{"id":1330,"date":"2006-08-17T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/are-a-levels-getting-easier\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:59:08","slug":"are-a-levels-getting-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/are-a-levels-getting-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Are A-levels getting easier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well let&#8217;s just say that when nearly a third of Northern Irish students can receive an A-grade in the things, with a UK-wide average of a quarter getting As, the thing starts to look <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/4801035.stm\">a tad suspect<\/a>. Being in the top 33 or 25 per cent does not, in my books, mean you have excelled, which is what I always thought an A-grade was supposed to indicate.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I have no doubt whatsoever that the A-levels my partents took were significantly harder than the ones I did, because they kept their exam papers and I was able to compare them at the time. If you&#8217;ve made the mistake of speaking to a recent school-leaver with lots of A-grades, you&#8217;ll also be hard-pressed to understand just how they managed it with such a woeful lack of knowledge and understanding of pretty much anything.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, Matt T has produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewturner.co.uk\/Blog\/2006\/08\/how-clever-am-i.html\">a handy chart<\/a> to help you work out what grades you&#8217;d have got had you sat the exams with today&#8217;s young whippersnappers. Hurrah! Does this mean I can change my CV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well let&#8217;s just say that when nearly a third of Northern Irish students can receive an A-grade in the things, with a UK-wide average of a quarter getting As, the thing starts to look a tad suspect. Being in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/are-a-levels-getting-easier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}