Digital-A wrote:
i am not academic so exams and schooling was a nightmere all the way through … there needs to be some adjustment for others like myself and exams should be halfed with continual assessment (your grade is created from work handed in not the one exam) instead of the current system.
kinda like what i’m doing at college. BTEC National Diploma… it’s continual assessment over 2 years, there are no exams at all, and it’s largely coursework based. also they are specialist subjects.
imo thats a good alternative at 16-18 education, but as far as secondary schools and GCSE’s go, they are gong the other way. coursework is being scrapped (not completely, but so it counts for a minute % of the overall grade) in favour of modular or final examinations.
now the coursework:exams ratio is about 40% cw to 60%. it should be the other way round imo – i think coursework makes much more sense in grading a student how good they are at the overall subject.
i think they want to reduce it to as little as 10% cw or something ridiculous.
imo reducing coursework is a stupid move because many people don’t do well in exam situations, me being one of ’em, and how a grade for 2 years of learning can be given from a single 90 minute exam is not really a fair system.
