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Andy Guthrie wrote:
Fleetie wrote: To return to the original subject, I also read this today on the BBC, and later saw it cited on Slashdot, and I was horrified. IMO, it really is undeniable that the standard of GCSEs and like exams is falling. I was in the last year to do O-levels, and for maths, we had to do differential calculus. Apparently that's never been in GCSE maths. And it's a very big, important subject and a very useful concept. Are you sure it wasn't "Additional Maths" O level ? I don't remember doing calculus as part of the basic Maths GCE (O&C 1979). I did Differential and Integral calculus in O level maths in 1976. -- Andy |
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Fleetie wrote:
"Andy Guthrie" wrote Fleetie wrote: To return to the original subject, I also read this today on the BBC, and later saw it cited on Slashdot, and I was horrified. IMO, it really is undeniable that the standard of GCSEs and like exams is falling. I was in the last year to do O-levels, and for maths, we had to do differential calculus. Apparently that's never been in GCSE maths. And it's a very big, important subject and a very useful concept. Are you sure it wasn't "Additional Maths" O level ? I don't remember doing calculus as part of the basic Maths GCE (O&C 1979). Absolutely sure. I did also do additional ("AO") maths O-level. This was in Kent in 1987. AO maths also had integration, which wasn't in the O-level. I'm going to dig out my old papers. |
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