Thread: How to pass your English GCSE

This story is low on the news tonight

Pupil gains marks for exam expletive - Yahoo! News UK

Thank god I am leaving

With the way the country is going soon there will be questions on the english paper where that would be the correct answer.
A few years down the line there will be something along the lines of.........

Your mother is late giving you your pocket money this week, explain the beating you give her and what abusive names you call her.

Since when is 7.5% a pass?

Sounds like a very bad fail to me

Originally Posted by NickA

Since when is 7.5% a pass?

Sounds like a very bad fail to me

You are right, 7.5% is a fail, you need 11% to pass so they would have had to draw a picture as well

Originally Posted by darksider

You are right, 7.5% is a fail, you need 11% to pass so they would have had to draw a picture as well

uhah.

Makes a mockery dont it? Where are all the 'education back home' is sooo much better folk?

Interesting article, I am sorely tempted to go back home and have another crack at the exam. Perhaps they also give good marks, in the maths exam, for correct orientation and insertion of batteries in the calculater.

Originally Posted by NickA

Since when is 7.5% a pass?

Don't know, where did you get that idea?

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Where are all the 'education back home' is sooo much better folk?

Right here.

Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

Don't know, where did you get that idea?

from the title

Originally Posted by darksider

How to pass your English GCSE

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Makes a mockery dont it? Where are all the 'education back home' is sooo much better folk?

Well, I'm sure you know that in a Thai government school the same student would have got 50%, not 7.5%.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Right here.

and............?

Originally Posted by NickA

I'm sure you know that in a Thai government school

actually have absolutely no idea wot happens in thai government schools.

^50% minimum grade

Well, just read more english newspapers.