You didn't fail....you nearly passed.....

[308nato]

Link to full text.....


snippet........"The guidelines, for marking key national curriculum exams, recommend that the current F grade, for 'fail', should be replaced with an N grade, for 'nearly'."

"....... maths exam answers should be marked as either 'creditworthy' or 'not creditworthy', rather than correct or incorrect."

I would rather fail than be "not worthy".

 

[Orsorum]

Meh.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

...another clear victory for public education.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx
...another clear victory for public education.

Laugh?...or cry?

CkG

 

[MovingTarget]

This is rediculus. That is all.

 

[rudder]

You didn't crash that plane, you just didn't land it correctly.

 

[daniel1113]

And remember, it's not the student's fault that they are "not worthy".

 

[lozina]

More the reason for american companies to outsource

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

..not any more ridiculous than changing the parameters by which you grade SOL and SAT exams, then have the Department of Education use the inflated scores to argue that public education is improving given the improvement in the pass/fail rate.

 

[superant23]

I remember in elementary school the grades were, A, B, C, D, "U" for "unsatisfactory". It wasnt until middle school that they'd give an F. I always thought it was cause little kids would cry if they got an "F"

 

[ZaneNBK]

That link gets an N.