http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=29552 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 06:46:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=29552#post-83309 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:06:01 +0000 dvo4fun 83309@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well deserved you young scamps </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=29552#post-83300 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:18:12 +0000 Solanki and Mawhinney 83300@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's gone up! Hurrah! Our first NB credit. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=29552#post-83008 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:05:11 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 83008@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like this one too. Especially the last line.</p> <p>Have you ever seen the comparisons they do between an O Level maths question in 1956 and a GCSE maths question in 2009? The reasoning is "current students can't do the old O Level question, therefore that proves that it was harder", whereas the real reason is that the question involves units of currency and measure that nobody under the age of 40 has ever heard of, and have quite possibly just been made up. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=29552#post-82977 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:08:56 +0000 dvo4fun 82977@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh I like this one. Have some A*s</p> <p>When he was but a yoof Master 4fun (the elder) was snapped by the local rag. The published foto was captioned as an example of someone down in the mouth following poor results. Which was a shame because that was just his natural glum expression at the time and he'd got decent grades. Or at least that's what I put on our christmas round robin bragging-rights letter.</p> <p>Hmm. Would it be worth adding a line about that last point? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=29552#post-82974 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:55:02 +0000 Solanki and Mawhinney 82974@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>While pupils celebrated record-breaking GCSE results today Linda Chaplin was left shocked and disappointed after being awarded the first grade ‘B’ in nearly thirteen years.</p> <p>An inconsolable Ms. Chaplin said, “I had heard rumours that not everyone gets an ‘A-star’ and that some people might just get an ‘A’. To be honest we all thought it was a scare story put round by the teachers to get us to revise. But this? A grade ‘B’? I didn’t expect this.”</p> <p>The result was a double blow for Ms. Chaplin as being blonde, rich and attractive-in-a-posh-girl-kind-of-way she was due to appear on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph. </p> <p>She ruefully commented, “It was all planned. The girls and me would hug each other and look smug in one photo and in another we’d jump in the air together waving papers. But all that’s been taken away from me now.”</p> <p>The exam board offered Ms. Chaplin the opportunity to appeal if she genuinely thought her grade should have been higher.</p> <p>A spokesperson said, “A few years ago one boy thought he’d got a grade ‘B’ when we mistakenly printed his percentage score on the results slip – 8. Of course 8% was more than enough to warrant a grade ‘A’”.</p> <p>If the original grade does stand Ms. Chaplin has one other course of action available to her. As her careers advisor explained, “She can lie about her age and then complain about the exams being much harder in her day”.</p> <p>“Somehow forty-somethings have managed to convince people their lower grades were worth more when really they’re just thick as pig-shit.” </p>