[Sticks]

Originally posted by sweetlittlesara
Sticks - Grrr it really annoys me when people go on about how easy exams are these days, believe me, I took them and they werent a breeze! Why dont you try taking them?

I did not comment on the difficulty or otherwise of the exams, just on how the pass mark now seems to be fixed. As greater people pass the exams, their value to employers or universities to assist in the selection process diminishes. If anyone can pass an exam and everyone does, where is any sense of achievement. It is diminished.

As for the pass mark issue; I dont know, I'm not an expert but I am pretty sure that the pass mark changes according to the difficulty of the paper, this is what I have always been told and when doing past papers the Pass Mark has always been different.

How did they assess that though, difficulty is subjective. I find some aspects of computers reatively easy, however I always get nervous about dealing with hardware modifications. My brother in law finds hardware trivial but has not got much of a clue about webdesign protocols.

The system I defined where the pass mark is only decided once all the marks are in, is objective using statistical method and much fairer.

If pupils have improved so more people pass a certain fixed goal post, where is the extra distinction for the exceptional elite? The statistical measure shows it.