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Originally Posted by Damien
True but then coursework is far more akin to actual work as well. For those that don't cheat it's a chance to craft a real bit of work, a researched and well-argued essay, a practical computer program, a work of art (they are keeping coursework for art) and so on. My essays for history were far better when I had the ability to type them out, research and use citations. I tend to get a bit messy when writing essays as my brain jumps between several points and a computer allows me to restructure it in a way a two-hour time limit with a written page doesn't.
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That's true ,and why it is used in universities and colleges maybe the way forward is to make sure the kids know the 3rs first before doing course work after all Britain didn't do too bad when we where taught parrot fashion with one exam in each subject ,we still turned out world class academics .My school was one of the first to experiment with GCSE'S 1980-81 i did CSE levels which had a equivalent gcse grade attached to them and i remember one of the teachers saying that the government where trying to fix something that wasn't broken