Some updates on the exam/blonde girls
A reader asks what the rules are about your extra points - namely, if you have enough, can you have a whole new A-level, or does it have to be a better grade in an existing one? She asks because she would always have liked to be able to speak Spanish, and as she has 10 points to add she could have an A-grade in the langauge, which is a pretty good standard. I feel the rules need to be clarified. In the first instance I believe the extra points have to go to giving you a better grade in the subjects you have already sat, that after all is the rationale behind them. Only then, when you have all A-grades, can you begin to entertain the idea of another A-level, and I think then it has to be related to one you already have - so if you have French, you can have Spanish, but not if you have Physics.On the education theme, there is I fear a growing crisis in the education of blonde girls. This year there has been a noticeable lack of them getting a large number of A-levels. The Daily Mail here and The Times show that their academic achievements are not totally a thing of the past, but the Telegraph has a 12 page picture special with just the one. The glory days are gone.
Labels: education
posted by Matthew @ 8/17/2007 07:40:00 AM
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