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What are people's views on this? I can't quite decide whether it's a good idea or not.
Coursework provides people who tend to panic in exams the chance of getting a decent grade, but is that necessarily a good thing? With all of education being finally assesed by exams is giving people a way out a good idea?
Sooooo... anyone?
Coursework provides people who tend to panic in exams the chance of getting a decent grade, but is that necessarily a good thing? With all of education being finally assesed by exams is giving people a way out a good idea?
Sooooo... anyone?
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AfroJoe wrote:
> Your system actually sounds a lot better. Because coursework was
> something I actually bothered with. Admittedly we didn't really have
> all that much at all and maybe I wouldn't have worked as much at it
> if I'd been regularly doing loads of work... but meh, maybe I would.
Heh. Reminds me of my sciences.
Me and 3 friends sung Bohemian Rhapsody as loud as we could (all 8 minutes) from the back of the classroom every chemistry lesson- ignoring the work completely.
In physics we always got one person sent out of the room and I was always asked to move.
In biology he scowled at me and moved me every lesson.
My coursework marks? 30/30, 29/30, 27/30.
People like me came to learn that the whole of the school year was irrelevant until it came down to coursework exam time.
Pretty sweet way of getting your way through school...
> Your system actually sounds a lot better. Because coursework was
> something I actually bothered with. Admittedly we didn't really have
> all that much at all and maybe I wouldn't have worked as much at it
> if I'd been regularly doing loads of work... but meh, maybe I would.
Heh. Reminds me of my sciences.
Me and 3 friends sung Bohemian Rhapsody as loud as we could (all 8 minutes) from the back of the classroom every chemistry lesson- ignoring the work completely.
In physics we always got one person sent out of the room and I was always asked to move.
In biology he scowled at me and moved me every lesson.
My coursework marks? 30/30, 29/30, 27/30.
People like me came to learn that the whole of the school year was irrelevant until it came down to coursework exam time.
Pretty sweet way of getting your way through school...
Apparantly, you don't have to do the RP exam for GCSE. But you might as well, considering you learn about it for many years beforehand.
Oh right, I'd better explain. R.P. stands for Religion and Philosophy. It's the same thing as R.E.
Oh right, I'd better explain. R.P. stands for Religion and Philosophy. It's the same thing as R.E.
RastaBillySkank wrote:
> And fecking 15 mark essays. Not hard but bloody time consuming.
In Higher History I think we had to do 2 essays, with each worth 30 marks. Then 50 marks worth of source questions. Then a 30 mark essay as coursework was the rest of your results. And then we never actually got that back... it was sent off to the examiners and marked at the same time as your exam. So going into the History exam (and it was exactly the same in most of my subjects) was actually really important, seeing as you didn't have any coursework to fall back on.
Your system actually sounds a lot better. Because coursework was something I actually bothered with. Admittedly we didn't really have all that much at all and maybe I wouldn't have worked as much at it if I'd been regularly doing loads of work... but meh, maybe I would.
> And fecking 15 mark essays. Not hard but bloody time consuming.
In Higher History I think we had to do 2 essays, with each worth 30 marks. Then 50 marks worth of source questions. Then a 30 mark essay as coursework was the rest of your results. And then we never actually got that back... it was sent off to the examiners and marked at the same time as your exam. So going into the History exam (and it was exactly the same in most of my subjects) was actually really important, seeing as you didn't have any coursework to fall back on.
Your system actually sounds a lot better. Because coursework was something I actually bothered with. Admittedly we didn't really have all that much at all and maybe I wouldn't have worked as much at it if I'd been regularly doing loads of work... but meh, maybe I would.
In A2 at my school, i had a choice of doing coursework or an exam. It was statistical biology, going out in field measuring the width of a dandylion (sp?) compared to the distance it was away from the path or something along those lines. Anyhoo that was the coursework and then spend about 20 hours typing the whole thing up and doing stats analysis on it. I choose to take the exam. 1 hour 15 min paper with questions like find the median from this set of raw data (there were 11 values).
So the exam was a joke.
But so was the coursework. As a class we were given many model answers to look at,a very long time to do it and our teacher when marking the bit that he marks gave everyone 7 or 8 out of 8.
So coursework is also kinda pointless.
I think a more constructive way of assessing pupils would froma reference from your teachers as they are the ones who truly know your potential. No exam paper or coursework fully describes what you can do. But this would be difficult as the teachers would have to be honest and it woul dtake ages for them to write detailed references for each student.
So the exam was a joke.
But so was the coursework. As a class we were given many model answers to look at,a very long time to do it and our teacher when marking the bit that he marks gave everyone 7 or 8 out of 8.
So coursework is also kinda pointless.
I think a more constructive way of assessing pupils would froma reference from your teachers as they are the ones who truly know your potential. No exam paper or coursework fully describes what you can do. But this would be difficult as the teachers would have to be honest and it woul dtake ages for them to write detailed references for each student.
Super Kev wrote:
> Care? Nope I dont give a damm. You see I am passed all that stuff!!!
"past"
maybe you should repeat English.
> Care? Nope I dont give a damm. You see I am passed all that stuff!!!
"past"
maybe you should repeat English.
Care? Nope I dont give a damm. You see I am passed all that stuff!!!
Most uni work is course work, as you need to have practical examples of the types of work you can do for job interviews and general showing off.
I personally don't have a problem with exams but i think remembering facts is very different from being able to do something properly unless of course they are practical exams which are good.
I personally don't have a problem with exams but i think remembering facts is very different from being able to do something properly unless of course they are practical exams which are good.
Besides. Government won't take them away cos as we've said everyone gets full-ish marks, yet the decider is in the exams. Therefore it's still as fair as ever for who's better and who's best. The government keep it though because the overall grades are all raised, making people look smarter, so the system has worked better...
Tagline wrote:
> RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Chr1s wrote:
> It probably should be worth a higher percentage of the overall grade
> though. Exams last a couple of hours and are worth as much, if not
> more than a piece of coursework that took months to complete.
>
> Bollards. At GCSE level at least, apart from Geography there is
> no single piece of coursework that takes months to complete.
>
>
> ICT and business studies took us ages to do them
Exactly. I did two pieces of business coursework, each counts for one third of my final mark and they both took at least eight months to complete. I suppose it depends on how hard and how fast you work, but I'm pretty much guaranteed two A's for business studies so I suppose I would be considered as one of the harder-working people on the course and it still took me eight months.
> RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Chr1s wrote:
> It probably should be worth a higher percentage of the overall grade
> though. Exams last a couple of hours and are worth as much, if not
> more than a piece of coursework that took months to complete.
>
> Bollards. At GCSE level at least, apart from Geography there is
> no single piece of coursework that takes months to complete.
>
>
> ICT and business studies took us ages to do them
Exactly. I did two pieces of business coursework, each counts for one third of my final mark and they both took at least eight months to complete. I suppose it depends on how hard and how fast you work, but I'm pretty much guaranteed two A's for business studies so I suppose I would be considered as one of the harder-working people on the course and it still took me eight months.
Coursework isn't worth much of the final grade, except in Food. Then it's 60%.
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