New 9-1 GCSE grades 'creating uncertainty for schools'

topsyturvy · Post by **topsyturvy** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:14 pm

Is it not too late to discuss the new GCSE 9-1 format.....

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For the amount of quotes for poems the students this year have to learn (by heart), counts for only 20% of exam question Eng Lit. 9-1 GCSE this year.

This is besides the quotes for Novel, Play and Shakespeare.

Feels like doing Bachelors degree in English!!

Guest55 · Post by **Guest55** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:36 pm

The changes are not as extreme as much of the press would have us believe.

topsyturvy · Post by **topsyturvy** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:38 pm

I hope so....

I am not sure as up until last year students could have an open book exams so they did not have to memorise quotes as could pick up from the book. Tis year it is closed book so all to be memorised.

Guest55 wrote:The changes are not as extreme as much of the press would have us believe.

Guest55 · Post by **Guest55** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:50 pm

Exams have been like this before .... we survived.

tiffinboys · Post by **tiffinboys** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:01 pm

Guest55 wrote:The changes are not as extreme as much of the press would have us believe.

Media and the Unions.

Webbol · Post by **Webbol** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:10 pm

Guest55 wrote:Exams have been like this before .... we survived.

I disagree. When exams were like this before (linear, closed book) there was little requirement to do anything other than know the content. The expectation now to apply, evaluate, prove is unlike what was in place pre 1990s. So now they need to both know it (as my generation did) and do something with it (as recent examinations have.) Therefore far from as it was before.

tiffinboys · Post by **tiffinboys** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:14 pm

Has some of the AS contents been downloaded into the new GCSE curriculum?

Guest55 · Post by **Guest55** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:29 pm

In maths there was always an overlap with GCSE material.

Exams were like this - I sat them myself.

topsyturvy · Post by **topsyturvy** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:33 pm

Guest55 wrote:In maths there was always an overlap with GCSE material.

Exams were like this - I sat them myself.

Maths and Further Maths is seeming ' a walk in the park'.

My comments are more specific to English GCSE and closed book exam. Make it open book so child can look for exact quote and apply it to the content.

Guest55 · Post by **Guest55** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:38 pm

"Open book" is relatively recent - seriously, the amount of quotes expected will be lower. My friend is an English examiner ...

Please don't listen to the hype.

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