Exam calculator
I've already said I doubt A-levels are getting 'easier' except in a trivial sense, but no-one's listening so I have decided to join the knockers. Here is a handy ready-reckoner so at parties or BBQs when with people younger than yourself with their six As you can express just how intelligent you are, because when you did A-levels they were harder.
This is how it works. Calculate your A-level points using the old-fashioned method of 10 for an A, 8 for a B, 6 for a C etc. So for example 2 Bs and a C would be 22 points. Then multiply that by the number next to the year in which you took your A-levels. So for example if you took them in 1995 multiply 22 by 1.18, which gives you 26 points, so you can officially upgrade yourself to 2 As and a C, or even an A and 2 Bs.
This should only be used as a rough-and-ready guide for they changed the point system in 2001 making comparisions very difficult. Also of course it assumes pupils have got no better, so is rather Daily Mail. If you took them before 1992 then there wasn't a great deal of improvement so perhaps multiply by 1.4.
posted by Matthew @ 8/18/2005 03:31:00 PM
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