Leaving Cert exams set to be cancelled and replaced with predicted grades https://t.co/2Nu73kfH6l
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) May 7, 2020
Tonight.
Earlier…
This afternoon.
Further to indecision over whether the leaving Cert should go ahead…
Via The irish Times:
The Irish Times understands that a draft Department of Education plan could involve school principals signing off on a process where teachers award provisional grades based on student performance to date.
These grades would then likely feed into a process where final grades could be awarded using a “bell curve” and other indicators.
This bell curve refers to the practice of adjusting the marking process to ensure a similar proportion of students secure the same numbers of H1s, H2s and H3s each year….
Wedgie!
Leaving Cert ‘Plan B’ could see grades based on class rankings (Irish Times)
Meanwhile…
There are so many reasons why the #LeavingCert2020 should be cancelled. I am a child of a high risk person. I have the stress of the exam and the fear of potentially killing my mother! #canceltheleavingcert @LeoVaradkar @McHughJoeTD @MichealMartinTD @EamonRyan do the right thing!
— Jordan lee (@Jrn_Lee) May 7, 2020
Oh.
Yesterday: Grind Down
i have removed the inner ink tube from my bic biro, i am saturating a 1″ square piece of paper in my mouth into a spitball and i am taking aim at the back of jordan lee’s neck right now.
LOL! :-)
I feel sorry for the students that were like me. Dossed a lot in school and wasn’t the best with regards to behaviour but grinded like billio for the exams and very well. If this situation had of happened when I was doing the leaving I’d have been screwed and my life would have been very different.
Ditto here Beano, I was an excellent crammer, at least with the exams your teacher is removed from the equation and you get an impartial result, not a popular option but would it be “easiest” if the whole education system just reset to start of same year in Sep . . . . . . . . . . .OUCH!, who fired that inky spitball at my neck!
This wouldn’t have suited me at all
I pulled two As and two Bs outta’ve 2 C’s a D and a fail in the mocks
(In old money so don’t get snotty with me)
But the teenager says it would get her exactly what she’s aiming for
And in my world that’s all that matters
that’s it, people who didn’t do well in the mocks, would have got a kick up the arse and worked their arses off, as I did, to come up with a decent result in the end, they will suffer.
Also students who caused trouble in class and disliked by teachers, will not get a fair grade.
I can see legal challenges a plenty after this.
If they can cancel it this year, that’s the end of the LC as we know it, in the long term. Will be changed to a combined CA/Projects based, with an end of year exam.
In my school the mocks were graded harder than the LC – in order to keep the pressure on and to avoid complacency (either that or we all improved vastly between mocks and LC).
I reckon that most teachers could predict how their students will do each year. The problem as I see it is that some teachers will assess the kids fairly but others may use this as an opportunity to “help their kids” and give them all higher grades than they deserve. And that will skew the point in favour of the teachers who ‘cheat’.