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193913	2003-11-23 03:54:00	> Thanks for letting me know . My school English days > were back in the mists of time and they were in the > UK - 'O' levels' Just to let you know, the 'O Levels' are now known as the 'A Levels' . Also, this is what many New Zealand schools have decided to do since the introduction of NCEA . Which, most, including myself, cannot criticise enough . There are "some" good points of NCEA, and that is to let the 'less able' achieve . *I don't mean any offence, I doubt there're any of these people on PF1 anyway, suprised if there were . As someone once said . . . people involved in either music or computers tend to be much more academically capable* Otherwise, I simply see the NCEA as been one of the worst way of assessment . (I have to agree with Dr . Brash on this) Already, I've completed IGCSE (the level below A levels, like SC and Bursary) in Extended Mathematics and Combined Science, along with NCEA Mathematics and 2 standard from NCEA Science, and 1 from Biology . Already, I have any doubt as to how NCEA can extend the mind . I'm a 4th former in theory by the way . Since completing the IGCSE, I've had no trouble sitting the NCEA without study and completing it fully . To me, NCEA is the examination of luck :D You got to try your luck on whether you get a 'nice' marker or 'nasty' marker . You also have to try your luck on whether you're making silly mistakes, etc . My conclusion is that we're all very capable, we just need to be pressured to undertake the training required .	~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
193914	2003-11-23 08:57:00	I have had Principles of Management so far (Friday). I think I may have pulled out enough BS to get through it. Tomorrow is Information Systems, which is software development and planning stuff. Planning sucks.	-=JM=- (16)
193915	2003-11-23 19:36:00	Are you sure the 'O' has become 'A' ? We had 'A' back then. The 'O' stood for Ordinary level and the 'A' for Advanced level. There was also 'S' level for Scholarship. Mind you, anything can happen these days. I think each generation bemoans the "lack" of education of the younger generation, but we still seem to be turning out scientists, etc. My only gripe is with the continual change. If it works don't fix it. What is also bad is that students can get to University and can't string two words together. There's something wrong there. Crunn	Crunn (1068)
193916	2003-11-23 20:14:00	Are you doing a BCom JM? Doesnt sound like any high school classes that I know of.	Barnabas (4562)
193917	2003-11-23 21:40:00	"Henry" Crun is correct as to the UK set up. In the beginning we had exams called Matriculation (run by University of London) otherwise known as School Certificate, Intermediate Higher School Certificate and Higher School Certificate. These were replaced by General Certificates of Education(Ordinary Level, and Advanced Level), the bright ones in the second sixth (your seventh or 13th) would also sit Scholarship Level. Inter-HSC was dropped. Now most pupils (I hate the word students applied to schools, you are not students until you go onto to higher things, you are pupils :) ), in the UK taking these exams were amongst the brighter ones who had passed Grammar School entrance or "Scholarship" exams, later known as the universal "11 Plus", as in 1949?, an education act made Grammar Schools open to free entry subject to passing the 11 Plus. Later after Labour Minister Tony Crossland ( who was notorious for his swear words regarding Grammar Schools) started compulsorily destroying them and turning them into so-called Comprehensives, they introduced exams called CSE, which were designed to give everyone a qualification. They were at about very roughly the level of 3rd form Grammar, ( you took O Level at about 16 yrs in the 5th form.) There are now very very few Grammar Schools left, they were the backbone of english education. My old school was turned into a comprehensive, and the education report I read about it 3 years ago had placed it as among the lowest 3 or 4 for achievement in the whole of the UK.	Terry Porritt (14)
193918	2003-11-23 22:15:00	oweel, i'm to town to go do this economics exam. Good luck for the rest of you guys who said you're doing it, and anyone else who's doing other exams. In a few hours - i'll have 2 months of no school YEHAA!	fergie (424)
193919	2003-11-24 02:38:00	> What is also bad is that students can get to University and can't string two > words together. There's something wrong there. I agree, it is shocking. The standard of spelling in many newspapers also makes me cringe these days.	Fire-and-Ice (3910)
193920	2003-11-24 05:14:00	WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOO NO MORE EXAMS!!! HOLIDAYS FOR ME!!!! :D :D :D :D :D yeh eco was pretty average, i left just before 15 minutes to leave and made a helluva raccet causes pens and **** dropped from my hole in the plastic bag i was using . English was the biggest c*nt, reckon i passed 1 . 6 though . Science was easier than i thought *cept for geology . I took Maths, English, Information Management, Science and Economics with health and p . e but only internals Maths was alright, so was info and science and eco .	MrBeef (342)
193921	2003-11-24 05:15:00	oh yeh im level 1. At Tauraroa Area School in whangarei	MrBeef (342)
193922	2003-11-24 05:18:00	yay.... glad thats over. I thought that Eco exam was hard - weel hardest out of all exams i've done so far :( Oweel, guess i have to wait till January now...	fergie (424)
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