph newspaper in the UK.
"Grade boundaries set by the biggest three exam boards show thousands of students have secured good GCSE passes despite getting the majority of questions wrong.
Teenagers sitting maths GCSE papers set by the AQA exam board needed to gain only 48 per cent of the marks to be awarded an A grade. In a separate maths paper, set by Edexcel, C grades were awarded to students who got only 16 per cent of the questions right."
There is increasing pressure to show that education standards are improving in most countries, so this is definitely one way to improve the standard, at least as far as the stastics are concerned.
Read the full article here.Then you read this. The best aspect of this particular survey? Yep, the fact that "more than 10% believed it (a knowledge of history) made them more attractive to the opposite sex".
Ireland is reputed to have an excellent education system. Hopefully we're not massaging the numbers too.
2 comments:
As a history major, I can affirm that a knowledge of history does not make one more attractive to the opposite sex.
Nor does a firm grasp of anything scientific, trust me.
As for the education part: I can personally vouch for the decline of students in recent years, at least in the states. I've seen undergrads entering college without very basic skills that I learned way before I graduate high school. It's depressing.
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