Of course they are. John Claire pointed out in the Telegraph yesterday (in a very good article) that whereas once they had to discriminate between the top 8%, not its the top 50%. This is not really a problem.
Year-on-year however they don't change much. Comparing 1980s mathematics papers is an irrelevance as the syllabus was designed for a pre-calculator age (I remember when doing maths A-level in 1993 that with my (then new) graphical calculator I could do most of the 1982 paper in about ten minutes).
posted by Matthew @ 8/15/2002 09:13:00 AM
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