GCSE sailing assesment

Uni is very different to school, and there are plenty of worthwhile degrees that lead into careers. You get what you work for. If you do something easy like media studies, chances are you're not going to get very far. On the other hand if you do something like economics then the world is your oyster.  

I left school because I hated it. I'm not going to uni because I'm not going to like that either and now I'm in the sh*t, no job and no hope of getting a good one anytime soon. So many of my friends are going to uni and going to come out 20K in debt with some worthless degree to show for it. If you don't go to school you’re in trouble and now if you stay in school you're not in a much better position (and a world of debt).

The worst thing about it all is that at 16 you do you GCSE's, these get you into A levels, at 18 you do you A levels and go to uni then you leave uni at 21ish and your dropped strait in the deep end. Penniless and in debt, nowhere to live, and somehow you have to find a job with no work experiance. You've just been writing learning for 18 years solid and havn't got a clue what to do. You'll start paying the debt off when you start earning 15K a year, and that’s going to take a while (paying off the debt). Then you have to buy/rent a house/flat and that’s more money gushing out of your bank account. Mission, and I don't want deal with any of it.

Now for all you people saying that they're giving away A's, you're wrong. Anyone who gets an A works bloody hard for it, fact. I passed all my exams but didn't get A's because I just didn't enjoy any of it so I didn't work hard enough. I don't care, I never enjoyed academic things and probably never will. So I will find something that isn't academic to pursue as a career.

For now my solution is go to New Zealand and forget about it all for a while, work, have fun, go sailing and if I enjoy it never come back!

GCSE P.E, sailing? Go for it! At least you’ll have fun doing it rather than wasting your time in RE or something like that.

Hmmm try that again.

Or you could take the view that the benchmarking of schools' performance has lead to children being tested more often than they used to be. As a result of this those doing exams are now a lot better at doing and passing said exams.

I am not saying being good at tests makes you a brighter person just that kids are better at understanding how to pass an exam now. There is no evidence of a standard drop in testing at GCSE or A Level. There is lots of evidence of children being tested more often and results going up.

I know comments like this probably annoy people studying for these and I sympathise with them; they can only sit the exams (or do the course work) they are presented with ... but clearly the benchmarking of school performance through tracking exam results has just lead to the dropping of standards.