Thread: would you pass the 11+?
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Old 02-02-2004, 16:31   #28
Dave Stones
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Re: would you pass the 11+?
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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
not stupid but potentially suicidal making comments like that
well i feel i am entitled to, after all, all we get day in day out is how easy our a levels gcses waht not are compared to the "good old days". its highly demoralising, and ive said before i would love to see how some "older generation" people (you know, 40+ who had to walk 15 miles through the snow in shorts etc etc) to sit my a levels. few seem to realise that a levels nowadays are taught totally differently to how they were back "in the golden age". fair enough you had to remember things like parrots back then, but we get taught with *shock horror* real-world examples now... totally different

as an aside my dad is 50 and still cant use a slide rule... he is a accountant. shows what good slide rules are/were

*stops grumbling
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