Criticism of early GCSE Maths

[marigold]

Ashamed to say I did two years of statistics as part of my degree and apart from the words " null hypothesis " can remember nothing. I avert my eyes every time standardisation is mentioned on the forum and hurry back to the threads on people carriers and skirt lengths.

[mad?]

Ashamed to say I did two years of statistics as part of my degree and apart from the words " null hypothesis " can remember nothing. I avert my eyes every time standardisation is mentioned on the forum and hurry back to the threads on people carriers and skirt lengths.

Ditto!

[yoyo123]

digressing ( quietly in case they hear me in the dungeon) I had to help a friend;s daughter in 1st year of Uni with her Chemistry assignment last week. It is 21 years since I did 'real' science and I nearly fried my brain....with the help of several people, my ancient books and t'internet I finally got there

use it or lose it

[Looking for help]

Ashamed to say I did two years of statistics as part of my degree and apart from the words " null hypothesis " can remember nothing. I avert my eyes every time standardisation is mentioned on the forum and hurry back to the threads on people carriers and skirt lengths.

Same as me My son was recently revising for a stats modules and kept on asking me things....I swaer stats has changed since I did it Couldn't even say anything meaningful about null hypotheses . My brain has been befuddled with children.

[Tewks_Mom]

Hi there sorry am new to all this, *waves hello*. My son is in year 9 and has been achieving level 8s and 100% on most of his maths papers for quiet a while and so is doing his GCSE early (next Summer) and then doing something that is inbetween GCSE and A-level and the school assure us that the reason is otherwise he will get bored. Now appreciate the article is saying about schools just generally putting children forward to look better - but is it still in my son's best interests to take it early? They've assured me he *WILL* get an A* when questionning them about what happens if he doesn't and can he retake it.

[magwich2]

I am sure he will be absolutely fine - my daughter (year 9 and a summer birthday) has just done gcse maths (she had to do it as a private candidate at a local college) and found it very straightforward. She was getting 95% or more in the unseen past papers. If the school say he will get an A* I am pretty sure they will be proved right.
The only thing I would worry about slightly is what he does next - our school has actually been helpful and said that DD can do her open university work in maths lessons - you might care to consider this kind of course.
Good luck to your son anyway!

[magwich2]

I forgot to say - the grade boundaries are approx 85% for an A* with edexcel and approx 80% with AQA for an A*

[Tewks_Mom]

Thank you. They have a course in place following his GCSE which will apparently give him a few more UCAS points.

[tokyonambu]

Thank you. They have a course in place following his GCSE which will apparently give him a few more UCAS points.

The OCR Free Standing Additional Maths looks very good.

[Tewks_Mom]

Thanks for the link, shall go take a look