h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm currently doing my GCSEs and this is so true to life. Things have changed a lot since my parents were at school. Although it would be unfair to say that everything has fallen in standard. Some subjects like Chemistry and Physics are teaching very different areas now.


bsmith

There was a Government Report out yesterday about the fall in literacy standards. It's true that there is a large concern about maths standards, although I found the current trend to have politically correct exam papers in Maths to be a bigger hazard. On my exam, a typical question would be (but harder):

"Ankrilt has twelve apples and Mohamled has nine. If she gave three of her apples to Zanziba, how many apples would she have?"

leaving you to spend half an hour trying to work out whether it was "Ankrilt" or "Mohamled" which was a woman's name, and then giving an answer such as:

I've never heard the names Ankrilt or Mohamled before!
If by "she" you mean Ankrilt, the answer is 9.
If by "she" you mean Mohamled, the answer is 6.
Why not use normal names like Jane and John and stop confusing us!!!!!

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this is used to stop rasicsm but it is beinbg rasist to it's own country
so saying somthing rude about another country is a no no
but saying somthing rude about your home country is fine
(if u'r american you might want to know that this happens in the Uk)
for instance my KS2 math paper had one english name on it and that was mine

WE ARE BRITISH WE ARE PROUD
but the Qca aren't

The classic for when I did GCSE Maths was the name 'Asif'... which is why I didn't continue Maths at A-level and am going off to art school next year. I blame political overcorrectness for my lack of mathematical capability!!