At first, the initial post-exam comments were funny and original. The classic pleas for help and the memes were just like after any other exam. But then it just went too far. It got desperate on a massive scale. Never seen it before and I hope to never see it again. Over 129,000 tweets using the hashtag were made on Thursday and most of those tweets had a similar story.
My school especially gets very good maths results at GCSE level so we're right up there nationally. How did we deal with the two hardest questions in Thursday's paper? A good number of people in the year couldn't do it (including me) and some did blame the exam board, some did beat themselves over it but none of us (I hope) signed any petitions...
A petition. Thousands of people and counting have signed petitions wanting Edexcel to lower the grade boundaries for that paper and it has got their attention. But don't they know that if there's generally low marks, that's what they do anyway?! I mean, I thought it was obvious! People continue to amaze me. But in the end, I'm sure (I mean I hope) it's just most people jumping on the bandwagon hoping for some publicity and some Twitter/Internet fame.
It's natural right? You see something popular and you want to join in. You want to fit in and be part of the crowd. After all, you just need a relevant tweet and you might even grab yourself a few followers! *yawn*
If it's funny, then great. But most of them aren't. They're clearly forced. Too much repetition as well or is that just classic British humour that everyone seems to share since the same joke can be told 5000 times? But you can't forget that there are people who genuinely struggled and by copying their jokes, it's just wrong.
So what about the headline question itself? It did escalate quickly but it just needed some thought apparently. But under pressure, it's hard to do just that I guess.The claims that it took a maths graduate some time to do the question below though is as true as me being the President of Venezuela.
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| Calm down Chloe, it's not that deep. |
A petition. Thousands of people and counting have signed petitions wanting Edexcel to lower the grade boundaries for that paper and it has got their attention. But don't they know that if there's generally low marks, that's what they do anyway?! I mean, I thought it was obvious! People continue to amaze me. But in the end, I'm sure (I mean I hope) it's just most people jumping on the bandwagon hoping for some publicity and some Twitter/Internet fame.
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| I want to cry... |
It's natural right? You see something popular and you want to join in. You want to fit in and be part of the crowd. After all, you just need a relevant tweet and you might even grab yourself a few followers! *yawn*
If it's funny, then great. But most of them aren't. They're clearly forced. Too much repetition as well or is that just classic British humour that everyone seems to share since the same joke can be told 5000 times? But you can't forget that there are people who genuinely struggled and by copying their jokes, it's just wrong.
So what about the headline question itself? It did escalate quickly but it just needed some thought apparently. But under pressure, it's hard to do just that I guess.The claims that it took a maths graduate some time to do the question below though is as true as me being the President of Venezuela.
It's clearly a high A* question so not everyone is meant to be able to do it. Only a certain number of people are given A* in every subject every year so tough questions like the one about Hannah's sweets always come up to differentiate everyone.
Plus what about the other 97 marks in the paper? Questions like below are surely less of a priority? Or maybe I'm too alienated?
The answers somehow got leaked and most managed to get a good idea of what they would get. For some, despair, but for others, life was good. It's just a hard fact of life that GCSEs are getting tougher since we're all on average apparently dumber than most other countries.
Many are complaining now but imagine what it'll be like in a couple of years. That paper was mostly average, the harder questions required a lot of thought but that can be a good thing. Hardly anything is handed to you on a plate these days anyway.
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| Tough but only worth 3 marks out of 100. #getoverit |
The answers somehow got leaked and most managed to get a good idea of what they would get. For some, despair, but for others, life was good. It's just a hard fact of life that GCSEs are getting tougher since we're all on average apparently dumber than most other countries.
Many are complaining now but imagine what it'll be like in a couple of years. That paper was mostly average, the harder questions required a lot of thought but that can be a good thing. Hardly anything is handed to you on a plate these days anyway.
I'm starting to think the majority of people go OTT and blame the exam board excessively for their own problems since they've been caught out by things that they just didn't revise/know.
The grade boundaries should be low anyway by the looks of things. It's just a waiting game now. But don't waste your time worrying about a maths grade that might not even impact your career or university choices.Whatever will be, will be. After all, you only get what you give.
The grade boundaries should be low anyway by the looks of things. It's just a waiting game now. But don't waste your time worrying about a maths grade that might not even impact your career or university choices.Whatever will be, will be. After all, you only get what you give.
