Why cancelling the GCSEs and A levels was a bad idea
Why cancelling the GCSEs and A levels was a bad idea
For the Government to completely cancel GCSE and A levels was surely a bad idea. The initial reaction would be one of relief. However, it is no clear that there are large part of the country that are particularly upset about the cancellation. The best article written about the GCSE and A level cancellation is Melanie Mcdonagh. Scrapping GCSE and A levels is both unfair and stupid.
Melanie use an example of ireland driving license back log. They dolled out the licenses to the back log and gave everyone a driving license. What happened was decades of poor drivers on the road. While the insurance companies just increased their premiums for everyone as the risk has gone up. Punishing everyone else through their wallet.
if we just let teachers decide what the pupils marks are it is now completely up the teachers’ discretion. Surely they could have just delayed and have the exams in sept. While avoiding the some times toxic pupil teacher relationship pitfalls and face a disinterested professional examiner. The big trouble with this is striking. How many pupils actually revise and perform throughout the course. GCSEs are mostly 2 years. Boys in particularly nearly all universally rush to revise towards the end of the curse. If they had know that there wouldnt be exams then their performance would have been throughout.
last minute sprinting is modus operandi for most boys. Where as girls are plodders through the year.
For last minute sprinters it is two weeks before the exam and whoosh. Sit it and fingers crossed. This feminine approach of steadingly going round the course is now rewarded exponentially compared to the more popular (At least for boys) of a rush at the end. Further In fact teachers don’t always have a particularly good record of estimating candidates’ actual results.
The fundament reason is that this totally changes the rules of the game midway through. Change the goal posts, move the final line. Disregard what is the most important part of a course.
What is left? It is like a fixed football league. Hollowed out by fraud and bribery.
Put the GCSEs and A level exams on and save us from this nightmare.