at the old school I worked at, it wasn't that the exams were easy and the kids found it easy. It was that the school fudged the exams as they were under huge amounts of pressure to perform better by Ofsted and the council.
@fairyhell2 We have that show in the States- It's called "The Jersey Shore". I saw a few minutes and was utterly embarrassed! But it's a huge hit with teenagers.
@TheSteveMeister91 and you probably had a lot longer (lets say half your life for arguments sake) to learn and now you know all the answers the truth is teenagers are getting cleverer because if they didn't we would still be righting on cave walls!
anyone can do better if they have more time because then it doesn't matter how slow you are
@MrAcronim Well im only 20, a few years back when i was revising for my exams and you had the test papers from the year before i was thinking crap im screwed this is too hard, then when it came to taking my test i thought wow this isnt that bad at all, then the year later i was helping my friend out with their test and was thinking this is getting easier. All the same subject and module btw...
This would be funny if it wasn't actually true, it's going to bite us in the arse eventually. It's not just the kids it's now the kids that teach the kids, I've seen it first hand!
its true, they are getting easier and the nation is getting dumber ... just look at your younger siblings and compare your intellegence of when you were their age to them right now... #grimtruth
Or look more towards the fact that younger generations always appear stupid to older generations. Go watch a fred video. See that? That's how your girlfriend's father saw you when you first met him. A 30-year-old sees me as fred. I see 15-year-olds as fred. The older the generation, the better they think they are. We're not getting dumber. It just looks that way. We'll be fine.
@ThatGuyYouArent2 lol yeah but the older generations were superior lol, they worked hard on farms or proper physical jobs, to them we havent worked a hard day in our life, and as you said it will be the same for us as we view the later generations, but I genuinly think it is a true aspect to be concerned about as we look at technology and how it is changing, life is getting easier for the most part definatly in the west, so people are getting softer and also dumber...
@ThatGuyYouArent2 look at kids now a days, they are learning the alphabet at after the age of 6, sorry to use cliché but back in my days that would have been outragous, or you would have had a learning difficulty (which is totally fine), also the thing about learning difficulties is too many children are getting diagnosed with learning dissabilities which is sad , meaning they will always be at a lower level to what they are truley capable at, anyway nice responce lol the fred guy is kinda funny
I sincerely doubt that there are many children without learning disabilities learning the alphabet after age 6 in the UK. Where's the evidence for that claim? Besides, what 6-year-olds are doing now is scarcely something to go by when looking at what the 14-18 age group is doing. They're an average of a decade apart. The reason you see so many A students is because they're boasting about it. Of course they'll want to be on the news when they open their results.
I don't usually take offence to jokes, but I've worked really hard for my qualifications, and its really insulting to be told by people with as much influence as Mitchell and Webb that your accomplishments are worth nothing, and that the exams are easy.
@Superfreak937 Not to belittle your achievements, I am sure you HAVE worked hard and that you deserve to be commended for that, but the A levels are markedly easier than the previous O levels, and are far from being as demanding as the international baccalaureate diploma or other rigorous high school programs. The A levels are a "least common denominator" program that practically anyone can get through.
@daofeishi Are you kidding? Practically anyone can get through? Excuse me maybe you haven't done these exams for a while but as a student who is struggling with them at the moment it is clear to me that not everyone can handle them. In our sixth form college there is a boy that is out shining every as he is getting A's in every subject, but to attain this he has absolutely no social life. Do not try to say they are easy. They aren't.
@joexgx That you find them hard does not mean that they are objectively hard compared with other high school programs. There are two factors in play; The first is where the curriculum is sufficiently challenging and rigorous. The second is whether the grading system is discerning enough.
@joexgx Regarding the first question, I would have a look at the IB program,or the old O-levels and compare. Example, a "further maths" student has to learn some extra calculus, geometry and statistics. IB further math: heavily proof based, teaches analysis, number theory, group theory, and more. Regarding question two: Around 25% of A-level students get As in any given subject. That is hardly very discerning.
@daofeishi OCR teach group theory in further maths I believe. Apart from that I think you're pretty much right though, and a lot of universities have complained that their intake for maths/physics simply don't have the knowledge base to work off. I know I found the gap from school to university maths quite difficult to bridge, part of the problem being the complete difference in approach; in retrospect teaching maths without proofs at school is a bit like teaching history without arguments.
hilarious thing is that people dont realise they arent taking the piss out of the fact that exams are getting easier, they are taking the piss of people who think that this is the reality of exams are getting much much easier.
@CalumGilhooly how about we get some really really stupid people with absolutely no qualifications or talent, but shag each over a lot and get given money for it, maybe we could get these people from Essex. I am pretty certain that nobody has ever thought of this before or made it a popular prime time television program on ITV.
