tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978906014166411621.post8210065716902180618..comments2024-03-13T23:34:36.851+00:00Comments on Alcoholic Daze: Exam feverADDYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01018958238940897902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978906014166411621.post-79338395697254298422008-06-05T20:41:00.000+01:002008-06-05T20:41:00.000+01:00aims - thank you.blogthatmama - It's so stressful ...aims - thank you.<BR/><BR/>blogthatmama - It's so stressful in sixth-form now. Before it took you 2 years to do the work for the exam. Now you have a year to do the AS, which is what the universities now go on as the grade you are likely to get. Then another year to do the A-level (now known as the A2 stage). I think it is just as stressful for the parents having to watch on the sidelines.<BR/><BR/>stinking billy - it really is a shambles and it is not as if they teach them as well as when we were at school.ADDYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01018958238940897902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978906014166411621.post-22304405890297189732008-06-05T14:06:00.000+01:002008-06-05T14:06:00.000+01:00Education has been going backwards for some time n...Education has been going backwards for some time now. Young people's lives are being ruined before they've even got started, and it is nothing short of criminal. But how do we explain that to them?Stinking Billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13577508577062044906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978906014166411621.post-90230134230687378352008-06-05T13:58:00.000+01:002008-06-05T13:58:00.000+01:00Poor Kay, I don't see why they have to do AS level...Poor Kay, I don't see why they have to do AS levels - why don't they just do mocks like they used to? It is so competitive for University places now, it's unbelievable. I'm dreading it.blogthatmamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584817207287233580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3978906014166411621.post-14959389016034398332008-06-04T16:15:00.000+01:002008-06-04T16:15:00.000+01:00School is entirely different now compared to when ...School is entirely different now compared to when I was in it.<BR/><BR/>I'm wishing her luck - and - I keep thinking of a life for you and her in the back of my mind.aimshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12685252628734838159noreply@blogger.com