tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post2750207134411635582..comments2024-02-27T10:50:27.922+00:00Comments on Books, Mud and Compost. And Horses.: But what's in their heads?Jane Badgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-8525075921457095692008-06-05T09:54:00.000+01:002008-06-05T09:54:00.000+01:00Good grief! Lightly annotated, indeed. If I'd be...Good grief! Lightly annotated, indeed. If I'd been given that stricture, I'd have written my copious notes in very light pencil indeed. They'd have been light. That sort of thing is a licence to the barrack room lawyer student (son, for example, and yes, ahem, me) to make hay.Jane Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-54553904077536918472008-06-03T10:40:00.000+01:002008-06-03T10:40:00.000+01:00I did the first year of GCSE in 1988 and at that s...I did the first year of GCSE in 1988 and at that stage we did have to learn quotes, though there was some coursework introduced. But as you say kids can now take clean texts into their GCSE exam. It is slightly better than a few years ago when they were allowed to take "lightly annotated" texts into the exam. This lasted 4 or 5 years and was murder to police. Just what is "lightly annotated"?? And why when they've got key words like satire, metaphor etc., scattered across their copy of the poem, can't they spell them!Juxtabookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102279698993288454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-53931705954997767502008-06-03T09:37:00.000+01:002008-06-03T09:37:00.000+01:00Well quite. And if you already know the stuff, it...Well quite. And if you already know the stuff, it must surely make you much more efficient in the exam: you don't waste ages flicking through the text trying to find the bit you want. Or maybe they're not <B>supposed</B> to quote anymore? We were always told we'd get credit for quoting (as long as what was linking the quotes was reasonble). Perhaps it's different now. I will ask the son when he returns.Jane Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-1023240797762522692008-06-03T02:10:00.000+01:002008-06-03T02:10:00.000+01:00When I did O level english lit, we weren't allowed...When I did O level english lit, we weren't allowed to take text books into the exam. So I have to swot up useful lines from Shakespeare, Chaucer and various poets.<BR/><BR/>As the village high school didn't have a 6th form, I had to go to another school for my A levels. The pupils who'd done their O levels there were appalled to discover that they wouldn't be able to take texts in to their A level exams. They'd studied a different O level syllubus to the one I'd done.<BR/> I wasn't terribly sympathetic to their complaints about having to manage without their books in the exams. After all, I'd already done it once.<BR/> This was 1983.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09941239760699389457noreply@blogger.com