@fairyheli2 Oh and in addition to more reality tv and soap operas they must have every possible wireless gadget, game machine, online account and other hip technology in order to really fry their brain. If they can be induced to drink fluoridated water, Pepsi Nex and chew aspertame chewing gum, that would help too.
@IPD07 In the sketch they're ridiciolousy easy allowing for you to be able take 14 and get 14 As I am also taking my Alevels soon and they are far from easy in reality.
at the old school I worked at, it wasn't that the exams were easy and the kids found it easy. It was that the school fudged the exams as they were under huge amounts of pressure to perform better by Ofsted and the council.
MoonPhase94 18 hours ago
@fairyhell2 We have that show in the States- It's called "The Jersey Shore". I saw a few minutes and was utterly embarrassed! But it's a huge hit with teenagers.
KatrinaMess 5 days ago
I wish getting the top grade was considered "too easy" in my country...
Campusanis 1 week ago
There are some easy A levels, but most require quite a lot of work. GCSE's are disproportionately easy though.
RobertNicholls 2 weeks ago
I want to see the kittens!
Stormwern 1 month ago 8
Speaking as someone who is currently taking his exams, I can easily say the exams are NOT getting easier. We're getting smarter.
chainsawgood123 2 months ago
@chainsawgood123 I personally think they are getting easier, i look at the exams now compared to that when i had them and they are a piece of piss.
TheSteveMeister91 2 months ago
@TheSteveMeister91 and you probably had a lot longer (lets say half your life for arguments sake) to learn and now you know all the answers the truth is teenagers are getting cleverer because if they didn't we would still be righting on cave walls!
anyone can do better if they have more time because then it doesn't matter how slow you are
MrAcronim 1 month ago
@MrAcronim Well im only 20, a few years back when i was revising for my exams and you had the test papers from the year before i was thinking crap im screwed this is too hard, then when it came to taking my test i thought wow this isnt that bad at all, then the year later i was helping my friend out with their test and was thinking this is getting easier. All the same subject and module btw...
TheSteveMeister91 1 month ago
@chainsawgood123 Did you also take them ten years ago?
CowLunch 1 week ago
and by the time that happens...we'd notice.
MyHeroTehoue 3 months ago
"That's an utterly spurious hypothesis." "Where?!"
hwygrrl 3 months ago 7
This would be funny if it wasn't actually true, it's going to bite us in the arse eventually. It's not just the kids it's now the kids that teach the kids, I've seen it first hand!
69waveydavey 3 months ago
its true, they are getting easier and the nation is getting dumber ... just look at your younger siblings and compare your intellegence of when you were their age to them right now... #grimtruth
coolsvilleowner 3 months ago
@coolsvilleowner
Or look more towards the fact that younger generations always appear stupid to older generations. Go watch a fred video. See that? That's how your girlfriend's father saw you when you first met him. A 30-year-old sees me as fred. I see 15-year-olds as fred. The older the generation, the better they think they are. We're not getting dumber. It just looks that way. We'll be fine.
ThatGuyYouArent2 3 months ago
@ThatGuyYouArent2 lol yeah but the older generations were superior lol, they worked hard on farms or proper physical jobs, to them we havent worked a hard day in our life, and as you said it will be the same for us as we view the later generations, but I genuinly think it is a true aspect to be concerned about as we look at technology and how it is changing, life is getting easier for the most part definatly in the west, so people are getting softer and also dumber...
coolsvilleowner 3 months ago
@ThatGuyYouArent2 look at kids now a days, they are learning the alphabet at after the age of 6, sorry to use cliché but back in my days that would have been outragous, or you would have had a learning difficulty (which is totally fine), also the thing about learning difficulties is too many children are getting diagnosed with learning dissabilities which is sad , meaning they will always be at a lower level to what they are truley capable at, anyway nice responce lol the fred guy is kinda funny
coolsvilleowner 3 months ago
@coolsvilleowner
I sincerely doubt that there are many children without learning disabilities learning the alphabet after age 6 in the UK. Where's the evidence for that claim? Besides, what 6-year-olds are doing now is scarcely something to go by when looking at what the 14-18 age group is doing. They're an average of a decade apart. The reason you see so many A students is because they're boasting about it. Of course they'll want to be on the news when they open their results.
ThatGuyYouArent2 3 months ago
I wanted to see kittens falling over... :(
joethehero2 4 months ago 3
School is for suckers, that's how I was raised and I turned out TV.
Pazma1 4 months ago
I don't usually take offence to jokes, but I've worked really hard for my qualifications, and its really insulting to be told by people with as much influence as Mitchell and Webb that your accomplishments are worth nothing, and that the exams are easy.
