Emily (my eldest daughter) got her A/S Level results today, and she's done very very well.
She has grade As for Latin, History, Greek and English Literature, all averaging at over 90%, including a few (5 I think) papers with 100% scores.
This means that she now only (
) needs to get high grade Cs in her A2s in order to get a clean sweep of A grade A levels.
Lots of the usual bluster in the news about how A levels are dumbed down and easier, but the reality of it is that schools are now teaching to the exam/coursework criteria, and the kids are also working shed loads more than I did at that age.
Anyone of my age wouldn't know what the mark schemes and grade boundary criteria were, but these are the kind of things that schools are now teaching the A level students of today in order that they can maximise their attainment. And given that this is the way schools and therefore teachers are judged these days, who can blame them?
So well done to all you A/S and A2 students, you deserve your moment of pride after all the hard work. Especially you Em!
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After writing the above entry, I was reading the paper and spotted a cool letter. To precis the content, the author was saying that if A levels and GCSE's were getting easier because more people were doing well at them, did this mean that the Oympics were also getting easier?
