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"Abolish Coursework?"

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?

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?

I think it should be the other way round - abolish exams. I don't think it's fair to determine someone's future by the result of a bunch of 1-2hour long tests.

..that are essentially a memory test.

English and, to a lesser extent, History aren't memory tests.

I'm not quite sure which way to argue on this. Abolishing exams is also an idea that I'm not quite convinced of. The modular A-level system seems a fairly good way of doing it to me.

I just find some subjects coursework ridiculous, per examplé: I can not turn up to my Drama exam and will get a very strong B. I need around 14/80 for an A, and around 42/80 for an A*. It's just ridiculous. Same goes for Geography, I've already passed the subject just with my coursework. Silly. And History...

English isn't, history is - memorise the textbook like I did for GCSE (I just read over it and made notes and the important things stuck) regurgitate it and get an A*. It was essentially plagarism..

RoJ wrote:
> English isn't, history is - memorise the textbook like I did for GCSE
> (I just read over it and made notes and the important things stuck)
> regurgitate it and get an A*. It was essentially plagarism..

Yeah but you can't do that with interpretation and whatnot of Sources.

True. That's why I hate sources. Actually I think my hatred is justified, in a lot of cases they expect you to write realms of information on a source when you just can't because of its limited content. A few acute sentences could answer some of those 8 mark source questions.

RoJ wrote:
> True. That's why I hate sources. Actually I think my hatred is
> justified, in a lot of cases they expect you to write realms of
> information on a source when you just can't because of its limited
> content. A few acute sentences could answer some of those 8 mark
> source questions.

Yup. The criteria for answering Source questions is just daft sometimes.

And fecking 15 mark essays. Not hard but bloody time consuming.

Have you done A-Level history?
The marks there are something like 8 marks, 22 and 25 for 3 essays.