Superfreak937 5 months ago 2
@Superfreak937 Not to belittle your achievements, I am sure you HAVE worked hard and that you deserve to be commended for that, but the A levels are markedly easier than the previous O levels, and are far from being as demanding as the international baccalaureate diploma or other rigorous high school programs. The A levels are a "least common denominator" program that practically anyone can get through.
daofeishi 5 months ago
@daofeishi Well I suppose you're right in a way, but, while A levels may be easier to pass, getting decent grades is a different question.
Superfreak937 5 months ago
@daofeishi Are you kidding? Practically anyone can get through? Excuse me maybe you haven't done these exams for a while but as a student who is struggling with them at the moment it is clear to me that not everyone can handle them. In our sixth form college there is a boy that is out shining every as he is getting A's in every subject, but to attain this he has absolutely no social life. Do not try to say they are easy. They aren't.
joexgx 4 months ago 3
@joexgx That you find them hard does not mean that they are objectively hard compared with other high school programs. There are two factors in play; The first is where the curriculum is sufficiently challenging and rigorous. The second is whether the grading system is discerning enough.
daofeishi 4 months ago
@joexgx Regarding the first question, I would have a look at the IB program,or the old O-levels and compare. Example, a "further maths" student has to learn some extra calculus, geometry and statistics. IB further math: heavily proof based, teaches analysis, number theory, group theory, and more. Regarding question two: Around 25% of A-level students get As in any given subject. That is hardly very discerning.
daofeishi 4 months ago
@daofeishi NAHH fam. Its a Hype Hype Ting, Bun college bruv. I don't even go. Lol jk im a intellectual genius.
joexgx 4 months ago
@daofeishi OCR teach group theory in further maths I believe. Apart from that I think you're pretty much right though, and a lot of universities have complained that their intake for maths/physics simply don't have the knowledge base to work off. I know I found the gap from school to university maths quite difficult to bridge, part of the problem being the complete difference in approach; in retrospect teaching maths without proofs at school is a bit like teaching history without arguments.
Aeginnt 4 months ago
@Aeginnt Very well put
daofeishi 4 months ago
@Superfreak937 I assumed they were being ironic. I think this is a dig at the people who assume exams are easier now because grades have improved.
bananacraig 5 days ago
hilarious thing is that people dont realise they arent taking the piss out of the fact that exams are getting easier, they are taking the piss of people who think that this is the reality of exams are getting much much easier.
TheRacketBoss 5 months ago
Meanwhile, let the dumbing down continue. More reality tv and talent contests anyone?
CalumGilhooly 6 months ago
@CalumGilhooly how about we get some really really stupid people with absolutely no qualifications or talent, but shag each over a lot and get given money for it, maybe we could get these people from Essex. I am pretty certain that nobody has ever thought of this before or made it a popular prime time television program on ITV.
fairyheli2 1 week ago
@fairyheli2 Oh and in addition to more reality tv and soap operas they must have every possible wireless gadget, game machine, online account and other hip technology in order to really fry their brain. If they can be induced to drink fluoridated water, Pepsi Nex and chew aspertame chewing gum, that would help too.
CalumGilhooly 1 week ago
OMG XD this is quite fricken brilliant...hopefully it doesnt happen @-@
ManaYuGiOhGX5Ds 6 months ago
"That's an utterly spurious hypothesis."
"WHERE!?!" :-D
Conway79 6 months ago
haha "which is up, which is up!"
stoxocube18 8 months ago 3
Kittens falling over!! :D
Cazzanevo 8 months ago 3
"this years A levels..."
00:15 "14 As"
Who takes 14 A levels?! xD
IPD07 9 months ago 114
@IPD07 Many people when the exams are clearly stupidly easy.
choatixtherobot 5 months ago
@choatixtherobot
mmm so easy, i got bbcd on my AS' :(
doubt this year will be any better
IPD07 5 months ago
@IPD07 In the sketch they're ridiciolousy easy allowing for you to be able take 14 and get 14 As I am also taking my Alevels soon and they are far from easy in reality.
choatixtherobot 5 months ago
@IPD07 I would if I could get 14 As.
AgentMcgeek 4 months ago
@IPD07 I would if I was guaranteed 14 A's :P
SuperDrummerJoe 2 months ago
@IPD07
italians can. lol.
jeremark90 2 months ago
@IPD07 its not regular, but there is a student at cambirdge who had 14 A-Levels, all done aborad in his 'spare time'
lvs2spooge1 2 months ago
@IPD07 my uncle did
stants111 2 months ago
@IPD07 people who are guaranteed to get A's in everything they take?
Rohmanator 1 month ago
if only.....
dexterccf2 1 year ago 81