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Originally posted by Blanket&Crib
Summer 2005 GCSE's

English - A*, A
Science - B, B
Maths - C
Business - A, A
Drama - B
Geography - C
French - C
German - C

Oh and booty-full, it's not easy to pass GCSE's. It happens every year when people get higher - the excuse is ALWAYS "they're getting easier". I doubt highly that 18/100 will get you a pass.

I disagree...it has gotten easier in core subjects such as math. My sister did hers last year and did fantastically with all A*....although she is fantastically clever, they had it a little easier. (I'm not saying that GCSEs are easy just easier).

And it was someone talking GCSEs on this forum that said 18/100 was a C!!!! That's why I was shocked!!!! And I don't think that was even a higher paper whereby you have to answer less right for each grade as the questions on the paper overall are harder.

I'm not being funny but anyone can see that kids are not getting cleverer!!!! I'm not taking away the success for you all as GCSEs themselves are alot of pressure, especially when you are doing 13 subjects as I did. It is too much really. Its just that life is easier - my cousin now has the option of doing her math a year early despite intelligence tests (we could do stats if we were clever) and they do it by learning a topic, taking the exam, learning the next topic, taking the exam - how the hell does that show that you can learn a whole curriculum of maths and retain it????